4-5-2020 weekly message

Meditation of the week: Psalms 91:1-16

Text: 1 Corinthians 2:9-10

Word Title: What God has Prepared for Those Who Wait for the Lord

        Apostle Paul quoted from the  prophecies written in the Old Testament, and testified of the things that God had prepared for them that love. However, he testified that those could neither seen with human eyes, nor heard with ears, nor have never entered into the human heart. However, while witnessing that God revealed these things by his Spirit to the children of God who are regenerated by the Holy Spirit, for the Holy Spirit searches all things, yea, the deep things of God. In other words, people who have the Holy Spirit can fine out  tremendous things in the deep thoughts in God.  He said to the born again Christians, “We have the mind of Christ.”

         Then we must realize how we are able to  know deep thoughts in God through the Holy Spirit. It is known only through the 66 books of the Bible that the Holy Spirit had written through God’s people. This is also possible only in the words God revealed to us through the Holy Spirit. Then, as Apostle Paul testified in the main scripture, “As it is as written,” we need to understand what God has prepared for us and how they have been prepared for us.

       We can open the first button through Isaiah chapter 64 to find out what God prepared for us:

” Oh that thou wouldest rend the heavens, that thou wouldest come down, that the mountains might flow down at thy presence,

2As when the melting fire burneth, the fire causeth the waters to boil, to make thy name known to thine adversaries, that the nations may tremble at thy presence!

3When thou didst terrible things which we looked not for, thou camest down, the mountains flowed down at thy presence.

4For since the beginning of the world men have not heard, nor perceived by the ear, neither hath the eye seen, O God, beside thee, what he hath prepared for him that waiteth for him.” (Isaiah 64: 1-4).

         Apostle Paul said it is for “them that love God,” and Isaiah said “for him that waits for him.” However, we can understand that the two are talking about the same thing. Only they that love God will wait for the day when He  returns and judges the world. It is because the world is not worthy for them that wait for the Lord like the old Saints.

        In chapter 63,  prophet Isaiah witnessed God’s coming to revenge to save his people and children and testified of the terrible scene:

“ Who is this that cometh from Edom, with dyed garments from Bozrah? this that is glorious in his apparel, travelling in the greatness of his strength? I that speak in righteousness, mighty to save.

2Wherefore art thou red in thine apparel, and thy garments like him that treadeth in the winefat?

3I have trodden the winepress alone; and of the people there was none with me: for I will tread them in mine anger, and trample them in my fury; and their blood shall be sprinkled upon my garments, and I will stain all my raiment.

4For the day of vengeance is in mine heart, and the year of my redeemed is come.

5And I looked, and there was none to help; and I wondered that there was none to uphold: therefore mine own arm brought salvation unto me; and my fury, it upheld me.

6And I will tread down the people in mine anger, and make them drunk in my fury, and I will bring down their strength to the earth. “(Isaiah 63: 1-6).

         God’s vengeance in these words is, first of all, the vengeance against the Israelites who rebelled against God, and at the same time the message of warning to the apostate churches. In addition,  prophet Isaiah witnessed of  the scene of the Armageddon wars caused by the opposition of the Lord Jesus Christ, all nations on the final day:

” Come near, ye nations, to hear; and hearken, ye people: let the earth hear, and all that is therein; the world, and all things that come forth of it.

2For the indignation of the LORD is upon all nations, and his fury upon all their armies: he hath utterly destroyed them, he hath delivered them to the slaughter.

3Their slain also shall be cast out, and their stink shall come up out of their carcases, and the mountains shall be melted with their blood.

4And all the host of heaven shall be dissolved, and the heavens shall be rolled together as a scroll: and all their host shall fall down, as the leaf falleth off from the vine, and as a falling fig from the fig tree.

5For my sword shall be bathed in heaven: behold, it shall come down upon Idumea, and upon the people of my curse, to judgment.

6The sword of the LORD is filled with blood, it is made fat with fatness, and with the blood of lambs and goats, with the fat of the kidneys of rams: for the LORD hath a sacrifice in Bozrah, and a great slaughter in the land of Idumea.

7And the unicorns shall come down with them, and the bullocks with the bulls; and their land shall be soaked with blood, and their dust made fat with fatness.

8For it is the day of the LORD’S vengeance, and the year of recompences for the controversy of Zion.“(Isaiah 34: 1-8)

         It is enough to know that the things that have been prepared for them that wait for the Lord is the day of God’s revenge day against Satan’s armies. But all these terrible things are of the day of judgment after the bride of Christ is going to  in heaven after she is translated to heaven. It was spoke not only through the prophet Isaiah, but also through the prophets Joel, Zechariah, and Habakkuk and so on. Not only that, Jesus also told his disciples about these days happening  during the Great Tribulation, and Apostle Peter saw and witnessed what would happen in the day of the Lord:

“  But 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.“(2Peter 3:10)

          Apostle John witnessed of the reason for this great judgment should be happening on the earth, and as prophet Isaiah testified, Apostle John testified of the thing when  the Lord Jesus Christ  come as  the Lord of Lords, King of Kings pouring final judgment in the day of Armageddon (Rev. 19):

”   And the seventh angel sounded; and there were great voices in heaven, saying, The kingdoms of this world are become the kingdoms of our Lord, and of his Christ; and he shall reign for ever and ever.….. And the nations were angry, and thy wrath is come, and the time of the dead, that they should be judged, and that thou shouldest give reward unto thy servants the prophets, and to the saints, and them that fear thy name, small and great; and shouldest destroy them which destroy the earth.

19And the temple of God was opened in heaven, and there was seen in his temple the ark of his testament: and there were lightnings, and voices, and thunderings, and an earthquake, and great hail. “(Re 11:15, 18-19)

           God has spoken of the day of judgment for remnant of Israel as well as for the bride of Christ that love him and wait for the day of his appearing,   and he will fulfill all his judgment.   In the word of Jesus spoken to the disciples, especially in the word of regeneration, we can see the blessing of the people of Israel as well as the  bride of Christ in the day when all the judgments of God are over and the earth is regenerated:

” Verily I say unto you, That ye which have followed me, in the regeneration when the Son of man shall sit in the throne of his glory, ye also shall sit upon twelve thrones, judging the twelve tribes of Israel.” (Matthew 19:28).

Amen! Hallelujah!