11/21/25 GOD IS AT WORK

11/21/25 GOD IS AT WORK

God uses human instruments, but He is not limited to them. Our hope and our help are in the Lord, in the now and in the future.

Yesterday I watched a video of the aircraft carrier USS Gerald R. Ford, as it responded to Venezuelan military aircraft.

It was informative and encouraging. Not only do we have the most advanced military force in the world, the U.S. Navy also has highly trained and disciplined warriors on the sea and in the air (and on the ground). Our military superiority has, does and hopefully will continue to keep us safe from the lunatic elements who want to draw us into war. Such an action would end in immediate losses to our enemies and possibly worldwide losses to every country.

I am glad the USA has the upper hand militarily. The world should be glad that the USA has the military advantage. USA moral standards, stemming from the Bible and Christian influence of our forefathers, and guided by moral superiority, which is also based on our Christian principles, are presently being used to support freedom and wellbeing for the USA and for the rest of the world. Just imagine the chaos and mayhem our world would be in if Russia, China, Korea, Iran or other Islamist nations (or any of a number of rogue pee-wee league countries) would act, if there was not a USA controlling them. Make no mistake, God is presently using the USA to keep the world in check. Remember, God hates anarchy, regardless of the perpetrator. The present time of worldwide upheaval is displeasing to God and He will finally execute judgement.

Someday there may not be a USA to keep the peace worldwide (think of a USA that goes completely Communist or Woke). The USA is a military world presence that keeps the lunatic fringe from pushing the "destroy" button and embroiling the whole world in self-destruction.

God's ruling presence always holds back Darkness from what it would be in the absence of His presence.

Behind, beside and beyond the natural and military power of the USA, there is the real power of God holding back total chaos. God's word tells us that it is the power of Jesus and the presence of the Holy Spirit holding this world together and suppressing international overthrow. God does this through clean (believers) and unclean (non-believers) instruments. The Holy Spirit is especially present in the world today because He is abiding in the lives of Christians. When the Christians (the Church, the Salt, the Light) is removed from the earth (at the time of the Rapture), then the Holy Spirit will no longer be active in the world in the same way or to the same extent He is now active. This period (dispensation) of the Church Age (between the Day of Pentecost in Acts chapter two and the day of the Catching Away of the Church, in the future), will be replaced by the time of God's wrath, and The Tribulation (such as no man has seen), when sin, sickness, pestilence, violence, terrorism, demonic activity will run, seemingly unabated for seven years.

God will remove the preserving presence of The Church at some time.
God will also remove the preserving presence of the USA from the world scene.

There will come a time of great oppression and suffering. But until then, we (Christians) have an opportunity and an obligation to tell the Good News of Salvation to the lost. We will not save this world, but we can lead some individuals into eternal life, if we are faithful to obey God fully.

Jesus has not ended the Church Age (this period of Grace) or returned yet because He does not want anyone to perish; He wants everyone to come to repentance, therefore He is giving every opportunity for individuals to hear the truth and be saved. But God's Spirit will not strive with man always, and the day of opportunity for a rebellious society will come to an end, and that without remedy. Someday the last person will respond to the Gospel Call, and then Jesus will raise every believer from the dead, unite their resurrected bodies of believers with their souls, and catch away every living Christian to "be with the Lord in the air." This will be the beginning of the Second Coming of Christ.

This Gospel Age will end when God Resurrects the righteous and Raptures (catches away) believers. Then will begin Seven Years of unleashed Demonic revolution and Divine judgment, known as The Tribulation.

At the end of the Seven Year Tribulation Period, Christ will Return physically to the earth to Reign for a Thousand Years from Jerusalem. During those thousand years, Satan will be bound, and Christ will rule with a rod of iron. After the thousand-year reign, Satan will be loosed for a final assault and rebellion.

Christ will ultimately destroy this present evil world in a fiery finish. Then the Great White Throne Judgment of God will take place, judging every rebellious person for all of their wicked thoughts, words and deeds, which are recorded in a set of books. The charges will be made, the evidence presented and the just punishment will be meted out. God will cast Satan and all of the unrepentant into the eternal Lake of Fire.

There will be a New Heaven and a New Earth, since the previous will cease to exist. There will also be a New Jerusalem and the beginning of eternity with God.

In the world we have tribulation, but fear not, He has overcome the world, therefore we can be more than conquerors through Christ, in this present evil world and in the world to come.