SPIRITUAL DIARY FOR 01/08/2024
My Worship Time Focus:
“The Sequence of Events”
Bible Reading & Meditation
Reference: Matthew 24:29a
Message of the verse: “But immediately after the tribulation of those days”
I have to say that I don’t think that I have ever did
before in writing my Spiritual Diaries to put onto my blogs, and that is write
this one the evening before I will post it as we are headed out on a vacation,
something that we have not done for a long time. Because of the time change we will be in the
Spiritual Diaries that are posted onto my blogs will be done later than that
have been.
Let us look at the word “immediately” for a moment, and
this tells us that Jesus is stating unequivocally that the central sign of His
return will occur right after the Great Tribulation, and remember the “Great
Tribulation” is the last three and a half of the seven year tribulation
period.
MacArthur
adds “The context makes clear that those days refer to the preceding days of tribulation
that Jesus has just been describing (vv. 4-28).” Let us look at verse 21 “21 for then there will be a great tribulation, such as has
not occurred since the beginning of the world until now, nor ever shall.” This verse shows that the final days will be
unsurpassed tragedy that will mark the end of the present world age, days
during which sin will be unrestrained on the earth, the church will have been
raptured, and Satan will have been allowed almost unrestricted freedom in his
final but futile attempt to usurp rule of the earth for himself. Needless to say that this will be a very
terrible time to be alive on planet earth and as mentioned earlier the
Abomination of Desolation is the mid-point of the Tribulation period. We have talked about this in earlier SD’s,
but this will be the most horrible time for the Jews since their race began way
back in the 12th chapter of Genesis. The good news is that the Lord will come at
the end of this Great Tribulation and settle all accounts of the people who
have not become believers.
In
the last chapter we stated that at this time two of every three Jews will die
during those days. They will be killed
in Palestine where they will be slaughtered, so only one third will remain
after this is over. Today is the day of
salvation as the Bible says, so don’t wait until the church is gone receive
Jesus Christ today. I have also spoke of
the fact that out of these who will be saved are 144,000 Jews who will
evangelize the world during this time, twelve thousand from each of the twelve
tribes of Israel. MacArthur adds “Those
Jews will be supernaturally sealed and protected by God, and no effort by the
Antichrist or his collaboration will be able to destroy them.”
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