06/09/13

The world is getting reshaped

Zephaniah 1:14-16 - 14 The great day of the LORD is near, it is near, and hasteth greatly, even the voice of the day of the LORD: the mighty man shall cry there bitterly.
15 That day is a day of wrath, a day of trouble and distress, a day of wasteness and desolation, a day of darkness and gloominess, a day of clouds and thick darkness,
16 A day of the trumpet and alarm against the fenced cities, and against the high towers.



The Bible talks of 2 days of the Lord, one is the Day of the Lord's Judgment and the second is the Day of the Lord's wrath.

The Day of the Lord's Judgment is the Day when Jesus Christ will come again along with His Angels and with a shout of an Archangel destroys Satan's army and this is also the end of all this natural creation. All Believers alive at that time will transform /transfigure and those who believed in Christ and are dead and asleep (from the time of Noah - since the first Covenant was made with him) will rise (resurrect) and all His flock both sheep and goats will stand before Him. Christ will separate the sheep (those who kept His Father's Word) from the goats (those who believed in Him but did not keep the Father's Word) and the goats will receive a greater punishment than even the unbelievers. They will be put in the Lake of Sulphur (Fire) which unlike Hell (a prison) where a person suffers for one's own sins, here they suffer not for their sins but for rejecting Christ even though they knew Him. The sheep on the other hand become the Bride of the Lord in Heaven, dressed in the righteousness of the Lord.

Today's message talks of the other Day of the Lord that comes just about the time of stage 6 of the Church where all the Believer Churches come together as one Church written as Church of the Brethren. This happens after the fall of Babylon the Great the false church that has been deceiving the people as being the representative of Christianity.

Bible states the Lord is slow to anger and over the years the Lord has been keeping hold of His wrath. The Bible also states just before the Lord deals with the false church the Lord also deals with the false shepherds, also known as watchmen who are not performing their duty well.

If one takes a real good look at the leaders of the ministries or Churches one will be really depressed and will morn bitterly. Many of the church leaders themselves have overcome the Lord. We are called to overcome our sinful nature but these people in their false outward righteousness have internally overcome the Lord and the Bible says there is no hope for those who overcome the Lord. On their mission to give the Gospel of grace they have modified the grace and made it a license to sin or to entertain their fleshy carnal desires.

God is reminding us today that God is not dead nor is He gone to sleep. He is also reminding us that nothing is hidden from Him, He is not man to be impressed with external expression. He is God, He is omnipresent and He can see the hidden, He knows the thoughts and intensions of man. He has been quiet and tolerating since long, that does not mean He will not acts. He has been building His wrath and time is at hand He is going to pour it on man because He has been pouring more and more of His grace but they have been taken for granted and have been misused. It is not that He expects us to be perfect, if that was possible we would not need His grace. He understands our weakness and therefore is patient, but there are some things which He considers as holy and comprise in those things is not what He does or expects from us.


[ Prayer Starter ]
Lord, You are a Holy God. You alone are Holy and no man is worthy to call himself holy, however good they be. You are God of all grace and as You give us more and more grace You expect more of us expecting us to live a life more pleasing to You. Lord, we pray we do not abuse the grace You have been pouring more of in these times. Help us to be sensitive to your Spirit and overcome our carnal nature and not to overcome You. What excuse would we have after seeing your light to yet turn to darkness...

This prayer we make in Jesus' Name, Amen.


[ Reference ]
Zephaniah 1:14-18v
14 The great day of the LORD is near, it is near, and hasteth greatly, even the voice of the day of the LORD: the mighty man shall cry there bitterly.
15 That day is a day of wrath, a day of trouble and distress, a day of wasteness and desolation, a day of darkness and gloominess, a day of clouds and thick darkness,
16 A day of the trumpet and alarm against the fenced cities, and against the high towers.
17 And I will bring distress upon men, that they shall walk like blind men, because they have sinned against the LORD: and their blood shall be poured out as dust, and their flesh as the dung.
18 Neither their silver nor their gold shall be able to deliver them in the day of the LORD'S wrath; but the whole land shall be devoured by the fire of his jealousy: for he shall make even a speedy riddance of all them that dwell in the land.

1 Thessalonians 4:13-17
13 But I would not have you to be ignorant, brethren, concerning them which are asleep, that ye sorrow not, even as others which have no hope.
14 For if we believe that Jesus died and rose again, even so them also which sleep in Jesus will God bring with him.
15 For this we say unto you by the word of the Lord, that we which are alive and remain unto the coming of the Lord shall not prevent them which are asleep.
16 For the Lord himself shall descend from heaven with a shout, with the voice of the archangel, and with the trump of God: and the dead in Christ shall rise first:
17 Then we which are alive and remain shall be caught up together with them in the clouds, to meet the Lord in the air: and so shall we ever be with the Lord.

1 Corinthians 15:51-54
51 Behold, I shew you a mystery; We shall not all sleep, but we shall all be changed,
52 In a moment, in the twinkling of an eye, at the last trump: for the trumpet shall sound, and the dead shall be raised incorruptible, and we shall be changed.
53 For this corruptible must put on incorruption, and this mortal must put on immortality.
54 So when this corruptible shall have put on incorruption, and this mortal shall have put on immortality, then shall be brought to pass the saying that is written, Death is swallowed up in victory.


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