The human race is fickle. We are impatient, impulsive, and impressed easily. These are traits that don’t always serve us well. The Bible speaks volumes about our human nature and our inability to focus on eternal priorities. There is a classic example found in the Book of Revelation concerning our impatient and impulsive behavior, despite all the instructions on such matters found in the Book of Proverbs.
The Book of Revelation is a thinly veiled picture of earth’s end-time events. When mankind rejects all offers and entreaties by God to repent and seek Him, some terrific, horrible, and unchangeable events take place to serve as our warning here and now. Repentance then will still be possible, but the conditions will be unbearable. Why wait for the pressure to build to a crescendo, when you can think clearly and accept God’s offer now?!
Revelation chapter 16 tells us of seven judgments in rapid succession. These seven bowls of God’s wrath are not from impatience or impulse; they were recorded over 2,000 years ago! Painful sores on many, everything in the sea dies, fresh water in the rivers turn blood, a scorching sun, darkness covers entire cities, the Euphrates River dries up making ready for Armageddon, and then great widespread destruction occurs.
“…they cursed the name of God, who had control over all these plagues. They did not repent of their sins and turn to God and give him glory.” Revelation 16:9
People don't usually fall into immorality and evil suddenly--they slip into it a little bit at a time until, hardly realizing what has happened, they are irrevocably mired in their wicked ways. Temptation entertained today becomes sin tomorrow, then a habit the next day, then death, and separation from God forever. "Then, after desire has conceived, it gives birth to sin; and sin, when it is full-grown, gives birth to death." James 1:15
Bottom line: Things are going to heat up—soon—will you be inside or outside of the pot!
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