"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 25:31-46; 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 11:28; 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?
"The blood of Jesus Christ His Son cleanseth us from all sin." 1 John 1:7.
"It is the blood that maketh an atonement for the soul." Leviticus 17:11.