DAY NOR THE HOUR......
"WATCH THEREFORE, FOR YOU KNOW NEITHER THE DAY NOR THE HOUR WHEREIN THE SON OF MAN COMES" (MAT. 25:13)
JESUS HAD JUST GIVEN THEM THE PARABLE OF THE "WISE AND FOOLISH VIRGINS" AS IT IS OFTEN REFERRED TO AS.
SOME WERE READY FOR THE BRIDEGROOM TO COME BASED ON A JEWISH WEDDING [BIBLE ENCYCLOPEDIAS CAN EXPLAIN ALL THAT TO YOU]. SOME WERE NOT READY, THOUGHT THEY COULD SNEAK INTO THE WEDDING OR KINGDOM OF GOD BY GETTING READY AT THE LAST MINUTE. A SLUMBERING UNTIL THE LAST HOUR.
OBVIOUSLY JESUS IS GIVING THE LESSON THAT YOU CAN NOT JUST SLUMBER AS A CHRISTIAN, THEN AT THE LAST MINUTE BECOME SERIOUS WITH CHRISTIANITY, AND HOPE TO BE WITH JESUS AT HIS WEDDING TO HIS CHURCH.
THE SLUMBER ONES ARE THE PROVERBIAL 2 HOURS A WEEK CHRISTIAN PEOPLE; THE REST OF THE WEEK THEY LIVE AS THEY WANT, DELVE INTO THE WORLD AS THEY WANT.....THEY ARE THE HYPOCRITICAL CHRISTIANS - ONLY SO-CALLED CHRISTIAN FOR TWO HOURS OF THE WEEK - THE REST OF THE WEEK BEING LIKE CHRIST IS THROWN OUT THE WINDOW ON TO THE TRASH PILE.
BEING A CHRISTIAN IS A FULL TIME JOB; IT IS AS JESUS TAUGHT, LIVING BY EVERY WORD OF GOD; IT IS KNOWING ALL THE BIBLE IS GOD'S WORD AND GIVEN AS OUR INSTRUCTION BOOK TO LIVE BY.
MANY MAY HAVE A SERIOUS QUESTION AS TO HOW DO YOU LIVE BY ALL OF GOD'S WORD? WHAT ABOUT THE OLD TESTAMENT? WHAT ABOUT THE NEW TESTAMENT? HOW CAN YOU FIT THEM TOGETHER?
I HAVE WRITTEN A TWO-PART GUIDE STUDY FOR YOU; IT IS CALLED "LIVING BY EVERY WORD OF GOD - HOW?" IT WILL GIVE YOU THE KEYS OF FIGURING OUT THE OLD WITH THE NEW.
ONCE MORE JESUS HERE IS SAYING NO ONE BUT THE FATHER [AS HE SAID BEFORE] KNOWS THE DAY NOR THE HOUR WHEN JESUS WILL BE SENT BACK TO THIS EARTH.
BEING READY FOR IT IS AS CLOSE AS YOUR DEATH.
MOST OF US DO NOT KNOW WHEN WE SHALL DIE. MOST OF US DO NOT KNOW THE DAY NOR THE HOUR OF OUR DEATH. AND DEATH IS A SLEEP.....WE DO NOT CONTINUE TO LIVE AFTER WE DIE! THERE IS A WHOLE STUDY ON THIS WEBSITE CALLED "DEATH - THEN WHAT?"
WHEN YOU SLEEP AT NIGHT, IF NO DREAMING, YOUR MIND IS BLANK - YOU WAKE UP AND IT IS AS IF THE NEXT SECOND AFTER FALLING ASLEEP - YOU HAVE NO REALIZATION OF TIME.
I HAD TO HAVE A MINOR SURGERY A FEW DECADES BACK. THE FELLOW GIVING ME THE....WHATEVER IT IS IN MY ARM....ONE SECOND I WAS TALKING TO HIM, THE NEXT SECOND.....BLACKNESS AND QUIET....IN SLEEP THAT WAS LIKE DEATH, UNTIL THE NURSE WAS WAKING ME UP! THERE WAS NO DREAMING, JUST A "NOT EXISTING" TIME. WHEN I WAS WAKENED, I KNEW NOTHING ABOUT THE PASSING OF TIME; IT WAS LIKE THE NEXT SECOND OF TIME SINCE I WAS GONE OUT OF THIS WORLD. I SAID TO MYSELF ON WAKING, "I HAVE JUST EXPERIENCED DEATH" - BLACKNESS, NO ACTIVITY OF THE MIND, NO DREAMING - JUST A SLEEP IN DEATH LIKENESS, IF NOT WAKENED TO LIFE I WAS NONE EXISTENT.
SO IT IS IN REAL DEATH - YES THE SPIRIT THAT GOD GAVE TO US TO MAKE US DIFFERENT FROM ANY ANIMAL, GOES BACK TO GOD WHO GAVE IT - ECCL. 12: 7 - BUT THAT SPIRIT DOES NOT THINK, ACT, TALK, WALK, SING, PLAY A MUSICAL INSTRUMENT, RIDE A HORSE, CONVERSE WITH OTHERS SUPPOSEDLY IN HEAVEN. THAT SPIRIT DOES NONE OF THOSE THINGS NOW. IF YOU LOOSE AN EYE, THE SPIRIT DOES NOT CONTINUE TO SEE IN THE HOLE YOU NOW HAVE WHERE YOUR EYE WAS. IF YOU LOOSE YOUR RIGHT HAND THE SPIRIT DOES NOT TAKE OVER AND STILL HAVE YOU RIGHTING WITH YOUR RIGHT HAND, THE PEN BEING HELD WITH SOME INVISIBLE HAND.
THE SPIRIT IN MAN GIVES YOU THE MIND OF MAN AS OPPOSED TO AN ANIMAL. MY HORSE CAN NOT USE THIS COMPUTER AS I'M NOW USING IT TO TYPE THESE WORDS; BUT A HORSE CAN TELL IF IT IS SWAMPY AND REFUSE TO MOVE INTO THE SWAMP. I'VE EXPERIENCED THIS WHILE RIDING MY HORSE GOLDIE....THIS SPIRIT IN ANIMALS WORKS DIFFERENT THAN THE SPIRIT IN MAN.
THE SPIRIT IN MAN CAN RETAIN ALL THE GOOD OF MAN, ABILITIES AND TALENTS OF MAN; SINS BEING FORGIVEN BY GOD THROUGH GRACE AND FAITH IN CHRIST; HENCE AT DEATH WE HAVE A PURE 100 PERCENT SPIRIT OF RIGHTEOUSNESS, THAT IS LIKE A PURE NO FLAWS DVD OR TAPE CASSETTE, THAT GOES BACK TO GOD AT DEATH. IT IS SAFELY KEPT UNTIL THE RESURRECTION - THEN THAT PURE SPIRIT OF MAN IS UNITED WITH A PURE HOLY IMMORTAL SPIRIT BODY...... WE HAVE THE PROMISED RESURRECTION TO IMMORTALITY - OR CHANGE FROM MORTAL TO DIVINE FOR THOSE CHRISTIANS LIVING IN THE FLESH AND BLOOD, WHEN JESUS RETURNS.
WELL BACK TO THE PARABLE OF THE WISE AND UNWISE VIRGINS.
THOSE LIVING DURING THE LAST 42 MONTHS OF THIS AGE; MANY OF THEM NEW CHRISTIANS, WILL IN THE MAIN NOT HAVE THE KNOWLEDGE OF PROPHETIC EVENTS; THEY WILL NOT KNOW EXACTLY WHERE THE WORLD IS, IN THE ENDTIME EVENTS OF THE LAST YEARS OF THIS AGE. THEY WILL SIMPLY HAVE TO BE TRUE CHRISTIANS, WATCHING THEMSELVES THAT THEY REMAIN SPIRITUALLY PURE AND DOING THE WILL OF GOD IN HOW THEY LIVE. FOR TO THEM ESPECIALLY IS THIS PARABLE ADDRESSED. THEY INDEED WILL NOT KNOW WHERE THEY ARE IN THE COUNTDOWN TO THE COMING OF CHRIST - THEY FOR SURE WILL NOT KNOW THE DAY NOR THE HOUR OF JESUS' RETURN. THEY FOR SURE BETTER NOT SAY, "OH THE LORD DELAYS HIS COMING" AND SO GO BACK INTO THE WORLD IN SOME WAYS; BECOMING SPIRITUALLY SLUMBERING AND SLEEPING, FOR IF THEY DO, THEY WILL BE ON THE OUTSIDE LOOKING IN; AS JESUS SAID, THERE WILL BE WEEPING AND GNASHING OF TEETH. FOR JESUS WILL COME IN AN HOUR THEY WERE NOT EXPECTING HIM.
AND WE ALSO SHOULD REMEMBER THAT THIS PARABLE HAS A MEANING FOR US TODAY, WHO ARE LIVING IN A TIME WHEN MANY PROPHETIC STEPPING STONES ARE YET TO COME TO PASS, MANY YEARS FROM NOW, BEFORE JESUS CAN RETURN. BUT HIS COMING IS AS CLOSE AS OUR FALLING ASLEEP IN DEATH; SO WE MUST ALL BE SPIRITUALLY AWAKE AND OUR LAMPS FILLED WITH THE OIL OF GOD'S SPIRIT, THAT WORKS WITH US AND OUT OF US, AS A LIGHT OF VIBRANT CHRISTIANITY TO ALL AROUND US.
THEN WHENEVER THAT DAY OF CHRIST'S RETURN COMES, WE CAN HEAR, "WELL DONE YOU FAITHFUL SERVANT, ENTER THE JOY OF YOUR LORD; ENTER MY MARRIAGE FEAST."
Keith Hunt
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