Beware therefore, lest what has been spoken in the prophets come upon you: 'Behold, you despisers, marvel and perish! For I work a work in your days, a work which you will by no means believe, though one were to declare it to you.' "
Acts 13:40-41

The first lesson from this text was that nations deserving God’s judgment must turn to God in faith and repentance to escape the judgment of God at the hands of their enemies. The second lesson was about God’s judgment on Jerusalem in 70 AD—and that the only way to escape it was to trust in Jesus the Messiah.

Lesson three is simply this: Every human being has an appointment with God, the Judge of all creation (Revelation 20). Every human being will have earned God’s eternal wrath by breaking His laws and by failing to receive Jesus Christ as the only remedy for our well-deserved ruin.

But God has provided a way by which we may be forgiven, cleansed, and reconciled to God. That way is Jesus. The Son of God became a man who lived sinlessly and died vicariously for those He came to save. He then rose victoriously to secure eternal life in Heaven with Him. The only way to receive that gift of grace is to confess our sin, trust in Christ (and in no one, or anything else, or in addition to Christ), and to follow Him as Lord and Master of our lives. Have you done or are you doing that?

God told Habakkuk that what He was about to do to Judah was beyond belief. Paul was foretelling what God would do to Jerusalem and the Jewish religion was beyond belief. God’s plan to save sinners by giving His only begotten Son to save His people—especially in the way He did, is beyond belief. But please, believe it! He is our only hope!