SPIRITUAL DIARY FOR 2/5/2024 8:34 AM
My Worship Time Focus:
PT-4 “Alertness”
Bible Reading & Meditation Reference:
Matt. 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 have been writing in the last few SD’s what the
attitude and response that will prevail before the coming of the Son of Man. This was displayed in the verses that speak
of what went on in the days of Noah. Now
I want to quote from MacArthur’s commentary and pray that those who read this
will pay special attention to what he writes:
“The previous signs, the abomination of desolation, the disruption of
the heavenly bodies, and the preaching of God’s witnesses during the Tribulation
will have no effect on the majority of men.
(Italics added) They will see God’s signs but attribute them to natural causes
or to supernatural causes apart from God.
They will hear His Word, in one instance supernaturally preached
worldwide by an angel (Rev. 15:6-7), but they will respond with disdain or
indifference. They will heed neither
warnings nor appeals from God up until the very moment the Son of Man appears
to confront them in righteous judgment.”
This, to me, sounds just like
what happened when Noah preached for 120 years, and then when he and his family
got into the ark and then God shut the door which singled the end of the people’s
time who were on earth as the witnessing was over, and will be over when the
Lord returns.
I
have heard it said, and I believe it, that there will be the biggest harvest of
souls that ever happened during the Tribulation period. First of all we read of the 144,000 Jews who
will come to Christ almost immediately after the Tribulation period begins. There are also the two witnesses who will
preach the gospel, and as mentioned there will be an angel in heaven who will
preach the gospel, and then you couple that with those who become believers
will also tell others the good news of the gospel. With all of that said this time of the tribulation
will be dominated not by belief but by unbelief, not by holiness but by
wickedness, not by godliness but by ungodliness. It will be epitomized by secularism and false
religion, even as most of the world is today, but to an immeasurably worse
degree. One of the problems during the
Tribulation period is that many, many believers will die for the cause of
Christ. I have read that three out of
four believers will actually die for the cause of Christ during this time
period.
As
mentioned this time period of the Tribulation will be similar to the days of
Noah, which is one of the points that the Lord is making.
I
will start this next section which begins with the following: then there shall be two men in the field; one
will be taken, and one will be left. Two
women will be grinding at the mill; one will be taken, and one will be left. MacArthur then writes “Jesus is giving a
figure parallel of the unbelievers of Noah’s day being taken away in judgment
through the Flood. When He returns, one
will be taken to judgment and the other will be left to enter the kingdom. This is the same separation (46). The ones left will be Christ’s sheep, His
redeemed people whom He will preserve to reign with Him during the Millennium.”
One
more comment from the quote from Peter’s sermon on Pentecost where he said in
Acts 2:20-21 “20 the sun shall be turned to darkness and the moon to blood,
before the day of the Lord comes, the great and magnificent day. 21 And it shall come to pass that
everyone who calls upon the name of the Lord shall be saved.’
(ESV). In this final moment when the
King comes to establish His kingdom, some people will turn to Christ in sincere
faith and be redeemed. They will be set
apart as the Lord’s sheep by the angels and will inherit the kingdom prepared
for them.
2/5/2024
9:19 AM
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