"Sit Thou at My right hand, until I make Thine enemies Thy footstool." Psalm 110: 1. Thus spoke the Father, as His Son, Christ Jesus, entered heaven with the marks of the world's hatred upon His blessed Person.
Nearly two thousand years have come and gone since then, and time with lightning wing is speeding us toward that awful moment when the Son will rise up in resistless might to fulfill the Father's decree. Christ is coming to make His enemies His footstool. Are you washed in His blood? If so, you are His friend. If not, you are Christ's enemy, and when He comes in power and great glory it will be to crush you, as His enemy, beneath His feet (Matthew 25:31-4631When the Son of man shall come in his glory, and all the holy angels with him, then shall he sit upon the throne of his glory: 32And before him shall be gathered all nations: and he shall separate them one from another, as a shepherd divideth his sheep from the goats: 33And he shall set the sheep on his right hand, but the goats on the left. 34Then shall the King say unto them on his right hand, Come, ye blessed of my Father, inherit the kingdom prepared for you from the foundation of the world: 35For I was an hungred, and ye gave me meat: I was thirsty, and ye gave me drink: I was a stranger, and ye took me in: 36Naked, and ye clothed me: I was sick, and ye visited me: I was in prison, and ye came unto me. 37Then shall the righteous answer him, saying, Lord, when saw we thee an hungred, and fed thee? or thirsty, and gave thee drink? 38When saw we thee a stranger, and took thee in? or naked, and clothed thee? 39Or when saw we thee sick, or in prison, and came unto thee? 40And the King shall answer and say unto them, Verily I say unto you, Inasmuch as ye have done it unto one of the least of these my brethren, ye have done it unto me. 41Then shall he say also unto them on the left hand, Depart from me, ye cursed, into everlasting fire, prepared for the devil and his angels: 42For I was an hungred, and ye gave me no meat: I was thirsty, and ye gave me no drink: 43I was a stranger, and ye took me not in: naked, and ye clothed me not: sick, and in prison, and ye visited me not. 44Then shall they also answer him, saying, Lord, when saw we thee an hungred, or athirst, or a stranger, or naked, or sick, or in prison, and did not minister unto thee? 45Then shall he answer them, saying, Verily I say unto you, Inasmuch as ye did it not to one of the least of these, ye did it not to me. 46And these shall go away into everlasting punishment: but the righteous into life eternal. (Matthew 25:31‑46); Revelation 19: 11-21). Oh, the terrors of the Christless at that coming!
Christ is coming! And one of two things will happen to you when He comes: you will either be caught up to be forever with Him, or else left behind for judgment. Think of it— left behind for judgment!
Jesus said, "As it was in the days of Noe, so shall it be in the days of the Son of man." How was it in the days of Noe? A world of sinners, heedless of God's warnings, and unprepared for His judgment, was in a moment swept away to eternal destruction by the terrible waters of wrath. So shall it be when Christ comes. Multitudes will be unprepared, because unwashed in His blood, and therefore will be damned throughout eternity. Shall you be one of them?
Yes, the Judge is coming! And still there comes to us His voice, borne along the centuries of the distant past, still pleading with the sinner in the tones of the tenderest love, "Come unto Me... and I will give you rest." "He that believeth on Me hath everlasting life." (Matthew 11:2828Come unto me, all ye that labor and are heavy laden, and I will give you rest. (Matthew 11:28); John 6:4747Verily, verily, I say unto you, He that believeth on me hath everlasting life. (John 6:47)). But even as we listen the voice changes to a voice of sorrow, and we hear Him grieving, "And ye will not come to Me that ye might have life."
Reader, are those words of grief prophetic of the doom of your Christless soul? Or will you this instant hasten through the shadows of impending judgment that even now gather round your path, to the feet of Him who died that you might live, and who, in patient grace, still lingers to receive you and forgive you through the virtue of His blood?