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For there shall arise false Christs, and false prophets, and shall show great signs and wonders; so that, if it were possible, they shall deceive the very elect.
– Matthew 24:24
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This same Jesus, which is taken up from you into heaven, shall so come in like manner as you have seen him go into heaven.
– Acts 1:11
Thoughts on Today’s Verse…
The Lord Jesus predicted that He would come again when ascending to heaven. Since it is a prophecy, we can’t understand it according to its literal meaning, for the thoughts of God shall always be higher than the thoughts of man, and the wisdom of God is unfathomable to man. After being corrupted by Satan, we are full of notions and imaginations about God, how can we accurately grasp God’s intentions and know how God will do His future work? Think back to the prophecies concerning the coming of the Messiah in the Old Testament, and none of them was fulfilled in accordance with the literal meaning or our imaginations. Take for example the fulfillment of this prophecy: “Behold, a virgin shall conceive, and bear a son.” When people read this prophecy, they thought that a virgin would certainly have no husband. However, when the prophecy was fulfilled, the fact they saw was that Mary, who had a husband, gave birth to Jesus. The Israelites of that time saw the fact didn’t tally with the prophecy at all. They drew a conclusion that Jesus was not the Messiah and refused to accept the fact of God’s work. Now, many people acknowledge that the prophecies have been fulfilled and the Lord has returned. Therefore, when it comes to the second coming of Jesus, we shouldn’t define God’s work based upon our notions and imaginations like the Pharisees, otherwise we will be eliminated. In fact, there are many other prophecies about the second coming of Jesus in the Bible, such as: “If therefore you shall not watch, I will come on you as a thief” (Rev 3:3). “For in such an hour as you think not the Son of man comes” (Mat 24:44). “The lord of that servant shall come in a day when he looks not for him, and in an hour that he is not aware of” (Mat 24:50). “Behold, he comes with clouds; and every eye shall see him, and they also which pierced him: and all kindreds of the earth shall wail because of him” (Rev 1:7). From these verses we can know that Jesus will first come in secret and do work in a day when man looks not for Him, and then appear publicly when His work is completed. And on that day even those who pierced him shall see Him, and all kindreds of the earth shall wail because of Him. The prophecies shall surely be fulfilled, but how and when they will be fulfilled are not according to our imaginations. May God guide us to ponder more and understand this aspect of the truth. Amen!
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Not every one that said to me, Lord, Lord, shall enter into the kingdom of heaven; but he that does the will of my Father which is in heaven.
– Matthew 7:21
God loves the humble and hates the arrogant. Without humbleness, you can neither get through your Christian walk of faith nor be able to do God’s will. The scriptures record, “Blessed are the poor in spirit: for theirs is the kingdom of heaven” (Matthew 5:3). This shows that God blesses the poor in spirit. Only the poor in spirit are able to gain true knowledge of God, listen to the Lord’s words, and concentrate on serving the Lord. Share with you the following selection of Bible verses about humble as encouragements, let’s make progress together on the path of serving God.
The Lord Jesus prophesied that He would return in the last days to rapture us into the heavenly kingdom. For 2,000 years, believers in the Lord have been eagerly looking forward to this. Now is the end of the last days. The prophecies of the Lord’s return have basically been fulfilled. Many people realize that the Lord has returned. So how can we welcome Him? The following content about the second coming of the Lord will give you help.
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The Old Testament records a king. He was once an ordinary shepherd but later chosen by God and became a beloved king of the Israelites.
When David was only 14-15 years old, he tended sheep in the fields. He was able to save the flock from the lion or other beast with his bare hands, because he had Jehovah God as his backup. His hymns that praise Jehovah God always echoed through mountains and fields. The intimate relationship between him and Jehovah God is enviable!
When the Philistine giant challenged the Israeli army, no one dared to meet him. Though thin and weak, David was willing to fight for Jehovah God’s army. He defeated the Philistine giant Goliath with only a sling. Then he became a brave soldier. Relying on Jehovah God, he won one battle after another, and protected the Israelites.
After David was anointed the king of Israel by God, he often played the lyre praising Jehovah God and didn’t forget God’s grace and blessings to him. Most importantly, he was determined to build a temple for God so that all the Israelites could worship Jehovah God in the temple.
Therefore, David became a man who was after God’s heart.
However, David, after becoming the king, framed and killed Uriah, took Uriah’s wife Bathsheba as his own. He offended God’s disposition and thus he was judged and punished by God: The first son of David and Bathsheba died young, the sword shall never depart from his house; his son raped his daughter, his sons killed one another for the throne … From the lessons of David’s failure, how should we know God’s disposition?
God says, “God is possessed of this kind of righteous disposition because He detests wickedness, darkness, rebelliousness and Satan’s evil acts—corrupting and devouring mankind—because He detests all acts of sin in opposition to Him and because of His holy and undefiled essence. It is because of this that He will not suffer any of the created or non-created beings to openly oppose or contest Him. Even an individual to whom He had once shown mercy or whom He had chosen, need only provoke His disposition and transgress His principles of patience and tolerance, and God will unleash and reveal His righteous disposition that tolerates no offense without the least bit of mercy or hesitation.”
From God’s words I understood: Regardless of whether a person that God has once shown mercy to or loved, so long as he resists and disobeys God and offends His disposition, he will be faced with God’s judgment and wrath, for God is beautiful, good, and righteous, and does not allow any filth to exist. This is God’s righteous disposition and it does not allow any offense. God’s righteous disposition is free of any other elements, it is holy and flawless. Although King David was confident and loyal to God and loved by God, when he sinned, God judged him according to His righteous disposition. God sent Nathan the prophet to reveal David’s sin and rendered His punishment upon him that the sword shall never depart from his house.
After this matter, David truly repented to God and made a resolution that he would never do evil things. When he was old and couldn’t keep warm, his servant asked a virgin to lie beside him to help him keep warm, he had no intimate relations with her. What’s more, after the matter of Bathsheba, he kept Jehovah God’s commandments more strictly, and guided the Israelites to worship God. God still had mercy on and cared for him and he was still the King supported by the Israelites.
From this we can see that God is like a loving mother as well as a stern father. When we sin against and resist God, God smites and disciplines us like a stern father; when we obey God and truly repent, God is like a loving mother giving us His mercy, care and blessings. Just as God says, “When God is angry with man, He hopes that man will be able to truly repent, and indeed He hopes to see man’s true repentance, in which case He will then liberally continue to bestow His mercy and tolerance upon man. This is to say that man’s evil conduct incurs God’s wrath, whereas God’s mercy and tolerance are bestowed upon those who listen to God and truly repent before Him, upon those who can turn away from their evil ways and abandon the violence in their hands.” “Only the Creator has tenderness toward this mankind. Only the Creator shows this mankind compassion and affection. Only the Creator holds a true, unbreakable affection for this mankind. Likewise, only the Creator can bestow mercy on this mankind and cherish all of His creation. His heart leaps and aches at every one of man’s actions: He is angered, distressed and grieved over man’s evil and corruption; He is pleased, joyful, forgiving and jubilant for man’s repentance and belief; every single one of His thoughts and ideas exists for and revolves around mankind; what He is and has is expressed entirely for mankind’s sake; the entirety of His emotions are intertwined with mankind’s existence.”
I feel God’s true love for mankind in His earnest teaching. No matter how He works on us, He hopes that we can truly repent to Him, totally forsake the evil way and be a person after His heart. We have been corrupted by Satan for thousands of years, lost conscience and sense, and the original image of man. No matter what wrongs we have committed or how much we have transgressed, as long as we truly repent, God’s all emotions will change according to our attitude toward Him, and He will give us mercy and tolerance again, and guide us onward.
I couldn’t help thinking, when I first believed in God, I just wanted to enjoy God’s grace and blessings. Once I did something that disobeyed and resisted God and then God’s discipline came upon me or when I caught sight of His severe words of judgment, I would misunderstand Him: “Does God still love me? Why does He treat me this way? Is God revealing me through this?” But now I understand: When God’s righteous disposition comes upon us, it’s also His salvation for us. When I have a revelation of corrupt disposition or show resistance toward God, He disciplines me, deals with me and punishes me, but He doesn’t mean to eliminate or forsake me. Instead, He judges and saves me through it so that I can know my satanic nature and essence, break free from corrupt disposition, and walk the right path. God’s disposition is not only compassionate and loving, it is also righteous and majestic. No matter what God does, all that He does is love and salvation for us. God has eagerly looked forward to our sincere repentance and casting off the shackles of Satan. At any time, God’s heart to save man will never change. This is the most lovable part of God, and also something that we should cherish and treasure the most.
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Now disasters are becoming more and more serious. Only if we truly repent to God can we gain God’s guidance during disasters so that we can have a way forward and be raptured into the heavenly kingdom. Many believers in the Lord have such confusions: We often confess our sins and repent to the Lord in tears, but we still live in a cycle of sinning and confessing, unable to extricate ourselves. Is this true repentance? Can we who often sin and do not truly repent be qualified to enter the kingdom of heaven? Here we select Bible verses about repentance and related content to help brothers and sisters who are truly waiting for the Lord’s return find the way to escape sin, achieve true repentance, and enter the kingdom of heaven.
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