Tag: second coming
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The Blood on His Robe – Revelation 19:13-14
Revelation 19:13-14 And he was clothed with a vesture dipped in blood: and his name is called The Word of God.And the armies which were in heaven followed him upon white horses, clothed in fine linen, white and clean. John sees Jesus riding forth, and one detail catches the eye immediately: He was clothed with…
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Hold Fast in a Corrupt Church – Revelation 2:23-25
Revelation 2:23 And I will kill her children with death; and all the churches shall know that I am he which searcheth the reins and hearts: and I will give unto every one of you according to your works. This is a severe word, and it is meant to be. Jesus is making it unmistakably…
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The King Is Coming – Revelation 1:6-7
Revelation 1:6-7 And hath made us kings and priests unto God and his Father to him be glory and dominion for ever and ever. Amen.Behold, he cometh with clouds and every eye shall see him, and they also which pierced him and all kindreds of the earth shall wail because of him. Even so, Amen.…
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Watch for the Deceiver – 2 John 7-8
2 John 7-8 For many deceivers are entered into the world, who confess not that Jesus Christ is come in the flesh. This is a deceiver and an antichrist.Look to yourselves, that we lose not those things which we have wrought, but that we receive a full reward. John moves from truth and love to…
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Scoffing on Schedule – 2 Peter 3:3-4
2 Peter 3:3-4 Knowing this first, that there shall come in the last days scoffers,walking after their own lusts, And saying, Where is the promise of his coming? for since the fathers fell asleep, all things continue as they were from the beginning of the creation. Peter says before anything else, know this. In the…
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Stirred by Remembrance – 2 Peter 3:1
2 Peter 3:1 This second epistle, beloved, I now write unto you; in both which I stir up your pure minds by way of remembrance. Peter is nearing the end now. He knows his time is short. He knows wolves will move in after he is gone. He knows false teaching will not only attack…
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Living in the Light of His Coming — Titus 2:13
Titus 2:13 Looking for that blessed hope, and the glorious appearing of the great God and our Saviour Jesus Christ. After speaking about grace teaching us how to live in this present world, Paul now lifts our eyes toward the future. He calls it the blessed hope. Not a vague wish. Not a distant possibility.…
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A Heart Pointed Home — 2 Thessalonians 3:5
2 Thessalonians 3:5 And the Lord direct your hearts into the love of God, and into the patient waiting for Christ. Paul does not tell them to work up patience.He does not hand them a technique. He prays. “And the Lord direct your hearts…” That says something honest about us. The heart does not stay…
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Everlasting Consolation — 2 Thessalonians 2:16–17
2 Thessalonians 2:16–17 Now our Lord Jesus Christ himself, and God, even our Father, which hath loved us, and hath given us everlasting consolation and good hope through grace,Comfort your hearts, and stablish you in every good word and work. Paul has just walked them through heavy things. Deception.The man of sin.Delusion.Judgment. And then he…
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The Wicked Revealed — 2 Thessalonians 2:8
2 Thessalonians 2:8 And then shall that Wicked be revealed, whom the Lord shall consume with the spirit of his mouth, and shall destroy with the brightness of his coming: Paul calls him that Wicked. Not a concept. Not a symbol. A man. After the departure. After the restraint is removed. Then he is revealed. Unveiled.…
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Caught Up – 1 Thessalonians 4:17–18
1 Thessalonians 4:17–18 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.Wherefore comfort one another with these words. “Caught up.” That phrase carries force. Not drifting upward.Not slowly ascending.Caught up. It…
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The Shout and the Trump – 1 Thessalonians 4:15–16
1 Thessalonians 4:15–16 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.For the Lord himself shall descend from heaven with a shout, with the voice of the archangel, and with the trump…
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Turning, Serving, Waiting – 1 Thessalonians 1:9–10 (a)
1 Thessalonians 1:9–10 (a) For they themselves shew of us what manner of entering in we had unto you, and how ye turned to God from idols to serve the living and true God;And to wait for his Son from heaven… Paul says the reputation of the Thessalonians was already circulating. People were reporting what…