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between the first and second comings of
Christ.
The Lord's Second Coming to
Earth will be Public and
Spectacular
In
Matthew 24:26
"desert" signifies a
remote place. You will not find the true
Messiah out there in some remote place.
If someone claims that the true Messiah
is located in some remote place, don’t be
deceived. Or, if they claim that He is to
be found in secret chambers or in a
private room, don’t believe them. The
Greek term "private room" is also found
in Matthew 6:6 where the Lord was
recommending private prayer, rather than
public prayer for the purpose of being
seen by men. The Lord’s coming will not
be a private affair, known by only a few
people. You will not find Him in some
secret location. On the contrary, His
coming will be a public affair, known by
everyone. "Every eye will see
Him" (Rev. 1:7). The world will not miss
this event. No one will say, "I wonder if
the Lord has come back to earth?" It will
be clear and obvious to all. His coming
will not be obscure in any way.
Matthew 24:27
cements the point
further by using the illustration of a huge
lightning storm, one that lights up the
entire sky. A lightning storm is very
public, very dramatic, very noisy, very
spectacular, very hard to miss. The whole
sky lights up. So also the Lord Jesus will
come in power and great glory and there
will be no mistaking His return. The
whole world will witness this spectacular
event.
Good News For Planet Earth!
Planet earth is filled with problems. What
are some of the problems that man is
facing today? Man is unable to solve
these problems. Only God can get man
out of the mess that man has made for
himself. There is good news for Planet
Earth! The Lord Jesus Christ is coming
back! He will take the wrong and make it
right! He will take the crooked things and
make them straight! He will be able to
solve the problems that our world faces.
What will the world be like after Christ
returns? Will it be different from the
world we know today? In the next
chapter we will learn about what this
world will be like when Christ is ruling
on earth as KING OF KINGS AND
LORD OF LORD. A new world is
coming!
This same Jesus Christ who can
straighten out this world and all its
problems is the same Jesus Christ who
can straighten out your life and the
problems you face. Will you let Him do
it? Tomorrow He will rule on the throne
of this world. Today will you let Him
rule on the throne of your life? Someday
the world will be different because Christ
will rule there. Today your life can be
changed and made different if you let
Christ rule in your heart! Someday Jesus
Christ is coming to this world. Today
why not let Jesus Christ come to your
heart and be your Savior and King? He
wants to come in.
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In his book
Discover Y ourself in the
Psalms,
Warren Wiersbe recalls a story
told by an evangelist he heard many
years ago. It went like this:
In a frontier town, a horse bolted and ran
away with a wagon that had a little child
in it. Seeing that the child was in danger,
a young man risked his life to catch the
horse and stop it. The child who was
rescued grew up to become a lawless
man, and one day he stood before a judge
to be sentenced for a serious crime. The
prisoner recognized the judge as the man
who, years before, had saved his life, so
he pled for mercy on the basis of that
experience. But the words from the
bench silenced all his pleas: "Young
man, then I was your savior; today I am
your judge, and I must sentence you to be
hanged."
Do you see the parallel? Jesus stands
before us today as our Savior, the Lamb
slain for our sins. But if we do not turn to
Him in faith, He will one day stand
before us as our righteous Judge. He will
say: "On earth I was your Savior, but you
would not believe. Here I am your Judge;
depart from Me to everlasting
punishment. You don’t have to face the
Lion in the judgment. The Lamb is
waiting to save you. Believing on Him
today!
In His first coming Christ came as
Savior; in His second coming, He will
come as judge!
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