50 Days to Understanding the End-Times More Accurately - Day 46 - Drunkeness

narrowminded (58)in #rapture • 8 years ago

DAY 46 - Drunkeness

“But and if that evil servant shall say in his heart, My lord delayeth his coming; And shall begin to smite his fellowservants, and to eat and drink with the drunken;” (Matthew 24:48-49)

In this passage we see that the servant who grows tired of waiting for his Lord’s return will turn on his fellow servants and begin to “drink with the drunken”.

There is a call for holiness and sobriety which the Lord has given to believers, and I believe that this response to concluding that the “lord delayeth his coming” is tragic.

After all, the passage continues:

“The lord of that servant shall come in a day when he looketh not for him, and in an hour that he is not aware of, And shall cut him asunder, and appoint him his portion with the hypocrites: there shall be weeping and gnashing of teeth.” (Matthew 24:50-51)

These “evil servants” eventually proved themselves to be tares that the enemy had sown among the wheat.

“The field is the world; the good seed are the children of the kingdom; but the tares are the children of the wicked one; The enemy that sowed them is the devil; the harvest is the end of the world; and the reapers are the angels. As therefore the tares are gathered and burned in the fire; so shall it be in the end of this world. The Son of man shall send forth his angels, and they shall gather out of his kingdom all things that offend, and them which do iniquity; And shall cast them into a furnace of fire: there shall be wailing and gnashing of teeth. Then shall the righteous shine forth as the sun in the kingdom of their Father. Who hath ears to hear, let him hear.” (Matthew 13:38-43)

Those “that offend” and “do iniquity” (live a lifestyle of sin) shall be cast into the “furnace of fire: there shall be wailing and gnashing of teeth.”

The message here is the same as the one in Matthew 24:50-51.

How is it that these ones who appeared to be believers wind up becoming drunkards and hating the children of God?

As it was in the days of Noah and in the days of Lot, “Even thus shall it be in the day when the Son of man is revealed” (Luke 17:30).

Both Noah and Lot were preserved from the actual wrath of God, yet we see a common trend after their preservation.

We see that “…Noah began to be an husbandman, and he planted a vineyard: And he drank of the wine, and was drunken; and he was uncovered within his tent” (Genesis 9:20-21).

Lot’s daughters conspired to make “their father drink wine” (Genesis 19:34) and were able to convince him to do so two days in a row, and then, once Lot was drunk they took turns laying with him and each became pregnant.

So far as Scripture tells us, this was a one-time event for Noah and a two days in a row event for Lot, so obviously they were not overtaken by a lifestyle of such sin, but their sin did still have lasting consequences.

Since pretribulationists have created “The Tribulation” and have taught that this entire period is God’s wrath, how will those being subjected to what they believe is actually God’s wrath behave?

Even those preserved from the real wrath of God (Noah & Lot) momentarily gave in to the sin of drunkenness, so how much more so will those who are convinced that they are being judged by God’s wrath, and that the Bible was not true after all?