Yet consider these scriptures:
…No
one can comprehend what goes on under the sun. Despite all his efforts to
search it out, man cannot discover its meaning. Even if a wise man claims he
knows, he cannot really comprehend it.
(Ecclesiastes 8:17, NIV)
“For
my thoughts are not your thoughts, neither are your ways my ways,” declares the
LORD. “As the heavens are higher than
the earth, so are my ways higher than your ways and my thoughts than your
thoughts.” (Isaiah 55:8-9, NIV)
“Where
were you when I laid the earth’s foundation?
Tell me, if you understand.” (Job
38:4, NIV)
“Have
you ever given orders to the morning, or shown the dawn its place,…” (Job 38: 12, NIV)
“Who
has a claim against me that I must pay?
Everything under heaven belongs to me.”
(Job 41:11, NIV)
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[Also
see all of Job: 38-41]
The truth is obvious – we are not God. But God through his infinite grace has chosen
to reveal more and more of himself through the scriptures, through his son
Jesus Christ, and through the Holy Spirit.
And through his directly speaking to his servants. All the above scriptures come from the Old
Testament, the period before Jesus came to earth. But Jesus did come, and during his time teaching,
preaching, and healing here he revealed to us so very much of God, of God’s
plan, of the Kingdom.
Believers are not in darkness now. We do understand much of God’s plans – if we
know the Lord, if we have been born again and baptized with the Holy Spirit, if
we allow ourselves to be guided by the Spirit, if we obey. If Jesus Christ is our Lord and we live that
way, we have no excuse for not knowing much of what is to happen.
Surely we will never know all. But we do know a great deal. It has been revealed. God never does anything without revealing it
beforehand to his prophets (Amos 3:7).
And he has, and he does.
Jesus is coming soon.
I know no one to whom he has revealed the specific hour and day,
although it is not inconceivable that he might do that. But he has clearly revealed his return is
imminent, so imminent that he wants his people warned. “It will be swift,” he has told me, a seldom
used word I thought at the time – swift.
“When I come things will change,” he has said. One time he even added, “This is no joke.” Interestingly, I recently looked at the very
end of the Bible. There Jesus says in
his last words in the Bible, “Surely I come swiftly.” There’s that word
again. Swiftly is the translation of the
original Greek of the New Testament. It
also means quickly.
The time is now.
Any moment. This world system is just playing out its final hand. All that matters is that as many as possible
of those God would have with him in the Kingdom indeed know him. However God has called you to help in that,
you should be pursuing that call with the guidance of the Holy Spirit. Now.
There will be no other “last days.”
And, to the extent you can, please help ministries like ours to get the
truth about
Jesus and his return out to more and more.
Jesus and his return out to more and more.
