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Peter also declared that all these things would be dissolved, broken up, and destroyed or even melted. He used the word twice that we might know of a certainty that there will be drastic changes when the Lord Jesus comes in all of His glory. 2 Peter 3:11-12 How much like the church at Sardis is the modern day church? Jesus, in His letter to them stated that while they had a reputation as a live, active, growing church in all actuality, you are dead. Your works are not perfect, awake be alert, maintain the spirituality which remains but is almost dead. Hear the word, repent or I will come to you as a thief in the night, unawares, stealthily catching them totally unawares.
Rev. 3:2-3 The casual, ho hum attitude of many today toward the coming of the Lord Jesus fits perfectly into the form of the church at Sardis. His coming is mentioned frequently but there is little if any preparation toward that glorious event.
Jeremiah adds his prophetic voice to the happenings of that time. He spoke of the sounding trumpet and the sounds of warfare. Both of which relate to the trumpet sound at the coming of Christ and the subsequent battle of Armageddon. He was greatly pained by what he saw in the future and described it as destruction upon destruction. There is a sound of finality in his words. Jer. 4:19-21 He then described the spiritual condition of the people as being foolish and silly. A nation, or should we say a church, without understanding, lacking a true knowledge of the word. Wise to do evil but when it comes to obedience to the Word they have little comprehension. Jer. 4:22 The attitude that Paul saw in his day among the Jews is now the same with the church. Rom. 11:8
Jeremiah had a vision concerning the very thing of which we have seen in the Word. The world returning to the utter chaos of the beginning. Gen. 1:2 Without form and void. Lying in utter waste and completely empty. Jer. 4:23 Such total annihilation at the conclusion of the great tribulation period gives us absolute and glaring evidence that there is no possibility of sinners being found in the Millennium, the thousand years of the reign of Christ on the earth. Nor will there even be a similarity to the topography of this present earth, of any kind. His vision was rather comprehensive for he saw that there was no light (no light, no life), no man, birds had all fled, mountains shook, cities destroyed and nothing but desolation. Even so, the Lord did not make a complete end to the earth, for after His coming there is still that all important thousand years to complete the cycle of the week, the Sabbath day. Jer. 4:23-27