WILL JESUS
RETURN?
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Matthew
22:8 Then saith he to his
servants, The wedding is ready, but they which were bidden were not worthy.
Matthew
I
believe this is where we are, at the moment, as some of our leading TV
Evangelists, as they are going into the third world countries, and winning
millions to Christ. There is, I believe much more to be done before Jesus will
be coming back to take us home in a rapture.
Why
are we looking for a rapture to take us out of here when there is so much for
the Kingdom to be achieved? It is such a selfish plan, though one day Jesus
will come in the clouds, and draw us unto Himself. Though even today Jesus is
trying to draw us unto Him, and I wonder how many of us are in tune with Him.
"O Jerusalem,
We should be grieving over lost souls, as Jesus wept over the city;
Luke
Jeremiah had it right when he wrote;
Jeremiah
9:1 Oh that my head were waters, and mine eyes a
fountain of tears, that I might weep day and night for the slain of the
daughter of my people!
Here are some more interesting verses that go
with Jeremiah 9:1 Jer
Lam
My
understanding of the Old Testament Scriptures is that God put His people
through a testing time before they came into a milk and honey situation. They
all went through affliction before God removed them from their current
situation. The Israelites before being brought out of
Jesus
is coming for a white washed church, and we are not there as yet, are we?
When
you and I feel and have a love for one another, as we feel and have love for
the most loved one in our life, then we are starting to go places with God.
I
have for many years now believed that the church is not at this time ready to
be caught up, as in a rapture. I have also heard
recently from at least one American outstanding TV Evangelist say the same
thing. That is right we are not at this time ready for Jesus to come. Very few
of us have really made an effort to get rid of the pollution that is in us.
Many of us have just lived a religious life style, whether that be Pentecostal
or Main Line Religion, and putting our trust in the verse that says; "I am
the righteousness of Christ", and of course we are, but we do have to work
at it all of the time.
I believe that it is when we that is you and me come to a place where we HAVE TO CRY OUT TO
GOD, because things have become so hard, for us to bare. I believe this to be
so before the rapture of the Church. Most do not like me saying this because
none of us want to go through hard times, but it is hard times that molds us
into Gold, and cleanseth us from impurities.
Revelation 3:5 He that overcometh,
the same shall be clothed in white raiment; and I will not blot out his name
out of the book of life, but I will confess his name before my Father, and
before his angels.
We as Christians are not overcoming as we ought, especially when it
comes to food, and we still follow much after what the flesh wants and not
enough after what God wants. Yes each one of us must be over comers, in every
part of our life, we must press in, if we want to be
with God the Father in heaven.
Revelation
The thing is, we are
walking so much in our own righteousness, when it has to be God that makes us
righteous, in His Power, not our effort, and to do this we have to draw closer
to Him. Our effort is, to pray without ceasing, 1 Thessalonians
Joshua 3:5 And Joshua said unto the people, Sanctify yourselves:
for tomorrow the LORD will do wonders among you.
Romans 8:5 For they that are after the flesh do mind the things
of the flesh; but they that are after the Spirit the things of the Spirit.
Romans 8:6 For to be carnally minded is death; but to be
spiritually minded is life and peace. Romans 8:7
Because the carnal mind is enmity against God: for it is not subject to
the law of God, neither indeed can be.
Malachi
I believe
before the rapture that we as Christians will have to come into unity with each
other, what ever religion, or teaching we have grown up under, if a person is a
Christian, then we have to treat that person as such. When we truly have that
love, the love, the Father God, the Son Jesus Christ, and the Holy Spirit has
for us, then we are getting some where with our walk with our God, and with His
people.
Let
us stop tearing down each other, and not only having love for those we care to
love, but have that Love, that is for all, that is have Love for all. THE LOVE,
that reaches out to every one, and not only some.
Matthew
5:46-47 For if ye love them which love you, what
reward have ye? do not even the publicans the same?
And if ye salute your brethren only, what do ye more
than others? do not even the publicans so?
Ivan
has Love that's hard to quench, that is the Love of Jesus
I may not have it all yet but I am receiving more Love from Jesus, than I
had.
Shalom and Love, Ivan
