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12-20-2020 weekly message

Meditation of the week: Psalm 91:1-16

Main scripture: Hebrews 1:1-2

Title of the message: God made his Son the heir of all things

          Apostle Paul testified to the pastor Timothy about one very important thing to be a worker who is not ashamed:

” Study to shew thyself approved unto God, a workman that needeth not to be ashamed, rightly dividing the word of truth.“ (2 Timothy 2:15).

       In addition, when he wrote to the members of the Corinthian church, he reminded them that through the many generations there have been three different types of people living together in the world:

“Give none offence, neither to the Jews, nor to the Gentiles, nor to the church of God: ” (1 Corinthians 10:32)

          That’s right! God loves everyone in the world. He wants Jews and Gentiles who do not yet believe in Jesus Christ to know and believe in Him and have eternal life. When Jesus himself was in the world in the flesh, he testified himself saying, “For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life.” (John 3:16). You did it.

         Because of this, the words of God have been spoken to the Jews, some to the Gentiles, and some to the Church of God who believed in him and saved. In addition, there are words that have been given to people who have lived for generations over the past six thousand years to be saved.

        The words recorded in the book of Hebrews speak to them saved by believing in Jesus Christ among the Hebrews about the things that are better than the covenant of God they received under the law. In addition, of The Great tribulation that the Jews, the descendants of the Hebrews who still do not believe in Jesus Christ, shall enter, and also of what they must do to enter Christ’s Millennial Kingdom.

         When God had spoken through the prophets, He spoke several times. For example, when speaking to Abraham, when he was in the land of Babylon in Mesopotamia, God said to him:

 ”  Get thee out of thy country, and from thy kindred, and from thy father’s house, unto a land that I will shew thee:

2And I will make of thee a great nation, and I will bless thee, and make thy name great; and thou shalt be a blessing: 3And I will bless them that bless thee, and curse him that curseth thee: and in thee shall all families of the earth be blessed.” (Genesis 12:1-3).

       When he finally turned to be 75 years old, he left his home town. God promised him that he would give him a son, but after many years he had  not given him a son. When he and his wife Sarah were not able to produce children, God appeared to him, and said, his descendants would be more than the stars in the sky. Upon he heard the word of God, Abraham denied himself and believed him. I God justified his faith as righteousness.

     Then, when he was 99 years old, God visited him in human form, told him that he would have a son the next year and that his name is to be Isaac.

          The Holy Spirit made a testimony to Abraham’s faith through Apostle Paul:

” 18Who against hope believed in hope, that he might become the father of many nations, according to that which was spoken, So shall thy seed be.

19And being not weak in faith, he considered not his own body now dead, when he was about an hundred years old, neither yet the deadness of Sara’s womb:

20He staggered not at the promise of God through unbelief; but was strong in faith, giving glory to God;

21And being fully persuaded that, what he had promised, he was able also to perform.

22And therefore it was imputed to him for righteousness.

23Now it was not written for his sake alone, that it was imputed to him;

24But for us also, to whom it shall be imputed, if we believe on him that raised up Jesus our Lord from the dead;“(Rom. 4:18–24)

          Apostle Paul testified of the blessings of saved Christians who believe in Jesus Christ:

” Even as Abraham believed God, and it was accounted to him for righteousness.

7Know ye therefore that they which are of faith, the same are the children of Abraham.

8And the scripture, foreseeing that God would justify the heathen through faith, preached before the gospel unto Abraham, saying, In thee shall all nations be blessed.

9So then they which be of faith are blessed with faithful Abraham. ” (Gal. 3:6-9).

           Apostle Paul testified that the children of God who become descendants of Abraham by believing in the Lord Jesus Christ are led by the Holy Spirit, the Spirit of God (Rom. 8:14). Even now The Holy Spirit guides God’s children according to the measure of their faith by giving the Words from time to time. God guides His children, not by someone’s prophecy, vision, or something else, but by giving His Words, step by step. However, He does not speak to them who do not have faith in the Word of God.

     If Abraham had not left at the age of seventy-five according to God’s word, He would not have spoken any more. Also, if he did not believe what God said while showing him the stars in the sky, he would not have appeared to him at the age of ninety nine and given him the word of promise.

          Long time ago, God spoke to the Israelites through prophets many times, but they did not listen to God’s word and  not obeyed him either: God had never spoken them anymore for over four hundred years. Finally, when the Creator God, who was in the beginning as the Word, appeared in the flesh to shed the light of truth on them, the Jews who were in darkness were suffering from various curses under the rule of Roman Empire. However, Jesus came as a prophet for them, and preached the kingdom of heaven to come near at hand, but they did not listen to him and crucified their king, Jesus.

          God will finally give them a last chance to repent and receive their Messiah, the Lord Jesus Christ in the midst of the Seven Years Great Tribulation in the time of Jacob’s trouble prophesied through the prophet Daniel. Not only them, but all the nations who do not obey the gospel of Christ, that had been preached to all the Gentiles over the past two thousand years, shall be given the last chance of salvation during the Great Tribulation.

           ” Hath in these last days spoken unto us by his Son, whom he hath appointed heir of all things, by whom also he made the worlds;” (Heb. 1:2)

“Last days” means the days in the Great Tribulation before the Lord Jesus Christ coming as the King of Kings, and Lord of Lords take away the devil, and establish his kingdom, he will speak unto all the Jews and the Gentiles that not believe in him to give them a final chance to be saved.   

           The end time of the world began from the time when Jesus Christ died on the cross and resurrected, but :the last days” spoken here is all the days from the Great Tribulation  through the Millennium Kingdom of Christ.    

          At the end of the Great Tribulation, the Lord Jesus Christ, King of kings and Lord of lords, will cast the Antichrist and the false prophet into the lake of fire, and throw the devil into the bottomless pit and seal it for a thousand years:

” And the beast was taken, and with him the false prophet that wrought miracles before him, with which he deceived them that had received the mark of the beast, and them that worshipped his image. These both were cast alive into a lake of fire burning with brimstone.…. 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.  ” (Rev. 19:20; 20:2-3).

          Eventually, the Lord Jesus Christ, the Son of God, will again inherit the earth that He created for Himself and by Himself.  Of this day King David testified in the Holy Spirit:

“1Why do the heathen rage, and the people imagine a vain thing?2The kings of the earth set themselves, and the rulers take counsel together, against the LORD, and against his anointed, saying,

3Let us break their bands asunder, and cast away their cords from us. 4He that sitteth in the heavens shall laugh: the Lord shall have them in derision.

5Then shall he speak unto them in his wrath, and vex them in his sore displeasure.

6Yet have I set my king upon my holy hill of Zion.

7I will declare the decree: the LORD hath said unto me, Thou art my Son; this day have I begotten thee.

8Ask of me, and I shall give thee the heathen for thine inheritance, and the uttermost parts of the earth for thy possession.” (Psalm 2:1-8)

          God will make the children of God to be the joint heir with Christ for them inherit all things that God created:  

”  The Spirit itself beareth witness with our spirit, that we are the children of God:

17And if children, then heirs; heirs of God, and joint-heirs with Christ; if so be that we suffer with him, that we may be also glorified together. ” (Rom.8:16-17)

         The Church of God, the joint heir with Christ, shall fill the whole universe with Christ:

” And hath put all things under his feet, and gave him to be the head over all things to the church, which is his body, the fulness of him that filleth all in all.”” (Ephesians 1:22-23)

Amen! Hallelujah!