Psalms 27:5 “For in the time of trouble he shall hide me in his pavilion: in the secret of his tabernacle shall he hide me; he shall set me up upon a rock.’
DAILY READING; John 15:1-16:4; 2 Chronicles 23; Psalm 80
In 2018, Russia’s Ministry of Emergency Situations, said that in the event of World War3 and a nuclear attack on Moscow, they had enough space in underground facilities for all of their population. While this is a very bold claim, Moscow is famous for the massive amount of bunkers it has available for Civil Defense and the military.
Years ago this information was kept top secret by Moscow, but now details for these bunkers are public knowledge, and there are even documents describing the minimum specifications.
Some of these giant bunkers underneath Moscow, are designed as places where the rich can live underground for months after a nuclear attack. Highly effective life-support systems may permit independent operations for many months following a nuclear attack.
A deep underground facility at the Kremlin and an enormous underground leadership bunker adjacent to Moscow State University are intended for the national command authority in wartime
Some of these enormous bunkers go as deep as 985 feet underground and can house thousands of people in the case of nuclear Armageddon.
However, Russia is not the only one, other western countries are also preparing against nuclear war by building massive underground bunkers, where they can hide.
Now it is interesting to note what the bible says in Revelation 6:15-17, ‘ And the kings of the earth, and the great men, and the rich men, and the chief captains, and the mighty men, and every bondman, and every free man, hid themselves in the dens and in the rocks of the mountains;’
So even before these projects came into existence, the Word of God had predicted it. However from what we can understand from the book of revelations, none of this man-made structures can save humanity in the end.
Man’s salvation is not in building structures, but in building a lasting relationship with Jesus Christ. So while they make plans to hide in bunkers, let us decide to hide deeper in the rock of ages, the ark of safety, called Christ. His Presence is the only hiding place from trouble.
Psalms 27:5 says “For in the time of trouble he shall hide me in his pavilion: in the secret of his tabernacle shall he hide me; he shall set me up upon a rock.’
Jesus is the ark that will deliver men from the wrath of the last days, just as Noah’s ark provided deliverance from the flood,.
In Mathew 24: 7, Jesus was speaking to His disciples telling them what would take place in the world to indicate that the end is near.
He said ‘for nation shall rise against nation, and kingdom against, and there shall be famines and pestilences and earthquakes in diverse places.’
These signs are coming to pass everyday across the globe. And currently the coronavirus pandemic is a clear fulfillment of Jesus’ prediction of pestilence in the last days.
And for us, this is the time to go deeper in our relationship with Christ. During the time of Noah things seemed normal until the last moment. So it is now. However, we need to understand that things are gradually coming to a climax and God is calling us, as He called people in the days of Noah, to run into the ark now.
It is no longer Christianity as usual. There must be an urgency now to our pace. It is time therefore for us to sit up and begin to run the race before us, knowing that one day we will be asked to give account. And more than ever before let us seek to know God personally for ourselves, because intimate knowledge of God is what will grant us access to His eternal kingdom. Whatever we do, wherever we go, let us always keep our relationship with God as top priority.
So while nations build bunkers where to hide, Let us build an ark that will last; which a deep intimate love relationship with Christ. Indeed hiding ourselves in the depth of God’s love is what will guarantee us safety in these end-times and save us from the wrath to come.
PRAYER: Lord, please help me to seek a deeper, more intimate relationship with You through spending time in Your Word, worship and in prayers. Please help me to always obey Your commandments so that I can qualify for Your everlasting Kingdom in Jesus Name.
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The treasures of God are never on the shallow end, but are always buried in the depth of God’s Word. It takes a personal discovery to get there. – WORDBITE 222.