Doors Closing!

 




 Doors Closing…

Anyone using elevators will on various occasions have heard the announcements “Doors Opening” – – “Doors Closing”. The second announcement generally indicates that you can no longer change your mind and you are heading to your chosen destination. You may then hear another announcement: “Lift going up” or “Lift going down”.

It reminds me that the great gospel door of opportunity, which has been wide open for almost twenty centuries, is about to close; it will, in an instant, at the coming again of the Lord Jesus. Those who have been privileged to hear the gospel but have never responded to the gracious invitation of the Saviour will discover that their opportunity to trust Him has been suddenly and unexpectedly withdrawn forever. How dreadful that day will be, when the possibility of being saved eternally will be gone, never to be presented again! Consider seriously these solemn words: “Strive to enter in at the strait [narrow] gate: for many, I say unto you, will seek to enter in, and shall not be able. 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’” Luke 13.24,25. How dreadful to stand at the door of a place where you really want to be inside and discover that the door is locked and you cannot gain entry!

Perhaps the most alarming fact (unlike the door of the elevator) is that no prior warning will be given as to when the door will shut; no announcement will be made by a sober-faced newsreader on radio or television, no startling announcement will appear in the tabloids, no emergency alarm will sound on your mobile phone that this momentous event is about to happen. In Genesis chapter 7, which records the details of the Flood, God said to Noah, “For yet seven days, and I will cause it to rain upon the earth forty days and forty nights …” v. 4; but no such warning will sound from Heaven when God determines to close the door of opportunity and send His Son to summon every saved person, worldwide, to meet Him in the air. All will continue as normal for the most of people, busy with their daily routines, when suddenly, unexpectedly, quietly, millions will be caught up in a moment “to meet the Lord in the air: and so shall we ever be with the Lord” 1Thessalonians 4.17.

In view of the nearness of that great event, there are two other doors I wish you to consider: in John 10.9 there is a door that must be entered; the Lord Jesus said, “I am the door: by Me if any man enter in, he shall be saved …” and in Revelation 3.20 there is a door that must be opened: “Behold, I stand at the door, and knock: if any man hear My voice, and open the door, I will come in to him, and will sup with him, and he with Me.” My friend, you will enter the door when you trust the Saviour and you will open the door when you cease to rebel and respond to the gracious entreaties of the gospel by receiving Christ as your personal Saviour. Please understand the urgency of this all-important matter: “Doors Closing”!

Too late, they’ll find the door will shut, 
Wwhich now stands open wide;
Too late, they’ll have to meet their God, 
With no place then to hide.
O, sinner, pause, ‘ere yet too late; 
Nnow is the day of grace,
Now Jesus calls – O, 
Do obey His pleading, loving voice.
 
 
 
from Assembly Testimony Magazine, May-June 2026
www.assemblytestimony.org
 

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