SPIRITUAL DIARY FOR 9/25/2015
10:19 PM
My Worship Time Focus:
PT-2 Introduction to the Return of
Christ
Bible Reading & Meditation Reference: Revelation
19:11-21
Message of the
verses: I am not going to put the
verses into this SD as we are still looking at the introduction to this very
important section. I am a bit late in
posting this SD on my blog because of having company for the last ten or so
days, so hopefully it will be better for me to get things on my blog after
this.
In our last SD on this subject we looked at a part of the
sermon from John MacArthur on this subject and after listening to this entire
sermon it was all on the introduction of the return of Jesus Christ. We could just comment on every one of these
verses, which we will do, but it is important to look at some of the many OT
and NT verses that talk of this event, and we will look at other things that
pertain to this subject top as we go through this section.
We looked at how the worlds situation and wondered if it
will ever get better and learned that the only way it would get better is when
the Lord Jesus Christ returns to planet earth, but until that event things will
get worse and worse.
There is another thing that we want to discuss while
looking at this event and that is something we touched on earlier in this
journey through Revelation, and that is the different views on the
Rapture.
When we think of what we have learned about what is going
to happen during the tribulation period we know that many, many people will die
because of the judgments from the Lord and wars that will be going on, but then
we read about how the Lord was going to call the armies to the battlefield of Megiddo
where the final battle will take place, and then we will see the Lord Jesus
Christ return to earth to end the war and judge the people who are left alive
on planet earth, where when the Tribulation Period began there were many more
than eight billion people on the earth, and probably during the end there will
be maybe only two billion people left. I
get these numbers from the “Left Behind” series where author Tim Lahaye stated that
one in four people who began the Tribulation will live throughout the entire
period. Now before the Tribulation we
believe that the Rapture will take the church out so that will be many people
gone even before the Tribulation Period begins.
One of the first things that believers learn once they
become believers is that their hope is that the Lord Jesus Christ will return
to get them, and that has been my hope every since I became a believer in Jesus
Christ. Paul speaks to Titus about this
as being our “hope.” Now of course this
is speaking of the Rapture, but since we see in our world today many signs of
what is going to happen in the Tribulation we believe that the Rapture is
getting very close.
Why do believers who have lived through out redemptive
history look forward to having the Messiah come again? For one thing we look forward to having
Christ come and defeat all his foes, including Satan, and we also look forward
of Him setting up His promised kingdom.
We can look at two verses, one from the OT and one from the NT to show
that there will be a time when the destruction of Satan is complete. “And I will put enmity Between you and the
woman, And between your seed and her seed; He shall bruise you on the head, And
you shall bruise him on the heel’ (Gen. 3:15).”
“The God of peace will soon crush Satan under your feet. The grace of
our Lord Jesus be with you (Romans 16:20).” Genesis 49:10 speaks of having the King
receive His scepter “"The scepter shall not depart from Judah, Nor the
ruler’s staff from between his feet, Until Shiloh comes, And to him shall be
the obedience of the peoples.” We can
look at 2 Samuel 1:13 and Isaiah 9:7 to show us when God will establish the
throne of David’s greater Son “13
"He shall build a house for My name, and I will establish the
throne of his kingdom forever.” “7 There will be no end to the increase of His
government or of peace, On the throne of David and over his kingdom, To
establish it and to uphold it with justice and righteousness From then on and
forevermore. The zeal of the LORD of hosts will accomplish this.” Next we look at Psalm 2:6-9 to show us that
the Lord will rule with a rod of iron: “6
“But as for Me, I have installed My King Upon Zion, My holy mountain." 7 "I
will surely tell of the decree of the LORD: He said to Me, ’You are My Son,
Today I have begotten You. 8 ’Ask of Me, and I will surely give the nations as
Your inheritance, And the very ends of the earth as Your possession. 9 ’You
shall break them with a rod of iron, You shall shatter them like
earthenware.’"”
We will continue looking at more verses from the
Scriptures to prepare us for the return of Jesus Christ as seen in Revelation
19:11-21.
Answer to yesterday’s Bible
question: “Christ Jesus” (2 Cor. 4:5).
Today’s Bible question “Who
spoke ‘Looking for the blessed hope, and the glorious appearing of the great
God and our Savior Jesus Christ’?”
Answer in our next SD.
9/25/2015 10:55 PM
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