Jesus is coming again (soon!!)

 

On approaching the village of Moira (in Northern Ireland) from the M1 motorway, one cannot fail to see the words “THE COMING OF THE LORD DRAWETH NIGH” inscribed in large, white letters on a stone wall. It was painted many years ago by a man with a love for the gospel and a burden for souls and its clear announcement has arrested not a few over the years and alerted them to the imminence and inevitability of this great event and the need for preparation as no one knows when the Lord will return.

Over the years since it first appeared so visibly and legibly on that wall, many headlines have been written which proved to be false, but the passing of time has not changed by one iota the truth of this statement found in the Holy Bible. The man who painted these words so carefully and skilfully was convinced that the Lord’s coming was near, and how much closer it must be now!

Have you made preparation for that event which will have a seismic impact on this world in a moment of time? Only those who are saved, who have trusted Christ, will be involved in the mass exodus of millions, dead and living, who will disappear when the Saviour comes back for His own as He Himself stated in John 14.3: “I will come again, and receive you unto Myself; that where I am, there ye may be also”.

Many doubt if the Lord Jesus will ever come back: “scoffers” who ask derisively, “Where is the promise of His coming?” 2Peter 3.4. Even some who should know better, who have heard repeatedly from earnest preachers that “the Lord Himself shall descend from heaven …” 1Thessalonians 4.16, and that it will happen “in a moment, in the twinkling of an eye …” 1Corinthians 15.52, have questioned if it is true! My friend, it is absolutely true and is the hope of every believer in our Lord Jesus Christ.

Napoleon, Socrates or Jesus? Who would you vote for?

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Napoleon Bonaparte once said, “If Socrates would enter the room, we should rise and do him honour, but if Jesus Christ came into the room, we should fall down on our knees and worship Him.”  Dr Luke, the writer of the third gospel account in the New Testament, would have agreed wholeheartedly with the French General.  

If ever a man wrote a book filled with good news for everybody, Dr Luke is that man. His key message is, "For the Son of Man is come to seek and to save those who are lost".  He presents Jesus Christ as the compassionate Son of Man, who came to live among sinners, love them, help them, and die for them.  In Luke’s Gospel, we meet individuals as well as crowds, women and children as well as men, poor people as well as rich people, and sinners along with saints. It is a book with a message for everybody?  

The most remarkable book in the world.

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The Bible is a remarkable book, we can even say totally unique.  It is divided into Old Testament, completed four hundred years before the birth of Jesus and the New Testament, completed by the end of the first century AD. The Old Testament has many strands of predictive prophecy and the most important of those predictions apply to the Lord Jesus.  It has been worked our that there are sixty prophecies focused  upon various aspects of Jesus including His birth, death, burial and resurrection. This is an amazing number and they came true in the minutest detail.