Dear Friends of "Dial Daily Bread,"
"The day of the Lord" is a day when truth comes into its own and is recognized by honest people all over the world. It's the common possession of those who form a "body" of God's people; it unites them and motivates them to action. The result: a "church" which is related to Christ as a "woman" whom He loves and wants to wed in His "marriage of the Lamb."
Thoughtful followers of Jesus worldwide are coming together in a conviction: their understanding of Jesus Himself has been infantile, childish, immature, and it has blocked the way for the Holy Spirit to bless this dark world as the heavenly Father wants to do. His people have been content with the "former rain" gift of the Holy Spirit when the time has come instead for the "latter rain" gift. To delay the right thing at the right time is tragedy!
It's the same as a girl whom a man loves telling him, "I'm not ready; let's wait until maybe we're 90 years old." It's being content not to do the right thing at the right time. No wonder a very wise person said one critical time that in a cosmic sense "the disappointment of Christ is beyond description."
That's the problem that surfaces in Revelation 19--a worldwide church, the object of His nuptial love, in that capacity has rebuffed Him. She says, "I like you as long as you're at arm's length; but stay there." Could a man laugh and joke like nothing has happened if the one whom he loves treats him that way? Time means the world to him; "now" is it.
There's a book in the Bible that tells exactly how such a man would act: Song of Solomon 5:2-8. Jesus has read it and believed it, for He quoted it in His last words to the "angel of the church of the Laodiceans" (Rev. 3:20; He quoted the Greek translation which has "at the door").
--Robert J. Wieland
From the "Dial Daily Bread" Archive: June 28, 2006.
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