WHETHER YOU ARE READY OR NOT, JESUS IS COMING BACK SOON

 ANCHOR OF LIFE DAILY DEVOTIONAL GUIDE For MONDAY, 30TH JANUARY, 2023.

Author: PASTOR DR. SAMUEL AYORINDE – General Overseer

Anchor of Life & Redemption Ministry Int’l

Topic: WHETHER YOU ARE READY OR NOT, JESUS IS COMING BACK SOON

MEMORIZE: “For the Lord Himself will descend from heaven with a shout, with the voice of an archangel, and with the trumpet of God. And the dead in Christ will rise first.” 1 Thessalonians 4:1

SCRIPTURE READING: 1 Thessalonians 4:15-17.

“For if we believe that Jesus died and rose again, even so God will bring with Him those who sleep in Jesus. 15 For this we say to you by the word of the Lord, that we who are alive and remain until the coming of the Lord will by no means precede those who are asleep. 16 For the Lord Himself will descend from heaven with a shout, with the voice of an archangel, and with the trumpet of God. And the dead in Christ will rise first. 17 Then we who are alive and remain shall be caught up together with them in the clouds to meet the Lord in the air. And thus we shall always be with the Lord.”

EXPOSITION:

The Lord Jesus will come down from heaven in all the pomp and power of heaven (1 Thessalonians 4:16): The Lord himself shall descend from heaven with a shout. He ascended into heaven after his resurrection, and passed through these material heavens into the third heaven, which must retain him till the restitution of all things; and then he will come again, and appear in his glory. He will descend from heaven into this our air, 1 Thessalonians 4:17. The appearance will be with pomp and power, with a shout--the shout of a king, and the power and authority of a mighty king and conqueror, with the voice of the archangel; an innumerable company of angels will attend him. For the trumpet shall sound, and this will awaken those that sleep in the dust of the earth, and will summon all the world to appear. 

The dead in Christ shall rise first (1Th 4:16), before those who are found alive at Christ's coming shall be changed. This means those who shall then be found alive shall not prevent those that are asleep, 1Th 4:15. The first care of the Redeemer in that day will be about his dead saints; he will raise them before the great change passes on those that shall be found alive: so that those who did not sleep in death will have no greater privilege or joy at that day than those who fell asleep in Jesus. 

Those that shall be found alive will then be changed. They shall be caught up together with them in the clouds, to meet the Lord in the air, 1Th 4:17. At, or immediately before, this rapture into the clouds, those who are alive will undergo a mighty change, which will be equivalent to dying. This change is so mysterious that we cannot comprehend it: we know little or nothing of it, 1 Cor. 15:51.  Only, in the general, this mortal must put on immortality, and these bodies will be made fit to inherit the kingdom of God, which flesh and blood in its present state are not capable of. This change will be in a moment, in the twinkling of an eye (1Cor. 15:52), in the very instant, or not long after the raising up of those that sleep in Jesus. And those who are raised, and thus changed, shall meet together in the clouds, and there meet with their Lord, to congratulate him on his coming, to receive the crown of glory he will then bestow upon them, and to be assessors with him in judgment, approving and applauding the sentence he will then pass upon the prince of the power of the air, and all the wicked, who shall be doomed to destruction with the devil and his angels. Therefore, it is to your advantage that you believe and accept Jesus Christ as the Son of God and your personal Lord and Saviour. Your decision today about Jesus Christ (if you accept Him) you will be a blessed of the Lord but if rejected, you will become condemned for ever. Decide wisely.  

 

PRAYER POINT: i. Lord, help me to remain steadfast in my walk with you till I see you face to face in your glory in Jesus name.

ii. Lord, help the unbelievers to see the reality of confessing the Lordship of Jesus Christ before it is too late

DAILY BIBLE READING IN A YEAR –  Leviticus 8-10

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