SPIRITUAL DIARY FOR 2/2/2024 9:22 AM
My Worship Time Focus:
PT-1 “Alertness”
Bible Reading & Meditation Reference: Matthew
24:37-42
Message of the verses: “37 “For the coming of the Son of Man will be just like the days
of Noah. 38 “For as in those days before the flood they were eating and drinking,
marrying and giving in marriage, until the day that Noah entered the ark, 39 and
they did not understand until the flood came and took them all away; so will
the coming of the Son of Man be. 40 “Then there will be two men in the field;
one will be taken and one will be left. 41 “Two women will be grinding
at the mill; one will be taken and one will be left. 42 “Therefore be on the
alert, for you do not know which day your Lord is coming.”
I want to explain why I think that the Lord Jesus
Christ used the flood in order to illustrate the point that He was making about
the coming of the Son of Man. It has to
do with the attitude the prevailed during the days of Noah…before the flood
which will also characterize most people who are living during the end times
just before our Lord returns to planet earth, which takes place at the end of
the tribulation period. Now let me try
and make a point here to help us better to understand why I say that the people
on planet earth will not expect the Lord to return when He does. I have studied the end time prophecies ever
since I first became a believer and because of that learning from good Bible
teachers I know much of what will happen and when it will happen during this
seven year period called the Tribulation.
However most of the people living on earth during this time period will
have very little knowledge of what the Bible has to say about this time period
that they are living in and so, yes, they will be surprised when the Lord does
return in much of the way that the people of Noah’s day were surprised when the
flood came even though they watched Noah build the ark for 120 years. MacArthur adds “Despite the perilous signs
and wonders, they will simply be unconcerned about the things of the Lord,
especially the prospect of His imminent return to judge them.”
The
world we are living in today has gotten much smaller as far as travel and
communication, therefore it will be easier for people to try and explain the
extraordinary end-time phenomena on a scientific and rational basis, expecting
to discover a natural cause for the cataclysms that will have and will be
taking place. The problem today is
similar to what the problem of that time will be and that is that they will
look every other place than the Word of God to find answers as to what will be
taking place.
Think
about the first time when Jesus came to planet earth as we read about this in
the gospels that He healed many, many, people. He raised many from the
dead. Feed many people through great
miracles, and many other miraculous things that He did, and yet for the most
part people did not believe in Him as to who He was, the very Son of God, the
Messiah who came into the world exactly how the Old Testament prophets said that
He would come, and at the exact time they said He would come. Daniel’s prophecy of 490 years explains the
time period when the Lord would come leaving seven years of yet unfulfilled prophecy
which is the tribulation period that will be fulfilled, (in my opinion) very
soon.
I
will end this SD by quoting a paragraph from John MacArthur’s commentary. “Sinful, materialistic, hypocritical, godless
mankind is willfully blind to God’s truth, no matter how compelling the truth
may be. And when God’s truth exposes
their wickedness, they make every effort to oppose and condemn it.” How true this is!
2/2/2024 9:50 AM
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