Where Will You Be When God Shuts The Door?

© 2023 by Tom Boynton (editing by Kathy Boynton)

Noah and his family had spent years building the ark to God’s specifications.  When finished, it was stocked with food.  Noah, his family, and all the animals God specified, boarded the ark.  There’s no record that anyone else ever took the ark seriously.

 “In the selfsame day entered Noah, and Shem, and Ham, and Japheth, the sons of Noah, and Noah’s wife, and the three wives of his sons with them, into the ark;  They, and every beast after his kind, and all the cattle after their kind, and every creeping thing that creepeth upon the earth after his kind, and every fowl after his kind, every bird of every sort.  And they went in unto Noah into the ark, two and two of all flesh, wherein is the breath of life.  And they that went in, went in male and female of all flesh, as God had commanded him: and the LORD shut him in.” (Genesis 7:13-16)

God shut the door!  Only eight people from the entire world’s population were saved!

This door-shutting judgment foreshadows the judgment, Christ described, in His parable of the virgins, in which He shall shut the door again.

“Then shall the kingdom of heaven be likened unto ten virgins, which took their lamps, and went forth to meet the bridegroom.  And five of them were wise, and five were foolish.  They that were foolish took their lamps, and took no oil with them:  But the wise took oil in their vessels with their lamps.” (Matthew 25:1-4)

The five foolish virgins represent those awaiting God’s judgment without the oil of God’s indwelling Holy Spirit.  They’ve never repented of their sins nor asked Christ for cleansing.  While they go to seek the oil of life in the wrong places, Christ comes and shuts the door.  Those devoid of Christ’s holiness shall have no more hope.

“And while they went to buy, the bridegroom came; and they that were ready went in with him to the marriage: and the door was shut.  Afterward came also the other virgins, saying, Lord, Lord, open to us.  But he answered and said, Verily I say unto you, I know you not”. (Matthew 25:10-11)

In the gospel of Luke, Christ, again, describes what happens when He shuts the door.

“When once the master of the house is risen up, and hath shut to the door, and ye begin to stand without, and to knock at the door, saying, Lord, Lord, open unto us; and he shall answer and say unto you, I know you not whence ye are: … depart from me, all ye workers of iniquity.” (Luke 13:25-27)

Christ, the bridegroom, shall come and take His redeemed people into the eternal wedding celebration.  The unprepared, foolish virgins, find the door shut as God shut the door of the ark just before the flood.

For now, the door is still open, but once God shuts the door, all hope shall end.

 

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