SPIRITUAL DIARY FOR 2/29/2024 11:45 AM
My Worship Time Focus:
“The Warning”
Bible Reading & Meditation Reference:
Matthew 25:13
Message of the verse: “Be on the alert then, for you do not know the day nor the hour.”
After taking a number of days to go over the first
part of Matthew 25:6-12 it will only take just one day to go over this 13th
verse, but the verse is very important for us to understand, as I have
mentioned that chapters 24-25 are speaking about the Tribulation period, much
like Revelation chapters 6-19 do, but there are things that we certainly can
learn from these two chapters that will help us to live the Christian life for
the cause of Christ.
Now this is the fifth time in the discourse that Jesus
called those who will be alive during the last days of the Tribulation to be alert,
notice 24:36, 42, 44, and 50 along with this verse, 25:13. Jesus wants them to be on alert because they
will not know the day nor the hour of His appearing, that is when He will
return to earth to bring judgment to the lost of the Tribulation period and to
also send those who are believers into the Millennial Kingdom to begin the very
last period that will take place on planet earth before the earth and the
universe will be destroyed and the New heaven and New earth will appear along
with the New Jerusalem. It is true that they would know its nearness by the
catastrophic signs, but the exact day and the exact hour they will not know.
The rest of this SD will be a quotation from John MacArthur’s
commentary, and then in the next SD we will begin to look at Matthew
25:14-30. I have to say that chapter 25
will not take nearly as long to go over as chapter 24.
“Be on guard,” Jesus said in the Temple on the previous day, “that your hearts may not be weighed down with dissipation and drunkenness and the worries of life, and that day come on you suddenly like a trap, for it will come upon all those who dwell on the face of the earth. But keep on the alert at all times, praying in order that you may have strength to escape all these things that are about to take place, and to stand before the Son of Man’ (Luke 21:34-36).”
In his epic poem Idylls
of the King, Alfred Lord Tennyson used figures from the parable of the ten
virgins in a song directed to the wicked Queen Guinevere, who learned too late
the cost of sin:
Late,
late, so late, and dark the night and chill!
Late,
late, so late, but we can enter still.
Too late, too late, ye cannot enter now.
No
light had we, for that we do repent;
And
learning this, the Bridegroom will relent.
Too late, too late, ye cannot enter now.
No
light, so late, and dark and chill the night!
O let
us in, that we may End the light.
Too late, too late, ye cannot enter now.
Have
we not heard the Bridegroom is so sweet?
O let
us in, thou ‘late, to kiss His feet!
No, no, too late! Ye cannot enter now.
May no one who reads this
end up like the wicked Queen Guinevere did, as you have your warning.
2/29/2024 12:07 PM
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