September 21, 2015 WWJWMTD by Steve the son of John

“Even so, come, Lord Jesus”

#5 The Jesus of the Gospels & The Last Days

Series on the End Times, The Revelation & Christ’s Return

In Revelation Jesus comes back in a fighting mode. He is serious about His return and He wants His church to be ready and prepared. In fact, He is so serious about the Church getting ready, He demands we be perfect in many ways or we will miss all the good stuff He has planned for us.

In the Gospels Christ gives us a different perspective to The Last Days. Why so different? I am not so sure they are different. God is simple yet complex. The more we know the more about His purposes and actions the more everything becomes clear—even to the simple and hard of hearing like myself.

Jesus makes these illustrations about The End of Times and His Second Coming:

ü The sign of His coming: 1. Do not let any person deceive you, 2. Many will come in my name, 3. There will be many wars, be not troubled and note that this is not the end, 4. Famines, plagues, earthquakes will come and this is only the beginning, 5. You will be persecuted, 6. Many false prophets will deceive many people, 7. The love of many will cease, 8. But if you endure you will be saved.

ü The gospel must be preached throughout the whole earth before I come back: 1. The temple will be built and the anti-Christ will set up his image in the temple, 2. Warning not to prepare or change what you are doing but only pray that your resurrection be not in a time of darkness and not after the fact, 3. At this time there will be great tribulation (sound like Revelation?), 4. There will be great signs and miracles by persons saying ‘I am the Christ’, 5. All of this is being done to deceive the chosen and elected in Christ, 6. Immediately after the tribulation, the sun will be darkened and the moon turn to blood, 7. And now Christ will return, coming in clouds, with angels, with a great sound, with wind and all will see Him and mourn because of Him.

ü The ‘hour and day’ (this is what Jesus calls the timeframe of these events—sound familiar to Revelation)—No man or angel will know, only the Father in heaven: 1. People will be going about their normal routines of marrying and having fun, 2. God will secure first those who are His, just like He did with Noah and the flood, 3. Certain people will be gone—one taken and another left, 4. You must watch or Jesus will come to you as a thief—get your house in order, 5. You will not be able to guess the hour of My coming—a good and wise servant is one who is doing God’s will keeping God’s commandments, 6. Christians will be saying ‘Jesus delays His coming’—this is not true, 7. Lastly, if you do not watch and serve Christ till the end, your reward will be with those He throws into hell.

ü What is doing Christ will and keeping His commandments?—Matthew chapter 25 (the previous statements came from chapter 24): 1. 10 virgins, five wise and five foolish; the wise virgins had oil (anointing in their lives and were ready to let it shine at a moments notice), the five that were not prepared were not allowed in heaven 2. The ‘story of talents,’ God gives to us talents/gifts and we are to make them grow and produce, if you do not you are left behind, 3. In the end there is an account taken to see who is worthy to stay in heaven—if you are sheep (willing to let Christ lead you) and not goats (suborn and self-will), you can stay in heaven, 4. If you helped people who are poor, in prison, naked, sick, or a stranger then God lets you have your reward (This is both physical and spiritual conditions, do not think that only your time and money can help people. God expects us to help others when they are in these spiritual conditions also) 5. The choice is yours between eternal punishment and eternal life.

I believe that Revelation is clarified with what Jesus says in the Gospels. He gives a lot of wisdom by offering ‘a road map of what to look for or avoid’ in order to survive and prepare for His coming. One cannot understand anything about Revelation without the Gospels or you will add or take away from the message of Revelation. If you “Got Jesus” you can “Get Revelation”; besides, The Revelation is ‘the revelation of Jesus Christ’ chapter 1 vs. 1.

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Dr. Steven J. Wentland www.wwjwmtd.com

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