Things That Do Appear 3/26/2023
Daily Devotions: by Christina FarrisMatthew 24:23-31 KJV
23 Then if any man shall say unto you, Lo, here is Christ, or there; believe it not.
24 For there shall arise false Christs, and false prophets, and shall shew great signs and wonders; insomuch that, if it were possible, they shall deceive the very elect.
25 Behold, I have told you before.
26 Wherefore if they shall say unto you, Behold, he is in the desert; go not forth: behold, he is in the secret chambers; believe it not.
27 For as the lightning cometh out of the east, and shineth even unto the west; so shall also the coming of the Son of man be.
28 For wheresoever the carcase is, there will the eagles be gathered together.
29 Immediately after the tribulation of those days shall the sun be darkened, and the moon shall not give her light, and the stars shall fall from heaven, and the powers of the heavens shall be shaken:
30 And then shall appear the sign of the Son of man in heaven: and then shall all the tribes of the earth mourn, and they shall see the Son of man coming in the clouds of heaven with power and great glory.
31 And he shall send his angels with a great sound of a trumpet, and they shall gather together his elect from the four winds, from one end of heaven to the other.
When is Christ coming? I do not have the answer, I know there been indicators that the time could be even now. Some groups have tried to proclaim they know the day and time, I tend to be one that laid back and do not worry about it. It something I can not change but hope to see the coming of Christ. The signs and wonders do appear in the sky. There is great change coming that we understand by natures own fury and wrath, but we do not get the power of God to transform the earth with tribulation to come and yet we watch our world change in the last five years in ways we have known from economics, to storms across our own land. I almost afraid to mention the word storm, for my local news likes to point out the latest storm trouble that plagued our nation. I often wonder how many storms do we not hear about because of distance across our nation. No doubt politicians have been watching for years in the White House, but hear on local level we see more signs and wonders then thought possible through technology, it literally rattles the brain cells that makes us wonder if this is the begining of sorrow, the begining of birth pains across our land. Reports of asteroids in the sky 100 thousand miles away from earth atmosphere and no one is concern because of the great distance away. I have yet to see how the tornado from Nebraska to West Virginia as effect these states due to lack of watching news or searching online. I sometimes take a breather sometimes from all I hear, why because these things I can not control, nor prevent, I can pray, but I have to trust God's word to intervene in the world we live in according to God's will and not my will. My will maybe God's will, but do not think I am not moved by harm coming even to the lost and dying world. Do not think I do not get angry at suffering. How you think Abraham felt as he stood with God and looked at Sodom and Gomorrah. How you think Noah felt as he heard the cries inside the ark of safety. How do you think he felt as the boat sale away from the sound of the cries of the people.
There is a warning in the passage of not hearing those that say Christ is here and Christ is over there and so forth. I want to share one reason why because there many that come in the name of Jesus that claim to be him and is not. There no minister in the world that is perfect, no minister that is Jesus. God may give certain authority to heal the sick to a healer, or the gift of prayer, Maybe even the gift to minister in certain areas of the world, but what they do not possess is the full power of God to control the world. That power belongs to God alone. The power to pray for healing is not a minister power to control either. The power to preach the word of God is not man's power either, it must come by the Spirit. We can retell the stories of faith, but without the Spirit of God moving and speaking to people the word of God become used by man that understands not that the word of God can transform lives by its power.
We look at the natural phenomons in the sky and ask why is this, is this a sign of the times of Christ coming and I say, I do not doubt it is, I doubt if we understand we still do know the hour or the date and how long we will have to wait. I will tell you, that when he comes all eyes shall see him and all tongues will confess Jesus Christ is Lord. God created the heavens in the earth, do you not think the signs to come, he is able to give without meterology, doppler radar in place, or in place. One thing we will not need is the weather viewer to see the coming of Christ. The coming of God word to be. Several things are going to happen when Christ returns, God's word alone will be fulfilled, Two the signs that were to come before will have happened according to his word. The type of sorrow and destruction coming to man has not been seen before in the world. Why? Because it coming the way God has declare to happen. Sorrow and destruction is going to be seen as coming by the power and the word of God alone. Not by the power of the news agency that broadcast it, along with the rumors of wars. There things that will happen we will not fully grasp because the warnings even in place will not able to predict or foretell its coming beyond the cellphone call to the news to declare it through electicity and power of satelite and it might not even reach the television to warn anyone.
We think we can protect ourselves by preparation for the warning bells to go off, but as you know not every day people go to work do alarms go off when they should. In fact better to be thirty minutes to early in waking then thirty minutes to late. Having more then one warning alarm to go off, but in truth if you are sound sleeper you still may hear none of it. Hearing the cries of Jesus is over here and is over there, will only have you chasing the false ministers of our time.
The trumpet sounds of the angels sounding to the coming of Christ is far greater sound to understanding, it will be present to wake the dead in Christ. We can understand the world was framed by the world of God but do we understand the coming of Christ and the destruction of the world we know will come by the word of God. With this being said, we can not change it, but God can have mercy as we pray for the lost souls of our day and time. God's word ever so precious because of the love letter he declares to mankind, but what about the anger of destruction to come written in that same book of love. A warning to all that hear it that their hope from the wrath of God and peace to come to his children that believe, follow and obey his word. Our joy at his coming means the salvation to those saved, as the angels come and gather us from the four corners of the earth. As we come to meet our Savior and Lord Jesus in the sky.
Dear Heavenly Father as we watch the signs and wonders of your word to come and wait on Christ in the physical incorruptible return to come, help us to follow no man anywhere that says they know where Christ is. Help us to follow only your Holy Spirit who speaks wisdom and truth to all that will listen and heed his warnings. In Jesus precious name, Amen.
Continual Scripture Study: Hebrews 11:3 KJV
3 Through faith we understand that the worlds were framed by the word of God, so that things which are seen were not made of things which do appear.
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