Therefore are my loins filled with pain: pangs have taken hold upon me, as the pangs of a woman that travaileth: I was bowed down at the hearing of it; I was dismayed at the seeing of it.
My heart panted, fearfulness affrighted me: the night of my pleasure hath he turned into fear unto me.

Isaiah 21:3-4

Here the prophet Isaiah is writing of his reaction to hearing about the destruction of Babylon by the Medo-Persian Empire. Mind you, the Babylonians will be the captors of God’s people. They will be cruel and evil in their dealings with the Jews.

Yet, when faced with the reality of their death, Isaiah seems to have a near-panic attack. The idea that so many godless people would be killed did not bring him happiness. It brought upon him great sorrow.

These are souls that are without God. These are souls doomed to an eternity of condemnation.

This is not a time to rejoice.

Today literally billions of people are without Christ. There are in fact two people in the world who die every second. Literally. In the time it takes me to type this sentence 12 people will die. With so few belonging to Christ (Matthew 7:14), the odds are that every single one of those twelve people (and the number has jumped past 20, and counting) was lost and outside of Christ when they died.

The lost are dying. Do you care?

Go ye therefore, and teach all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Ghost:

Matthew 28:19