GOSPEL LIGHT #759

I want to tell you a true story which happened in the middle of the 1800s in Webster City, Iowa, USA. 
Prairie fires were the most fearsome of all calamities that frequently struck this place. A prairie is a large, flat and treeless grassland.

When a prairie fire is ignited neither man nor horse could outrun it. Prairie fires could leap over rivers and roads; the fire's embers could easily travel across them, starting new fires on the other side. The fires could spread rapidly, racing across the land at speeds of up to 97 kilometers per hour. Imagine an angry and raging fire coming at you at 97 kilometers per hour. The fastest speed ever recorded by a human being was achieved by Olympic champion Usain Bolt who peaked at 45 kilometers per hour.

When a farmer named John saw all this happening from afar, quickly, he ran and told his wife to get all the blankets she could get and instructed her to soak them in the well. Then he proceeded to burn his own farm land. This was the only way to save themselves. There was simply no other way. His own field glowing with golden grains were all turned to black ash. Then John and his family gathered around in the middle of their burnt field and covered themselves with blankets and waited for the fire.

They could hear the fire as it closely approached them. But, when it came to their field, it went around them and they were saved simply because they stood were the fire had been. 

You know, a far more terrible quote unquote "prairie fire" is about to come and burn everything up. It's the prairie fires of God's judgment. But, God, in order to save us, started a fire at Calvary in the middle of this big field called the world and blanketed it, so to speak, with darkness for three hours. 

Now, God calls upon us to come to Calvary and stand where His fire has burned. He guarantees that for those who do, the fires of judgment will simply go around them and not harm them.