Night is Falling

As the children of God we have the promise from God of eternally being kept.

Hebrews 13:5 … God has said, "Never will I leave you; never will I forsake you."

I have been contemplating the presence of God in our country today… or the lack thereof , and how it correlates with scripture.

Jesus has said;

John 9:4 “As long as it is day, we must do the work of him who sent me. Night is coming, when no one can work.”

“Night is coming.”

I am not certain what he means by, “no man can work”. Does He mean His work or vocational work? Based on the context it is framed in, I am more inclined to believe it is His work. However, the period of night is from the Greek word νύξ, it is a primary word and it is generally agreed upon that the word is being used metaphorically. Most scholars contend that Jesus is implying that ‘death’ is the period when none can work. But the word is also used metaphorically elsewhere to imply the time of moral stupidity and darkness.

John 11:10 It is when he walks by night that he stumbles, for he has no light."

I believe He was implying the latter use of the word, describing a period of moral decline, darkness and spiritual stupidity that would precede the end of days.

Paul told Timothy:

2 Timothy 3:1-9 Don't be naive. There are difficult times ahead. As the end approaches, people are going to be self-absorbed, money-hungry, self-promoting, stuck-up, profane, contemptuous of parents, crude, coarse, dog-eat-dog, unbending, slanderers, impulsively wild, savage, cynical, treacherous, ruthless, bloated windbags, addicted to lust, and allergic to God. They'll make a show of religion, but behind the scenes they're animals.
These are the kind of people who smooth-talk themselves into the homes of unstable and needy women and take advantage of them; women who, depressed by their sinfulness, take up with every new religious fad that calls itself "truth." They get exploited every time and never really learn. These men are like those old Egyptian frauds Jannes and Jambres, who challenged Moses. They were rejects from the faith, twisted in their thinking, defying truth itself.

This also sounds like a period of time described by moral decline, darkness and spiritual stupidity.

Way back in Genesis, God made a statement as it related to His continuing relationship with man.

Genesis 6:3 Then the LORD said, "My Spirit will not contend with (Or My spirit will not remain in) man forever, for he is mortal (Or corrupt…

There has already been one period of time when God ceased striving with man in Noah’s generation, and in that instance He wiped them out. There are many instances where God has ceased striving with us as a Nation or as individuals and gave us over to our sinful desires. Here are a few of them; Job 8:4, Psalm 78:50, Psalm 81:12, Ezekiel 20:25, Acts 7:42, Romans 1:24, Romans 1:26, Romans 1:28 .

And there is coming a day or the day has already come when God will once again cease to be apart of us as a people.

Has that day already come?

For those who have been Christians walking closely with God for a long period of time… doesn’t it seem some how different today? We already know because of Hebrews 13:5 that as His individual children He has promised to remain with us. And Jesus also said;

Matthew 28:20 And surely I am with you always, to the very end of the age."

He said He will be with us (individually) until the very end. But as a race, as a people…I believe He has begun to withdraw from us.

I think there is a day of darkness that is upon us. That night is falling. That the time for working is drawing to a close. I can see it all around us and I can feel it when I talk to those that do not belong to Him.

There is a closed spirit in many today. Jesus at one time said;

Matthew 9:37 "The harvest is plentiful but the workers are few.

I would say that the workers are still few… but the harvest is beginning to wither.

Night is Falling! And for those that are willing to work, it is time to work harder!

Matthew 24:3-14
And as he sat upon the mount of Olives, the disciples came unto him privately, saying, Tell us, when shall these things be? and what shall be the sign of thy coming, and of the end of the world?
And Jesus answered and said unto them, Take heed that no man deceive you.
For many shall come in my name, saying, I am Christ; and shall deceive many.
And ye shall hear of wars and rumours of wars: see that ye be not troubled: for all these things must come to pass, but the end is not yet.
For nation shall rise against nation, and kingdom against kingdom: and there shall be famines, and pestilences, and earthquakes, in divers places.
All these are the beginning of sorrows.
Then shall they deliver you up to be afflicted, and shall kill you: and ye shall be hated of all nations for my name's sake.
And then shall many be offended, and shall betray one another, and shall hate one another.
And many false prophets shall rise, and shall deceive many.
And because iniquity shall abound, the love of many shall wax cold.
But he that shall endure unto the end, the same shall be saved.
And this gospel of the kingdom shall be preached in all the world for a witness unto all nations; and then shall the end come.