BIBLICAL VIEW | LAWLESSNESS (4)

1. Introduction

Proverbs 29:16 New Living Translation (NLT)

¹⁶ When the wicked are in authority, sin flourishes, but the godly will live to see their downfall.

2. "But the righteous shall witness their fall..."

a) Noah saw the destruction of the old world...

Genesis 7:23 New Living Translation (NLT)

²³ God wiped out every living thing on the earth—people, livestock, small animals that scurry along the ground, and the birds of the sky. All were destroyed. The only people who survived were Noah and those with him in the boat.

b) Israel saw the Egyptians dead on the sea-shore...

Exodus 14:30 New Living Translation (NLT)

³⁰ That is how the Lord rescued Israel from the hand of the Egyptians that day. And the Israelites saw the bodies of the Egyptians washed up on the seashore.

c) Abraham saw the ruin of Sodom...

Genesis 19:28 New Living Translation (NLT)

²⁸ He looked out across the plain toward Sodom and Gomorrah and watched as columns of smoke rose from the cities like smoke from a furnace.

d) The more wicked men are - the shorter their reign...

3. And finally...

a) The finale..

Revelation 11:15New Living Translation (NLT)

¹⁵ Then the seventh angel blew his trumpet, and there were loud voices shouting in heaven:

 

“The world has now become the Kingdom of our Lord and of his Christ,
    and he will reign forever and ever.”