Time No Longer

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God has told us in His Word-the Bible-that “to everything there is a season, and a time to every purpose under the heaven” (Eccl. 3:11To every thing there is a season, and a time to every purpose under the heaven: (Ecclesiastes 3:1)). He also says that “now is the accepted time; behold, now is the day of salvation” (2 Cor. 6:22(For he saith, I have heard thee in a time accepted, and in the day of salvation have I succored thee: behold, now is the accepted time; behold, now is the day of salvation.) (2 Corinthians 6:2)). He waits in patience, entreating men and women to repent. He sends warning after warning-appeal after appeal-and the day of grace-God’s NOW-is still lengthened out. The message still goes out: “Yet there is room.” The house is not yet filled; the door is not yet closed, and God is still saying, “Come.”
BUT even as God has appointed a time for every word, He has also “appointed a day, in the which He will judge the world in righteousness by that man whom He hath ordained” (Acts 17:3131Because he hath appointed a day, in the which he will judge the world in righteousness by that man whom he hath ordained; whereof he hath given assurance unto all men, in that he hath raised him from the dead. (Acts 17:31)).
When that day has come, when that hour has struck, there will be “time no longer” (Rev. 10:66And sware by him that liveth for ever and ever, who created heaven, and the things that therein are, and the earth, and the things that therein are, and the sea, and the things which are therein, that there should be time no longer: (Revelation 10:6)), no more delay, no more lingering in grace, no more an open door, no more room. NOW God offers eternal life and forgiveness to “whosoever will.”
THEN it will be too late. Then there will be “time no longer.”
How much time is left?