What Was... Will Be

Remember in the Exodus, right before the 'redemption', there was a travail in the land.

Exodus 2:23 LITV
(23) And it happened during these many days that the king of Egypt died, and the sons of Israel groaned from the slavery. And they cried, and their cry went up to God from the slavery.

So God sent a deliverer, but he wasn't warmly welcomed. In fact, Satan tried to kill all the male Hebrew children in an effort to see that deliverance didn't come. It came anyways. And before deliverance came, it got DARK.

Exodus 10:21-23 LITV
(21) And Jehovah said to Moses, Stretch out your hand to the heavens so that darkness may be on the land of Egypt, and one may feel darkness.
(22) And Moses stretched out his hand to the heavens, and darkness of gloom was in all the land of Egypt three days.
(23) They did not see each one his brother, and they did not rise up, each one from his place for three days. Yet to all the sons of Israel there was light in their dwellings.

A few hundred years later, Israel's cry again reached the ears of God. And they once again wanted deliverance - from Rome.

So God sent a deliverer, but he wasn't warmly welcomed. In fact, Satan tried to kill all the male Hebrew children in an effort to see that deliverance didn't come. He came anyways. But before deliverance came, it got DARK.

Matthew 27:44-45 LITV
(44) And also the plunderers crucified with Him defamed Him, saying the same.
(45) And from the sixth hour there was darkness over all the land until the ninth hour.

It's getting dark again, friends. There is a cry reaching Heaven. Blood has a voice, and the cries of millions of unwanted babies are being heard (but they are SAFE!). Satan will always declare war over the seed of men because from that seed deliverance always comes. Do they kill babies in Eastern lands? Strangely... no. Only in the lands where the freedom to spread the Gospel still exists is there a warrant out for the unborn. The deliverers are those who declare the Gospel of the Kingdom of God. Ultimately, however, there will come a future dark day.

Revelation 16:10 LITV
(10) And the fifth angel poured out his bowl onto the throne of the beast. And its kingdom became darkened; and they gnawed their tongues from the pain.

We will then participate in the final redemption, with our Deliverer claiming forever what He has already purchased. There will be no more darkness and no more death.