9-17-2017 Weekly Message

The contemplation of the week: Isaiah 35: 1-10

Text: Hosea 5: 15-6: 3

The title of the Word: Glory Of Zion, Which Is Approaching The Earth That Has Been Taken Away By Force

         Because of the sin of the first man Adam, he  gave up  the sovereignty given by God, and the land created by our Lord Jesus Christ  for him was taken away by Satan.

      The Apostle Paul testified to the Saints in Colossae that the Creator of all things is our Lord Jesus Christ:

“ Who is the image of the invisible God, the firstborn of every creature:

16For by him were all things created, that are in heaven, and that are in earth, visible and invisible, whether they be thrones, or dominions, or principalities, or powers: all things were created by him, and for him:

17And he is before all things, and by him all things consist.“(Col. 1:15-17) 17)

           God planned his will to be done in heaven by casting Satan out of heaven through the Lord Jesus Christ who created all things, and to take over the earth casting Satan to eternal fire, and to restore all things therein .

           Finally, God became a man and appeared to His people in the name of Jesus, but they knew Him, but they were still on Satan’s side, rejecting Him and killing Him. In other words, they have been subjected to tremendous persecution through Satan, the world god, for the last two thousand years, because they have not received their king, yet most of them are still unaware of him.

           The Lord wanted to come to the land of Israel to bring heaven to the land, but the heaven was seized by violence by the multitude following Satan’s power. The Lord himself testified of this:

” And from the days of John the Baptist until now the kingdom of heaven suffereth violence, and the violent take it by force.” (Matthew 11-12)

            But God, through the prophet Hosea, eventually foretold  that when the time come the Jews would come to realize and return to the Lord Jesus Christ.

” I will go and return to my place, till they acknowledge their offence, and seek my face: in their affliction they will seek me early.” (Hos 5:15)

         The phrase “ I will go and return to my place ” means that Jesus was killed by them to save the Jews and Gentiles, and he  rose again, and sat down on the right hand of the  Father God, And he will be in heaven until they seek  Him in trouble. The word of affliction is the time of Jacob’s trouble, when they finally enter the Great Tribulation and suffer great persecution. In  this time there will be not only the Jews but also the crowds who seek Him among the Gentiles who have not believed in Him and have gone into tribulation.

             The prophet Hosea foretold what repentance they would do when they find Jesus as their Messiah:

” Come, and let us return unto the LORD: for he hath torn, and he will heal us; he hath smitten, and he will bind us up.” (Hos 6: 1).

         At last, the Jews not only have been suffering tremendous persecution from the nations of the Gentiles under God’s permission for the last 2,000 years, because their ancestors cried out to charge them as well as their children of the price for the blood of Jesus shed, But they will testify that at the end of their repentance they will cry out that God will heal and bind them.

       The prophet Hosea also prophesied when this would happen:

” After two days will he revive us: in the third day he will raise us up, and we shall live in his sight.” (Hos 6: 2)

            Just as the apostle Peter testified,  to God, one day is  like a thousand years and  thousand years as one day (2 Peter 3: 8) God will  raise them up after  two days that is two thousand years passed by when they repent in the midst of tribulation. This is also the same time when we are living. And raising them on the third day prophesies of the third thousand years, that the remnant of the repenting Jews will enter the millennial kingdom.

         The prophet Hosea also testified that at last the remnant of the Jews shall know the Lord Jesus Christ, as if in the midst of darkness in the night, in the midst of darkness, as the rising sun, and also  in the midst of great drought, as  rain come, he testified that they shall  see him:

” Then shall we know, if we follow on to know the LORD: his going forth is prepared as the morning; and he shall come unto us as the rain, as the latter and former rain unto the earth.” (Hos 6: 3)

           In order to know God’s timetable, we must know God’s plan for Israel. When God said His plan of salvation, He spoke of His plans for heaven and earth by destroying the devil through the seed of women. The woman is Israel, and the woman’s seed speaks of the Lord Jesus Christ, who appears as a descendant of Abraham. The gospel of Christ, which we believe and have been saved, is also for the Jews first.

          When Korea was under the ruling of Japan for 36 years, there was a person who cried, “Does the spring come to field that  has been robbed?” And finally spring came and Korea was liberated. Six thousand years have passed since Satan took away the earth  that God created for sin of man. Jews and Christians who are still being persecuted are praying that the Lord Jesus Christ will come and destroy Satan and restore this earth, crying, “Will the spring come in the earth  that is taken away by force?”

             The Holy Spirit told the people of God and their children to pray through the apostle Peter at this last time of our lives, looking for spring to come to this earth:

 “ But the end of all things is at hand: be ye therefore sober, and watch unto prayer.

8And above all things have fervent charity among yourselves: for charity shall cover the multitude of sins.

9Use hospitality one to another without grudging.

10As every man hath received the gift, even so minister the same one to another, as good stewards of the manifold grace of God.

11If any man speak, let him speak as the oracles of God; if any man minister, let him do it as of the ability which God giveth: that God in all things may be glorified through Jesus Christ, to whom be praise and dominion for ever and ever. Amen.  (1Peter 4:7-11)

            The Apostle John also heard and recorded the word of God concerning the new people who will live on this earth in the future:

” And I heard a great voice out of heaven saying, Behold, the tabernacle of God is with men, and he will dwell with them, and they shall be his people, and God himself shall be with them, and be their God.

4And God shall wipe away all tears from their eyes; and there shall be no more death, neither sorrow, nor crying, neither shall there be any more pain: for the former things are passed away.

5And 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. “(Revelation 21: 3-7)

Amen! Hallelujah!