Dial Daily Bread

Dear Friends of "Dial Daily Bread":

A thousand times “yes!” Let’s agree that when the Savior of the world
died on His cross and proclaimed “It is finished!” He won the great
controversy all by Himself.

Yes, yes, He died “instead” of us. Yes, salvation is assured. Yes, He
opened the gates of Paradise. Yes, it was all done even before we were
born. Yes, yes, we contribute nothing to our own salvation.

But does all that mean that we His people, being “covered” by this
celestial Insurance Policy, now have only to “wait” and “occupy until
[He] comes”? (Cf. Luke 19:13; that word “occupy” has come to mean make
lots of money, enjoy the world, don’t lose out, have our fun as though
there were no solemn Day of Atonement for us to live in). Does Christ’s
dying “instead” of us mean that we have no cross to “share” with Him?
He dies 100% only “instead” of us? From now on are we simply so many
childish digits in the credit column in God’s heavenly computer, and we
“wait” for the call of the first resurrection? Or is there some serious
business before us about getting ready to meet Jesus at His second
coming?

Please note: there are four glorious “Hallelujah Choruses” in
Revelation 19:1-7 that say something must happen that at last makes
possible that “the Lord God omnipotent reigns”! And that something not
having happened yet has delayed His “reign” for many, many years, even
though He finished His dying “instead” of us. What finally must happen
is that “the Lamb’s wife” “make herself ready” for the intimacy of the
“marriage of the Lamb.” What happened on the cross was wonderful
indeed, but nobody can (or will) be happy in heaven until those
Hallelujah Choruses can be sung, proclaiming a hitherto elusive
victory.

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