Saturday, September 20, 2014

PROCRASTINATION MAY BE YOUR ULTIMATE DOWNFALL

The Church Age, a mystery to the Jews, both then and now, is summed up in the first sermon ever preached since the birth of the Church on the Day of Pentecost, ten days after the Lord's Ascension:

"And it shall come to pass in the last days, saith God, I will pour out of My Spirit upon all flesh: and your sons and your daughters shall prophesy, and your young men shall see visions, and your old men shall dream dreams:  and on My servants and on My handmaidens I will pour out in those days of My Spirit; and they shall prophesy:  and I will shew wonders in heaven above, and signs in the earth beneath; blood, and fire, and vapour of smoke:  the sun shall be turned into darkness, and the moon into blood, before that great and notable Day of the Lord come:  and it shall come to pass, that whosoever shall call on the name of the Lord shall be saved" (Acts 2:17-21)!

On that first day, God poured out His Spirit; Peter said that what those who heard the 120 speaking in their own languages, were witnessing the beginning of the fulfillment of Joel's prophecy, given at least 700 years earlier (Joel 2:26-32).  Isaiah and Ezekiel spoke of the completion of Joel's prophecy: 

"Behold, the Day of the LORD cometh, cruel both with wrath and fierce anger, to lay the land desolate: and He shall destroy the sinners thereof out of it.  For the stars of heaven and the constellations thereof shall not give their light: the sun shall be darkened in his going forth, and the moon shall not cause her light to shine" (Isa. 13:9-10).  "And when I shall put thee out, I will cover the heaven, and make the stars thereof dark; I will cover the sun with a cloud, and the moon shall not give her light.  All the bright lights of heaven will I make dark over thee, and set darkness upon thy land, saith the Lord GOD" (Ezek. 32:7-8).

The Gospel of Matthew and the Book of Revelation warn humanity concerning the events which will occur following the end of the Church Age: 

"Immediately after the tribulation of those days shall the sun be darkened, and the moon shall not give her light, and the stars shall fall from heaven, and the powers of the heavens shall be shaken:  and then shall appear the sign of the Son of man in heaven: and then shall all the tribes of the earth mourn, and they shall see the Son of man coming in the clouds of heaven with power and great glory" (Mt. 24:29-30).  "And I beheld when He had opened the sixth seal, and, lo, there was a great earthquake; and the sun became black as sackcloth of hair, and the moon became as blood; and the stars of heaven fell unto the earth, even as a fig tree casteth her untimely figs, when she is shaken of a mighty wind" (Rev. 6:12-13).


By the time this happens, it will be too late to trust in Jesus! 
Repent (turn to God from your sinful way of life, and call upon Jesus!

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