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 Three Storms That Will Change the World

The future is essentially a drama in three acts. Act 1 involves God confronting the nations of the earth regarding injustice and oppression. Act 2 develops the response of the nations to God’s interaction. Act 3 concludes with God’s judgment of the nations’ actions.

The severe problem of injustice in the world was met by the person of Christ at His first coming. The God-man was never discouraged in His quest to grow over a long period of time a Kingdom populated by a people filled with adoration for His Father. He was willing to allow plenty of time for the proverbial wheat to grow, knowing that weeds would be growing mingled in with it (see Matthew 13:24–30). As the Kingdom comes into fullness and maturity around the world, so too will wickedness and darkness. This includes the insidious normalization and legitimization of sin.

Yet world systems are built on vain imaginations and empty philosophies. Wicked people and human incompetence will create more problems long-term than they can solve. Apart from the loving intervention of God, there is no end to the injustice and exploitation. Therefore, God Himself will step into the affairs of men, moving in unprecedented power to uproot deeply ingrained systems of wickedness and transition the world into the age to come. God’s highest desire is the restoration of all things, by which He makes all things new. The Bible describes a sequence of escalating events that culminate with Jesus breaking through the sky to return to the earth, specifically to Jerusalem.

To the measure by which He inserts Himself into our world at that time is the measure with which powerful, wicked men will rage in their response. The God of light and truth will expose the deeds of darkness, revealing the truth of humanity apart from God, ending our petty arguments and debates. Things will become very, very clear when God steps onto the global stage, and no one will argue with His righteous judgments at all.

At the end of the age, the Church will be vindicated by the judgments of the Lord. The nations will rage against them, but no one will have an argument to make against the righteous sovereignty of the Father.