This morning, I am departing from my regular daily messages for what I believe is a Holy Spirit prophetic prompting. What I have received this morning and write is in the form of a very short fictional story. The title of my story is: "Time To Wake Up!" The little story hopefully helps us to realize Jesus is coming! Soon the evil of this world will bring on God's justice. We must prepare.
Brett Driscoll was slowly waking up, trying not to wake his wife Elizabeth, who was still sleeping soundly. Slowly, trying not to move the bed, he turned over to look at the clock on top of the dresser; it was only 4:18! It was too early to start coffee, but now he was fully awake. Just before he opened his eyes, he had been dreaming; something about him preparing to make a journey. Now that he was awake, he lay there in the quiet darkness. The chill of the night and the warm bed covers invited Brett to just stay in bed. His mind was already starting to get in gear though. The dream, although he couldn’t remember much of it, had brought Brett’s consciousness to some stage of alertness. He wasn’t sure why. Something was different though about this morning, this day.
In (1 Corinthians 15:51-52) the apostle Paul speaks; “I declare to you, brothers, that flesh and blood cannot inherit the kingdom of God, nor does the perishable inherit the imperishable. Listen, I tell you a mystery: We will not all sleep, but we will all be changed – in a flash, in the twinkling of an eye, at the last trumpet.”
Brett wondered if there was anything alarming in the early morning Fox news that might give a hint to his concern for the uneasiness he felt, but he wasn’t going to turn on the TV, not this early in the morning! Besides, the news had already been disturbing for weeks, no months! “How might this day be any different?” He silently asked himself. There was something very different though about this day, he could just feel it.
“5:23 AM!” Finally, this was a decent time to get up, get the coffee pot brewing and start the day. The wife was awake. Her almost whispered voice asked, “Is the coffee started?” Brett told Elizabeth he had just started it, and he would bring her a cup after he made a trip to the bathroom. They were both now awake. Brett turned on the news. The Driscoll’s busy day had begun!
As the dark of night gave way to the light of morning, this day was starting out a little earlier than most, still it was just another work day. With the TV on now, Brett tuned to Fox News, it was the same old news: trouble in Egypt; Iran issuing new threats to the USA; a deranged man kills his kids and himself; a teenage girl disappears in Missouri; four thousand people laid off in North Carolina; the government announces it will borrow two trillion dollars to help pay the nation’s bills for three months; five new tunnels used by Mexican drug cartels are discovered in California; God’s name is removed from more national symbols and disallowed in public places; church attendance is at an all-time low; gays demand their right to marry should overrule what God created and ordained for one man and one woman; two men hi-jack an SUV at a gas station not realizing a ten-month old baby girl is in the backseat. Just another day; not quite!
Outside the Driscoll home a loud clap of thunder accompanied by a brilliant flash of lighting jarred the windows and walls, and caused Brett and Elizabeth to stretch out their arms to balance themselves. It was if the heavens had split open all at once. “Whoa!” Brett shouted in shock. Elizabeth warned, “Brett, honey, that was way too close to our house!” Outside in the yard, the neighbor’s dog barked and kept on barking. The whole block suddenly lost all electrical power, and an eerie stillness came over the whole subdivision, most likely the whole town. Brett and Elizabeth couldn't have been aware that the sound of the lightning strike was heard not only on their street but around the world. And then, the whole earth gave a small wiggle, a hard shake, then a much larger, devastating jolt. Large waves suddenly rose up on the shores of every nation; the skies became dark in the east and the west; in China; in France; down in Antarctica; over the Great Barrier Reef of Australia; darkness covered the whole world. The moon turned blood red. Everywhere people of every nation, every faith and those who had long denied believing in God suddenly came to understand this was not just another day on earth! All grace had expired! All mankind now realized this was that tragic day so many had warned of throughout history. Today, Bible prophesy was coming true!
In that brief moment, before God’s justice was served, Brett grabbed Elizabeth’s hands and confessed to her; “Elizabeth, I am sorry, so sorry please forgive me? I love you!” and then…”in the blink of an eye.”