Text: Revelations 1:4-8
The pages of the Scripture are
filled with warnings to both believers and unbelievers that the Lord is coming
again. The promise of His second coming will be literally fulfilled just as the
prophecy concerning His first coming was fulfilled literally.
None should be carried away with
the words of the scoffers saying, “Where is the promise of His coming?” (2
Peter 3:4). Jesus Himself warned: “for as the lightening cometh out of the
east, and shineth even unto the west; so shall also the coming of the Son of
man be” (Matthew 24:27).
The coming of the Lord will be
sudden and unexpected. Every wise person will get ready for His coming. In
readiness for His coming, the sinners including the backsliders should quickly
return unto the Lord and seek pardon. The compromising Christian should “awake
to righteousness, and sin not … for now is salvation nearer than when we
believed” (1 Corinthians 15:34; Romans 13:11).
For the believer, he/she must
continue in holiness and righteous living, looking for the blessed hope and the
glorious appearing of the great God and our Saviour Jesus Christ. He/she is to
get himself/herself occupied in the Lord’s work snatching as many as possible
from the hand of the devil.
Knowing that the Lord can come at
any time, he/she is sober and vigilant, watching over his life and conduct and
praying without ceasing.
The Lord is coming to take His
own unto Himself and reward them for their love and labour. He will make a separation between the sheep
and the goats. At the first phase of His coming, He will take the believers up
with Him in the air to reward them while the rest that re in the world will
suffer great agony and torture under the ruler-ship of the Antichrist.
Therefore, He shall descend with
the saints upon the earth to rule for a thousand years after which He shall
“execute judgment upon all and convince all that are ungodly among them of
their ungodly deeds which they have ungodly committed, and of all their hard
speeches which ungodly sinners have spoken against Him” (Jude 1:15).
The time to prepare for His
coming is NOW, not tomorrow. The time is short. The door of mercy will
not remain open forever. Seek the Lord while He may be found and call upon Him
while He is near (Isaiah 55:6-9).
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