03- 19- 11 MI DAILY DEVOTION (I Thessalonians 4:14- 18)
THE COMING KING, THE MESSIAH
14- “For if we believe that Jesus died and rose again, even so them also which sleep in Jesus will God bring with him. 15- For this we say unto you by the word of the Lord, that we which are alive and remain unto the coming of the Lord shall not prevent them which are asleep. 16- 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: 17- 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. 18- Wherefore comfort one another with these words.
Dean Farrar was a privileged personal friend of Queen Victoria, though he seldom referred to the distinction. But on the first anniversary of the accession of Edward VII to the throne of England, during the service in Canterbury Cathedral, he told how the Queen, after hearing on his chaplains preach at Windsor on the second coming of Christ, spoke to the Dean about it and said, “Oh, how I wish that the Lord would come during my lifetime.” “Why does your Majesty feel this very earnest desire?” asked the great preacher. With her queenly countenance lit up with deep emotion she replied, “Because I should so love to lay my crown to His feet.” (Copied)
The world system may change in one day. The world system and its structure will change and the leadership will change, but the Word of the Lord will stay the same. God will still be God. We have observed how our world has changed. The technology and the means of communication, (before the Philippines has a very poor communication system, now the Philippines is the text center of the world) the industry or business dealings have changed so much and now we have ebay and internet store. Everything may change in just a matter of time, but what the Bible said about the coming prophecies will never change. Actually, everything that’s going on in the world has something to do with the Second Coming of Christ.
(Matthew 24:29- 30; 34- 35) 29- “Immediately after the tribulation of those days shall the sun be darkened, and the moon shall not give her light, and the stars shall fall from heaven, and the powers of the heavens shall be shaken: 30- And then shall appear the sign of the Son of man in heaven: and then shall all the tribes of the earth mourn, and they shall see the Son of man coming in the clouds of heaven with power and great glory. 35- Heaven and earth shall pass away, but my words shall not pass away. 36- But of that day and hour knoweth no man, no, not the angels of heaven, but my Father only. 42- Watch therefore: for ye know not what hour your Lord doth come.”
