Have you ever noticed how tatters have different events that are like a wave through the community? Let’s see, a certain thread brand, blinged shuttles, dying our own threads, embracing one motif or pattern. We’ve all participated in at least one of these waves of popularity. I’ve bought my Lizbeth thread, and received gifts of blinged shuttles (with pretty painting, ‘jewels’; a dressed up shuttle). However. . . .
I missed the whole scenario of what was happening during the Month of May! Everyone was talking about the end of the world because of a date-setter named Camping. I think I heard the news the day before it was to happen. OK You should know that date setting is not only an insult to God, it is anathema. God has forbidden setting the time of His Son’s return for the restoration of Israel. Acts 1: 7 “It is not for you to know times or seasons that the Father has fixed by his own authority.”
Indeed, The Book of Revelation, the last book of the Bible, makes a stronger statement!
Revelation 22: 18 “I (Jesus speaking) testify to everyone who hears the words of the prophecy of this book. If anyone adds to them, God shall add to him the plagues which are written in this book; and if anyone takes away from the words of the book of this prophecy, God shall take away his part from the tree of life and from the holy city, which are written in this book.
We are told to “look for His coming” to “be prepared” to live as though His coming is today. Certainly in times like these we do need a savior and the wise person has chosen to believe God and what He says.
I am always saddened by the date setters. Not only for those who buy into false prophets. It is also sad that God is mocked during these times because of these people who would set dates. There were parties for the end of the world! It becomes fodder for jokes by late-night comedians.
The supremacy of Jesus is summarized in Hebrews Chapter 1. “God, after He spoke long ago to the fathers in the prophets in many portions and in many ways, in these last days he has spoken to us in His Son, whom He appointed heir of all things, through whom also He made the world.
And He (Jesus) is the radiance of His (God’s) glory and the exact representation of His nature, and upholds all things by the word of His power. When He (Jesus) had made purification of sins, (on the cross); He sat down at the right hand of the Majesty on high; having become much better than the angels, as He has inherited a more excellent name than they.”
I’ve always appreciated that phrase, “Sat Down” because it denotes a task that is finished. Jesus did it all, He alone made it possible for sinful man to be covered with Jesus righteousness which enables us to become the children of God. That is the crux. God’s timetable for His Son’s return is His timetable. It is only important to us as believers and unbelievers because at that point of His return, there will be no second chance to receive His gift of Salvation. It will be too late for those who are partying and mocking, too late for those who paid no attention, too late for those who trusted in works or some other philosophy of the world religions. Too late for those who scoffed.
We have the promise of His Coming. Hebrews 9:27 “ . . .it is appointed for men to die once and after this comes judgement, so Christ also, having been offered once to bear the sins of many, shall appear. . .”
Are you ready to meet God at death or if He should come in your lifetime, when He comes? If He asks, “Why should I allow you into my presence?” What would your answer be to God?
