TheMerchants “…the merchants of the earth GREW RICH from her excessive luxuries…The merchants of the earth will weep and mourn over her because no one buys their cargoes anymore…The merchants who sold these things and GAINED THEIR WEALTH from her will stand far off, TERRIFIED AT HER TORMENT. They will weep and mourn…IN ONE HOUR she has been BROUGHT TO RUIN…Rev. 18:3, 11, 15, 19
Be encouraged, our Lord, Ruler of the Kings of the Earth, is not unaware of the greed driven global #merchants who seek to drain the earth and the people of all their resources. He saw them and spoke of them over a thousand years ago prophetically. God encourages us in the book of Revelation letting us know that though it seems the merchants have an upper hand and will succeed in their attempts to take over the world and its economic systems for their greed, in the end, when it’s all said and done, it will all fall in ONE HOUR, and merchants who could not ever satisfy their greed by wanting more and more power and wealth will sit astonished, terrified and in turmoil because of all that they focused upon, all the stuff and things, power and wealth they manipulated to acquire their entire life for is gone. It is over. Their god, mammon (money), has fallen, IN AN HOUR. You see, they do not know God and live only for this life, for things of this world, which will one day burn and melt away. They do not know of or live for the new heaven and the new earth, where righteousness dwells, that will come down from heaven from God who created the first earth and first heaven. I would call the first earth burned with fire, and it’s stuff and things melting away, for sure, #GlobalWarming! (2 Peter 3:10-13) Trust in the Lord with all your might knowing that He knows the end from the beginning. He knows those who are His and is able to keep you through all the turmoil of these last days as they are unfolding as He told us it would. Jesus told us, when we see these things, look up, for your redemption, the revealing of our Lord is soon to come. As the old hymn goes…
Soon and very soon we are goin’ to see the King,
Soon and very soon we are goin’ to see the King,
Soon and very soon we are goin’ to see the King,
Hallelujah, Hallelujah,
we are goin’ to see the King!
No more cryin’ there we are goin’ to see the King,
No more cryin’ there we are goin’ to see the King,
No more cryin’ there we are goin’ to see the King,
Hallelujah, Hallelujah,
we are goin’ to see the King!
No more dyin’ there we are goin’ to see the King,
No more dyin’ there we are goin’ to see the King,
No more dyin’ there we are goin’ to see the King,
Hallelujah, Hallelujah,
we are goin’ to see the King!
Soon and very soon we are goin’ to see the King,
Soon and very soon we are goin’ to see the King,
Soon and very soon we are goin’ to see the King,
Hallelujah, Hallelujah,
we’re are goin’ to see the King!
Hallelujah, Hallelujah, Hallelujah, Hallelujah.
I want to encourage you today to put this song upon your heart and join in with the heavenly host of angels who are anticipating the Father’s command as He looks to His Son (Jesus) and say, ‘Now, Son, return to get Your Bride, and rule for one thousand years upon Your throne from Jerusalem. There, all the nations will bring You tribute, they will honor You and You will get the Glory You deserve before the final hour.’
Soon and Very Soon | by Andraé Crouch (1976)