A great cataclysmic battle is happening all over the world; it’s been raging for thousands of years, but recently it has increased in fierceness. The battle is for the hearts, souls, and bodies of people whom God created to be His family. Satan hates God so much that he seeks to kill, destroy, and humiliate anyone who has any connection with God.
Why We Are Here
God created you with purpose. Humanity didn’t evolve from a blob of protoplasm; we exist to be in relationship with our heavenly Father, and one of our assignments is to build His family. He wants His family to be so large that our numerical system doesn’t have enough digits to count it. Our Father’s family serves Him, loves Him, and is filled with joy in His presence.
God Has Massive Patience
God started His family with only Adam and Eve, whom He told to be fruitful and multiply, and fill the waters in the seas, and let fowl multiply in the earth. (Genesis 1:22) God exercised massive patience as His family grew, and He is still allowing time for more to join. James 5:7 says, Be patient therefore, brethren, unto the coming of the Lord. Behold, the husbandman [God] waiteth for the precious fruit of the earth [that is us] and hath long patience for it, until he receive the early and latter rain.
It's taken about 6,000 years to get there, but the current population of the earth is about 7 ½ billion; more in this one generation than in all previous history combined. Accordingly, we are experiencing a move of God that is sweeping more people into His kingdom than ever before. God could have closed the doors to His family years ago, but I’m thankful He had the patience to wait for me to get in, aren’t you?
The Closer We Get to the End
Every person on the face of the earth isn’t part of God’s family, although they could be if they accept Jesus as their Savior and Lord. However, even before Jesus came in the flesh, died on the cross, and rose, God’s family was growing. It included people of faith who trusted in God; some of them are listed in the Faith Hall of Fame in Hebrews 11, including Abel, Enoch, Noah, Abraham, and Sara, and many others.
God is gathering people into His family because He wants them to enjoy eternity with Him in heaven. God never intended men to go to hell. He created hell for Satan and the heavenly host that followed Lucifer in his rebellion. Sadly, Isaiah 5:14 tells us hell hat enlarged herself.
The closer we get to the end, when God closes the door and says, “I am satisfied with My family,” the crazier things will be. Satan knows his time is short, and he is doing everything he can to take people with him. That’s why Paul wrote, For we wrestle not against flesh and blood, but against principalities, against powers, against the rulers of the darkness of this world, against spiritual wickedness in high places. (Ephesians 6:12)
Fight
The cataclysmic battle for the souls of men will not ease until God closes everything up and creates a new heaven and new earth. As a matter of fact, the battle will become more intense because the devil knows he is running out of time. Our assignment is to stay faithful and remain in the fight. God wants us to fight the good fight of faith (1 Timothy 6:12) for His family.
Fight, Faith Leader, knowing that you fight from the position of victory. Jesus defeated the devil when He spoiled principalities and powers, [making] a shew of them openly, triumphing over them in it. (Colossians 2:15)
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