A bit to cover in this Chapter. Anyway from first paragraph:
"When the protection of human laws shall be withdrawn from those who honor the law of God, there will be, in different lands, a simultaneous movement for their destruction. As the time appointed in the decree draws near, the people will conspire to root out the hated sect. It will be determined to strike in one night a decisive blow, which shall utterly silence the voice of dissent and reproof."
The above first paragraph of Chapter 40 is being executed over these last decades. Although the final drive to convert the world to complete evil and triumph over God's people shall occur in a matter of months. And it shall be soon.
This evil is indeed revealing itself from the highest and once secretive levels to the evil possessed by the common man on the streets. Lawlessness, apathy, lust and selfishness is building as a violent volcano waiting to erupt and spill over.
t starts with the manufacturing of fear and this is maintained and incrementally increased as planned stages or phases. Like plumes of dark smoke, spewing its destruction in spurts for now, they eventually envelope all the lands of the world.
I see an eventual last picture of the 'lost' being very confused, helpless, tormented with a constant look of fear and hopelessness in their eyes, striking out in defiance to their neighbors, and especially those of God. We of God wait upon our redeemer for salvation, in patience, prayer and in an attempt to separate from these mobs.
These are the days that do try men's hearts and entire beings, indeed. The earlier wars of evil and destruction over the centuries were just the warm ups to what we are beginning to see today.
Bless you,
APAK