Ushering 2026… Ushered into Eternity
On the night between December 31, 2025, and January 1, 2026, a fire broke out in a bar in Crans-Montana, Valais, Switzerland. The alert to the police came around 1:30 a.m. Over 100 people were in the bar at that time to celebrate the New Year. According to first accounts, over 40 people were killed and at least 100 were injured. Police said the fatal blaze occurred at the ski resort bar packed with young people ringing in the New Year. Teenagers as young as 14 and 15 were among the victims of the deadly fire.
Swiss authorities consider it likely that the ceiling caught fire after champagne bottles with lit sparklers were held aloft in celebration. A photo shows young people holding bottles of champagne adorned with the “fountain candle” sparklers. The sparks were very close to the ceiling, which then caught fire. Ten seconds later, an immense fire occurred. A witness said the blaze engulfed the nightclub “within about 10 seconds.”
People in the basement nightclub attempted to escape up a narrow flight of stairs and through a narrow door. The speed of the fire prevented people from reaching the emergency exits, leading to blockage at the main door. Some resorted to smashing windows, while one bystander who rushed in to help said that he saw people “burning from head to foot.”
None of these people were expecting that the end of 2025 was also the end of their life. The laughing voices suddenly turned to horrified screams; the celebration turned to tragedy; and young lives suddenly ended to face the reality of eternity.
Your own turn to enter eternity will come soon. Ask yourself honestly: “Am I prepared for eternity?”
Give your conscience time to answer. Listen! It speaks to you today; don’t drown its voice, or it may not speak again. Let the heaven and hell of the future fill your mind in all their reality; one of these must be your eternal destiny, and today is the time to make your choice. Your tomorrow may be too late—you may be one day too late.
Ask yourself where you are going to spend eternity?
The Lord Jesus said there are two places, people are going to go: “These shall go away into everlasting punishment: but the righteous into life eternal” (Matthew 25:46).
To which are you traveling?
The Lord Jesus came to save you; He paid the penalty of your sins by dying on the Cross for you. He is risen, ascended to Heaven, and He is reaching out His hand to you to snatch you from the lake of fire, your eternal destiny… “How shall we escape, if we neglect so great salvation?” (Hebrews 2:3).
PIf you are unsaved, “Seek ye the Lord while He may be found, call ye upon Him while He is near: let the wicked forsake his way, and the unrighteous man his thoughts: and let him return unto the Lord, and He will have mercy upon him; and to our God, for He will abundantly pardon” (Isaiah 55:6–7).
Believe on the Lord Jesus Christ, and thou shalt be saved” (Acts 16:31). “For God so loved the world, that He gave His only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in Him should not perish, but have everlasting life” (John 3:16).
