cut down in the mist of vanity. The young and the old worship vanity; the majority of churches is fullof vanity, the preachers. Sinful worship has flooded the meeting houses of God; Christ himself prophesied this; “
take heed that no man deceive you.): Matthew 24:4-5
. We are in the hour where graceand reprieve are fast passing; man’s cup of abomination will be arrested by heaven. The cup of iniquity is tipping over, and God’s patience is wearing out. When the Angel (Christ) takes the censerand fills it up with fire of the altar, and casts it into the earth; (Revelation 8:5): there will be trouble,bloodshed, catastrophes, death, painful human suffering. Why will all this hap-pen? Because man willhave rejected the Law of God, and ran mercy away. The pride of vanity would have broughtmediation for man’s behavior away: judgment will be the result. Great buildings will come down,planes will come down, cities taken over by foreigners, and this will bring the wrath of nature.Hurricanes, tornadoes, earthquakes, tsunami hits, volcano eruptions wiping out islands, mudslides,war, and the list goes on. Hundreds and thousands lose their lives; grave sites open their mouths andwelcome their new captives. “
God judgeth the righteous, and is angry with the wicked every day: if heturn not, he will whet his sword: he has bent his bow, and made it ready. He hath also prepared for himthe instruments of death: he ordaineth his arrows against the persecutors. Behold (the wicked) hetravaileth with iniquity, and hath conceived mischief and brought forth false hood; he made a pit and digged it, and fallen into the ditch which he made. His mischief shall return
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down upon his own plate“; (psalms 7:11-16)upon his own head, and his violent dealing shall come
. The wicked are responsible for their own destruction because they chose the road of misery and destruction (the broad way) instead of God’s straight and narrow way of love, where aman is made more fine than gold. Man has let Satan into his soul temple to steal away his soul, andwhen God can endure no more, Satan will no longer be restrained: the soul now falls at the hand of the enemy, and he does whatever he pleases. He stores them in his prison (the grave). They suffer thefirst death and wait for the last and final judgment. The righteous sleep in Christ and await eternallife. The wicked will suffer the death without hope, because they chose death over life. This leads usback to misery and death, which God is trying to save us from. Satan also works day and nighthovering over us to get us to walk on forbidden grounds so he can annihilate us. In this chapter youwill read real stories of men who treaded on forbidden grounds and stumbled unto misery and death,all because they’ve rejected the word of God. Many people suffer from the path of misery andanguish; they make foolish decisions and now regret it. Many suffer their misery for the rest of theirlife: those that turn from instructions despise their own soul. There are two ways, and whether youlike it or not you will choose: the straight and narrow path or the broad way that leads to destruction.The way that leads to destruction is the popular and easy way, but it is the road that the worldfollows; in this path lies open snares of misery; “
there are the workers of iniquity fallen: they are cast down, and shall not be able to rise “(Psalm 36:12)
. In the broad, popular way, all kinds of evil huntdown the evildoers and tackle them. “
The wicked man travaileth with pain all his days,
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dreadful sound is in his ears: in prosperity the destroyer and the number of his years ishidden to the oppressor; a shall come upon him“ (Job 14:20-21).
Read carefully of these true stories of men who were cut down in their sins, and died on the path of worldly sorrows and misery.
THE YOUNG MAN FROM FLATBUSH:There
lived a foreign young man that came down from New York City to a place down south to set upshop and get rich fast, but he didn’t know the great price he and others would have to suffer, who lustfor greed and worldly ease. Through gunfights, he and his team settled on the turf; through war andagreement, all came to a truce. They started making major money on that block. Drug addicts camefrom all over; they came to buy the coke and water that they sold. Their product was one of the bestin their whole city. They were a moneymaking organization in this city, and distributed their coke andwater for a high price to other drug dealers. But they paid for it and people grew to love them. Butthere was one in the team that wasn’t like the rest; his heart was not full of violence, but he was thesource of the income coming to the head of the drug reign. He was a foreign cat; in a couple of hoursor so within a day he got off at least a brick and a half or more by selling 20s, ten-dollar hits, etc.Many were jealous of the young foreigner, but they dared not touch him because of his team, and not
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