An article from Kemper:
For anything to exist it must have been created by the Word of God. The created man, in his rebellion, invented the lie that he could sustain himself outside of God’s Word. This principle is contrary to God’s Word and is condemned unto the destruction of its nonexistence. Man must provide the energy needed to maintain his own agenda which is unsustainable. Rather than entering God’s rest through obedience of faith, man is consumed by wrestling thorns and thistles of his own planting. Yet in the end, every plant which our heavenly Father hath not planted, shall be rooted up (Mathew 15:13).
The lie that man has endeavored to substantiate is only able to linger in the absence of truth. Once the truth is revealed and that standard is present, the deception can no longer be maintained and the lies are destroyed. Yet God in His mercy has sustained man in spite of his rebellion by hiding the truth in a mystery unseen by the carnal man. Thus diverting his judgment to the end of the age when the Standard of Truth is revealed in the earth. At such a point, believing becomes a response to seeing.
This hidden truth is sought out by those desiring to return to God. Even the mystery which hath been hid from ages and from generations, but now is made manifest to his saints. To whom God would make known what is the riches of the glory of this mystery among the Gentiles; which is Christ in you, the hope of glory (Colossians 1:26-27). For God has called the saints by His grace and they are responding as they ask, seek and knock to know the truth. Proverbs 25:2 states, It is the glory of God to conceal a thing but the honor of kings is to search out a matter.
Those who have answered the call of grace have consented to the truth and its purifying attributes. Upon such purification is God seen (Matthew 5:8). 1 John 3:2-3 declares when we see him we shall be like him and those who have this hope purifies themselves as they come to the light of the truth. Yet those who are evil resist the light lest their deeds be reproved (John 3:20). When man refuses to purify himself by coming to the light, the light will come to him. The “day of the Lord” is his visitation with the Truth, wherein he will experience the purification of sudden destruction. By mercy and truth iniquity is purged: and the fear of the LORD men depart from evil (Proverbs 16:6).
Those who look forward to His appearing purify themselves in preparation for His visitation. This willful pursuit of purification hastens His return. Wherefore he saith, Awake thou that sleepest, and arise from the dead, and Christ shall give thee light. See then that ye walk circumspectly, not as fools, but as wise, Redeeming the time, because the days are evil. Wherefore be ye not unwise, but understanding what the will of the Lord is. And be not drunk with wine, wherein is excess; but be filled with the Spirit (Ephesians 5:14-18). These pursuers are the saints who Looking for and hasting unto the coming of the day of God (2Peter 3:12), become the firstfruits who are changed into His likeness, by whom Christ’s image is manifested unto the world as the standard by which all is to be judged. Without the presence of such a standard for all to see judgment cannot take place.
Behold, he cometh with clouds; and every eye shall see him, and they also which pierced him: and all kindreds of the earth shall wail because of him. Even so, Amen (Revelations 1:7). John states that every eye shall see Him and when we see Him we will be like Him. For us to be like Him, that which does not conform after the image of Christ is destroyed. This is the death of the old man. For no man shall see His face and live (Exodus 33:20). Wherefore, as the standard appears, men cry out to the mountains and rocks, Fall on us, and hide us from the face of him that sitteth on the throne, and from the wrath of the Lamb (Revelation 6:16).
Those who pursue the call of grace are a cooperate body of God’s elect, who becoming a standard, will introduce the Truth to the rest of the world, causing the destruction of all that hasn’t been established by His Word. For when they shall say, Peace and safety; then sudden destruction cometh upon them, as travail upon a woman with child; and they shall not escape (1 Thessalonians 5:3). This coming tribulation is the ungodly being reduced to nothing. The saints pursue and apprehend this quality willfully, which once it is apprehended is transferred upon the ungodly as the prophet Isaiah records in 51:22-23,
Thus saith thy Lord the LORD, and thy God that pleadeth the cause of his people, Behold, I have taken out of thine hand the cup of trembling, even the dregs of the cup of my fury; thou shalt no more drink it again: But I will put it into the hand of them that afflict thee; which have said to thy soul, Bow down, that we may go over: and thou hast laid thy body as the ground, and as the street, to them that went over.
This “tribulation transfer” comes upon the completion of our sanctification as Paul shares in 2 Corinthians 10:6; And having in a readiness to revenge all disobedience, when your obedience is fulfilled. Those who pursue the truth discard their self preserving agenda in favor of abiding in the way of truth as it is revealed by the Holy Spirit. The destruction of those resistant to the truth is an unavoidable violent yet freeing end as this standard appears. For, Ye shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you free (John 8:32). It should be understood that all become undone, but each have their own threshold at which they succumb. Its recorded in 1Corinthians 15:22-23, For as in Adam all die, even so in Christ shall all be made alive. But every man in his own order: Christ the firstfruits (the Standard); afterward they that are Christ’s at his coming.