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5-6-2018 Weekly Message

The Meditation of the Week: Psalm 137:1-9

Text: Matthew 24:42-51

Word of Wisdom: The Wise Life of Christian in the Last days

          The Word of God given to us, that is the Bible, is a future history that God has set up to restore all things, including man, according to his timetable, and to destroy death forever. The life of man  is  limited to live seventy or eighty  years so hard to live hundred years. In the eyes of God counting thousand years as a day, man’s life  is like  grass living only a day, Future history is what will happen in the future, but it is the history of the future because it is something that must be fulfilled to happen 100%.

         God planned for seven days that is  seven thousand years, by the timetable of God, to restore the cursed earth where all things, including man, will perish because of the sin brought by Satan. So on the sixth day he planned to restore man to his own image. This God’s plan is a prophetic demonstration of what will happen once again through the recreation of all things on earth. God  has  made it clear through the Word that this creative ministry is His future re-creation. We can realize through the  work of creation of God  in the fifth and sixth days:

” And God said, Let the waters bring forth abundantly the moving creature that hath life, and fowl that may fly above the earth in the open firmament of heaven.

21And God created great whales, and every living creature that moveth, which the waters brought forth abundantly, after their kind, and every winged fowl after his kind: and God saw that it was good. 22And God blessed them, saying, Be fruitful, and multiply, and fill the waters in the seas, and let fowl multiply in the earth. 23And the evening and the morning were the fifth day. 24And God said, Let the earth bring forth the living creature after his kind, cattle, and creeping thing, and beast of the earth after his kind: and it was so. 25And God made the beast of the earth after his kind, and cattle after their kind, and every thing that creepeth upon the earth after his kind: and God saw that it was good. “(Genesis 120-25).

           On the fifth day, God created life-breathing creatures for the first time. As it is said, four thousand years after the history of mankind, on the fifth day, there appeared a person who gave life from heaven to the earth full of death and curses. He is the Creator God in the name of Jesus. He appeared on the fifth day as one who gave himself life. He testified about himself:

” This is the bread which cometh down from heaven, that a man may eat thereof, and not die.

51I am the living bread which came down from heaven: if any man eat of this bread, he shall live for ever: and the bread that I will give is my flesh, which I will give for the life of the world.…  I am the resurrection, and the life: he that believeth in me, though he were dead, yet shall he live:

26And whosoever liveth and believeth in me shall never die. Believest thou this?“ (John 6: 50-51; 11: 25-26)

          On the sixth day God created man in his image and his likeness:

 ” And God said, Let us make man in our image, after our likeness: and let them have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the fowl of the air, and over the cattle, and over all the earth, and over every creeping thing that creepeth upon the earth. 27So God created man in his own image, in the image of God created he him; male and female created he them.“(Genesis 1: 26-27).

             On the fifth day, Jesus Christ, the Creator God who appeared on the earth, has been working to save people through believing in him  from sin, death, and curse to restore them  to the image of God once again for last two days, that is two thousand years.

            God, who created man in sixth day had created all things for six days, finally rested on the seventh day:

  ” Thus the heavens and the earth were finished, and all the host of them. 2And on the seventh day God ended his work which he had made; and he rested on the seventh day from all his work which he had made.

3And God blessed the seventh day, and sanctified it: because that in it he had rested from all his work which God created and made. “(Gen 2: 1-3).

          God will rest soon  once again on the seventh day. He can not rest until now, for there are still many people left to believe in him and receive life, and there is something else left to judge the devil who brought sin, death, and curse on this earth. Finally, when the time comes, when the Lord Jesus Christ will come and judge the devil and put him in the deep bottomless  pit for a thousand years, the earth will rest with the resting God:

 ” And I saw an angel come down from heaven, having the key of the bottomless pit and a great chain in his hand.

2And he laid hold on the dragon, that old serpent, which is the Devil, and Satan, and bound him a thousand years,

3And cast him into the bottomless pit, and shut him up, and set a seal upon him, that he should deceive the nations no more, till the thousand years should be fulfilled: and after that he must be loosed a little season.“(Revelation 20: 1-3)

            All the creations that God has created are looking forward  the day when God rests, The Bible says that while suffering  in corruption, they are looking at the day when the sons of God will appear:

” For the creature was made subject to vanity, not willingly, but by reason of him who hath subjected the same in hope, 21Because the creature itself also shall be delivered from the bondage of corruption into the glorious liberty of the children of God. 22For we know that the whole creation groaneth and travaileth in pain together until now. 23And not only they, but ourselves also, which have the firstfruits of the Spirit, even we ourselves groan within ourselves, waiting for the adoption, to wit, the redemption of our body. “(Romans 8: 19-23)

              God the Word, who created all things, came  in the form of the Son of Man, and will  come  back to this earth  on the sixth day. He  spoke beforehand about the signs that would come when it shall be the  time for him  to judge the nations and the devil,

” And ye shall hear of wars and rumours of wars: see that ye be not troubled: for all these things must come to pass, but the end is not yet. 7For nation shall rise against nation, and kingdom against kingdom: and there shall be famines, and pestilences, and earthquakes, in divers places.

8All these are the beginning of sorrows.

…… For then shall be great tribulation, such as was not since the beginning of the world to this time, no, nor ever shall be. 22And except those days should be shortened, there should no flesh be saved: but for the elect’s sake those days shall be shortened. …… But as the days of Noe were, so shall also the coming of the Son of man be.

38For as in the days that were before the flood they were eating and drinking, marrying and giving in marriage, until the day that Noe entered into the ark,

39And knew not until the flood came, and took them all away; so shall also the coming of the Son of man be. “(Matthew 24: 6-8; 21, 22, 37-39).

           The Holy Spirit made Apostle Paul prophesy about the passing by sixth day to  the seventh day, that is, the day just before the Lord will return:

” But of the times and the seasons, brethren, ye have no need that I write unto you.

2For yourselves know perfectly that the day of the Lord so cometh as a thief in the night. 3For when they shall say, Peace and safety; then sudden destruction cometh upon them, as travail upon a woman with child; and they shall not escape. 4But ye, brethren, are not in darkness, that that day should overtake you as a thief.

5Ye are all the children of light, and the children of the day: we are not of the night, nor of darkness.

6Therefore let us not sleep, as do others; but let us watch and be sober.“(1 Thess 5: 1-6)

           We are now hearing from the mouth of people saying, “Peace and safety” .   When Israel had worshipped idols, God put them under Babylon as slaves for seventy years.  While suffering, God anointed  King Cyrus of Persia for him deliver them from Babylon to free them. :

” Thus saith the LORD to his anointed, to Cyrus, whose right hand I have holden, to subdue nations before him; and I will loose the loins of kings, to open before him the two leaved gates; and the gates shall not be shut;

2I will go before thee, and make the crooked places straight: I will break in pieces the gates of brass, and cut in sunder the bars of iron: “(Isaiah 45: 1-2)

            By opening the impenetrable gate of Babylon, God killed Belshazzar, the last king of Babylon in that day, and let them return to the mainland to rebuild the temple of God.

            Seventy years after Israel’s independence, Israel is still threatened by the United Nations, Iran and Syria, and the current situation is that all countries except the United States and some other several nations, are pressing that Jerusalem is not the capital of Israel . In addition, the Korean churches also had worshipped the idols of Japan, and God has been chastening people in North Korea  in the midst of persecution; so many children of God have  been brutally murdered by under the communist dictatorship for the past seventy years under  God’s discipline. But God is now  anointing the President of the United States as a tool to use for peace in the two countries to save them.  But, in Korea, the ignorant people are shouting “Peace and safety”, However, God will also fulfill his mercy and save the Christians in North Korea who are being persecuted by communist dictators for seventy years as Israel.

           However, spiritually awakened children of God must know that the time schedule of God is near, and that they should become spiritual, attaching  a breastplate of faith and love, and put  a helmet of salvation. When the people of the world say, “It is peaceful and safe,” this peace and security are false and should be known by God’s warning that the judgment of God is near. Amen Hallelujah!