When Evil Is Removed!
"But in the days of the sounding of the
seventh
angel, when he is about to sound, the mystery
of God would be finished, as He declared to
His servants the prophets."
Revelation 10:7
Some Bible readers are surprised when they encounter
1 John
5:19: “We know that we are of God, and the whole
world lies under the sway of the wicked one.” They wonder
how, if God is sovereign, the whole world can lie under the
influence of Satan.
The same person who wrote about Satan’s influence
in the world also recorded a vision of the End
Times
in the book of Revelation—the apostle John.
In that vision, John saw a time when
“the mystery of God would be finished, as
He declared to his servants the prophets.”
While John
doesn’t specifically describe the nature of the
mystery, it surely has to do with the culmination of evil and
catastrophe on the earth in the End Times and the coming
of God’s Kingdom on earth—a day foreseen by the apostle
Paul (1 Corinthians 15:24).
Do not be anxious about the pervasiveness of
evil in the world. The day is coming when it will
be removed and righteousness will reign.
"When the Bible speaks of God’s
permission of evil, there is still
no escape from his
sovereignty."
D. A. Carson
