The Lord Will Return!
Dr RJ Sing · 1 min read
“And if I go and prepare a place for you, I will come again, and receive you unto myself; that where I am, there ye may be also.”
“He comes to judge the earth” (Psalm 98:9). Essential to the most basic faith in God is the belief: “He is coming.” From the time of Enoch, who “walked with God” (Genesis 5:22), faithful believers have understood that He is coming to judge everyone (Jude 14, 15). The thief on the cross was saved just by saying, “Jesus, remember me when you come” (Luke 23:42). The Lord will return suddenly and swiftly to judge the ungodly.
Just as Gideon descended with a trumpet blast in the night in sudden judgment upon Midian (Judges 7:19), Jesus will return with His saints to judge the world. If you are “faint, yet pursuing” (8,4 KJV), keep up the fight. Your blessed hope as a believer is that the Lord’s return will not only be to deliver you from this world, but to punish His enemies who have afflicted you.
Paul reminded Philippians believers, “Our citizenship is in heaven. And we eagerly await a Savior from there, the Lord Jesus Christ.” (Philippians 3:20), and “The Lord is near” (4.5). One day the Lord will descend from heaven and our battle will be eternally over!
From the November 2011 issue, themed “I Must Experience 1000 Times More”.
