2 Corinthians 5:11 “Knowing therefore the terror of the Lord, we persuade men; but we are made manifest unto God; and I trust also are made manifest in your consciences.”
Preachers, pastors, churches, and Christians alike have
mostly stopped witnessing about “the terror of the Lord”. The word “terror”
means - to be put in fear of the Lord. It means to put the fear of God into people’s
heart; however, this is impossible when impostors who are imitating real God
called preachers and assemblies who are imitating real God assembled churches are
preaching lies about God and the bible. Hell is a real place; people really die
every day and open their eyes to see the terror of sin. God really does punish
sin and bad things happen because people fail to serve God. Being a servant of
God is telling people the truth about God, sin, death, and hell flames. It is
not about lying to people about God, sin, death, and hells flames for money. It
is not about lying to people to build mega church buildings that know no truth
of God’s word. The qualification of both Pastors and deacons is to not be about
“filthy lucre” but to be about the truth of God. The truth of God is putting “the
terror of the Lord” in their hearts, both saved and lost people. People,
whether saved or lost need to know that we are to fear God because without
fearing God, we will never respect Him enough to walk a righteous path in life.
Lost people will not think about dying and going to hell if they do not believe
they could go there. Christians will stop worshipping God, both in their life
and in the churches if they stop fearing God. Job wrote these words, “And
unto man he said, Behold, the fear of the Lord, that is wisdom; and to depart
from evil is understanding.” Job 28:28 If Christians lose that fear of God,
then they will refuse to depart from sin and will never understand the truth
about God’s chastisements. Why would a lost soul ever concern themselves with
God’s punishments in hell’s flames if they believe everyone is going to heaven.
God warned us in Prov. 1:7 “The fear of the LORD is the beginning of
knowledge: but fools despise wisdom and instruction.” It is our fear of God’s
terror that causes us to thing about what God said and puts the fear in our
hearts to obey the Lord. How many people talk about the Tribulation period,
when Jesus Christ begins to open the seven sealed book and the wrath of God
starts to fall on this earth. The word “wrath” means the anger of God. The anger
He said He had before He flooded the earth and killed every living soul on the
earth except the eight souls He had grace on in the Ark. God said, “The
earth also was corrupt before God, and the earth was filled with violence. And
God looked upon the earth, and, behold, it was corrupt; for all flesh had
corrupted his way upon the earth. And, behold, I, even I, do bring a flood of
waters upon the earth, to destroy all flesh, wherein is the breath of life,
from under heaven; and every thing that is in the earth shall die.” Genesis
6:11, 12, 17 However, this time God will slowly destroy mankind, He will punish
them for their sins, He will make them wish they were dead, He will make them
beg to die before He destroys them. People need to be reminded about the terror
of God, they need to hear the truth because without it, we will not fear God.
It is true that God is a God of love, but He is also a Father of chastisement,
He is also a God of judgment and the punisher of sinfulness. It matters not if
they listen to us, or if they call us liars, or if they leave the churches, or
even persecute us, we must warn them, both saved and lost, about the consequences
of sin. We must let them hear about the terror of God, and if we do not then we
have failed in our calling.
