Word Title: Let us keep the faith in purity with fear and trembling looking forward the Judgment Seat of Christ!
Now we hear the final word of Apostle Paul who had kept his faith preaching to the Gentiles looking forward the appearing of the Lord Jesus Christ and his kingdom. He charged Timothy, his disciple as well as spiritual son, and also a pastor in the Lord. He encouraged him to preach the word of judgment like himself looking forward the day of Christ. He testified that the Lord will give the crown of righteousness unto all of them that love his appearing. The crown of righteousness is the tremendous blessing giving the right of ruling with Christ in His Millennium Kingdom.
The Lord Jesus Christ Himself spoke of the day of his appearing as well as his kingdom as testified by Apostle Paul. Apostle John testified of what Jesus had said about his appearing:
When he spoke of one that hears his voice, he said that they are the sheep who believe in him and followes him. He also figuratively described the scene where his sheep hear his voice and rise through the heavenly door when he opens the door to heaven:
The Holy Spirit explained through Apostle Paul what Jesus meant by saying, ” he that believeth in me, though he were dead, yet shall he live,” and ” whosoever liveth and believethe in me shall never die” When he testifies to the Saints of Thessalonica of the day of Christ, it appears what it means:
That’s right! Corona Virus 19 has become pestilence affecting all the world around terrifying all nations of people giving tremendous fear of death, but if we believe in the word of the Lord, we are free from such kind of fear because of the day of resurrection. Even now, Jesus our Lord is asking us through the Holy Spirit saying “Do you believe this?” Therefore, we are free whether we live within the body or without.
When the Lord was the Son of Man in the world, he showed in a vision unto some of his disciples the kingdom that shall come to pass on the earth in the future:
Apostle John saw the scene when two Witnesses appeared and prophesied for forty-two months before the Lord returned to the earth and were killed by the beast, Antichrist ascended out of the bottomless pit. But they rose again and ascended up to heaven in a cloud. There are many interpretations of these two witnesses, but it is clear that these two are Moses and Elijah, as the Lord had previously shown to the disciples in a vision about the two men that he would raise in his kingdom:
Through his word and the miracles made by the two witnesses seen by the apostle John, we can realize that Moses and Elijah shall be honored to sit on the right and the left hand of the Lord in Christ’s Millennial Kingdom.
We are living in the last days when the appearing of the Lord Jesus Christ and His Kingdom are near to come. The word the end time” not only means the end of the world, but also means that the rule of the devil is almost over, and the time when the reign of our Lord Jesus Christ begins to come to heaven and earth. Apostle Paul testified to the Saints of Ephesus about what would happen in these last days:
There are two kinds of the most important things we should always meditate in our hearts as we watch the day of Christ and race our faith. The first one is that all of us have to stand before the Judgment Seat of Christ to be judged according to what we have done, good or evil. Apostle Paul testified of this:
Secondly, as Apostle John testified, looking forward that day expecting to be like Christ , we have to be purified as Christ is pure so that we may to be blameless, all our spirit and the soul and the body(1thes. 5:23):