By Lou Coleman
God has sent an eagle to fly above the earth and send out ONE FINAL APPEAL! Get under the Umbrella of the Almighty God NOW before the last three trumpet of judgments are released. [Revelation 8:6-12]. “I tell you, Nay: but, except ye REPENT, ye shall all likewise PERISH.” [Luke 13:3].
The Book of Revelation depicts humanity being perched upon the threshold of the Great Tribulation when utter desolation will befall the world. But, in keeping with God’s grace, he will not permit mankind to walk blindly into the Apocalypse.
Thus, [Revelation 14], shows how God does everything possible to save sinners and spare them from the coming wrath! This is God’s FINAL APPEAL to you sending his three angels to circumnavigate the globe and make a final proclamation to every living soul. Get under the Umbrella of the Almighty God NOW!
God has always sent a message to prepare people for significant events that affect their eternal destiny. When the world was going to be destroyed by water, as wickedness spread on the earth, the Lord called Noah to teach the gospel to his people. Noah warned the people that they must repent, or they would be destroyed by floods. Not only did the people refuse to follow Noah’s counsel, but they also became angry and wanted to kill him. [Genesis 6:5; Moses 8:18-26]. When the people would not repent, the Lord told Noah, ” I am going to bring floodwater on the earth to destroy all life under the heavens, every creature that has the breath of life in it. Everything on earth will perish.” [Genesis 6:17].
When Jesus was about to take up His ministry on earth as the promised Messiah, God sent John the Baptist with a message of repentance to prepare the way. [Mark 1:2-3; Luke 3:2-16; Matthew 3:1-11].
God sent Jonah with a message to the people of Nineveh— “Repent or your city will be destroyed in forty days!” And the people repented. They responded to Jonah’s message, and their city was spared. [Jonah 3:1-5,10, Mark 1:14-20].
Every time there has been a major event affecting people’s spiritual destiny, God has had a message to prepare them to meet it by His grace. The three angels in [Revelation 14] proclaim messages of the greatest significance. They are God’s FINAL APPEAL to the inhabitants of earth. REPENT and get under the Umbrella of the Almighty God NOW!
Jesus crying out with tears in His voice: O Jerusalem, Jerusalem, the one who kills the prophets and stones those who are sent to her! How often I wanted to gather your children together, as a hen gathers her chicks under her wings, but you were not willing. [Matthew 23:37].
That is the emotion God is feeling as He sends these urgent messages to earth. So many times, His Spirit has pled with men and women to turn to Him and be saved. Now the end is fast approaching, and God is doing everything He can to encourage you to come to Him. He has promised to be with you to the very end [Matthew 28:20].
And Jesus cried out and said, “Whoever believes in me, believes not in me but in him who sent me. And whoever sees me sees him who sent me. I have come into the world as light, so that whoever believes in me may not remain in darkness. If anyone hears my words and does not keep them, I do not judge him; for I did not come to judge the world but to save the world. The one who rejects me and does not receive my words has a judge; the word that I have spoken will judge him on the last day. For I have not spoken on my own authority, but the Father who sent me has himself given me a commandment what to say and what to speak. And I know that his commandment is eternal life. What I say, therefore, I say as the Father has told me. [John 12:44-50].
God’s FINAL Appeal!
Listen, I don’t know how long God will continue this call to repentance and turning back to him, but there will come a day when the call will come to an end. The church will be gone and those left behind will be left to a world of delusion, lies and deception, where there will be little hope of survival.
Repent and get under the Umbrella of the Almighty God NOW! God loves you too much to allow you to go into judgment without giving you every opportunity to turn around.
God will use every means possible to warn mankind.
He uses the 144,000 Witnesses.
He uses Moses and Elijah.
He uses this trio of angels in [Revelation 14].
And he uses the witness of his Holy Word.
In so doing, God will have exhausted his grace, expended his mercy, and emptied his love in his final effort to redeem sinners. Thus, God will exhibit the fullness of his fairness and prove himself as faultless, in the least measure, from anyone facing him on Judgment Day and alleging they had insufficient opportunity to believe the Gospel. Repent and get under the Umbrella of the Almighty God NOW!
Like road signs on the highway, every warning can be given, and every direction shown to get us to our final destination, but if we ignore the signs and end up lost, it’s not the fault of the signs, nor of the one who built the highway. The fault is our own. We fail to read, we fail to listen, we fail to heed the warning which leads to destruction. Please Take Heed! Repent and get under the Umbrella of the Almighty God NOW!
The door was still open for any to come aboard. Nobody did. They watched as the Lord shut the door [Genesis 7:16]. The rain started. They all died!
God’s FINAL Appeal!