7-9-2017 Weekly Message

Meditation of the week: Psalm 48: 1-14

Text: Revelation 22:1-21

The title of the Word: If Ye Then Be Risen With Christ, Seek Those Things Which Are Above!

         Listening to the words in the last chapter of Revelation, which is given to us today, it should be a time to realize deeply whether or not to look at the things that are on the earth under the heaven for a moment.

         The Lord Jesus Christ saved John the Disciple, whom he loved, to the end, to record the last book of the Bible. The Apostle John testified about the recording of this last book:

”  I was in the Spirit on the Lord’s day, and heard behind me a great voice, as of a trumpet,  Saying, I am Alpha and Omega, the first and the last: and, What thou seest, write in a book, and send it unto the seven churches which are in Asia; unto Ephesus, and unto Smyrna, and unto Pergamos, and unto Thyatira, and unto Sardis, and unto Philadelphia, and unto Laodicea.“(Revelation 1: 10-11)

         The Lord Jesus Christ, who appeared to  Apostle John, made him in the eternal Spirit and had him see in advance the things of the Lord’s day, the day of His final judgment. According to his testimony, he has witnessed what he saw.

            The Holy Spirit made him be  in the day of the Lord and showed in detail of the churches  to come, and the details of the Antichrist and the judgments that will arise during the seven-year the Great Tribulation after the Lord take  the born-again church to home  in heaven.

         His special demonstration of the Great Babylon that is the  Roman Catholic Church, which has massacred the Jews and Christians for two thousand years, was shown in detail. He also saw that she was drunk on the blood of the saints and the blood of the witnesses of Jesus. When Apostle John saw the scene he testified that he could not help but wonder. But as he saw, Roman Catholics murdered fifty Millions of Christians and six million Jews, and history is proving this.

            And this whoring church is still constantly delivering a different gospel to millions of people, sending them to hell and carrying out tremendous spiritual slaughter. And this religious group should not forget that even the Christian  churches are doing great spiritual slaughter through the WCC to serve the polytheism they serve. They will continue to enjoy prosperities in this world until the true Church of God is lifted up in the air.

          But at the end of the Great Tribulation, when the Lord Jesus Christ comes again with the born again church  of God, he will fall in one day that is the Day of the Lord(Rev 17:18), and all the people who followed him will be judged together (Revelation 19) John the Apostle saw and witnessed.

      On the other hand, Apostle John testified of the true Christians only looking forward the heavens not  looking at the earth, who are living in suffering are coming down to the earth with the Lord and shall reign with Christ for a thousand years. He also testified  in great details of the New Jerusalem for us to live with Christ forever and ever. In the chapter 22 of the last book, he showed twelve fruit trees bearing fruit on both sides of the clean river of clean water and fresh water, flowing from God and the throne of the Lamb, and the river of life in the midst of the New Jerusalem city. The leaves of the tree  that  is to heal the nations.

            Long time ago, the prophet Ezekiel testified after the judgment that he was in the kingdom of the Lord Jesus Christ in the Spirit. Living water  flows down from the temple, which will be built in the future, and the river will be formed. On the sides of the river are all the trees that will be cultivated, and their leaves will not wither, nor do the fruit thereof. And he saw the leaf as a medicine (Ezekiel 47). It is indeed done on earth as the will of God has done in heaven, as the Lord has said:

         The Lord said to John, “ ⁷Behold, I come quickly: blessed is he that keepeth the sayings of the prophecy of this book.” (Revelation 22: 7):

At the beginning of Revelation, ” Blessed is he that readeth, and they that hear the words of this prophecy, and keep those things which are written therein: for the time is at hand.“ (Revelation 1: 3).

         If we forgot the words written in this prophetic book, we may forget what the world is like and the glorious things of the heavenly kingdom that  we are going to will disappear from memory, so that we may not be able to overcome the temptation of the rulers of the present world.  Therefore, we must constantly read, listen, and meditate in our hearts to keep these words in the heart so that we may not forget the things already fulfilled  in the book of Revelation as well as  the prophecies that will be done in the future.

          Apostle Paul in Spirit left his body and went up to the third heaven, and testified that he had heard words that he could not explain. He also encouraged the saints in Colossae, the great city at that time,

“If ye then be risen with Christ, seek those things which are above, where Christ sitteth* on the right hand of God.  Set your affectiona on things above, not on things on the earth.

 For ye are dead, and your life is hid with Christ in God.

 When Christ, who is our life, shall appear, then shall ye also appear with him in glory.

Mortify therefore your members which are upon the earth; fornication, uncleanness, inordinate affection, evil concupiscence, and covetousness, which is idolatry:

For which things’ sake the wrath of God cometh on the children of disobedience:“(Colossians 3: 1-6)

          That is correct! While we  live in the present evil world, we have to live in  the word of God  enlightening life so that we may be able to worship the Lord God in Spirit and truth in daily life.. .Apostle Paul exhorted the saints who were being persecuted in Rome at that time:

” ¹I beseech you therefore, brethren, by the mercies of God, that ye present your bodies a living sacrifice, holy, acceptable unto God, which is your reasonable service. ²And be not conformed to this world: but be ye transformed by the renewing of your mind, that ye may prove what is that good, and acceptable, and perfect, will of God.      “(Romans 12: 1-2).

Amen! Hallelujah!