SPIRITUAL DIARY FOR 1/11/2024 2:15 PM
My Worship Time Focus:
PT-1 “The Scene in the Heavens”
Bible Reading & Meditation Reference: Matthew
24:29b
Message of the verse: “the sun will be darkened, and the moon will not give its light, and the stars will fall from the sky, and the powers of the heavens will be shaken.”
This is the third time that I have begun this section,
and the reason for so much trouble is because I am now five time zones from
where I live, and will be here for a month.
I will just quote from MacArthur’s commentary in order to get this first
part of this SD done.
“Jesus here describes the heavenly setting of His appearance. The whole universe will begin to disintegrate, apparently with great rapidity. The sun…and the moon will cease to give light, and the stars will even fall from the sky. From Luke’s parallel account we learn that there will be ‘dismay among nations, in perplexity and the roaring of the sea and the waves, men fainting from fear and the expectation of the thing which are coming upon the world; for the power of the heavens will be shaken’ (Luke 21:25-26).
“The events will be so calamitous that men will faint
from absolute terror. The Greek word
behind ‘faint’ means to expire or stop breathing, indicating that people will
literally die of fright. No hurricane,
tornado, tidal wave, earthquake, volcanic eruption, or combination of those
natural disasters in history will have approached the extreme disruption of
these end-time days.
“During that time the powers of the heavens will be shaken
by Jesus Christ, the One who ‘upholds all things by the word of His power’
(Heb. 1:3). Just as He created
everything, He also sustains everything, and without His full sustaining power,
gravity will weaken and the orbits of the stars and planets will
fluctuate. Astronomers can predict
coming stellar events centuries in advance only because of the absolute
consistency of the divinely ordered and uniform laws that control the operation
of the stars and planets. But when the
Lord withdraws the least of His power form the universe, nothing in it will
function normally, and every aspect of the physical world will be disrupted
beyond imagination. All the forces of
enerty, here called powers of the heavens, which hold everything in space
constant, will be in dysfunction. The
heavenly bodies will careen helter-skelter through space, and all navigation,
whether stellar, solar, magnetic, or gyroscopic, will be futile because all
stable reference points’ and uniform natural forces will have ceased to exist
or else become unreliable.”
In the next SD I want to talk about a Greek word that
shows us how the world will end as seen in 2 Peter 3:9-10.
1/11/2024 2:43 PM
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