Tuesday, February 5, 2019

Look Up And Watch!

Luke 21:28 
"And when these things begin to come to pass, 
then look up, and lift up your heads; for
your redemption draweth nigh."

   There has always been arguments and speculations about the second coming. When it will be and what it will be like, but it is not ours to know. But the one great truth is this, JESUS SAID IT WOULD COME!  Around 300 B.C. an ancient Greek philosophy held that every three thousand years or so the world was consumed by a great conflagration, (an extensive fire which destroys a great deal of  land), then it started all over again and history repeated itself. 
   In Jesus brief record concerning His second coming, He suggested a number of miraculous signs to precede the end of this age. Jesus spoke in terms of cosmic disturbance, to occur in the elements of nature. Jesus then chose to illustrate spiritual truth in the parable of the Fig Tree. He suggested that the appearance of buds warned of approaching summer. Even so the appearance of  strange physical phenomena warns of Christ return. 
   Christ generation was not to pass away  until all these things be accomplished, (v.32). This verse is a reference to numerous historical events: the crucifixion, the resurrection, the return of the city. It seems that Jesus was referring to the destruction of the Jerusalem. However, the Christian conception of history is that it has a goal and that goal is Jesus Christ will be Lord of all. That is all we know, and all we need to know. 
   My Friends, We must all be upon the Watch for Christ return.. The Christian must never come to think that he is living in a settled situation. All people must be in a permanent state of expectation.We must live forever in the shadow of eternity, in the certainty that we are preparing ourselves to appear in the presence of God. There can be nothing so thrilling as the Christian life.
Amen!

Reading: Like 21:25-38
Ref: HG SB, BSB

May God Bless You 
And Your Family
Minister Robert A. Lail Sr.
The Cross Life Ministry


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