BY JACK WARD
A mouse looked through the crack in the wall to see the farmer and his wife open a package.
“What food might this contain?” the mouse wondered. He was devastated to discover it was a mousetrap.
Retreating to the farmyard, the mouse proclaimed the warning: “There is a mousetrap in the house. There is a mousetrap in the house.”
The chicken clucked and scratched, raised her head, and said, “Mr. Mouse, I can tell this is a grave concern to you, but it is of no consequence to me. I cannot be bothered by it.”
The mouse turned to the pig and told him, “There is a mousetrap in the house. There is a mousetrap in the house.” The pig sympathized, but said, “I am very sorry, Mr. Mouse, but there is nothing I can do about it but pray. Be assured you are in my prayers.”
The mouse turned to the cow and said, “There is a mousetrap in the house. There is a mousetrap in the house.”
The cow said, “Wow, Mr. Mouse. I am sorry for you, but it’s no skin off my nose.”
So the mouse returned to the house, head down and dejected, to face the farmer’s mousetrap alone. That very night, a sound was heard throughout the house, like the sound of a mousetrap catching its prey.
The farmer’s wife rushed to see what was caught. In the darkness, she did not see that it was a venomous snake whose tail the trap had caught. The snake was furious and bit the farmer’s wife. The farmer rushed her to the hospital, and she returned home with a severe fever.
Everyone knows that you treat a fever with a fresh chicken soup. So, the farmer took his hatchet to the farmyard for the soup’s main ingredient. But his wife’s sickness continued, so friends and relatives came to sit with her around the clock. To feed them, the farmer butchered the pig.
The farmer’s wife did not get well, and she died. So many people came to the funeral, the farmer had the cow slaughtered to provide enough meat for all of them.
The mouse looked upon it all from his crack in the wall with great sadness. And said, “I warned them about the mousetrap, but they did not heed my warning nor take my warning into account.”
You have heard that Jesus is returning, and by now you are saying like the chicken in our story, “I’m sure you are concerned, but I cannot be bothered by it.” But think about this: The book of Revelation contains descriptions of things that will happen with today’s technology. Like the verse that talks about every eye shall see Him and the whole world will see the death of the two witnesses. This is possible today with social media, the internet and television. And no one can buy or sell without the mark, which means that system is available NOW. These are totally possible today.
What I am saying is that soon we will surpass the technology in the book of Revelation. So, what does this tell us? Jesus will come for His church sooner rather than later. Just like the mouse who warned the barnyard, we must warn others to beware that Jesus is coming soon, and sooner than we think.
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