Isaiah 64:1-3 (ESV)
Oh that you would rend the heavens and come down,
that the mountains might quake at your presence—
as when fire kindles brushwood
and the fire causes water to boil—
to make your name known to your adversaries,
and that the nations might tremble at your presence!
When you did awesome things that we did not look for,
you came down, the mountains quaked at your presence.
What would happen if the world actually saw God in all His glory? Imagine the news coverage. Think about how the markets would react. Ponder the thought that the rulers and government would be faced with the King of Kings and Lord of Lords. Consider the concept that all the military power of the world would gaze at the awesome power of God’s Word, the flaming sword of His tongue. These are the thoughts contained in the above prophesy of Isiah’s prayer in the above verses. It states that the “mountains would quake.” Has anyone in these days seen so much awesomeness from God that they would consider that mountains would quake? It states that the nations will “tremble.” We don’t see a lot of the nations trembling these days. We see them flex. We see them puff their chest out. We see them threaten. We see them boast. But, we have never seen the nations tremble. Notice what John says about these things in The Revelation of John. This is what will happen to the nations when Christ begins the end times with wonders and awe:
Revelation 6:12-17 (ESV)
When he opened the sixth seal, I looked, and behold, there was a great earthquake, and the sun became black as sackcloth, the full moon became like blood, and the stars of the sky fell to the earth as the fig tree sheds its winter fruit when shaken by a gale. The sky vanished like a scroll that is being rolled up, and every mountain and island was removed from its place. Then the kings of the earth and the great ones and the generals and the rich and the powerful, and everyone, slave and free, hid themselves in the caves and among the rocks of the mountains, calling to the mountains and rocks, “Fall on us and hide us from the face of him who is seated on the throne, and from the wrath of the Lamb, for the great day of their wrath has come, and who can stand?”
Notice what happens with the leaders of this world. The kings, the great ones, the generals, the rich, the powerful, the slave and the free will hide from God’s holy presence. That is what will happen when God reveals Himself from heaven. The prophecy of Isaiah will be filled in the prophecy of John. That is the future of the world.
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