<x-tad-bigger>Dear Friends of "Dial Daily Bread":
There’s something that Jesus said that stumps Bible-believing
Christians who for 150 years have been telling the world that “Jesus
is coming soon.” He promised that the people who first recognized the
“signs” that meant His coming was near were a “generation [that] shall
not pass away” until He should come the second time (Mark 13:30). Why
the delay? Unless some reasonable explanation can be given, don’t
blame young people for walking away.
The context is clear. Jesus has been telling about the “signs” to come
in the heavens that tell the world His coming is near (“dark day,
1780), “falling of the stars” (1833; vss. 24-26), and then He is to
come. Jesus wants to come the second time! We must not overlook the
fact that in becoming “Emanuel, God with us” He has become one of us
for all eternity. He is a Bridegroom eager (as any loving bridegroom
is) for His Wedding! He wants to gather to Himself His own--which is
why He wants to come the second time. This important aspect of the
second coming eludes many sincere people who think only of their own
salvation, and not of His happiness.
The heavenly Bridegroom’s Bride-to-be has selfishly delayed to “make
herself ready” for “the marriage of the Lamb” (Rev. 19:7, 8). There
has not been that eager response to His wooing that He longs for. It’s
outside her door, not inside, where He stands “knocking, knocking”
(Rev. 3:20; Song of Solomon 5:2, 3, from where Christ quoted that
expression, in the Greek Old Testament, LXX).
Scripture postulates a change to take place in the very heart of that
Bride-to-be. All Heaven awaits it; so does Jesus.
Be sure to check your e-mail for "Dial Daily Bread" again tomorrow.
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