Many years ago, among the Alps in Switzerland stood a towering peak called the “Rossberg.” At the foot of one side, which was nearly perpendicular, there nestled a little village. Just below this was one of those blue mountain lakes so common in Switzerland.
One day a government geologist came to the little village. He lodged at the hotel, and for many days he climbed with his equipment and prodded and poked and measured the mountain. At last he had the villagers all called together and said to them, “The government sent me here to examine this mountain. I find that it is extremely unstable; one of these days it will fall! The wisest thing you can do is to move away.”
Of course the people were much alarmed by the message, and some hurriedly moved to another village. Others were not so hasty, and as time went by and the mountain did not fall immediately, they began to laugh at their fears. The mountain still stood.
Days, weeks, months and years rolled away, and still it stood. Old men and women died and were buried. A new generation of children played in the streets, and all went on as usual. The officer and his message were nearly forgotten.
One night, nineteen years after the warning, with an awful roar the mountain fell, burying the little village and half filling up the lake. Very few of the villagers escaped.
Isn’t this a warning even for us? We are living in a scene which has been warned of the judgments of God. God has set the very day! “He hath appointed a day, in the which He will judge the world in righteousness by that man whom He hath ordained; whereof He hath given assurance unto all men, in that He hath raised Him from the dead” (Acts 17:3131Because he hath appointed a day, in the which he will judge the world in righteousness by that man whom he hath ordained; whereof he hath given assurance unto all men, in that he hath raised him from the dead. (Acts 17:31)).
All of a sudden, it will be here!
There is one way of escape - only one. Jesus died on the cross to make that way of escape, and we must flee to Him in faith.