SOME PEOPLE HAVE tremendous imaginations and write fantastic things, but what you are about to read is not the product of an imaginative mind, science fiction, or a wild, "far out" dream. This little tract contains FACTS - solid, sober FACTS! To the natural mind, they may appear fantastic, unreal and impossible; nevertheless - they are true!

1900 YEARS AGO

Before us lies a divine revelation given to a man on an island about 1900 years ago. That island was Patmos, in the Agean Sea, off the coast of Asia. The man was John, spoken of as "the disciple whom Jesus loved." The author was God. When John, by the Holy Spirit, completed the Book of Revelation and the Gospel of John, all divine revelation from God to man ceased. We have absolutely no other divine revelation today, apart from the Holy Bible, and any such claims are false. The Word of God is divinely complete. God says nothing can be added to it, and nothing can be taken from it (Revelation 22: 18,19). It is all-sufficient to meet our need, guide our path and show us God's way of Salvation.

OPENED BOOKS

As John was in the Spirit on the Lord's Day, the voice of the Lord Jesus commanded him saying, "Write the things which thou hast seen, and the things which are, and the things which shall be hereafter" (Revelation 1:19). This commandment John did, thus the Book of Revelation came into being! As John, by the Spirit, closes the revelation of the awful times that await this world in the end time, he sees something that should strike terror into the heart of every unsaved mortal. He beholds an event that is to take place as soon as this universe passes away (II Peter 3:10). Notice his awe-inspiring words! "And I saw a great white throne, and Him that sat on it, from whose face the earth and the heaven fled away; and there was found no place for them. And I saw the dead, small and great, stand before God; and the books were opened" (Revelation 20:11,12).

What an array of sin the opened books will reveal - "Every idle word" (Matthew 12:36), "Every secret" (Romans 2:16), and "Every imagination of the thoughts of his heart" (Genesis 6:5)! Not one item in one's lifetime will be overlooked. Once living on earth and treasuring up wrath against the day of wrath, they will stand condemned - with their mouths stopped (Romans 2:5; 3:19). This judgment will be the plight of those who die in their sins, without Christ! "And the dead were judged out of those things which were written in the books, according to their works" (Revelation 20:12). They will be judged, not to determine their destiny (for that is set and sealed upon physical death), but judged to determine the intensity of their punishment for eternity!

CHRIST THE JUDGE

The throne is white because of its holiness and righteousness. It is great because of the One who will sit on it - Christ the Judge - a Judge of infinite wisdom, absolute integrity and supreme authority and power. What dreadful circumstances for the lost - no lawyer to plead their case, no strength to resist, no place to hide! There they will stand, fully exposed, to the all-searching eyes of Christ as their sins of a lifetime rise up one by one to condemn them. Harlots will be there, without their men. Adulterers will be there, without their women. Drunkards will be there, without their drink. Priests will be there, without their idols. Rabbis will be there, without their robes and ritual. Preachers will be there, who died without a Saviour. The cult member will be there, without a leader. Those who were afraid to trust Christ will be there, without hope. Church members who were never born again will be there, without their good works. Pleasure lovers will be there, without their worldly amusements. Oh, dear soul, what a calamity for mankind! The Book of Life will be opened to show their names are not there. Oh, yes, many of them had their names on a church roll, but never in the Lamb's Book of Life. "And whosoever was not found written in the book of life was cast into the lake of fire" (Revelation 20:15). This horrible confinement will be their eternal state.

ESCAPE

Is there an escape from this? Yes! Christ, by His death on the Cross, can deliver you from the wrath to come. Listen to His words, "Verily, verily, I say unto you, he that heareth My word, and believeth on Him that sent Me, hath everlasting life, and shall not come into condemnation (judgment); but is passed from death unto life" (John 5:24).
May it be so with you - this moment.