The Last Page

Amos 9: 13

"The days are coming," declares the Lord, "when the reaper will be overtaken by the plowman and the planter by the one treading grapes . . ."

"The time will come," says the Lord, "when the grain and grapes will grow faster than they can be harvested . . ."

This comes at the end of Amos' dire prophesies. He describes all the horrors that God will inflict on those who have turned from Him. But He never leaves them there. God always gives the "last page" of the story, to give hope to the readers that all will not be lost. 

At the end of our story, the story of Humanity, our prosperity will be so abundant that we won't be able to keep up with it. Food will grow faster than we can harvest it, which demonstrates how everything we do will prosper, in His eternal Kingdom.

The way I see it, circumstances will get worse before they get better. But they will get better, better than we can even imagine. Our God is just, and will administer justice to this World System, this Earth we have defiled, and this whole Universe that has been inflicted with the results of our sin, the Curse of Death (Entropy). 

Then there will be the New Heaven (Universe) and the New Earth, and the Curse of Death will no longer exist. Things will no longer "wind down" or wear out. What is, will be. What we do, will last. Nothing will ever again hinder any process from achieving its intended purpose. It will be eternal Paradise. And we will be the administrators, under our Father, running His family business, His Kingdom. How glorious it will be! 

Even so, come, Lord Jesus!