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2-14-2021 Weekly message

Meditation of the week: Psalms 91:1-16

Text: Jeremiah 30:4-9

Title: Days of Man, Day of Christ, Days of Jacob’s Suffering(Great Tribulation), Days of Christ(1000 years), Eternal Days of God

        The first man, Adam  sinned against God while living with God in the Garden of Eden, and lost the breath of life that God gave them, and they lost the image of God, and  cast out of Eden. After that, he gave birth to children in his own image. Since then,, God left men, and  the days of man began:

“And Adam lived an hundred and thirty years, and begat a son in his own likeness, after his image; and called his name Seth: ” (Genesis 5:3)

        Like Adam, the children of Adam died even though they  not committed sin of eating the fruit of the tree of knowledge  of good and evil. Apostle Paul testified of this:

” But not as the offence, so also is the free gift. For if through the offence of one many be dead, much more the grace of God, and the gift by grace, which is by one man, Jesus Christ, hath abounded unto many..” (Romans 5:15)

        After God left, men had no choice but to live according to their conscience until God gave the law through Moses. However, about a thousand years later, only Noah followed his conscience and found the grace in the eyes of God. But all other people were living in evil imagination of their thoughts. Finally, God destroyed all people except Noah and his family in the flood. Apostle Paul testified that even in the absence of God’s law, no one could excuse himself arguing saying, God is not righteous if he judge me as sinner:

“For the wrath of God is revealed from heaven against all ungodliness and unrighteousness of men, who hold the truth in unrighteousness; 19Because that which may be known of God is manifest in them; for God hath shewed it unto them. 20For the invisible things of him from the creation of the world are clearly seen, being understood by the things that are made, even his eternal power and Godhead; so that they are without excuse:.” (Rom. 1:18-20)

    Finally, God called Abraham, and gave a new name as Israel to Jacob, his grandson to choose his children as his cj

hosen  people. Later on, God called Moses to give his law through him. It was the first time that new laws were given after the law of the Garden of Eden. But the laws that were given to them were things they could not observe. In the future, God sent his only begotten Son to make his Son Jesus the Christ, who died for the sins not only for them, but also of all men in the world to take away all sins in the conscience of men with his blood, giving life to those who believe in him. It was to fulfill his will to restore men to be the image of God again.

         After Adam, until the law came, God made the conscience of  men as the law so that they may live according to their conscience, but after the law came, God convicted of sins by the law and made them forgiven through sacrifices for their sins. However, after Christ appeared, he has been giving the Spirit of the Son to all of them who believe in His death, burial, and resurrection, making them children of God through eternal life. Apostle Paul testified of this wonderful grace:

“According as he hath chosen us in him before the foundation of the world, that we should be holy and without blame before him in love: 5Having predestinated us unto the adoption of children by Jesus Christ to himself, according to the good pleasure of his will, 6To the praise of the glory of his grace, wherein he hath made us accepted in the beloved. ” (Ephesians 1:4-6)

         After Adam sinned and until the law was given to save all those who were born into the world, God wanted to save men by the work of conscience within men, and the Israelites who received the law were judged  by the law.  Since Christ Jesus died for salvation on the cross, God has given eternal life, but also adoption to be children as well as made them the bride of Christ

         God will save all of them who lived according to their conscience by the work of their conscience, at the  judgment Seat of the White Throne of God. Apostle John testified of this:

” And I saw a great white throne, and him that sat on it, from whose face the earth and the heaven fled away; and there was found no place for them. 12And I saw the dead, small and great, stand before God; and the books were opened: and another book was opened, which is the book of life: and the dead were judged out of those things which were written in the books, according to their works. 13And the sea gave up the dead which were in it; and death and hell delivered up the dead which were in them: and they were judged every man according to their works. 14And death and hell were cast into the lake of fire. This is the second death. 15And whosoever was not found written in the book of life was cast into the lake of fire..” (Revelation 20:11-15)

         Also, the Israelites who died while observing the law were asleep in the bosom of Abraham under the earth for a while. After Christ Jesus died shedding his blood and resurrected,  all of  them   resurrected and ascended to heaven. Apostle Matthew testified of this:

” Jesus, when he had cried again with a loud voice, yielded up the ghost. 51And, behold, the veil of the temple was rent in twain from the top to the bottom; and the earth did quake, and the rocks rent; 52And the graves were opened; and many bodies of the saints which slept arose,” (Matthew 27:50-53).

          For all men who have  lived in the last six thousand years after Adam, God has opened the door of salvation in each age. He has given the age of conscience, of the law, and  of grace. But sooner or later, when the age of grace is fulfilled to the end, Christ Jesus will appear and lift them who believed in Him to heaven. This day shall be the day of Christ. Six thousand years have been given unto men for their salvation, but the day of Christ shall be finished in a day.. Apostle Paul testified of what would happen in the day of Christ:

” For the Lord himself shall descend from heaven with a shout, with the voice of the archangel, and with the trump of God: and the dead in Christ shall rise first: Then we which are alive and remain shall be caught up together with them in the clouds, to meet the Lord in the air: and so shall we ever be with the Lord. 18Wherefore comfort one another with these words.” (1 Thessalonians 4:16-18).

         After the day of Christ, the world shall be immediately lead to the days of Jacob’s suffering. These are the days of the Seven Years of Great Tribulation, when all Jews and Gentiles who  not believed in Christ Jesus enter into. During these days, God will give Jews and Gentiles the last chance to believe in Jesus Christ to be saved. Prophet Jeremiah prophesied of these days. The things that will happen in these days are detailed by Apostle John in the book of Revelation 6-19 cchapters:

”   And these are the words that the LORD spake concerning Israel and concerning Judah. 5For thus saith the LORD; We have heard a voice of trembling, of fear, and not of peace. 6Ask ye now, and see whether a man doth travail with child? wherefore do I see every man with his hands on his loins, as a woman in travail, and all faces are turned into paleness?

7Alas! for that day is great, so that none is like it: it is even the time of Jacob’s trouble; but he shall be saved out of it.

8For it shall come to pass in that day, saith the LORD of hosts, that I will break his yoke from off thy neck, and will burst thy bonds, and strangers shall no more serve themselves of him: 9But they shall serve the LORD their God, and David their king, whom I will raise up unto them.” (Jeremiah 30:4-9)

         The days of the Great Tribulation, the times of Jacob’s suffering, are the last days spoken in the Bible. At the end of these last days, the Lord Jesus Christ, King of Kings and Lord of Lords, will appear in the world to judge all nations who did not believe in Him. This day is referred to as “the Day of the Lord” in the Bible. As for “the day of the Lord,” many prophets had foretold in detail in the book of prophets. “The Day of the Lord” will also be the day of judgment in one day. On this day prophesied by the prophets, Apostle John gave the last testimony:

” And the armies which were in heaven followed him upon white horses, clothed in fine linen, white and clean.

15And out of his mouth goeth a sharp sword, that with it he should smite the nations: and he shall rule them with a rod of iron: and he treadeth the winepress of the fierceness and wrath of Almighty God. 16And he hath on his vesture and on his thigh a name written, KING OF KINGS, AND LORD OF LORDS. And I saw an angel standing in the sun; and he cried with a loud voice, saying to all the fowls that fly in the midst of heaven, Come and gather yourselves together unto the supper of the great God; 18That ye may eat the flesh of kings, and the flesh of captains, and the flesh of mighty men, and the flesh of horses, and of them that sit on them, and the flesh of all men, both free and bond, both small and great. 19And I saw the beast, and the kings of the earth, and their armies, gathered together to make war against him that sat on the horse, and against his army. 20And 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. 21And the remnant were slain with the sword of him that sat upon the horse, which sword proceeded out of his mouth: and all the fowls were filled with their flesh.” (Rev. 19:14-21).

             After the Day of the Lord is over, the days of Christ shall be  continued for a thousand years:

“Blessed and holy is he that hath part in the first resurrection: on such the second death hath no power, but they shall be priests of God and of Christ, and shall reign with him a thousand years.…. And the LORD shall be king over all the earth: in that day shall there be one LORD, and his name one.” (Rev. 20:6, Zech. 14:9)

           At the end of Christ’s Thousand Year Reign, at last the seven thousand years of history of God planned for the world shall be completely fulfilled, and from this time on, the eighth day that is the Eternal Days of God shall be in heaven and earth:

“And I saw a new heaven and a new earth: for the first heaven and the first earth were passed away; and there was no more sea.…. 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.” (Rev. 21:1, 5-7)

          The Lord Jesus Christ, who finished all the words, said, to Apostle John, “Surely I come quickly.” Apostle John answered unto the Lord, ” Amen. Even so, come, Lord Jesus.,”  Apostle John sincerely encouraged all men for their salvation, saying, “The grace of our Lord Jesus Christ be with you all. Amen.

 Amen! Hallelujah!