The grass withereth, the flower fadeth: but the word of our God shall stand for ever. Isaiah 40:8
Men may scorn the Word of God but there is coming a day when every person will stand before God. {Revelation 20:11-14}
The famed atheist Voltaire said, “”One hundred years from my day there will not be a Bible in the earth except one that is looked upon by an antiquarian curiosity seeker.”
He once said about Jesus Christ, “Curse the wretch”
Voltaire was mistaken; After his death his house in Paris was used by the British Bible Society and later on by the French Bible Society.
Voltaire, on his deathbed said; “I am abandoned by God and man. I will give you half of what I am worth, if you will give me six months’ life.”
His doctor replied
“Sir, you cannot live six weeks.”
Voltaire replied, “Then I shall go to hell, and you will go with me.”
He cried out, “I am abandoned by God and man! I shall go to hell! O Christ! O Jesus Christ!”
Apparently not long after the preceding declarations Voltaire breathed his last.
The nurse who attended Voltaire on his death bed said
“For all the wealth in Europe I would not see another infidel die.”
How many people will joke about eternity and meeting God and then go out into a Christ-less eternity and in the words of Voltaire be “abandoned by God”?
