When I first began this ministry, I spoke in churches all over America, warning of the moral landslide to come. I told people in Iowa, Oklahoma and all the Southern states that drugs would strike even the smallest hamlet. Dealers would appear in schools and on playgrounds, not just in dark alleys. I warned of blatant homosexuality with nude parades taking place in our cities, and I prophesied that nudity and sexual acts would air on prime-time television.
Many people who heard me preach thought I had come from Mars. Pastors berated me, and sincere Christians came to me saying, “No way! God will never let that happen in America.” Today, some of those people are grandparents. They sit before their TVs watching the R-rated movies I prophesied of, and their grandchildren are addicted to drugs and alcohol. The darkness I warned about has arrived. Can you imagine how dark it will be decades from now, should the Lord delay his coming?
It seems like the darkness will surely be impenetrable. However, I ask, “As you see the darkness deepening on all sides, do you believe it will exceed the light of the gospel? Are you afraid the darkness is going to snuff it out?”
God’s people must never be intimidated by the darkness and fury of the enemy. The Bible says Jesus is going to rise and shine in the darkness no matter how dark the world becomes. “The people who walked in darkness have seen a great light; those who dwelt in the land of the shadow of death, upon them a light has shined” (Isaiah 9:2).
We live in a time of widespread death and darkness, but God says that in such times he will shine his light the brightest. “I will bring the blind by a way they did not know; I will lead them in paths they have not known. I will make darkness light before them, and crooked places straight. These things I will do for them, and not forsake them” (Isaiah 42:16).
No darkness will ever stop God’s light! So get your eyes off the darkness, off the sin, off the fury of violent people, and believe the Lord for the bursting forth of his shining, effusing light.