Well, What's Next?

“Well, what’s next? This is the expression on every hand today. Politically, socially, commercially, religiously, this question is being asked. Something is underneath all the late world happenings that makes folks ask this question. Well, what is the something? The scenes are certainly being swiftly shifted, and it is causing great wonder about the next act. There has reached the world audience, through the teaching of the Bible, a strong suggestion of what this next act will probably be, and this accounts for their anxiety in watching every move.

Jesus answered some men once when they asked Him for a sign: “When it is evening ye say, ‘It will be fair weather, for the sky is red,’ and in the morning, ‘It will be foul weather, for the sky is red and lowering.’ O ye hypocrites, ye can discern the face of the sky, but can ye not discern the signs of the times?”

The Bible is filled with predictions of what will come to pass in the world. The birth of Jesus into the world, even to the place of His birth, was predicted in the Bible. When the wise men reached Jerusalem, following the signs of their times, coming there in quest of Jesus, Herod became troubled, and all Jerusalem with him. They were greatly troubled as to what this next act would mean. Herod quickly demanded of the chief priests and the scribes that they search the Scriptures and tell him where Jesus was to be born. And they said unto him, “In Bethlehem of Judea, for thus it is written by the prophet.” “The wise men went to Bethlehem and found Him there.” The Bible has never failed yet in its prediction of coming events.

When the crowd asked Peter on the day of Pentecost the meaning of the great signs and the joy of the Christians, Peter answered: “This is that which was spoken by Joel the prophet.”

You can take Peter’s words, “This is that,” and go back through the pages of history, and say them truthfully at every dispensational crisis. Adam and Eve outside the Garden could say, “This is that which God told us would happen if we ate of the forbidden fruit.” Noah, floating away on the flood waters could have shouted it out. Noah had been giving the people God’s prediction to him, and he could have said, “‘This is that’ which I told you would happen and against which I built my ark.” The children of Israel coming out of the bondage of Egypt could have sung, “‘This is that’ which God promised to our father Abraham before we were born, saying, Abraham, know of a surety that thy seed shall be a stranger in a land that is not theirs, and shall serve them; and they shall afflict them four hundred years, and also that nation whom they shall serve, will I judge; and afterward shall they come out with great substance.” Jesus foretold the destruction of Jerusalem and the Temple in these words, “There shall not be left here one stone upon another that shall not be thrown down.”

Yes, God has a program and this nervous asking, which is worldwide today, seems to indicate that people realize that God is moving at this time just as the prophets have predicated that he would.

“Well, what is next?” The Bible foretold that Jesus would come to the earth as a suffering Saviour to die on the cross for sin, and that is history now. But it also says that He is coming again to the earth as King of kings. Have you looked into this? The Bible is up-to-date reading and ahead-of-date reading. If you want to know what is next, dig into its pages.