Isa. 66:18

18 For I know their works [ma`aseh] and their thoughts [machashabah]: it shall come [bow'], that I will gather [qabats] all nations [gowy] and tongues [lashown]; and they shall come [bow'], and see [ra'ah] my glory [kabowd]. KJV-Interlinear

18 For I know their works and their thoughts; the time is coming to gather all nations and tongues. And they shall come and see My glory. NASB

Though people try to conduct their false spiritual life from within the privacy of their own thoughts, which is to say their walled gardens, or in the deepest recesses of some nearby but dark grove of trees, God still knows their thoughts. God knows their motives. God knows their actions.

God has known every motive, thought, and action of every person who has or will, ever live. He has known since eternity past. Nothing can be hidden from God. And trying to hide ones thought pattern from people does no good either.

The ultimate evaluator of history, and of life, is God, not someone s historical account in books. Though there are certainly many folks who are super wrapped up in their own ego, and they will do anything so as to have a favorable account written of them for history.

You ll generally find this approbation attitude in celebrities, or leaders, or politicians and such folks.

For the more common of folks, like you and me, our names and lives won t be highlighted in the history books. But still, common folks will get caught up in the secret thought patterns of false philosophies.

Truth is held out in the open and can be seen by all. Lies are not truth, therefore they function in the concealment of darkness.

So what do we mean by darkness? Isn t all religion and generally all philosophy practiced out in the open? Yes. But the darkness that is referred to here, is in the soul. The darkness of the soul.

A dark soul cannot see. And seeing here means knowing the difference between right and wrong, sorting out fact from fiction, knowing when someone is deceiving you, or leading you on with incomplete, or tainted, or compromised information.

Bible doctrine provides that light which allows the soul to see clearly. Lack of Bible doctrine makes life foggy, unclear, disoriented, ambiguous, and therefore making decisions is difficult.

But all that said, people know that truth is out there to be learned. They know of Bible doctrine, but they ignore it, don t take it seriously, don t think of the Bible as a window through which life can be seen, understood, and lived. And so, people go their own way in the fog of their own soul.

But there will come a time in everyone's life, when truth will open up their eyes wide, and they will then see just how dark of a life they have been living. That day is generally the day of their death. Too bad, and too late.

Likewise in history, there will come a time when all of the nations will have their eyes opened wide, and truth will come in so brightly that they will be blinded, but not with truth, but with judgment. The judgment of Christ.

His glory, which is so disregarded in today's world, and has been disregarded throughout history, will, at the time of the Second Advent, become more than apparent.

Unfortunately, the entire world will have lost its opportunity for changing their ways to Gods ways.

Throughout the Tribulation, millions, perhaps even billions of people will believe in Christ. Most of them will die as martyrs, at the hands of brutal governments, at the hands of violent gangs, from starvation, disease, and so forth. As the Tribulation s seven-year period progresses, these new believers will become fewer and fewer as the pressures of the world increase more and more.

By the time of the final days and hours of the Armageddon war, everyone who is going to believe in Christ, will have done so. God is fair. When Christ returns at the Second Advent, everything, every decision that is going to be made, will be completed.

Now here is the kicker. When people look up in the eastern sky and see the phenomenal glory of Christ coming, what do you suppose their reaction will be? To fall down and say they are sorry, to beg forgiveness, to recognize that Jesus Christ really does exist? Do you suppose that everyone will recognize the error of their entire life and finally believe in Christ?

No, that will not happen. When Christ s feet touch down on the ground, His judgment will break loose and cover the planet with death and destruction. Times up!

The last thing that negative people see when they die, is their lost opportunity in the face of Jesus Christ, and still they will be defiant against Him.

Now is the time to post a prayer.