The Coming Storm

By E. A. Smith

To see certain events begin to unfold across the land; across the world is very sobering. The Lord said "Watch and pray." The total demise of humanity brought on by Satan will unfold in the end of many a souls asking "WHO IS THIS MAN?" The Coming Storm... The combining of the business federation and the ecclesiastical system. An emergence of one, as Phillip Mauro expresses "a consolidation, a syndicate, or merger, a mammoth monopoly, a titanic trust," which shall absolutely control the marketing of all commodities in so much that no one will be able to engage in any commercial operation whatsoever, except under the sanction of the trademark of the beast. The Great Tribulation is God taking vengeance on an unbelieving world. The severity of these unspeakable horrors of Gods wrath is equal to the disdain, and outright rejection of Gods dear, dear Son.... Jesus Christ. The denial runs rampant, as these plagues indicate.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Christian Faith Publishing, Inc.
• Release date: Nov 7, 2019
• ISBN: 9781098000134

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The Wisdom and Supremacy of God

The Knowledge of the Holy (A.W. Tozer)

What possible meaning can this self-existence of God have for me and others like me.

The human mind, being created, has an understandable uneasiness about the uncreated. We do not find it comfortable to allow for the presence of one who is wholly outside of the circle of our familiar knowledge. We tend to be disquieted by the thought of one who is wholly outside of the circle of our familiar knowledge. We tend to be disquieted by the thought of one who is responsible to no one who is self-existent, self-dependent, and self-sufficient.

To admit that there is one who lies beyond us, who exists outside of all our categories, who will not be dismissed with a name, who will not appear before the bar of reason nor submit to our curious inquiries—this requires a great deal of humility more than most of us possess, so we save face by thinking God down to our level or down to where we can manage him. Yet how he eludes us! For he is everywhere while he is nowhere, for where has to do with matter and space, and God is independent of both. He is unaffected by time or motion, is wholly self-independent, and owes nothing to worlds his hands had made.

Secularization and materialization has totally obscured the populous from which is all around us. Above us and beneath us. It has dulled our senses and has kept us at a distance from which the Lord God has always longed for since that day in the Garden of Eden.

From everlasting to everlasting, thou art God, said Moses in the Spirit. From the vanishing point to the vanishing point would be another way to say it quite in keeping with the words of Moses used them. The mind looks backward in time till the dim past vanishes then turns and looks into the future till thoughts and imagination collapse from exhaustion, and God is at both points, unaffected by either!

Time marks the beginning of created existence, and because God never began to exist, it can have no application to him. Began is a time-word and can have no personal meaning for. The high and lofty One that inhabiteth eternity (Isaiah 57:15).

Because God lives in an everlasting now, he has no past and no future. When time-words occur in the scripture, they refer to our time, not to his. When the four living creatures before the throne cry day and night, Holy, holy, holy Lord God Almighty, which was, and is, and is to come, they are identifying God with the flow of creature life with its familiar three tenses, and this is right and good, for God has sovereignly willed so to identify himself. But since God is uncreated, he is not, himself, affected by that succession of consecutive changes we call time.

A. W. Tozer

All the writings, through the years, as the Holy Spirit directed speaks of one thing—the return of our Lord. The events of our time according to God’s economy: the creation, the universe, Earth, man, and the promises spoken to fallen man. The flood, the wiping out everything that was vile from the face of the Earth. The prophetic utterance of Isaiah concerning the promises of Messiah. The birth of the Messiah. The powerful words spoken by Simeon. The crucifixion and death of the Messiah. The powerful resurrection of Jesus, our blessed Savior. These events have taken place without a shadow of doubt—without hesitation or reservation.

Now, here we are at the precipice. Thinking all this time certain events must take place. This must happen; that must take place.

But the reality is this, we are at the calm before the storm! As my Lord declared as in the days of Noah, so shall it be.

Saturday, May 18, 2016, at 9:00 a.m.

I am the alpha and omega, the beginning and the end, the first and the last. What convulsions of nature the Earth is to experience when he sends forth the artillery of heaven to accomplish his purpose! Lightning and thundering, precursors of coming judgment, issue out of the throne, the seat of royal authority. God is about to assert himself in power. From these signs of judicial dealings, there will be no escape (Herbert Lockyer).

Genesis 6: The Flood. As the destruction the flood caused, the entire race—computed to be over a million people alive at the time—perished.

Only four men and women were spared, because they did not go with the sin drift. After more than one thousand years of human history, the race was so utterly corrupt morally that it was not fit to live. The gruesome fact of the flood is that there are limits even to the mercy of God.

To destroy all the human race with the exception of eight souls was indeed