2-12-2017 Weekly Message

The contemplation of the week: Psalm 8: 1-9

Text: Genesis 7: 1-15

Title of the Word: Church with open doors

        Jesus said that when he come again to the world as the Son of Man again, this world would be like Noah’s time

”  But as the days of Noah were, so shall also the coming of the Son of man be. For as in the days that were before the flood they were eating and drinking, marrying and giving in marriage, until the day that Noah entered into the ark,  And knew not until the flood came, and took them all away; so shall also the coming of the Son of man be “(Matthew 24: 37-39)

           Upon hearing his word, he  is going to come to judge the earth  possibly in our generation. The LORD God regretted the creation of man by saying that the imagination of the hearts and minds of all people were evil continually in the days of Noah, but now this is the time when most people do not put the Lord Jesus Christ in their heart, who died for their sins, , The judgment that destroyed all the earthly people except the family of Noah with the flood, we are now able to see that the judgment of fire is nearer. .

             That is correct! When God told Noah to judge the earth by the flood, he said one important thing we should know:

” But with thee will I establish my covenant; and thou shalt come into the ark, thou, and thy sons, and thy wife, and thy sons’ wives with thee.” (Genesis 6:18)

God told him to come in instead of the word to go into the ark. In other words, God is going to be in the ark. It is the Word that Heavenly Father will also be in when Christians who believe in the Lord Jesus Christ today enter into the eternal salvation of Christ.

             The Bible says that Noah’s family, as well as all the creatures that God has designated, entered voluntarily into Noah’s ark.. After all the flesh entered into the ark, as God had commanded him, God placed Noah in the ark and closed the door.

             That is correct! The born again Christians who are now in the Lord Jesus Christ are those who have already entered the spiritual ark. God will be with the family of Noah before closing the door of the ark, and when the time comes, he will close the door of the ark where  the bride of Christ entered  just before the judgment of the tribulation comes down to the world, as  the door of the ark was  closed. Just as the flood came to the earth for forty days after God put Noah in the ark, the true church, the bride of Christ, shall be lifted up above the earth  before the tribulation begin. When Apostle John was lifted up to heaven and he saw the first seal was opened to see the AntiChrist appeared. So  the raptured saints have gone to heaven and the tribulation comes to this world.

          God is waiting a thousand years as a day, so that even one person can enter into the ark of the body of Christ. He still have the door of the ark open. Just as Noah found grace in the eyes of God, he is awaiting those who seek the grace of Jesus Christ.

           The Lord Jesus Christ, who appeared to the Apostle John after the Resurrection, personally spoke to a certain church about the door of the Ark was open and the door of the Ark was closed before any church:

” And to the angel of the church in Philadelphia write; These things saith he that is holy, he that is true, he that hath the key of David, he that openeth, and no man shutteth; and shutteth, and no man openeth; I know thy works: behold, I have set before thee an open door, and no man can shut it: for thou hast a little strength, and hast kept my word, and hast not denied my name.  Behold, I will make them of the synagogue of Satan, which say they are Jews, and are not, but do lie; behold, I will make them to come and worship before thy feet, and to know that I have loved thee. Because thou hast kept the word of my patience, I also will keep thee from the hour of temptation, which shall come upon all the world, to try them that dwell upon the earth.  Behold, I come quickly: hold that fast which thou hast, that no man take thy crown.  Him that overcometh will I make a pillar in the temple of my God, and he shall go no more out: and I will write upon him the name of my God, and the name of the city of my God, which is new Jerusalem, which cometh down out of heaven from my God: and I will write upon him my new name  He that hath an ear, let him hear what the Spirit saith unto the churches” “Rev. 3:7-13)

          The most important thing we need to know is when the Lord wrote to the churches, he spoke to the angels of each church. Therefore, the body church of Christ, the church of God today, is an organism in which each member consist of the body of Christ. So, as God speaks of the churches that historically existed on this earth, the churches on earth today also belong to one of the seven churches.

                  The Church of Philadelphia  is the  church from 1,500 to 1,900 AD and represents the church during this period. The name Philadelphia means “brotherly love”. What is true brotherhood love? It is to give the gospel of eternal life. It is the love that feeds spiritually and then physically necessary things. The love that appeared in the King James Bible (1 Corinthians 13) was not “love” in English, but “charity”. In other words, it means divine love.

         This church is the true body of Christ. It is the only church among the seven churches that has not heard of repentance. This church was the church that  went the way  of God. It is the  church that obeys the Great Commission of the Lord saying, , “Go ye to all nations.”

         God blessed the age of this church. Industrial revolution, agricultural revolution, scientific revolution and so on. In particular, during the Queen Victoria period of England, when the King James Bible, which first translated from  the German Reformation Version of the Bible into English at the time of King James, spread to the ends of the earth, At that time, missionaries were sent to the whole world. Kerry, Hudson, Gerford, and Livingston were blessed to be sent to India, Burma, China and Africa.

         This church is also the  church with open door.  The doors of fellowship with the Lord is open. However, the Laodicean church is a closed church, the  church where the Lord has been set up outside and closed the doors and fellowship with the Lord.

          Who is the most prominent Jew that is not the Jew, but they called themselves as Jew?  It is Roman Catholic. They claim Apostle Peter as the first Pope. The Pope, not twelve apostles, has become a self-proclaimed apostle. The church that memorizes the apostle’s creed  that they have created is the only Korean church in the world.

           This church is also a rewarded church. The church that preaches the gospel receives the crown. However, it implies that this crown and reward may be lost. To preach the gospel is to endure. The apostle Paul testified that the crown of righteousness was prepared for him because he ran all the way to run and kept faith.

           And when is the time to test those who live on the earth? It is the time of the Great Tribulation  to come to the earth  after the rapture is  taken place. At this time, there will be no one born again Christian left behind at all.    The Church, which is the church of Christ and the bride of Christ, will not remain in this test period. The Philadelphia Church had great persecution because of this Bible, but they kept the word of patience.  

         … But when he wrote to the angel of the church in Laodicea, the Lord said that their actions would neither be cold  nor hot, and so he  would spew out lips from the mouth. They also said that they are rich in material, that they are rich, and lack nothing, but that their spiritual state is miserable, pitiful, poor, blind, and naked. The Lord has enthusiastically rebuked them to repent. He will stand in front of the door and knock, if anyone hears his voice and opens him, he  will go into them and eat with them. (Revelation 3:20) They are warned  that they not entered the ark, but they  are out there.

           The open door here is not only the gates of the gospel, but the ark of the bride of the Lord, like the family of Noah, who was on the flood with the ark when the Lord closed the door, It is to show beforehand that the cchurch of the Lord shall be lifted to heaven  before the Great Tribulation comes. Amen! Hallelujah!