Dear Friends of "Dial Daily Bread,"
Does the great God of heaven, the Creator of the cosmos, care about "time"? Isaiah 57 says that He is "the high and lofty One that inhabiteth eternity, whose name is Holy" (vs. 15). Can anyone who "fills" eternity care about us down here who are immersed in the limitations of time? Care about us who get anxious because of delay?
To put the question in a different way, Does He care WHEN the second coming of Christ will take place? Or does Jesus have His own way of looking at "time" so that when He tells us "Behold, I come quickly" He actually means something wholly outside our perimeters of consciousness? As one writer to a respected church paper said, could it mean another 400 years before He comes? Has God used the words "quickly" and "soon" with a meaning totally different from what we humans can understand? If a father tells a little child, "I am coming home soon," when he means 50 years, is that not being deceptive?
(1) The Son of God stepped down low, relinquishing His prerogatives of divinity (but not His divinity!) and became one of us, "Emmanuel, … God with us." So, "in Christ," He has subjected Himself to the limitations of time, for our sake.
(2) He gave us the holy Sabbath, which is "time" set apart for sanctification. He "blessed and sanctified it." Yes, He that "inhabiteth eternity" is immersed in time!
(3) He has given us certain specific time prophecies in Daniel and the Revelation that make eminent good sense.
(4) Christ Himself is more desirous, I might say anxious, for "the marriage of the Lamb" to come, than we are. Christ in His glorified state is still human as well as divine, "with [us] always." He is an eager Bridegroom longing for the marriage day to come! In divine/human impatience, He finds it hard to "wait."
From the "Dial Daily Bread" Archive: July 27, 2001.Copyright © 2010 by Robert J. Wieland.
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Does the great God of heaven, the Creator of the cosmos, care about "time"? Isaiah 57 says that He is "the high and lofty One that inhabiteth eternity, whose name is Holy" (vs. 15). Can anyone who "fills" eternity care about us down here who are immersed in the limitations of time? Care about us who get anxious because of delay?
To put the question in a different way, Does He care WHEN the second coming of Christ will take place? Or does Jesus have His own way of looking at "time" so that when He tells us "Behold, I come quickly" He actually means something wholly outside our perimeters of consciousness? As one writer to a respected church paper said, could it mean another 400 years before He comes? Has God used the words "quickly" and "soon" with a meaning totally different from what we humans can understand? If a father tells a little child, "I am coming home soon," when he means 50 years, is that not being deceptive?
(1) The Son of God stepped down low, relinquishing His prerogatives of divinity (but not His divinity!) and became one of us, "Emmanuel, … God with us." So, "in Christ," He has subjected Himself to the limitations of time, for our sake.
(2) He gave us the holy Sabbath, which is "time" set apart for sanctification. He "blessed and sanctified it." Yes, He that "inhabiteth eternity" is immersed in time!
(3) He has given us certain specific time prophecies in Daniel and the Revelation that make eminent good sense.
(4) Christ Himself is more desirous, I might say anxious, for "the marriage of the Lamb" to come, than we are. Christ in His glorified state is still human as well as divine, "with [us] always." He is an eager Bridegroom longing for the marriage day to come! In divine/human impatience, He finds it hard to "wait."
From the "Dial Daily Bread" Archive: July 27, 2001.Copyright © 2010 by Robert J. Wieland.
Be sure to check your e-mail for "Dial Daily Bread" again tomorrow.
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Please forward these messages to your friends and encourage them to subscribe. The "Dial Daily Bread" Web site resides at: http://1888message.org/
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Robert J. Wieland's inspirational "Dial Daily Bread" messages are availalbe via e-mail to anyone who wishes to receive a daily portion of uplifting Good News. "Dial Daily Bread" is FREE. Due to travel or other circumstances, there may be intervals when "Dial Daily Bread" will not be sent.
