Today,
reply is on understanding Bible language that speaks to “the last
days.” Christians are to grasp, we are living in the last stages
of a profound transformation. Rather than a time-period or a season
marked by catastrophe and upheaval, the last days frame the maturing
and ripening for harvest of those who belong to Jesus Christ, and who
will be removed from the earth at the Savior’s
appearing. Mankind joined to Christ is to be released from
mortality. The last days are the present condition and stage of the
transformation of mankind to permanently exist as a companion to
divinity. It is written: 1st Thessalonians 4: 16-18,
King James Version (KJV): 16 For the Lord himself shall descend from
heaven with a shout, with the voice of the archangel, and with the
trump of God: and the dead in Christ shall rise first: 17 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. 18 Wherefore comfort one another with these
words. One of the fighters in the “Yahoo! Answers” public forum
on Religion and Spirituality who uses the ID “Anonymous” (no
profile is shared) posted the following:
Christians,
does bible say we are living in last days?
THE
GOLDEN ARROW: Now this I say, brethren, that flesh and blood cannot
inherit the kingdom of God; neither doth corruption inherit
incorruption. Behold, I shew you a mystery; We shall not all sleep,
but we shall all be changed, In a moment, in the twinkling of an
eye, at the last trump: for the trumpet shall sound, and the dead
shall be raised incorruptible, and we shall be changed. For this
corruptible must put on incorruption, and this mortal must put
on immortality. So when this corruptible shall have put on
incorruption, and this mortal shall have put on immortality, then
shall be brought to pass the saying that is written, Death is
swallowed up in victory. O death, where is thy sting? O
grave, where is thy victory? The sting of death is sin; and
the strength of sin is the law. But thanks be to God,
which giveth us the victory through our Lord Jesus Christ. (1st
Corinthians 15: 50-57, King James Version, KJV)
THE
DOUBLE DAGGER: “Normal” For the World (09/10/2019); Recognizing
The End Times (04/16/2019); Messiah Already Has Come (04/14/2019);
Divine Preparations for Advent (03/17/2019); “The End Is Near”
(03/14/2018); Sharing The Correct Message (01/30/2017); About The End
Of The World (08/30/2015)
“Anonymous”,
there are multiple proclamations, promises, and prophecies throughout
the Bible that speak of events that will occur in the “last days”
for this Creation. The things recorded and written are not shared to
detail and foretell future human events that are yet to happen so
much as they are to provide further revelation of the divine
character, process, and substance of divinity. Divine fullness (we
also say, divinity; the Godhead; the Father, the Son, the Holy
Spirit) is immortal, and there will be no end of GOD. Discussions of
the last days are not presented to belittle, frighten, or intimidate
sinners; and they are provided as “prophecy” to comfort, edify
and exhort. Discussions of the last days are to establish continuing
consciousness of divine prerogative, unchanging eternal purpose, and
the sovereign will of GOD. While there will be an apocalypse to
complete and settle unresolved conflicts that exist between the
Creator and all created beings and living creatures, and there will
be the reconfiguration of heaven and earth, the operations of GOD
will manifest judgment having finality, impartiality, and
righteousness, rather than condemnation, punishment for sins, or
warfare against rebellion. Consider again the following that uses
language from the Bible:
1.
Genesis 49: 1-2, King James Version (KJV): 1 And Jacob called unto
his sons, and said, Gather yourselves together, that I may tell you
that which shall befall you in the last days. 2 Gather
yourselves together, and hear, ye sons of Jacob; and hearken unto
Israel your father.
2.
Micah 4: 1-3, KJV: 1 But in the last days it shall come to pass,
that the mountain of the house of the LORD
shall be established in the top of the mountains, and it shall be
exalted above the hills; and people shall flow unto it. 2 And many
nations shall come, and say, Come, and let us go up to the mountain
of the LORD, and to the house of the God of
Jacob; and he will teach us of his ways, and we will walk in his
paths: for the law shall go forth of Zion, and the word of the LORD
from Jerusalem. 3 And he shall judge among many people, and rebuke
strong nations afar off; and they shall beat their swords into
plowshares, and their spears into pruninghooks:
3.
Acts 2: 16-21, KJV: 16 But this is that which was spoken by the
prophet Joel; 17 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: 18 And on my servants and on my
handmaidens I will pour out in those days of my Spirit; and they
shall prophesy: nation shall not lift up a sword against nation,
neither shall they learn war any more. 19 And I will shew wonders in
heaven above, and signs in the earth beneath; blood, and fire, and
vapour of smoke: 20 The sun shall be turned into darkness, and the
moon into blood, before the great and notable day of the Lord come:
21 And it shall come to pass, that whosoever shall call on the
name of the Lord shall be saved.
4.
2nd Timothy 3: 1-5, KJV: 1 This know also, that in the
last days perilous times shall come. 2 For men shall be lovers of
their own selves, covetous, boasters, proud, blasphemers, disobedient
to parents, unthankful, unholy, 3 Without natural affection,
trucebreakers, false accusers, incontinent, fierce, despisers of
those that are good, 4 Traitors, heady, highminded, lovers of
pleasures more than lovers of God; 5 Having a form of godliness, but
denying the power thereof: from such turn away.
There
is far more that should be said, correctly examined, and spiritually
apprehended. (For example, 5. Hebrews 1: 1-3, KJV: 1 God, who at
sundry times and in divers manners spake in time past unto the
fathers by the prophets, 2 Hath in these last days spoken unto us by
his Son, whom he hath appointed heir of all things, by whom
also he made the worlds; 3 Who being the brightness of his
glory, and the express image of his person, and upholding all things
by the word of his power, when he had by himself purged our sins, sat
down on the right hand of the Majesty on high:) Even so, I trust
this fragment will be useful. Be it unto you according to your
faith.
AN
AFTERTHOUGHT: Where Christian believers focus on the “the last
days,” it is more correct we acknowledge that those on the earth
who belong to Jesus Christ, and are mature/ripe for harvest are in
the last stage of their preparation to be made immortal companions of
divinity. Therefore, it is not a cause for alarm; and believers
should not be careful regarding how long the duration of the last
days, or when there will be the conclusion for the passing of some
finite and predetermined period whose length continues to remain
secret and unknown.
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