Tribulation
For some of us it is hard to believe, but fourteen years ago today the Twin Towers in New York City came crashing down in a terrorist attack unlike anything the United States had ever experienced before. Some who are reading this won’t even remember the day, but for many of us who are older it is permanently imprinted on our minds. In fact I remember exactly where I was when it happened. I was in a hotel in Montgomery, Alabama.
But 9/11, as it has been dubbed, was nothing compared to what is ahead for this world during the tribulation. The Lord, in warning, said, “For then shall be great tribulation, such as was not since the beginning of the world to this time, no, nor ever shall be” (Matthew 24:21).
For those of us who are saved it’s a great comfort to know that we will be gone from this world by that time. The promise to us is, “Because thou hast kept the word of My patience, I also will keep thee from the hour of temptation, which shall come upon all the world, to try them that dwell upon the earth.” (Revelation 3:10). We are to be looking for the Lord to come at any moment, and perhaps it will be today.
