SPIRITUAL DIARY FOR 3/24/2024 7:50 AM
My Worship Time
Focus: “The Time”
Bible Reading & Meditation Reference: Matthew
25:31b
Message of the verse: “comes in His glory, and all the angels with Him.”
We have been talking about judgment, and the time for
judgment will happen after Christ returns to planet earth bringing his angels
and also the raptured church with Him.
We don’t know the time but we do know that if God says this will happen
that it will happen. Now I have written
about this subject when studying different prophetic books of the Bible like
Revelation, Daniel and it is also in Joel and I suppose many other prophetic
books of the Bible, both Old and New Testaments.
I believe that His judgment will happen as soon as He
puts His foot down on the Mount of Olives, as it will split and make a large
valley which will go for miles. Now we
have looked a parables while going through this 25th chapter of
Matthew and the parable about the virgins where five did not bring oil and five
did shows that the five who did got into the wedding feast and the five who did
not were shut out, showing judgment came very fast.
Now
I have studied both the books of Daniel and Revelation and in the 19th
chapter of Revelation we can see the return of Jesus Christ with His angels and
raptured saints. The tribulation is 7
years long, seven three hundred and sixty days long which makes the last half
1260 days the same as the first half, but the second half will be by far the
worst time in human history. In the 12th
chapter of Daniel he writes the following “11 “From
the time that
the regular sacrifice is abolished and the abomination of
desolation is set up, there will be 1,290 days. 12 “How blessed is he who
keeps waiting and attains to the 1,335 days! 13 “But as for you, go your way
to the end; then you will enter into rest and rise again for your
allotted portion at the end of the age.’” My understanding is that the extra days will
be used to judge the sheep and the goats, with the goats going into punishment,
and the sheep into the Millennial Kingdom.
I believe that the other days will be used for Christ to redo the planet
into something similar to what it was when He created it so that people will
live much longer during the Millennial Kingdom.
All
this work will be done with the help of the angels and the saints who came back
with the Lord, as there will actually be judgment throughout the Millennial
Kingdom. Paul talks about angels judging
in 2 Thessalonians 1:7-8 “5 This is a plain indication of God’s
righteous judgment so that you will be considered worthy of the kingdom of God,
for which indeed you are suffering. 6 For after all it is only just for
God to repay with affliction those who afflict you, 7 and to
give relief to you who are afflicted and to us as well when the Lord Jesus
will be revealed from heaven with His mighty angels in flaming fire, 8 dealing out retribution to those who do not
know God and to those who do not obey the gospel of our Lord Jesus.
Matthew 24:29-31 speaks of this also “29 "But immediately after the tribulation of
those days 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.
30 “And then the sign of the Son of Man will appear in the sky, and then all
the tribes of the earth will mourn, and they will see the SON OF MAN COMING ON
THE CLOUDS OF THE SKY with power and great glory. 31 "And He will send
forth His angels with A GREAT TRUMPET and THEY WILL GATHER TOGETHER His elect
from the four winds, from one end of the sky to the other.”
MacArthur concludes “The Lord will come not only
with His angels but with His saints. ‘When
Christ, who is our life, is revealed,’ Paul assured the Colossians believers, ‘then
you also will be revealed with Him in glory’ (Col. 3:4). The Old Testament saints, the saints of the
church who will have died, the saints who will have been raptured, and the
saints who will have been martyred during the Tribulation will all accompany
Christ and join the saints still living on earth when He descends to earth to
establish His millennial kingdom.” Can’t
wait for that day!
3/24/2024 8:14 AM
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