Carmichael SDA Church Bulletin

We are really getting into never before seen territory now as we hear the trumpets sounding and see the results of God's wrath as a third of everything on earth is destroyed. This image would be paralyzing were it not for the context in which we find it. The trumpets sound as a result of the prayers of ALL of God's children being flung upon the earth. We have just heard the cry from under the altar, "How long, O Lord?" and now we see God's response to the evil in the world, but we see it given only in the measure of one third. This portion of God's wrath is still a warning, and thus an invitation to change, but the majority would not. My friends, we do, today, live in a world with increasing destruction, hatred, and immorality, but it is a time of warning if we have ears to hear and eyes to see and will take the message to heart. God hears our cries...our prayers...and He will answer with a final judgment, but the time is not yet.