GOD PROMISED HE WAS COMING

       

_"He will keep you strong to the end, so that you will be blameless on the day of  our Lord Jesus Christ.”(I Corinthians 1:  8)_

*John McArthur writes, “Apart from the prophesies mentioned in the Bible, there are some other compelling issues that demand the return of Christ.”

First, the promise of God demands that Jesus will come.  In Genesis 49: 10 is the very first prophecy concerning Messiah’s rule, “The scepter will not depart from Judah, nor the ruler’s staff from between his feet, until Shilo comes, and the obedience of the nation is His.” 

In Psalm 2: 9, God promised that the nations would bow down to Jesus Christ and He will rule them with an iron scepter.
Isaiah 9: 6 said, that “the government will be on His shoulders.”  All these promises of God did not happen when Jesus came the first time and so they will surely happen the second time.

Numbers 23: 19 says, “God is not a man, that He should lie.”  God has said this will occur, therefore the Son of God must come back so that it can happen.  Thus the promise of God demands the Second Coming.  Secondly, the words of Jesus demand the Second Coming.  Jesus said in John 14: 2-3, “I am going there to prepare a place for you.  I will come back and take you to be with me that you also may be where I am.”

The Lord Jesus sent an angel to John to write the book of Revelation. (Chapter 1: 1)  And six times to the angel Jesus said, “Behold I am coming soon!”  Since Jesus promised that He would come back, His promise demands the Second Coming. He is coming because God, who cannot lie, said so.  He is coming because Jesus Himself who speaks only truth, said so.  Thirdly, the guarantee of the Holy Spirit demands it.  The Holy Spirit is called, in John 15: 26, “The Spirit of truth.”  In John 16: 13 Jesus said, “He will guide you into all truth.  He will not speak on His own.  He will speak only what He hears.” 
And He inspired the writers of the Scripture to write of Jesus’ Second Coming.  So every time we read of the Second Coming, that is the witness of the Holy Spirit.

Dear friends, God’s promises are true.  Jesus is coming soon.  It is time to get ready. Do not take His promises lightly.

*PRAYER* :  Dear Lord, God the Father, Jesus the Son and Holy Spirit - the Trinity God - has promised of the Second Coming of Jesus.  So let me not take these promises casually but help me to draw near to You every moment.  Help me to live a holy and blameless life every day.  Amen.