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For I know the plans I have for you,declares the LORD, plans to prosper you and not to harm you, plans to give you hope and a future. Jer 29:11 |
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Dear
Friend,
If you do not already have a habit of gathering daily manna the first thing in the morning (we can look at the example given to us in Exodus 16 and find the pattern for make it a habit. Establish your life and your schedule to allow you the necessary time to do your daily collection first thing every morning to give you the strength to make it through the day. And remember that today’s manna will not be sufficient for tomorrow; tomorrow’s manna must be collected tomorrow morning. Friday, August 12, 2022
Today's Passage : Today's Passage :The Second Coming Bible Verse:Matthew 24:29-31 (ESV) "Immediately after the tribulation of those days the sun will be darkened, and the moon will not give its light, and the stars will fall from heaven, and the powers of the heavens will be shaken. Then will appear in heaven the sign of the Son of Man, and then all the tribes of the earth will mourn, and they will see the Son of Man coming on the clouds of heaven with power and great glory. And he will send out his angels with a loud trumpet call, and they will gather his elect from the four winds, from one end of heaven to the other. " Message:
Christ tells us in simple, unmistakable language is that a day will come when He will return and gather his elect, and that His second coming will be announced by terrible disruption of natural forces. The sun and moon will grow dark, and the stars will fall from heaven. We would imagine that such events will end life as we know it and, in fact, we learn in Revelation that the earth will be destroyed.
This leaves a huge temptation to speculation. Will it be caused by a global nuclear war? A great volcano? Collision with an asteroid? But speculation is counterproductive in Biblical interpretation. God tells us what we need to know: life on earth will end some day in cataclysm, and we will be saved from it. The details are unimportant, or He would have told them to us.
Christ never expected people to simply take him at his word. Throughout his ministry he performed miracles whose primary purpose was to establish his credentials for his claims. He proved his power over death by resurrecting the dead, including his own resurrection. He proved his power to heal us by causing men blind from birth to see. He proved his power over nature by stilling storms. He proved his power to care for us by feeding multitudes with a few fish and loaves of bread.
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In Matthew 24, he proves his prophetic power by predicting the destruction of the Temple and by giving those who would listen instructions on how to survive it. That his prophecy of the Temple’s destruction came true, and that his advice on how to survive it was accurate, is an historical fact. Those who did not flee, as he told them to, were butchered: man, woman, and child.
Anyone who does not believe that Christ will return to save his faithful and bring us to eternal life — and that the earth will be devastated and then destroyed in the process — is blind to the truth. It is then that the dead will be raised; for Paul was instructed to tell us that “the dead in Christ will rise first. Then we who are alive, who are left, will be caught up together with them in the clouds to meet the Lord in the air . . . .” (1 Thess. 4:13-18)
Many churches give short shrift to eschatology — the five-dollar word for what will happen at the end of this age — in part because of the confusing weirdness of the Book of Revelation. Or, some churches lack the true conviction of faith in God’s Word. But we do not have to read Revelation; here we have it from Christ himself, in straightforward language. Although the imagery is disturbing, it is not hard to follow.
Have confidence in this. It is a fundamental promise of Christianity. It is fantastic, no doubt; but no more fantastic to us than a prediction of the Temple’s total destruction was to the listener of 30 A.D.
Meditation : Prayer : Now unto the King eternal, immortal, invisible, the only wise God, be honor and glory for ever and ever......Amen |
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