Imagination is a beautiful, yet terrifying thing.
When it is too late to be saved, most of this world’s population will experience the awful realization that they are irretrievably lost. No longer will there be a sacrifice for sins. They will die in their sins, alone, never to awaken. Imagine waking up one day to find probation for the human race has ended, and you are not saved.
However, the Bible prophets give us these warnings so that this will not be our experience:
“The harvest is past, the summer is ended, and we are not saved!” Jeremiah 8:20
“Cast away from you all the transgressions which you have committed, and get yourselves a new heart and a new spirit. For why should you die, O house of Israel?” Ezekiel 18:31
“Say to them: ‘As I live,’ says the Lord God, ‘I have no pleasure in the death of the wicked, but that the wicked turn from his way and live. Turn, turn from your evil ways! For why should you die, O house of Israel?’ ” Ezekiel 33:11
The apostle Paul warns us against procrastination:
“For He says: ‘In an acceptable time I have heard you, and in the day of salvation I have helped you. Behold, now is the accepted time; behold, now is the day of salvation.’ ” 2 Corinthians 6:2
“Again He designates a certain day, saying in David, ‘Today,’ after such a long time, as it has been said: ‘Today, if you will hear His voice, do not harden your hearts.’ ” Hebrews 4:7
Multitudes are in the “valley of decision” (Joel 3:14), and all those who remain too long in the valley of decision will die there.
“There are some who seem to be always seeking for the heavenly pearl. But they do not make an entire surrender of their wrong habits. They do not die to self that Christ may live in them. Therefore, they do not find the precious pearl. They have not overcome unholy ambition and their love for worldly attractions. They do not take up the cross and follow Christ in the path of self-denial and sacrifice. Almost Christians, yet not fully Christians, they seem near the kingdom of heaven, but they cannot enter there. Almost but not wholly saved, means to be not almost but wholly lost.” Christ’s Object Lessons, 118