4-12-2020 Weekly Message

Meditation of the week: Psalms 91: 1-16

Text: 1 Peter 4: 7-11

Word Title: Do you know that the end of all things is at hand?

           Under the unprecedented situation, all countries, including the United States, fear  considering the corona virus 19 that suddenly came to our global villages, and the various economic upheavals, unemployment crisis, and extreme famine that will come to pass.  No one can deny the present situation.

         However, if they are the Jews, Gentiles or the Church of God without discrimination of are blinded by these fears, and cannot see the enormous tragedy that is not compared to such pestilence could come sooner or later to the whole world. In the midst of God’s permission, he gave the world the opportunity to come before him to repent their sins, but Satan the Devil that brought sin, death, and curses into the world is preventing people from looking forward the day of the Lord, but making them blinded so that they only concern about their future life fearing Corona virus 19  Unfortunately, most people cannot see at all that sooner or later the end of all things is at hand.

          This week is Easter Sunday. It is the day to commemorate that Jesus died on the cross to take the sin of the world and resurrected the third day. But we need to know something more important than praising and celebrating resurrection of Jesus Christ two thousand years ago. It is the judgment day of the Lord who comes back again to the world to judge them who do not believe in Him after He lifts His bride that is the pure church to heaven. Unless we understand, in the day of Judgment,  after that all things belong to Satan are burned by fire, and restore all things in him, and build his eternal kingdom, we shall be regretting forever.

     As Apostle Peter preached to them who dwelt in Jerusalem two thousand years ago, upon receiving the Holy Spirit on the day of Pentecost, he proclaimed the words prophesied by the prophet Joel:

” The sun shall be turned into darkness, and the moon into blood, before that great and notable day of the Lord come:

21And it shall come to pass, that whosoever shall call on the name of the Lord shall be saved. ”(Acts 2: 20-21).

         Jesus also said, “Immediately after the tribulation of those days shall the sun be darkened, and the moon shall not give her light.”(Matt 24:29)

           Apostle John also made same testimony in his Revelation saying, “….the sun became black as sackcloth of hair, and the moon became as blood.”(Rev. 6:12)

         At the end of his ministry, he wrote to the Saints who were elected according to the foreknowledge of God the Father, through sanctification of the Spirit, unto obedience and sprinkling of the blood of Jesus Christ to encourage them  saying,  But the end of all things is at hand: be ye therefore sober, and watch unto prayer. looking forward the day of the Lord that is the day of judgment coming unto the whole world.

         If so, we must understand through the words of God that  the Holy Spirit proclaims through the mouth of Apostle Peter, saying that the end of all things is near at hand.

        After God created light in the world as well as  all things in heaven and earth, He made man in the image of God and his likeness, and blessed him:

” …. and God said unto them, Be fruitful, and multiply, and replenish the earth, and subdue it: and have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the fowl of the air, and over every living thing that moveth upon the earth..”(Gen. 1;28)

         God gave the man rulership over all things on earth that he created. But unfortunately, he did not overcome Satan’s temptation appearing in the form of a serpent, but by comitting sin against one commandment given God, he gave up the rulership over all things to Satan, according to the law of righteousness.

          In the word of the Devil spoken unto Jesus appeared in the form of Adam when he tempted  him in the wilderness, the Devil claimed all the power of the world given unto him. But Jesus never deny the word of the Devil, even though Jesus is the Creator of the world:

“And the devil, taking him up into an high mountain, shewed unto him all the kingdoms of the world in a moment of time. 6And the devil said unto him, All this power will I give thee, and the glory of them: for that is delivered unto me; and to whomsoever I will I give it.

7If thou therefore wilt worship me, all shall be thine.

8And Jesus answered and said unto him, Get thee behind me, Satan: for it is written, Thou shalt worship the Lord thy God, and him only shalt thou serve.. “(Luke 4: 5-8)

            As soon as the first man sinned, God spoke unto the serpent to give back all things in the world taken by the serpent unto Jesus Christ, his begotten Son according to the law of righteousness: :

” And I will put enmity between thee and the woman, and between thy seed and her seed; it shall bruise thy head, and thou shalt bruise his heel. ” I (Gen 3:15)

         God called Abraham to fulfill his word spoken unto the serpent,  and  gave his grandson Jacob the name Israel, and chose the Israelites as his women. Finally, through the tribe of Judah, God’s only-begotten Son, Jesus, appeared as a woman’s seed, and he was bruised of his feet  by the serpent’s seed on the cross to take away of  the sin of the world abounding in the whole world because of  the sin of Adam, the first man (John 1:29). But Jesus resurrected on the third day, and  made judgment against the Devil, the old serpent unto the eternal death to bruise his head. Because of this, Jesus Christ, who came as the last Adam, will come back sooner or later to take all things  on the earth  over to him:

        King David also testified of Adam’s rulership in the Holy Spirit:  ” What is man, that thou art mindful of him? and the son of man, that thou visitest him?

5For thou hast made him a little lower than the angels, and hast crowned him with glory and honour.

6Thou madest him to have dominion over the works of thy hands; thou hast put all things under his feet:

7All sheep and oxen, yea, and the beasts of the field;

8The fowl of the air, and the fish of the sea, and whatsoever passeth through the paths of the seas.. ”(Psalm 8: 4-8)

         He also testified of the Lord Jesus Christ, who regains the reigning power, and receives glory and praise from all over the earth: “O LORD our Lord, how excellent is thy name in all the earth!” (Psalm 8: 9)

           “The end of all things is near at hand,” proclaimed through Apostle Peter means that the day when the Lord Jesus Christ regained all things on earth that the first man, Adam had lost by the serpent. Therefore, God is encouraging his children not to fear the wrath, Corona virus 19 to make the world to repent, but to wake up spiritially and pray.because  are encouraging God to wake up and pray. And above all things we have fervent charity among ourselves; for charity sshall cover the multitude of sins.

           Apostle John testified of  the old serpent  the Devil, the Satan and the dragon  who has ruled all things in this world for the past six thousand years, is  arrested by the Lord Jesus Christ the image of the Lord Jesus Christ, and finally threw him into the eternal  lake of fire at the end of the Millennium. :

” 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.

….. And the devil that deceived them was cast into the lake of fire and brimstone, where the beast and the false prophet are, and shall be tormented day and night for ever and ever.. “(Re 20: 1-3; 10)

            Apostle Peter finally witnessed in the Holy Spirit the scene of judgment that burns the heavens and the earth that Satan ruled:

” 10But the day of the Lord will come as a thief in the night; in the which the heavens shall pass away with a great noise, and the elements shall melt with fervent heat, the earth also and the works that are therein shall be burned up.

11Seeing then that all these things shall be dissolved, what manner of persons ought ye to be in all holy conversation and godliness, 12Looking for and hasting unto the coming of the day of God, wherein the heavens being on fire shall be dissolved, and the elements shall melt with fervent heat?

13Nevertheless we, according to his promise, look for new heavens and a new earth, wherein dwelleth righteousness.

14Wherefore, beloved, seeing that ye look for such things, be diligent that ye may be found of him in peace, without spot, and blameless.“(2 Peter 3: 10-14)

       Apostle John finally heard and wrote what God said after creating the new heavens and the new earth after God had burned all things in heaven and earth that had been damaged by Satan’s reign for six thousand years:

”  And he that sat upon the throne said, Behold, I make all things new. And he said unto me, Write: for these words are true and faithful. 6And he said unto me, It is done. I am Alpha and Omega, the beginning and the end. I will give unto him that is athirst of the fountain of the water of life freely. 7He that overcometh shall inherit all things; and I will be his God, and he shall be my son.

8But the fearful, and unbelieving, and the abominable, and murderers, and whoremongers, and sorcerers, and idolaters, and all liars, shall have their part in the lake which burneth with fire and brimstone: which is the second death. ‘(Rev. 21: 5-8) Amen! Hallelujah!