pressing on.....
A question?
If there is nothing that we can do the hasten the return of Christ, that He has a divine time to return, then what are we here for?????
Chuck Mitsler suggests that maybe God has a divine NUMBER of saints to return for and That is why we are here: to bring in the Harvest.
Maybe, this SBC group back in the 70's weren't so far off base to think that if we could reach more people for Christ, then we could hasten God's return for His Church??
I don't know the answer.....
but, I DO know that the study of Eschatology, which is the study of "last things", is something that has fascinated me in the last few years, and I find that it is popular thought to think that Christ's return is imminent, based on prophecy, not anyone's opinion.
One night, about a year ago, I was driving home with my girls and, suddenly, the hillside to the right of the highway lit up and there was a shadow of a door at the bottom of the light.
The light mesmorized me.... I looked back in the rear-view morror to see it was gone!
I asked the girls if they had seen the light on the hill?
"What light?" was their answer.
I knew that God had given ME a vision....of heaven?
When we got home, I immediately went to my bedroom and prayed for an answer.
God told me that He was preparing a wonderful place for me, but it was not time to be there, yet, because there was more work to be done....
It WAS a vision of heaven...He cracked the door just a little, to show me His wonderous light, and that it wasn't going anywhere.
WOW!!!!!
My friend, Teresa, talked to me the next day and told me that God had given her a verse for me:
Job 19:25-27,
"And as for me, I know that my Redeemer lives.
And at the last He will take His stand on the earth.
Even after my skin is destroyed,
yet from my flesh I shall see God:
Whom I myself shall behold,
and whom my eyes shall see and not another,
My heart faints within me."
There is work to be done.
I will press on.....until the day of the Lord.
If there is nothing that we can do the hasten the return of Christ, that He has a divine time to return, then what are we here for?????
Chuck Mitsler suggests that maybe God has a divine NUMBER of saints to return for and That is why we are here: to bring in the Harvest.
Maybe, this SBC group back in the 70's weren't so far off base to think that if we could reach more people for Christ, then we could hasten God's return for His Church??
I don't know the answer.....
but, I DO know that the study of Eschatology, which is the study of "last things", is something that has fascinated me in the last few years, and I find that it is popular thought to think that Christ's return is imminent, based on prophecy, not anyone's opinion.
One night, about a year ago, I was driving home with my girls and, suddenly, the hillside to the right of the highway lit up and there was a shadow of a door at the bottom of the light.
The light mesmorized me.... I looked back in the rear-view morror to see it was gone!
I asked the girls if they had seen the light on the hill?
"What light?" was their answer.
I knew that God had given ME a vision....of heaven?
When we got home, I immediately went to my bedroom and prayed for an answer.
God told me that He was preparing a wonderful place for me, but it was not time to be there, yet, because there was more work to be done....
It WAS a vision of heaven...He cracked the door just a little, to show me His wonderous light, and that it wasn't going anywhere.
WOW!!!!!
My friend, Teresa, talked to me the next day and told me that God had given her a verse for me:
Job 19:25-27,
"And as for me, I know that my Redeemer lives.
And at the last He will take His stand on the earth.
Even after my skin is destroyed,
yet from my flesh I shall see God:
Whom I myself shall behold,
and whom my eyes shall see and not another,
My heart faints within me."
There is work to be done.
I will press on.....until the day of the Lord.
posted by Lori's World @ 11:57 AM
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