(Originally published 7/15/21)
At some point during the creation of this earth, God "roared" and the waves parted to reveal the dry land. This happened all at once, and made an incredible sound. You can read many references to this event scattered across the scriptures. I'm not sure whether the ancients were more versed with this event, or whether it is just the case that the writers who referred to it had seen it in vision. Regardless, it's an image that comes into my mind from time to time when I find myself struggling to contain what God has, is, and will teach me.
He has made it clear to me that I need to contain these things and lay them out in clarity in books rather than make sloppy ejections of them in this blog. That is one reason why I don't blog much anymore. I only have so much time, and writing here takes away from the time I can spend on books. The topics addressable there are greater than those here, for various reasons, including the fulfillment of eternal law. For example, it takes greater faith to read a book than read a blog, so I am authorized to teach plainer and greater things there than here.
When a lion is stalking in the grass, he can prey on people unseen at night. People can wonder about the lion wandering about, but also freely ignore it during the day. The lion is invisible. It is well camouflaged. But once the lion roars, everyone knows he exists.
The Lord is well-hidden.[1] His glory is well-disguised, and it is possible to ignore it. The second he roars, everyone will know. He will send wave after wave of increasing volume and plainness. When he finally comes in glory, the elements will flow down at his presence.
9 I will not execute the fierceness of mine anger, I will not return to destroy Ephraim: for I am God, and not man; the Holy One in the midst of thee: and I will not enter into the city.
10 They shall walk after the Lord: he shall roar like a lion: when he shall roar, then the children shall tremble from the west.
11 They shall tremble as a bird out of Egypt, and as a dove out of the land of Assyria: and I will place them in their houses, saith the Lord. (Hosea 11)
And cried with a loud voice, as when a lion roareth: and when he had cried, seven thunders uttered their voices. (Revelation 10:3)
1 The mighty God, even the Lord, hath spoken, and called the earth from the rising of the sun unto the going down thereof.
2 Out of Zion, the perfection of beauty, God hath shined.
3 Our God shall come, and shall not keep silence: a fire shall devour before him, and it shall be very tempestuous round about him.
4 He shall call to the heavens from above, and to the earth, that he may judge his people. (Psalm 50)
The time has come when individuals will be judged on their own accord. They will be sorted by the fire of reality and the sword of his word:
His threshing fork is in his hand, and he is ready to separate the wheat from the husks. He will store the wheat in his barn and burn the husks with a fire that never goes out. (Luke 3:17, CEV)
Every man’s work shall be made manifest: for the day shall declare it, because it shall be revealed by fire; and the fire shall try every man’s work of what sort it is. (1 Corinthians 3:13)
The fire will be released in ever-increasing quantities and intensities, and it will judge the hearts of men and the knowledge of men. These waves have and will consist of his word in greater plainness and quantity, followed by the consequences of it being released.
The perverse degradation of the thin thread of human decency we have mistakenly assumed to be permanent will continue to fray. COVID is not the last or most dangerous plague this generation will see. The civil violence in the US and other places (South Africa now, for example) will increase in intensity, frequency, and duration. Military wars will break out. There will be widespread famines and starvation. In aggregate, billions will die.
The righteous will interpret all these things as the natural consequences of God pouring out greater light on the world than ever before, and will rejoice in their obtaining what good men and women throughout time desired but could not obtain.
The roar gets louder and louder.
The time has ceased where individuals can be protected and sustained by the holiness of others. They will have to use that holiness to become holy themselves. The only thing ministers today can do is obtain and transmit truth. Everyone will be judged for what they themselves are and possess, and what they themselves can endure.
As you find the light you have to be inadequate to endure the darkness that you increasingly perceive, seek more.
God always sends sufficient light before allowing greater darkness. It isn't always perceived that way because our mortal bodies more readily perceive darkness than light. The light shines in the darkness, and the darkness does not perceive it. The darkness cannot stop it or conquer it or overcome it.
Look for the clues! Look for benefits that exceed the costs. Look for strength that overcomes the darkness.
His light is a wedge that causes people to either become more righteous or more wicked. His word is a sword that divides people by revealing the darkness remaining in them, causing them to either repent of the newly discovered sins or embrace their darkness more explicitly.
Walk in the light. Embrace God. Embrace love. Find joy. Shine like a candle on a hill, no matter how dark it seems. The greatest light is perceived and received in the greatest darkness. Rejoice for God's wisdom and love and mercy which he has sent before you even knew to look for it.
[1] This is not his doing, but ours. He is plainly manifest in and through all things since the beginning, but we humans are so wicked that we have been utterly blind and deaf to his voice:
31 Behold, here is the agency of man, and here is the condemnation of man; because that which was from the beginning is plainly manifest unto them, and they receive not the light.
32 And every man whose spirit receiveth not the light is under condemnation. (D&C 93)