The Day of the LORD – Another Concept
Jesus’ disciples wanted to know about His second coming. Jesus warned them that only the Father knew the time – not even the Son. But He specifically stated that the coming of the Son of Man would be like the days of Noah. They were marrying, giving in marriage, planting, harvesting, eating and drinking until the day Noah entered the ark and the flood came and took them away. He emphasized “so shall the coming of the Son of man be” (Matt. 24:36-39).
In Mark’s Gospel, Jesus warns us to be on the alert (KJV=”watch”) lest Jesus come and find you asleep. We need to be alert as to our spiritual condition because you don’t know whether He is coming in the evening, midnight or at daybreak (cockcrowing). Therefore we must be on the alert (Mark 13:32-37).
But don’t we know the order of events in prophecy? Don’t we know when the time is close? Why would Jesus tell us that it will come “at an hour you think not” (Matt. 24:44)?
Did you ever think that the day you die will be your last second of consciousness? “For the living know they will die; but the dead do not know anything, nor have they any longer a reward, for their memory is forgotten” (Ecc. 9:5).
The next second of consciousness you will meet the Lord Jesus in the air and join Him at His coming (1The. 4:: 16-17). We don’t know the day of our death. Therefore, we must live every day as though we were going to meet Christ because the day you die is the day of Christ’s return for you and it will be at a most unexpected time – an hour you think not.
Every one of us knows someone who died unexpectedly where it was not foreseen and happened suddenly. This happens to millions of people each year around the world. There are sudden deaths by accident, murders, wars, bombings.
If anything should have illustrated this it should be the events of September 11, 2001. Thousands of people got up and went to work on what appeared to be “just another day.” Others had plane reservations to travel across the country. None knew in advance that would be their last day alive in this age.
You and I do not know the day or the hour of Christ’s appearance in our lives. We cannot afford to think, “There is still a lot of time before the second coming because certain prophetic events have not happened.
Jesus warned that we must not become complacent, lukewarm, or unrighteous. Jesus also warned that mighty influences of deception would be done in the world before His coming and if it were possible they would deceive even the chosen (elect). "For false Christs and false prophets will arise and will show great signs and wonders, so as to mislead, if possible, even the elect” (Matthew 24:24).
David L. Antion for Guardian Ministries
In Mark’s Gospel, Jesus warns us to be on the alert (KJV=”watch”) lest Jesus come and find you asleep. We need to be alert as to our spiritual condition because you don’t know whether He is coming in the evening, midnight or at daybreak (cockcrowing). Therefore we must be on the alert (Mark 13:32-37).
But don’t we know the order of events in prophecy? Don’t we know when the time is close? Why would Jesus tell us that it will come “at an hour you think not” (Matt. 24:44)?
Did you ever think that the day you die will be your last second of consciousness? “For the living know they will die; but the dead do not know anything, nor have they any longer a reward, for their memory is forgotten” (Ecc. 9:5).
The next second of consciousness you will meet the Lord Jesus in the air and join Him at His coming (1The. 4:: 16-17). We don’t know the day of our death. Therefore, we must live every day as though we were going to meet Christ because the day you die is the day of Christ’s return for you and it will be at a most unexpected time – an hour you think not.
Every one of us knows someone who died unexpectedly where it was not foreseen and happened suddenly. This happens to millions of people each year around the world. There are sudden deaths by accident, murders, wars, bombings.
If anything should have illustrated this it should be the events of September 11, 2001. Thousands of people got up and went to work on what appeared to be “just another day.” Others had plane reservations to travel across the country. None knew in advance that would be their last day alive in this age.
You and I do not know the day or the hour of Christ’s appearance in our lives. We cannot afford to think, “There is still a lot of time before the second coming because certain prophetic events have not happened.
Jesus warned that we must not become complacent, lukewarm, or unrighteous. Jesus also warned that mighty influences of deception would be done in the world before His coming and if it were possible they would deceive even the chosen (elect). "For false Christs and false prophets will arise and will show great signs and wonders, so as to mislead, if possible, even the elect” (Matthew 24:24).
David L. Antion for Guardian Ministries
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