The Revelation
of Almighty God
                                                                                               By Pastor F. M. Riley
                                                                                               May 5, 2019
     "But without faith it is impossible to please Him: for he that cometh to God must believe that He is, and that He is a rewarder of them that diligently seek Him,"  Hebrews 11:6.  
Introduction
     For now 6,000 years of human history, mankind on the earth has been granted the privilege of believing in, or not believing in, God, who created everyone of us.  Sadly, throughout human history, most of mankind has refused to believe in Almighty God, and have paid a terrible price for their unbelief.....eternity in Hell!  
      But all of this is about to change, drastically and permanently.  Why?  Because the presently  unseen "invisible God" [Colossians 1:15-16] is about to pull back the veil and reveal Himself to mankind upon the earth.  What a revelation it will be.......
A Progressive Revelation
     Almighty God began revealing Himself to mankind centuries ago, when He gave  His Word to Moses, to give to Israel.  Moses then, by Divine Inspiration, wrote   the first five books of the Bible.  Then in the centuries following, book after book of His Word was given to various prophets and "men of God."  Each book given revealed a little more about the true living God, who created the earth and the heavens, mankind upon the earth, and all things which exist, visible and invisible.
Since mankind has been given the supernaturally inspired Word of God, telling mankind all about God, men and women living on the earth today, who claim they don't believe that God exists, are totally and utterly without excuse.  
Mankind's Reaction
     Since the very beginning of human history, most of mankind upon the earth have turned their backs upon the Word of God, refusing to read it, and spurning it's claims.  Most of humanity, then, have refused to believe in the existence of Almighty God, preferring to make their own gods, which they could visibly see with their eyes, and feel with their hands.  
     But what doesn't even register on the hearts and minds of wicked, unbelieving, mankind, is that their  tendency to make gods of wood and stone, or to worship the Sun, Moon, or stars in the heavens, is evidence that all of mankind was created to WORSHIP Almighty God.   The tendency to worship is engrated in the soul of every human being, regardless of how many choose to deny it.  Every human being worships!  Some worship money, some power, some their beautiful home, or their car, or their job, or a political or religious philosophy, or so-called "sports," or  sex. or drugs, or on and on and on.   But everyone worships something or someone.  Everyone!  PERIOD!    
     No one is excluded!  Even those who claim to be athiests, worship their philosophy of evolutionary atheism.  The evolutionary Communist atheists worship their political view of Communism.  Like it or not, mankind was created with a compulsion to worship, and every human being will and does worship something or someone.   It is "the fool" who has said in his heart, "no God," Psalm 14:1; 53:1.
     So what is it, or who is it that the readers of this studyare worshiping?  
The Importance of Correct Worship
     God also created mankind to live for ever.  Every human being has an immortal soul or "spirit of life" within their body [giving consciousness and intelligence], and their soul is going to live  for ever.  Read and believe Genesis 1:26-27 and Ecclesiastes 3:14.  
     Think about it!  It would be convenient for those who absolutely deny the existence of Almighty God, if they could live out their lives of sin and  wickedness, and rebellion against Almighty God, and then just cease to exist when they die. Wouldn't that be great for those who refuse to believe even in the exisence of their Creator?   But it doesn't work that way!   
     Almighty God created a "heaven of heavens" for those of mankind who choose to believe on Him, and receive salvation from their fallen "sin nature."  
     But Almighty God also created a fiery Hell for those who refuse His offer of salvation, John 3:16-18; 3:36; Rev. 20:15. .   
     Yes, I am well aware that most of mankind refuses to believe in a fiery Hell; a place of eternal punishment for all Christ rejecting souls.  However, God's Word explicitly teaches this truth, teaching quite plainly that the location of this fiery Hell is downward in the lower parts of the earth.  
     Is it then just "coincidence that professional geologists, and others who have seriously studied the earth, tell us that in the center of the earth upon which mankind lives and moves,  is a burning core of molten fire which will never go out.   God's Word tells us this very same truth.  Yet millions of people upon the earth today, refuse to believe this double witness, and continue to reject and rail against Almighty God.  Why?  Because their wicked hearts and minds are set in rebellious unbelief to anything they cannot see, smell, feel, touch, taste, or hear.  How very sad!     
Speaking of Hearing
     Are our readers aware that Almighty God loved mankind enough that He gave mankind three sources of hearing?  Oh yes He did!
     Of course every reader knows that God created us with two ears, in order that we might hear what is going on about us.  But as people grow old, they often lose the hearing in their ears, and become deaf.  So this first source of hearing is limited by our own body of flesh.  
     But there is a second source of hearing!  The second source is hearing with our minds as we read the inspired Word of God.   This second source never goes away, as long as we are able to see to read, or to hear what someone is reading to us.  But even then, after both our hearing and eyesight fail, if we are willing to learn braille, we can still read with our fingertips right up to the time our body dies.  
     Oh yes, the third source!  God sent His own Son into this world, that men might see Him, hear Him, and believe on Him.  Read Matthew 17:5 and John 5:24.  
     Almighty God has provided everything mankind needs to come to His saving knowledge, and He always knows what is in the human heart.   Almighty God is eager to hear the prayers of His people, and is equally  eager to hear the prayers of the repentant, believing, sinner seeking salvation.   Read Psalm 34:15-18; 2 Peter 3:9.   
Does Almighty God Really Hear Prayer
     Of course He does!   There are thousands of saved people all over this nation, and other parts of the world, who know by experience that Almighty God has heard their prayers.  Why?  Because what they earnestly prayed for, was granted to them;  their prayers were answered!   
A Personal Example of Answered Prayer
     I want to give our readers a personal testimony of God answering even the smallest sincere prayers of true believers.  
     Everyone dreams!  I mean everyone! I am aware that some people claim they never dream.  WRONG!   Medical researchers have proven that the human brain never completely shuts down.  If it did you would have died.  So, I guess, in order to occupy time while we are sleeping, the brain dreams.  There are many reasons for one's particular dreams.  When one lays down to sleep they may be worried, loaded down with problems which seem unsolvable, depressed, feeling defeated, or even  feeling jubilant, and excited, and  on and on.  All of these things can cause a person to dream when they drift off to sleep.  
     The inspired Word also tells us that Almighty God sometimes speaks to people through dreams.  Read it for yourself in Job 33:14-18.  
     I have dreamed ever since I was a small child.  Sometimes the dreams were good, and many times they were very bad.  As I grew older, and older, and older, I began having horrible dreams, disgusting dreams, filthy dreams, dreams which people refer to as "nightmares."  
     I put up with this for years, then one night just a few months ago, after a long hard day, I was very tired.  I had no desire to be awakened during the night, by one of my horrible dreams.  So that night before going to sleep, I earnestly and sincerely prayed, acknowledging that it is man's nature to dream, but that if I must dream, would  the Lord God please give me good dreams, pleasant dreams, and dreams that would be edifying and encouraging, and in which I could glorify my Savior?
      Now with all the problems in the world today, this was such a simple little request, I wondered why I was even moved to ask it of  our great God?  Some might even call it silly, and a waste of time.  It was neither!  This was a simple, sincere, prayer, coming right from my heart.  
     And our gracious God heard my prayer.  I know He did!  How do I know?    Because the "nightmare" dreams stopped immediately.  Since that time, my dreams have been good, clean, joyful, edifying and encouraging, and yes, instructive.  It has now been months since I have had a "bad dream."  Praise the Lord!  As the Psalmist explicitly said, the ears of Almighty God are always open to the prayers of His people.  Oh, glory to God!  Praise the Lord!  Hallelujah!  
     This is just one of the very small ways in which Almighty God reveals Himself to those of mankind who seek Him, and seek His will for their lives.  Yet millions of people on the earth today do not even believe that God is real.  They regard God as a myth, just a fool theory created by simple minded people who have a leaning towards "religion."  
     Such people couldn't be more WRONG!  
Time For the Revelation of Almighty God
     For the past 6,000 years, Almighty God has remained "invisible" to mankind on the earth.  Rather than showing Himself, He has raised up prophets and "men of God" to receive and preach His Word, in order that fallen mankind might come to Him by faith.  Read Hebrews 11:6.
     This past 6,000 years is the time Almighty God allotted to mankind on the earth to believe and be saved.  These past 6,000 years can be expressed as six days, or one week on God's great calendar of time, 2 Peter 3:8.  But the week is OVER!  
     Mankind on the earth has had plenty of time to figure out how to "redeem" himself, as some unbelievers today boast that they can and will.  Hogwash!   What mankind on the earth has done in these 6,000 years is prove that mankind left to themselves are absolute failures at about everything.  No!  I am not being too hard upon mankind.
     As I write, mankind has proven that they cannot live together in PEACE.  The whole world right now is like a powder keg, just ready to explode into world war;  on the very brink of  war and destruction, such as those living today have never yet seen.  A war which would totally annhilate mankind from off the face of the earth, were it not for the intervention of Almighty God, Matthew 24:21-22.  
     But Almighty God is Going to Intervene
     As I write, the terrible judgments of the Tribulation Period prophesied in God's inspired Word are right now staring all  of mankind in the face.  The only thing preventing the Tribulation Period from beginning, is the gracious mercy of the Lord God upon His own believing people, both Jews and Gentiles.   The Tribulation will not begin until the resurrection and rapture of every true believer from off the face of the earth has occurred. Almighty God is going to rescue and remove His people from the destruction that lies just ahead for unbelieving mankind.  
       After the prophesied Tribulation Period has begun, there will not be a single person LEFT BEHIND on the face of the earth, who will be able to  say with an honest heart that Almighty God does not exist.  This will include even the present day atheists.  All of those LEFT BEHIND on the earth, following the rapture, will have no choice but to acknowledge Almighty God's  reality, even if they refuse to yield themselves to Him in faith.   Why?  
      Because His prophetic Word is going to be fulfilled, exactly as it was inspired of God in advance, and because during the Tribulation Period which is coming, Almighty God is going to pull back the veil, and  reveal Himself openly to mankind on the earth.   How?  Try face to face!    
     First, by the judgments clearly predicted in the Book of Revelation [unveiling]. The Word which He has given in advance will be fulfilled to the letter.  See Revelation, chapters four through six.  Don't fail to notice in 6:12-17 those LEFT BEHIND on the earth will be so terrified that they will be screaming out in prayer.  But they will still be praying to the wrong god!  The rocks and the mountains on the earth cannot hear their screaming prayers, and cannot save anyone.
     But why are these present day unbelievers who will be LEFT BEHIND at the rapture,  praying at all?  Because the sky above the earth will literally be parted and rolled back "as a scroll," and mankind LEFT BEHIND on the earth will literally see Almighty God sitting on His throne, and His angry face glaring down at God hating, Christ rejecing, mankind.  At that same time, they will also see the angry face of the Lord Jesus Christ, God's Son, 6:16.  Some today refuse to believe in Almighty God because they can't see Him.  But at that time, when they do see Him, they will be so terrified of His angry face, that they will learn how to pray.....too late, and to the wrong god!     
     Yet Almighty God will answer their prayers to a certain extent.  The following chapters in Revelation; seven through eighteen, reveal that "the bottomless pit" will be opened, and that great earthquakes will move every mountain and island on earth out of it's place, that great fireballs and asteroids from out of the heavens will be cast upon the earth, and millions of these present day scoffers will meet their doom, Jeremiah 25:33; Isaiah 5:14-16.  I guess one might say this will be one way of hiding them from the face of God.  But their having  been terrified by looking on  the face of God will be mild to their torment in the eternal fires of Hell.
     Then at the end of the Tribulation Period, every non repentant person still alive on the face of the earth, will be destroyed, Rev. 19:21.  Not one will be left alive to enter the Kingdom of Christ!  Only those flesh and blood people who have repented and believed will be left alive to  enter the Lord's Kingdom, and to repopulate the earth.
      John the Baptist, speaking by Divine Inspiration, long ago said to those to whom he was preaching, "I indeed baptize you with water unto repentance: but He that cometh after me is mightier than I, whose shoes I am not worthy to bear: He shall baptize you with the Holy Ghost [Spirit], and with fire:
     Whose fan is in His hand, and He will throughly purge His floor, and gather His wheat into the garner; but He will burn up the chaff with unquenchable fire," Matthew 3:11-12.   
     Folks, the Lord Jesus Christ is a loving and forgiving Savior, but He is not a wimp, as some today imagine Him to be.  He will purge the earth of every incorrigible unbeliever still alive at the end of the Tribulation.  Not a single unbeliever will enter into  His glorious Millennial Kingdom.  Not one!  
After the Tribulation is Over
     It is not just the incorrigible wicked who are going to see Almighty God sitting on His throne.  Every repentant, believer is also going to have that privilege.  
     However, there will be a vast difference in the Revelation of Almighty God, when true believers meet and see Him.  Read carefully and prayerfully Revelation 21 - 22.  
     What a glorious future is awaiting all people who have truly placed their faith in Almighty God, through the saving GRACE of His Son.  Read
Ephesians 2:4-10.  
Conclusion
     I wrote this study, first of all, to emphasize that our presently concealed God is going to be gloriously revealed to all of mankind.  But I also wrote this study, hoping that some lost reader, would be moved to give their heart to Christ, and receive His great salvation.  Oh, that Almighty God would use this study to bring lost souls to a saving knowledge of the Lord Jesus Christ.  
     If any reader is not saved, or even has doubts about being truly saved, please, please, read the following Scriptures, and then in simple faith act upon them in humble and sincere prayer.  I want to meet you in Heaven.  Please don't disappoint me.  
     Now read John 3:3-7, 3:16-18, 3:36, 14:6, Acts 4:12, 16:30-31, Romans 10:8-13, and Ephesians 2:8-10.  Ask the Lord with a contrite and humble heart to guide you, as you read these Scriptures, and bring you  into the truth of His saving GRACE.  
     And may our Gracious God add His blessings to this message!  
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