Sep 2009
The Fall Harvest...
27/09/09 11:02
The fall festivals represent a very important time in the plan of God. It is a time that the people of God long for...a time when they will have finally been born into God’s Kingdom and will have received eternal life. The harvest of the firstfruits will have taken place; those people of God who have proven themselves to be faithful and obedient and committed to following God and obeying his word. Christ’s return will usher in a time of peace and prosperity that men have only dreamed of. Men are not capable of bringing about worldwide peace, but Jesus Christ is!
All of those who claim to be the people of God believe that they will be there during that millennial reign of Christ, but will they really? How many are truly committed? How many are falling into the snares and traps that we have been warned about? How many are watching and waiting eagerly in anticipation? How many sigh and cry over what is happening in this world and long for the return of Christ?
In Luke 18 we find a parable that Christ used to picture the commitment and persistence that we are expected to have:
1 Then He spoke a parable to them, that men always ought to pray and not lose heart, 2 saying: “There was in a certain city a judge who did not fear God nor regard man. 3 Now there was a widow in that city; and she came to him saying, ‘Get justice for me from my adversary.’ 4 And he would not for a while; but afterward he said within himself, ‘Though I do not fear God nor regard man, 5 yet because this widow troubles me I will avenge her, lest by her continual coming she weary me.”
6 The Lord said, “Hear what the unjust judge said. 7 And shall God not avenge his own elect who cry out day and night to Him, though He bears long with them? 8 I tell you that He will avenge them speedily.
Notice the question that Christ now asks:
Nevertheless, when the Son of Man comes, will He really find faith on the earth?”
We should take His words here very, very seriously! This illustrates the lethargic, lax, spiritual condition of the people at Christ’s return. He wonders if He will really find any faithful! Christ gives us a warning in Luke 21:
34 “But take heed to yourselves, lest your hearts be weighed down with carousing, drunkenness, and cares of this life, and that Day come on you unexpectedly. 35 For it will come as a snare on all those who dwell on the face of the whole earth. 36 Watch therefore, and pray always that you may be counted worth to escape all these things that will come to pass, and to stand before the Son of Man.
The signs are all around us...the return of Christ is imminent and the time that the fall festivals picture is very near to being fulfilled; the fields are white to harvest! Are you ready? Are you prepared? Are you willing to do whatever is required of you? Now more than ever we need to be vigilant and watchful. We need to be studying and showing ourselves to be workmen approved. We need to be living by every word of God. This world and all of the things in it will soon be passing away. Do not be caught unprepared!
Until next time...
All of those who claim to be the people of God believe that they will be there during that millennial reign of Christ, but will they really? How many are truly committed? How many are falling into the snares and traps that we have been warned about? How many are watching and waiting eagerly in anticipation? How many sigh and cry over what is happening in this world and long for the return of Christ?
In Luke 18 we find a parable that Christ used to picture the commitment and persistence that we are expected to have:
1 Then He spoke a parable to them, that men always ought to pray and not lose heart, 2 saying: “There was in a certain city a judge who did not fear God nor regard man. 3 Now there was a widow in that city; and she came to him saying, ‘Get justice for me from my adversary.’ 4 And he would not for a while; but afterward he said within himself, ‘Though I do not fear God nor regard man, 5 yet because this widow troubles me I will avenge her, lest by her continual coming she weary me.”
6 The Lord said, “Hear what the unjust judge said. 7 And shall God not avenge his own elect who cry out day and night to Him, though He bears long with them? 8 I tell you that He will avenge them speedily.
Notice the question that Christ now asks:
Nevertheless, when the Son of Man comes, will He really find faith on the earth?”
We should take His words here very, very seriously! This illustrates the lethargic, lax, spiritual condition of the people at Christ’s return. He wonders if He will really find any faithful! Christ gives us a warning in Luke 21:
34 “But take heed to yourselves, lest your hearts be weighed down with carousing, drunkenness, and cares of this life, and that Day come on you unexpectedly. 35 For it will come as a snare on all those who dwell on the face of the whole earth. 36 Watch therefore, and pray always that you may be counted worth to escape all these things that will come to pass, and to stand before the Son of Man.
The signs are all around us...the return of Christ is imminent and the time that the fall festivals picture is very near to being fulfilled; the fields are white to harvest! Are you ready? Are you prepared? Are you willing to do whatever is required of you? Now more than ever we need to be vigilant and watchful. We need to be studying and showing ourselves to be workmen approved. We need to be living by every word of God. This world and all of the things in it will soon be passing away. Do not be caught unprepared!
Until next time...