Jesus' Coming
Jesus is coming like a thief. This is one of the most sobering realities of what the Bible describes as the Earth transitions to a new age.
The last transition from a world without the Holy Spirit actively indwelling anyone who desired Him, to a world where anyone who asks receives, happened with little fanfare.
Even though the Earth has witnessed the Spirit of God's return to the Earth, the entirely voluntary nature of it has left most unaware of the massive change in the nature of human existence.
The Spirit readies the Earth for the Son to come as He is, in glory.
The next step in the redemptive process is the Son of God returning to stay. The Spirit and the Son will be physically present, readying the Earth for the Father.
This transition, just like the last, will be entirely voluntary, and thus MANY will miss the greatness of the change in human existence for many years.
The Bible describes world leaders RESISTING Jesus years after His return and establishing His rule from Jerusalem:
Zechariah 14:9And the LORD shall be King over all the earth.
In that day it shall be—
“The LORD is one,”
And His name one.
10All the land shall be turned into a plain from Geba to Rimmon south of Jerusalem. Jerusalem shall be raised up and inhabited in her place from Benjamin’s Gate to the place of the First Gate and the Corner Gate, and from the Tower of Hananel to the king’s winepresses.
11The people shall dwell in it;
And no longer shall there be utter destruction,
But Jerusalem shall be safely inhabited.
12And this shall be the plague with which the LORD will strike all the people who fought against Jerusalem:
Their flesh shall dissolve while they stand on their feet,
Their eyes shall dissolve in their sockets,
And their tongues shall dissolve in their mouths.
13It shall come to pass in that day
That a great panic from the LORD will be among them.
Everyone will seize the hand of his neighbor,
And raise his hand against his neighbor’s hand;
14Judah also will fight at Jerusalem.
And the wealth of all the surrounding nations
Shall be gathered together:
Gold, silver, and apparel in great abundance.
15Such also shall be the plague
On the horse and the mule,
On the camel and the donkey,
And on all the cattle that will be in those camps.
So shall this plague be.
16And it shall come to pass that everyone who is left of all the nations which came against Jerusalem shall go up from year to year to worship the King, the LORD of hosts, and to keep the Feast of Tabernacles.
17And it shall be that whichever of the families of the earth do not come up to Jerusalem to worship the King, the LORD of hosts, on them there will be no rain.
18If the family of Egypt will not come up and enter in, they shall have no rain; they shall receive the plague with which the LORD strikes the nations who do not come up to keep the Feast of Tabernacles.
19This shall be the punishment of Egypt and the punishment of all the nations that do not come up to keep the Feast of Tabernacles.
20In that day “HOLINESS TO THE LORD” shall be engraved on the bells of the horses. The pots in the LORD’s house shall be like the bowls before the altar.
One of the biggest mistakes believers in our day make is to wait for it to be obvious Jesus is returning or has returned. It will never be obvious. Delusion causes doubters to miss the very thing promised...just as in the coming of Jesus the first time...just as the Holy Spirit actively occupies the Earth and most are unaware. Our imagination seeks a sign bigger than is promised. The Lord seeks faith.
Which are you getting ready for: the pop culture return of Jesus that requires no faith, or the real one....the one Jesus himself described?
Matthew 24:36“But of that day and hour no one knows, not even the angels of heaven, but My Father only.
37“But as the days of Noah were, so also will the coming of the Son of Man be.
38“For as in the days before the flood, they were eating and drinking, marrying and giving in marriage, until the day that Noah entered the ark,
39“and did not know until the flood came and took them all away, so also will the coming of the Son of Man be.
40“Then two men will be in the field: one will be taken and the other left.
41“Two women will be grinding at the mill: one will be taken and the other left.
42“Watch therefore, for you do not know what hour your Lord is coming.
43“But know this, that if the master of the house had known what hour the thief would come, he would have watched and not allowed his house to be broken into.
44“Therefore you also be ready, for the Son of Man is coming at an hour you do not expect.
45“Who then is a faithful and wise servant, whom his master made ruler over his household, to give them food in due season?
46“Blessed is that servant whom his master, when he comes, will find so doing.
47“Assuredly, I say to you that he will make him ruler over all his goods.
48“But if that evil servant says in his heart, ‘My master is delaying his coming,’
49“and begins to beat his fellow servants, and to eat and drink with the drunkards,
50“the master of that servant will come on a day when he is not looking for him and at an hour that he is not aware of,
51“and will cut him in two and appoint him his portion with the hypocrites. There shall be weeping and gnashing of teeth.
Heaven is coming to earth...in a process: Spirit, Son, Father...we are midway in that process. Are we looking for and hastening the real things...or eating and drinking because tomorrow we die?
2 Peter 3:3knowing this first: that scoffers will come in the last days, walking according to their own lusts,
4and saying, “Where is the promise of His coming? For since the fathers fell asleep, all things continue as they were from the beginning of creation.”
5For this they willfully forget: that by the word of God the heavens were of old, and the earth standing out of water and in the water,
6by which the world that then existed perished, being flooded with water.
7But the heavens and the earth which are now preserved by the same word, are reserved for fire until the day of judgment and perdition of ungodly men.
8But, beloved, do not forget this one thing, that with the Lord one day is as a thousand years, and a thousand years as one day.
9The Lord is not slack concerning His promise, as some count slackness, but is longsuffering toward us, not willing that any should perish but that all should come to repentance.
10But the day of the Lord will come as a thief in the night, in which the heavens will pass away with a great noise, and the elements will melt with fervent heat; both the earth and the works that are in it will be burned up.
11Therefore, since all these things will be dissolved, what manner of persons ought you to be in holy conduct and godliness,
12looking for and hastening the coming of the day of God, because of which the heavens will be dissolved, being on fire, and the elements will melt with fervent heat?
13Nevertheless we, according to His promise, look for new heavens and a new earth in which righteousness dwells.
14Therefore, beloved, looking forward to these things, be diligent to be found by Him in peace, without spot and blameless;
The last transition from a world without the Holy Spirit actively indwelling anyone who desired Him, to a world where anyone who asks receives, happened with little fanfare.
Even though the Earth has witnessed the Spirit of God's return to the Earth, the entirely voluntary nature of it has left most unaware of the massive change in the nature of human existence.
The Spirit readies the Earth for the Son to come as He is, in glory.
The next step in the redemptive process is the Son of God returning to stay. The Spirit and the Son will be physically present, readying the Earth for the Father.
This transition, just like the last, will be entirely voluntary, and thus MANY will miss the greatness of the change in human existence for many years.
The Bible describes world leaders RESISTING Jesus years after His return and establishing His rule from Jerusalem:
Zechariah 14:9And the LORD shall be King over all the earth.
In that day it shall be—
“The LORD is one,”
And His name one.
10All the land shall be turned into a plain from Geba to Rimmon south of Jerusalem. Jerusalem shall be raised up and inhabited in her place from Benjamin’s Gate to the place of the First Gate and the Corner Gate, and from the Tower of Hananel to the king’s winepresses.
11The people shall dwell in it;
And no longer shall there be utter destruction,
But Jerusalem shall be safely inhabited.
12And this shall be the plague with which the LORD will strike all the people who fought against Jerusalem:
Their flesh shall dissolve while they stand on their feet,
Their eyes shall dissolve in their sockets,
And their tongues shall dissolve in their mouths.
13It shall come to pass in that day
That a great panic from the LORD will be among them.
Everyone will seize the hand of his neighbor,
And raise his hand against his neighbor’s hand;
14Judah also will fight at Jerusalem.
And the wealth of all the surrounding nations
Shall be gathered together:
Gold, silver, and apparel in great abundance.
15Such also shall be the plague
On the horse and the mule,
On the camel and the donkey,
And on all the cattle that will be in those camps.
So shall this plague be.
16And it shall come to pass that everyone who is left of all the nations which came against Jerusalem shall go up from year to year to worship the King, the LORD of hosts, and to keep the Feast of Tabernacles.
17And it shall be that whichever of the families of the earth do not come up to Jerusalem to worship the King, the LORD of hosts, on them there will be no rain.
18If the family of Egypt will not come up and enter in, they shall have no rain; they shall receive the plague with which the LORD strikes the nations who do not come up to keep the Feast of Tabernacles.
19This shall be the punishment of Egypt and the punishment of all the nations that do not come up to keep the Feast of Tabernacles.
20In that day “HOLINESS TO THE LORD” shall be engraved on the bells of the horses. The pots in the LORD’s house shall be like the bowls before the altar.
One of the biggest mistakes believers in our day make is to wait for it to be obvious Jesus is returning or has returned. It will never be obvious. Delusion causes doubters to miss the very thing promised...just as in the coming of Jesus the first time...just as the Holy Spirit actively occupies the Earth and most are unaware. Our imagination seeks a sign bigger than is promised. The Lord seeks faith.
Which are you getting ready for: the pop culture return of Jesus that requires no faith, or the real one....the one Jesus himself described?
Matthew 24:36“But of that day and hour no one knows, not even the angels of heaven, but My Father only.
37“But as the days of Noah were, so also will the coming of the Son of Man be.
38“For as in the days before the flood, they were eating and drinking, marrying and giving in marriage, until the day that Noah entered the ark,
39“and did not know until the flood came and took them all away, so also will the coming of the Son of Man be.
40“Then two men will be in the field: one will be taken and the other left.
41“Two women will be grinding at the mill: one will be taken and the other left.
42“Watch therefore, for you do not know what hour your Lord is coming.
43“But know this, that if the master of the house had known what hour the thief would come, he would have watched and not allowed his house to be broken into.
44“Therefore you also be ready, for the Son of Man is coming at an hour you do not expect.
45“Who then is a faithful and wise servant, whom his master made ruler over his household, to give them food in due season?
46“Blessed is that servant whom his master, when he comes, will find so doing.
47“Assuredly, I say to you that he will make him ruler over all his goods.
48“But if that evil servant says in his heart, ‘My master is delaying his coming,’
49“and begins to beat his fellow servants, and to eat and drink with the drunkards,
50“the master of that servant will come on a day when he is not looking for him and at an hour that he is not aware of,
51“and will cut him in two and appoint him his portion with the hypocrites. There shall be weeping and gnashing of teeth.
Heaven is coming to earth...in a process: Spirit, Son, Father...we are midway in that process. Are we looking for and hastening the real things...or eating and drinking because tomorrow we die?
2 Peter 3:3knowing this first: that scoffers will come in the last days, walking according to their own lusts,
4and saying, “Where is the promise of His coming? For since the fathers fell asleep, all things continue as they were from the beginning of creation.”
5For this they willfully forget: that by the word of God the heavens were of old, and the earth standing out of water and in the water,
6by which the world that then existed perished, being flooded with water.
7But the heavens and the earth which are now preserved by the same word, are reserved for fire until the day of judgment and perdition of ungodly men.
8But, beloved, do not forget this one thing, that with the Lord one day is as a thousand years, and a thousand years as one day.
9The Lord is not slack concerning His promise, as some count slackness, but is longsuffering toward us, not willing that any should perish but that all should come to repentance.
10But the day of the Lord will come as a thief in the night, in which the heavens will pass away with a great noise, and the elements will melt with fervent heat; both the earth and the works that are in it will be burned up.
11Therefore, since all these things will be dissolved, what manner of persons ought you to be in holy conduct and godliness,
12looking for and hastening the coming of the day of God, because of which the heavens will be dissolved, being on fire, and the elements will melt with fervent heat?
13Nevertheless we, according to His promise, look for new heavens and a new earth in which righteousness dwells.
14Therefore, beloved, looking forward to these things, be diligent to be found by Him in peace, without spot and blameless;
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