I have no prediction regarding when the end of the world will come, but I do have a goal for it: seven years. Starting now. (Not joking.)

Eh? Man setting a “goal” for the end of the world? Weird? Blasphemous? Arguably so. But I will argue instead that it is Biblically proper, suitable, and appropriate.

The previous post showed that the book of Revelation harmonizes with the rest of Scripture in portraying God’s people as His co-agents in bringing forth “apocalyptic” judgment and destruction upon the promiscuous world. We most certainly do NOT do this through acts of human violence, but rather through such mechanisms as prayer and witness.

Regarding prayer, “Your kingdom come, Your will be done, on earth as it is in Heaven,” is a one of the most fundamental supplications Jesus taught His disciples. But Heaven does not come to earth apart from the current world system undergoing judgment. So every time we say the Pater Noster with knowledge and sincerity we are, at least in some sense, beseeching God to complete the judgment to come.

Regarding witnessing, God is the Great Judge of the Universe who is prosecuting a legal case that this world warrants destruction. But His own system of justice follows due process. “On the evidence of two witnesses or of three witnesses the one who is to die shall be put to death; a person shall not be put to death on the evidence of one witness” (Deut 17:6). God will not execute whoring “Babylon,” slay “the beast,” and dissolve the old heavens and earth in fire (2 Pet 3) until His people have given sufficient peer-testimony to establish the justice of such a sentence.

God’s people have a role in “hastening the coming of the day of God” (2 Pet 3:12). In context, that “Day” is the “the day of judgment and destruction of the ungodly.” And if I bear at least some responsibility in hastening that Day, then it is my goal to do so.

As a S.M.A.R.T. goal has a timeframe, we have stated one here. Why within “seven years” in particular? That question can be addressed in another post. Suffice it to say that anyone who has read Daniel and Revelation will not find that time period to have been selected arbitrarily.

A smart goal is also attainable. It is more than a dream, wish, hope, or idea. It is actionable. As one step toward that end, I seek to fill up the first “golden bowl” with prayer-incense until it overflows and pours out. Thus, may harmful and painful sores come upon the people who bear the mark of the beast and worship its image.