It’s here. Dark clouds. Rumbling in the heavens. Extreme cold. Little bits of white ice falling on my windshield. Trash cans lying on their sides, mouths gaping. The windchill will fall to -4 to -7 degrees before day’s end. The moisture from rain will flash freeze into tributaries of black ice. Power may go out. It is likely the worst storm since we moved to North Carolina, Christmas season 1988.

And yet I hear and read people asking, “What storm?” There was a time that people could sense urgency. They knew something big was going to occur and asked questions. Now they wander about in a cloud single-mindedly attempting to get from here to there. There is little concern about the danger that lies between those two points. That is why they drive into floodwater and drown. It is the reason they drive onto black ice and crash. More importantly, it is why they are completely unprepared for the great and brutal spiritual storm that will settle on this earth.

The truth is that people currently ignore or reject warnings. They fantasize that our sin-soaked nation with leaders that have despotic inclinations will be great again, i.e., Christian-friendly. They focus on secular news, talking heads, and professing Christian hirelings. They are fighting for an earthly utopia when God’s word declares the earth will be melted with a fervent heat.

The indisputable fact is that an unprecedented winter storm is here or coming to most of our nation. Just as certain, this wicked nation cannot escape the consequences of its secular wickedness and religious apostasy. Apathy will provide a cozy blanket to block out the warnings, but one day it will come suddenly on the entire earth.

The prominent sign that one has apostasy is when ears and hearts are closed to truth and eyes are blind to the signs. There will be no one around to say, “I warned you!” When it comes it will be an overwhelming and crushing satanic storm that weak professing Christian’s will be immediately crushed by.

I take no pleasure in spoiling people’s Christmas cheer, but there is no season when we can lower our guard and lose our focus on the essentials.