But mark this: There will be terrible times in the last days…
2 Timothy 3:1
always learning but never able to acknowledge the truth.
2 Timothy 3:7
A Time of Trouble
If you falter in times of trouble, how small is your strength!
Rescue those being led away to death; hold back those staggering
toward slaughter.
If you say, “But we knew nothing about this,” does not he who weighs
the heart perceive it?
Does not he who guards your life know it? Will he not repay each
person according to what he has done?
Proverbs 24: 10-12
The Cave’s Delusions
And ye shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you free.
John 8:32
Plato… compares men who have never tried to face the truth to prisoners
in a deep underground cavern, who have been so chained… that they cannot
turn their heads. In front of them is the rocky wall of their prison-house.
Behind them and above them is a causeway , on which fires are burning, and
along this causeway pass wayfarers singing and conversing and bearing burdens,
whose shadows are thrown by the firelight on the cavern wall, and whose voices
are reflected back from it.
The imprisoned denizens of the dark cave, seeing
only these flickering shadows, take them for substances and realities; and
hearing only these vague echoes, take them for songs and voices….
“Imprisoned in self-chosen darkness, steeped in emptinesses, how few among
living men even care for that wisdom which consists in seeing the things that
are, and seeing them as they are!
Let a man but once catch a glimpse of the
true light and he learns utterly to despise the dim rush-light of this world’s
tinselled stage. Let one ray out of eternity shine down upon him, and for him
the world and the things of the world shrivel into insignificance.”
From Streams In The Desert Volume 2 August 23rd by Mrs.Charles E. Cowman
His Eyes Are On Their Ways
“There are those who rebel against the light,
who do not know its ways or stay in its paths.
Job 24:13
In the dark men break into houses, but by day
they shut themselves in; they want nothing to do
with the light.
Job 24:16
For all of them, deep darkness is
their morning; they make friends with the terrors
of darkness.
Job 24:17
But God drags away the mighty by his power;
though they become established, they have no
assurance of life.
He may let them rest in a feeling of security,
but his eyes are on their ways.
For a little while they are exalted, and then they
are gone; they are brought low and gathered up
like all the others; they are cut off like heads of grain.
Job 24: 22-24