There are three parts to the message on the front cover. [1] Prediction of conditions in the last days of grace (2 Timothy 3:1-5); [2] The judgment following those days (Hebrews 9:27); [3] The way of salvation offered to all in this day of grace (Acts 16:31).

The Prediction
In 2 Timothy 3:1-5, a graphic description is given by the Holy Spirit through the apostle Paul as to the character of Christendom in the final days of the Church's history on earth. In reading the portion, one can identify each of the nineteen things mentioned as being present today.

Let me single out just four—1. Men shall be lovers of their own selves: the New Age movement, 2. Disobedience to parents: the breakdown of parental authority in the home. 3. Lovers of pleasures rather than lovers of God: the flood of sports and worldly amusements displacing God in people's lives; 4. Having a form of godliness but denying the power thereof: the increase of mere religion without Christ, His Truth and Word.

The professing church with all the revealed will of God in its hand, and the teaching of the Holy Spirit, has turned away from the truth of God found in the Scriptures. This has led to the acceptance of man's "philosophy and vain deceit, after the tradition of men, after the elements of the world and not after Christ" (Colossians 2:8). This is apostasy which God will judge.

The Judgment
"God … has appointed a day, in the which He will judge the world in righteousness by that Man whom He hath ordained, whereof He has given assurance unto all men, in that He hath raised Him from the dead" (Acts 17:31). The judgment of professing Christendom is pictured in Revelation 3:16 as being spued out of His mouth. In Revelation chapters 17 and 18 the detailed account of that judgment is given. But remember this, each individual who dies in his sins, will be raised and judged at the Great White Throne (Revelation 20:10-15).

The Way of Escape
God has plainly revealed His way of salvation in Acts 16:28-31. When Paul and Silas were beaten and put into the inner prison, an earthquake leveled the prison walls and broke their chains. The jailor, fearing for his life if one prisoner escaped, heard a cry from the inner prison, "Do thyself no harm: for we are all here. Then he…came trembling, and fell down before Paul and Silas, and…said Sirs What must I do to be saved? And they said, Believe on the Lord Jesus Christ and thou shalt be saved."

Hear also the words of Jesus which confirm this and give safety, certainty and enjoyment: "Verily, verily, I say unto you, He that heareth My Word, and believeth on Him that sent Me, hath everlasting life, and shall not come into judgment, but is passed from death unto life" (John 5:24).