Biblical prophetic scenarios of the end of the age have much to say about the darkness growing darker and the light and the glory of the Lord becoming brighter. Which it will be for us is determined by us.
It is a biblical principle that we are as close to the Lord as we want to be. We’re promised that if we seek Him, we will find Him, and if we draw close to Him, He will draw close to us. The choice of how close to Him we are will determine the light or the darkness in our life. We choose.
In Daniel 2, when the little stone hits the feet of the statue that represents all of man’s empires until the end of this age, the statue begins to crumble, but the stone grows into a mountain. Mountains represent governments in biblical prophetic symbolism, and this rock keeps growing until it becomes a mountain, or government. Then, it grows until it covers the whole earth. Is the realm we are living under crumbling or growing? This reveals which government we are living under.
To some degree, we are still living under the governments of this realm, but this will be less and less as they fall apart and lose control. If all we see are growing darkness and trauma, our attention is on the realm that is crumbling. When we’re born again, we’re given the ability to see the kingdom of God, which cannot be shaken and will always increase. If we’re born again, then the light of this kingdom should be growing. If we’re only seeing the darkness, we’re not using the spiritual vision we were given to see His kingdom, and we have too much of our attention on the wrong realm.
In too many of the conversations I have with Christians, they tend to be fixated on the growing darkness. With some, it’s almost all they talk about, and I almost never hear them talk about how the kingdom is increasing in our time. We’re not to be ignorant of the devil’s schemes and what he’s doing in the earth, but neither are we to be fixated on this. It’s a biblical principle that we are changed into what we are beholding. Many Christians are getting more fearful and bitter because they’re spending more time looking at the growing evil than they are at the growing light. It is not wrong to know what is happening in the world, but we need to have our attention on what the Lord is doing.
We can also be pretty sure that the news media are not going to be covering how the kingdom of God is now growing. They don’t have the ability to see this, but, if we’re born again, we do. We should be spending much more time looking for what God is doing than at what the devil is doing. If you don’t know how to do this, ask the Lord, who is your Teacher and Shepherd.
When we see the glory of the Lord increasing, it changes us into His image. Psalm 2 tells us that during this time when the leaders of the earth are trying to sever all ties to the Lord, He is sitting in the heavens laughing. He is not sitting on His throne wringing His hands in anxiety about anything happening on the earth, because He sees and knows that His light will prevail. If we’re seeing from His perspective, we will also be of a different spirit than all who are of this world, and we will be enjoying ourselves.
The fields are already ripe for harvest for those who see. They are already reaping it, and spreading hope and light wherever they go. This should be every Christian. If we’re concerned about how the church is shrinking almost everywhere, I can tell you that is a false narrative. The true church is not shrinking, but growing. What is being measured by the pollsters and those who study such trends mostly see only man’s church, not God’s church.
What men have tried to build for God is shrinking and will eventually disappear. Many of these—and perhaps all—have done a lot of good and have been blessed by God. But God will bless things He will not inhabit. Did the Lord not bless Ishmael and make him a great nation, too? In fact, the seed of Ishmael greatly outnumbers the seed of Isaac, but Isaac received the inheritance. Likewise, God’s church may still be only a fraction as large as what man has built, but it is this little remnant through which we will see His glory come.
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