The Good News

I’m a bit sad that some are not even bothered with Jesus Christ’s second coming. Some took it lightly, much worse, some didn’t even bothered to read this thread. Meaning they don’t care. If you will remember the parable of the wedding banquet Jesus Christ has said…

Matthew 22:5-6
“But they paid no attention and went off—one to his field, another to his business. The rest seized his servants, mistreated them and killed them.

Matthew 7:26-27
“But everyone who hears these words of mine and does not put them into practice is like a foolish man who built his house on sand. The rain came down, the streams rose, and the winds blew and beat against that house, and it fell with a great crash.”

May I say, if someone tells you Jesus Christ is coming tomorrow, next month, next year, or even 2012, please don’t believe them because Jesus Christ said it clearly…

Matthew 24:36
No one knows about that day or hour, not even the angels in heaven, nor the Son, but only the Father.

Jesus Christ said it clearly that no one will know when he will be coming. But one thing is for sure, he will be back for us. So we ourselves should be ready.

Matthew 24:42-44
“Therefore keep watch, because you do not know on what day your Lord will come. But understand this: If the owner of the house had known at what time of night the thief was coming, he would have kept watch and would not have let his house be broken into. So you also must be ready, because the Son of Man will come at an hour when you do not expect him.”

As it was written in the book of Revelations (incase some don’t know), those who are not ready will experience the Seven Years of Tribulation. They include those who does good but did not believe in Jesus Christ (referred to as “elect”).

Matthew 24:21-22
“For then there will be great distress, unequaled from the beginning of the world until now—and never to be equaled again. If those days had not been cut short, no one would survive, but for the sake of the elect those days will be shortened.”

Daniel 9:24-27
“Seventy ‘sevens’ are decreed for your people and your holy city to finish transgression, to put an end to sin, to atone for wickedness, to bring in everlasting righteousness, to seal up vision and prophecy and to anoint the most holy.
“Know and understand this: From the issuing of the decree to restore and rebuild Jerusalem until the Anointed One, the ruler, comes, there will be seven ‘sevens,’ and sixty-two ‘sevens.’ It will be rebuilt with streets and a trench, but in times of trouble. After the sixty-two ‘sevens,’ the Anointed One will be cut off and will have nothing. The people of the ruler who will come will destroy the city and the sanctuary. The end will come like a flood: War will continue until the end, and desolations have been decreed. He will confirm a covenant with many for one ‘seven.’ In the middle of the ‘seven’ he will put an end to sacrifice and offering. And on a wing of the temple he will set up an abomination that causes desolation, until the end that is decreed is poured out on him.”

In the tribulation years, those who are left from the rapture will live for seven years during the reign of the anti-Christ (the anti-Christ will make the earth in peace from the wars and will reign the earth for forty two months) and his false prophet. People will experience war, famines, deaths and other great distress that is believed to be the worst this earth can ever have. greater than Sodom, Gomorrah and the Great Flood. People will be tortured and killed if they believe Jesus Christ. It will be better for us to be frowned upon and be ridiculed now believing and preaching about Jesus because during these times, torture and death may be the only way to prove that we believe Jesus Christ.

Revelation 13:5
“The beast was given a mouth to utter proud words and blasphemies and to exercise his authority for forty-two months.”

Matthew 24:9
“Then you will be handed over to be persecuted and put to death, and you will be hated by all nations because of me.”

And if after the years of tribulation that we are still alive and has kept our faith, Jesus will come back for 1000 years preaching all over the world. The beast and the anti-Christ will however be thrown to the fiery lake of burning sulfur.

Revelation 19:20
“But the beast was captured, and with him the false prophet who had performed the miraculous signs on his behalf. With these signs he had deluded those who had received the mark of the beast and worshiped his image. The two of them were thrown alive into the fiery lake of burning sulfur.”

And those who believed the beast and the false prophet were killed.

Revelation 19:21
“The rest of them were killed with the sword that came out of the mouth of the rider on the horse, and all the birds gorged themselves on their flesh.”

And the ancient serpent, the devil or satan if you prefer, will be locked up until the time for judgement.

Revelation 20:2-3
“He seized the dragon, that ancient serpent, who is the devil, or Satan, and bound him for a thousand years. He threw him into the Abyss, and locked and sealed it over him, to keep him from deceiving the nations anymore until the thousand years were ended. After that, he must be set free for a short time.”

Then after the 1000 years, satan will be released and will deceive anyone even the elect, if he can though.

Revelation 20:7-10
“When the thousand years are over, Satan will be released from his prison and will go out to deceive the nations in the four corners of the earth—Gog and Magog—to gather them for battle. In number they are like the sand on the seashore. They marched across the breadth of the earth and surrounded the camp of God’s people, the city he loves. But fire came down from heaven and devoured them. And the devil, who deceived them, was thrown into the lake of burning sulfur, where the beast and the false prophet had been thrown. They will be tormented day and night for ever and ever.”

After the satan is defeated, all of us will be judged.

Revelation 20:11-15
“Then I saw a great white throne and him who was seated on it. Earth and sky fled from his presence, and there was no place for them. And I saw the dead, great and small, standing before the throne, and books were opened. Another book was opened, which is the book of life. The dead were judged according to what they had done as recorded in the books. The sea gave up the dead that were in it, and death and Hades gave up the dead that were in them, and each person was judged according to what he had done. Then death and Hades were thrown into the lake of fire. The lake of fire is the second death. If anyone’s name was not found written in the book of life, he was thrown into the lake of fire.”

Then those whose name written in the book of life will live with God in the new earth forever and ever. In a place where there are no pain nor suffering.

Revelation 21:1-4
“Then I saw a new heaven and a new earth, for the first heaven and the first earth had passed away, and there was no longer any sea. I saw the Holy City, the new Jerusalem, coming down out of heaven from God, prepared as a bride beautifully dressed for her husband. And I heard a loud voice from the throne saying, “Now the dwelling of God is with men, and he will live with them. They will be his people, and God himself will be with them and be their God. He will wipe every tear from their eyes. There will be no more death or mourning or crying or pain, for the old order of things has passed away.”

Now, I’m not here to scare you or anything, I’m here to tell you the GOOD NEWS!

We don’t have to experience all these terror to be with God, all we have to do is to believe in his son, the Lord Jesus Christ. Jesus Christ will save those who believed him before these things happen. He will save us so that we will not suffer. Jesus loves us! He died for us, as a sacrifice for our sins!

Matthew 24:40-41
“Two men will be in the field; one will be taken and the other left. Two women will be grinding with a hand mill; one will be taken and the other left.”

Luke 17:34-35
“I tell you, on that night two people will be in one bed; one will be taken and the other left. Two women will be grinding grain together; one will be taken and the other left.”

1 Thessalonians 4:14-18
“We believe that Jesus died and rose again and so we believe that God will bring with Jesus those who have fallen asleep in him. According to the Lord’s own word, we tell you that we who are still alive, who are left till the coming of the Lord, will certainly not precede those who have fallen asleep. For the Lord himself will come down from heaven, with a loud command, with the voice of the archangel and with the trumpet call of God, and the dead in Christ will rise first. After that, we who are still alive and are left will be caught up together with them in the clouds to meet the Lord in the air. And so we will be with the Lord forever. Therefore encourage each other with these words.”

Revelation 5:8-9
“And when he had taken it, the four living creatures and the twenty-four elders fell down before the Lamb. Each one had a harp and they were holding golden bowls full of incense, which are the prayers of the saints. And they sang a new song:
“You are worthy to take the scroll
and to open its seals,
because you were slain,
and with your blood you purchased men for God
from every tribe and language and people and nation.”

Now, how can we be saved? Here’s a starter…

John 3:14-15
“Just as Moses lifted up the snake in the desert, so the Son of Man must be lifted up, that everyone who believes in him may have eternal life.”

What snake you might say…

Numbers 21:8-9
“The LORD said to Moses, “Make a snake and put it up on a pole; anyone who is bitten can look at it and live.” So Moses made a bronze snake and put it up on a pole. Then when anyone was bitten by a snake and looked at the bronze snake, he lived.”

Jesus Christ is the righteous one. No one can achieve the righteousness he has done. But don’t forget that the Father sent his begotten son for us, not to judge us but to save us. The Father knows that it is impossible for us not to sin that is why Jesus Christ has to die.

Please don't get me wrong, I’m not encouraging you to sin. Remember that God knows our intention…

Psalms 44:21
“would not God have discovered it,
since he knows the secrets of the heart?”

Luke 16:15
“He said to them, “You are the ones who justify yourselves in the eyes of men, but God knows your hearts. What is highly valued among men is detestable in God’s sight.”

Acts 15:8
“God, who knows the heart, showed that he accepted them by giving the Holy Spirit to them, just as he did to us.”

In the end I can say, no one can boast that he is saved. I believe Jesus Christ died so that I will be saved. But for me being saved…

Ephesians 2:8-9
For it is by grace you have been saved, through faith—and this is not from yourselves, it is the gift of God— not by works, so that no one can boast.

I’m just another runner running for the prize, just like all of us.

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