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1-10-2021 weekly message

Meditation of the week: Psalm 91:1-16

Text: Hebrews 2:1-9

Title: Imminently coming Rapture and Seven Year Tribulation giving message unto the churches and the Jews

        The books of Hebrews, James, 1 and 2 Peter, 1, 2, 3 John, and Revelation are for the saved Hebrews and the unsaved Jews during the last days until the Great Tribulation after the times of the Gentiles ended and the Rapture. These are the words written to give the Jews and the Gentiles as a last chance.

      After God saved the Hebrews from Egypt through Moses and gave them the law through the angel, he witnessed to them by showing signs, wonders, various miracles, and the gifts of the Holy Spirit through the apostles according to his will.

       To save the Hebrews from the hands of the Egyptian Pharaoh, God set them free by bringing down ten plagues through Moses and Aaron. In addition, by dividing the Red Sea, God saved all of the Israelites, and the Egyptian soldiers left unto destruction leaving no one, including Pharaoh in the Red Sea. God also cut rocks into two to make waters like river for them to drink, so that millions of people and all beasts to drink. In addition, he sent down manna that is the food of angels  from heaven, and blew the east wind  so that quails fell like dusts for them to eat.

        But millions of men, including 600,000 men, constantly complained and disobeyed God in the wilderness, and among the millions who came out of Egypt, only two of them, Joshua and Caleb entered the promised land, Canaan, and the rest of them fell unto death in the wilderness. God circumcised the children born in the wilderness to enter the land of Canaan. However, their descendants were also destroyed by Babylon  by God, because they not obeyed the law that God gave but worshipped the foreign gods. God put them all unto the hands of Babylon as slaves for seventy years.

          For four hundred years after the prophet Malachi prophesied, God had never spoken unto them at all. At that time, they were under rule of  the Roman Empire and were forced to live under the curse until Jesus appeared unto them. . However, God had not forsaken them, but sent His only begotten Son, Jesus, as their King and preached the gospel of the kingdom to them. John the Baptist first sent to preach, then Jesus himself preached:

” From that time Jesus began to preach, and to say, Repent: for the kingdom of heaven is at hand.” (Matthew 4:17)

         However, they did not accept the gospel of kingdom that Jesus preached. Jesus called his twelve disciples and made them preach the gospel of the kingdom of heaven:

“These twelve Jesus sent forth, and commanded them, saying, Go not into the way of the Gentiles, and into any city of the Samaritans enter ye not:

6But go rather to the lost sheep of the house of Israel.

7And as ye go, preach, saying, The kingdom of heaven is at hand. 8Heal the sick, cleanse the lepers, raise the dead, cast out devils: freely ye have received, freely give.” (Matthew 10:5-8).

         Jesus, the king of the Jews asked the disciples to preach the gospel of kingdom only unto the Israelites not to the Gentiles. Because the Jews are the people who are looking for signs, he told his disciples to preach doing various signs to them. However, the Jews refused to come to the kingdom of heaven, but they decided serve the kingdom of the Gentile. They rejected their king Jesus to crucify him on the cross and failed to enter  the kingdom of heaven.

          But because the purpose of Jesus’ coming into the world was to save his people from their sins (Matthew 1:21), Jesus knew that he would save them in the future through his death for their sins and resurrection for them. He shed out all his blood for them enter into the kingdom of heaven, and said figuratively that he would hide them in the field for a while:

“Again, the kingdom of heaven is like unto treasure hid in a field; the which when a man hath found, he hideth, and for joy thereof goeth and selleth all that he hath, and buyeth that field. ” (Matthew 13:44)

            Jesus shed his blood, which is more precious than any other treasures in the world, seeing in advance that he will make them the unique treasure when he make them the nation of priest in his kingdom to be established on the earth in the future:

” Now therefore, if ye will obey my voice indeed, and keep my covenant, then ye shall be a peculiar treasure unto me above all people: for all the earth is mine:.” (Exodus 19:5)

        Beginning from the time when the Israelites sinned against God and handed them over to Babylon unto the time of his death on the cross, God has been waiting for the time when they accept the Gospel of kingdom of heaven repenting themselves for last two thousand years.  The Jesus said that they would restore Jerusalem when the times of the Gentiles Times are ended:

” And they shall fall by the edge of the sword, and shall be led away captive into all nations: and Jerusalem shall be trodden down of the Gentiles, until the times of the Gentiles be fulfilled.“ (Luke 21:24)

          Jerusalem has been trampled by the Gentiles for nearly two thousand years after Jerusalem was devastated by Roman General Titus in AD 70. When Israel became independent nation in the land of Palestine in 1948, they were not able to occupy Jerusalem yet.  However, by winning the war of six day war in 1967, they restored the eastern side of Jerusalem. Now, the time for the Gentiles is going to be over and the time for Israel to restore Jeruslame is very near.

           The word of Hebrews tells us that in the last days to come, that is, after God lifted up the church of God into heaven, as he tried Job, the Lord God will put the Israelites into the seven years of the Great Tribulation prophesied through prophet Daniel. When God tries to make the Jews hidden in his secret field, they shall repent like Job in the old days, saying, ” But he knoweth the way that I take: when he hath tried me, I shall come forth as gold.” (Job 23:10). Therefore, the book of Hebrews continues to  Revelation.

          When Jesus spoke of the Great Tribulation, once again the Gospel of kingdom of heaven would be preached, and at this time He said that only Jews and Gentiles who endure to the end and repent, shall enter the Christ’s Millennial Kingdom:

“But he that shall endure unto the end, the same shall be saved. 14And this gospel of the kingdom shall be preached in all the world for a witness unto all nations; and then shall the end come. ” (Matthew 24:13-14).

          The Lord Jesus will save the Jews and Gentiles who repent and endure to the end after the gospel of kingdom is finally preached during the Great Tribulation period, and will finally put an end to the kingdom of the world and establish his own kingdom.

           Apostle Paul testified to the Hebrews that at the end of the present world and the renewal of Christ’s kingdom, just as the old Adam became the king and ruled over all things on the earth, the last Adam,  the Christ, will rule the world to come:

“For unto the angels hath he not put in subjection the world to come, whereof we speak. 6But one in a certain place testified, saying, What is man, that thou art mindful of him? or the son of man, that thou visitest him? 7Thou madest him a little lower than the angels; thou crownedst him with glory and honour, and didst set him over the works of thy hands: 8Thou hast put all things in subjection under his feet. For in that he put all in subjection under him, he left nothing that is not put under him. But now we see not yet all things put under him. 9But we see Jesus, who was made a little lower than the angels for the suffering of death, crowned with glory and honour; that he by the grace of God should taste death for every man.” (Hebrews 2:5-9)

         God told through the psalmist that He gave men to live forever in the earth He created:

“The heaven, even the heavens, are the LORD’S: but the earth hath he given to the children of men.” (Psalm 115:16).

         That’s right! The Lord Jesus Christ received the eternal kingship of heaven and earth from the Father by tasting death for a while and resurrecting like Adam in order to become the eternal King in heaven and earth. We are living in the time when we are  looking forward to the wedding ceremony of the Lamb in the day of Christ followed by the Great Tribulation of the last days. Now is the time to preach the gospel of the grace of Christ to Jews and Gentiles so that they can be awakened to avoid the time of judgment on the day of the Great Tribulation.

 Amen! Hallelujah!