SCRIPTURAL FOUNDATION!

Luke 21:8 KJV
And he said, Take heed that ye be not deceived: for many shall come in my name, saying, I am Christ; and the time draweth near: go ye not therefore after them.

A POINT TO DISCERN!

Ponder this thought about our Lord Yeshua’s age as of today! How many of His followers believe he was born once and was crucified once died and arose and is alive and sits at the right hand of his Father in heaven as a 2024+ year old, and as living proof of eternal life?

In comparison to how many believe Yeshua is reborn each year and is crucified each year as a Christian symbolism for followers to believe he is the Son of God who is sacrificing himself for your sins annually which for the carnal minded creates a question  about eternal life?

OBSERVATION!

It is our duty and interest at all times, especially in perilous trying times, to secure the safety of our own souls. It is by Christian patience that we keep possession of our own souls and keep out all those impressions that would put us out of temper.

We may view the prophecy before us much as those Old Testament prophecies, which, together with their great object, embrace, or glance at some nearer object of importance to the church. Having given an idea of the times for Christ shows what all those things would end in, namely, the destruction of Jerusalem, and the utter dispersion of the Jewish nation; which would be a type and figure of Christ’s second coming.

When he comes to judge the world, he will redeem all that are his from their troubles.

So fully did the Divine judgements come upon the Jews, that their city is set as an example before us, to show that sins will not pass unpunished; and that the terrors of the Lord, and his threatenings against impenitent sinners, will all come to pass, even as his word was true, and his wrath great upon Jerusalem.

COMMENTARY!

Our cheerfulness should show itself as becomes Christians, in what may tend to God’s glory. A covetous man makes a god of his money; places that hope, confidence, and delight, in worldly good, which should be in God only.

Those who allow themselves, either in the lusts of the flesh or the love of the world, belong not to the kingdom of grace, nor shall they come to the kingdom of glory. When the vilest transgressors repent and believe the gospel, they become children of obedience, from whom God’s wrath is turned away. Dare we make light of that which brings down the wrath of God?

OBSERVATION!

We have a cunning adversary, who watches to do mischief, and will promote errors, even by the words of Scripture. Whatever uncertainty we are in, or whatever mistakes may arise about the time of Christ’s coming, that coming itself is certain.

This has been the faith and hope of all Christians, in all ages of the church; it was the faith and hope of the Old Testament saints. All believers shall be gathered together to Christ, to be with him, and to be happy in his presence forever.

We should firmly believe the second coming of Christ;  False doctrines are like the winds that toss the water to and fro; and they unsettle the minds of men, which are as unstable as water.

It is enough for us to know that our Lord will come and gather all his saints unto him.

COMMENTARY!

A reason why they should not expect the coming of Christ, as at hand, is given. There would be a general falling away first, such as would occasion the rise of antichrist, that man of sin. There have been great disputes who or what is intended by this man of sin and son of perdition.

The man of sin not only practises wickedness, but also promotes and commands sin and wickedness in others; and is the son of perdition, because he is devoted to certain destruction, and is the instrument to destroy many others, both in soul and body.

As God was in the temple of old, and worshipped there, and is in and with his church now; so the antichrist here mentioned, is a usurper of God’s authority in the Christian church, who claims Divine honours.

CLOSING OBSERVATION!

It is desirable to obtain the right and full sense of what we see and hear from God; and those that would know, must ask by faithful and fervent prayer.

The angel told Daniel plainly. He especially desired to know respecting the little horn, which made war with the saints and prevailed against them.

Here is foretold the rage of papal Rome against true Christians. John, in his visions and prophecies, which point in the first place at Rome, has plain reference to these visions. Daniel had a joyful prospect of the prevalence of God’s kingdom among men.

This refers to the second coming of our blessed Lord when the saints shall triumph in the complete fall of Satan’s kingdom.

The saints of the Most High shall possess the kingdom forever. Far be it from us to infer from hence, that dominion is founded on grace.

It promises that the gospel kingdom shall be set up; a kingdom of light, holiness, and love; a kingdom of grace, the privileges and comforts of which shall be the earnest and first-fruits of the kingdom of glory.

But the full accomplishment will be in the everlasting happiness of the saints, the kingdom that cannot be moved. The gathering together the whole family of God will be a blessedness of Christ’s coming.

Robert a humble obedient servant to Yeshua and his Father in heaven Yahewa. And all of God’s children say Amen and Amen.