No Twilight

Zone Here!

Dan Corner

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About forty years ago a strange but popular TV show was aired called the Twilight Zone. Every show was bizarre! A viewer would never know what to expect, except it would be abnormal. It was fiction, with some occult mixed in at times and passed off as entertainment.

Nebuchadnezzar

Similar to that strangeness, as might be shown on the Twilight Zone, is the reality of what we read in Dan 4:33:

Immediately what had been said about Nebuchadnezzar was fulfilled. He was driven away from people and ate grass like cattle. His body was drenched with the dew of heaven until his hair grew like the feathers of an eagle and his nails like the claws of a bird.

That was the judgment of God on Nebuchadnezzar because of his sin of pride, that is, he lost his sanity for a time period. During that time, he appeared as a 6 foot tall grass-eating bird-man, including feathers and claws! Imagine what it would have been like to see him then. Imagine trying to convince another what you saw. Chances are he would scoff at reality!

God can do anything, even reduce the king of the world power then, with ease, to that low degree. We are told repeatedly to fear God. To disregard that advice is to be dangerously deceived and is self-destructive!

Lot’s Wife

Lot’s wife is another example of a very unusual but real experience:

Then the LORD rained down burning sulfur on Sodom and Gomorrah—from the LORD out of the heavens. Thus he overthrew those cities and the entire plain, including all those living in the cities—and also the vegetation in the land. But Lot’s wife looked back, and she became a pillar of salt. (Gen 19:24-26)

That occurred because she disregarded the warning of God:

As soon as they had brought them out, one of them said, “Flee for your lives! Don’t look back, and don’t stop anywhere in the plain! Flee to the mountains or you will be swept away!” (Gen 19:17)

The Lord Jesus referred to her, telling us to remember her!

It was the same in the days of Lot. People were eating and drinking, buying and selling, planting and building. But the day Lot left Sodom, fire and sulfur rained down from heaven and destroyed them all. It will be just like this on the day the Son of Man is revealed. On that day no one who is on the roof of his house, with his goods inside, should go down to get them. Likewise, no one in the field should go back for anything. Remember Lot’s wife! Whoever tries to keep his life will lose it, and whoever loses his life will preserve it. (Luke 17:28-33)

Though unclear, the Lord taught there is a lesson to be learned from her judgment—being changed into a pillar of salt. From verse 33 it seems she was trying to keep her life and she, consequently, lost it. Jesus said to remember her.

(Lot’s wife changed into a pillar of salt and probably slowly dissolved away, as it rained afterwards.)

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