Friday, January 12, 2024

PT-3 "The Scene in the Heavens" (Matt. 24:29b)

 

SPIRITUAL DIARY FOR 1/12/2024 12:22 PM

 

My Worship Time                                                          Focus:  PT-3 “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,”

 

            I have to say that the jet lag that I have been experiencing over the last few days is a lot better at this time, and so hopefully I can get further in the study of this wonderful chapter from Matthew where the Lord Jesus Christ is speaking about what will happen in the end times.  Another thing that I have been working on is getting my new cell phone hooked up with my hearing aids so that I can listen to John MacArthur’s sermons while I do my walking each day, and that is a big help for me in preparing my Spiritual Diaries each day.

 

            Most Christians realize that the earth is held together by the power of God, and when that power is diminished, the resulting chaos will be inconceivable. MacArthur adds “Speculations such as the one just cited, no matter how scientifically derived, can only remotely approximate what the actual situations will be like.” (The things we looked at in the last SD.)

 

            What is going on in this verse we are looking at happens because of sin, as sin is the root cause of God having to judge this world at this time.  I go on with what MacArthur wrote here “But just as the withdrawal of a small part of God’s sustaining power will cause such pervasive chaos and destruction, so will His supernatural control of that disintegration prevent the total destruction of the earth.  His sovereign power will preserve and restore it and its people for the establishing of His millennial kingdom.”  Now I have written about this in earlier SD’s and stated that as we look at the time table of what happens when the Lord Jesus Christ along with His Church returns to planet earth that the first thing that He will do is take time to judge those who are unbelievers including the Antichrist, the false prophet, and Satan.  After that is done the Lord Jesus Christ will in effect re-create the earth to a similar way that it was after it was created by Him in the book of Genesis, that is I believe that the vapor barrier will be between the sun and the earth in order to cause people to live longer, as the Bible says that if a man dies at 100 years old it will be like a child dying.

 

            Now I want to look at what the prophet wrote some seven hundred years before the birth of Christ, as he predicted the end-time devastation; 6 Wail, for the day of the LORD is near! It will come as destruction from the Almighty. 7 Therefore all hands will fall limp, And every man’s heart will melt. 8 They will be terrified, Pains and anguish will take hold of them; They will writhe like a woman in labor, They will look at one another in astonishment, Their faces aflame. 9 Behold, the day of the LORD is coming, Cruel, with fury and burning anger, To make the land a desolation; And He will exterminate its sinners from it. 10 For the stars of heaven and their constellations Will not flash forth their light; The sun will be dark when it rises And the moon will not shed its light. 11 Thus I will punish the world for its evil And the wicked for their iniquity; I will also put an end to the arrogance of the proud And abase the haughtiness of the ruthless. 12 I will make mortal man scarcer than pure gold And mankind than the gold of Ophir” (Isa. 13:6-12).

 

            Now I will quote from MacArthur’s commentary to help us to understand this passage from Isaiah and then, Lord willing, I will conclude this section in the next SD which will begin with more from the book of Isaiah.

 

            “Although that prophecy applied immediately to the destruction of Babylon (v. 1; cf. Dan. 5:30-31), which occurred in 539 B. C., those events described by Isaiah are obviously far too universal and catastrophic to have related entirely to Babylon.  The devastation of ancient Babylon was but a microcosm of what will happen to the whold universe in the end time.”

 

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