Dear Friends of "Dial Daily Bread,"
King Zedekiah in terror asked the prophet Jeremiah, "Is there any word from the Lord?" The prophet's answer was succinct: "There is" (37:17; 38:2, 3). The Lord had a solution for them that would be Good News: surrender to the king of Babylon and accept the humiliating chastisement of the Lord for their good, and at least your lives can be saved and you can live in order to repent.
As the world reels from wars, and the threat of wars, if they should ask, "Is there any word from the God of heaven who is above all the nations?," the answer is, there is. "The hour of God's judgment is come" (Rev. 14:6, 7). The grand, final Day of Atonement is on us. We're in it.
"Atonement" means reconciliation; it's the final hour of earth's long history, the hour in which at last a corporate body of believers gathered from all humanity become fully, finally reconciled to God. It's never happened in all our 6000 years; the blessed result will be the fruitage of the "cleansing of the sanctuary" prophesied in Daniel 8:13, 14.
It's not a time for sorrow and sadness, no; to "him who overcomes" (that is, to those who overcome) the time has come when Jesus Christ, the Lamb of God and Savior of the world, invites them to "sit with Me on My throne, as I also overcame and sat down with My Father on His throne" (Rev. 3:20). They are given executive authority, sharing with Him the final ending of the great controversy between Christ and Satan.
At last hearts are at one with the heart of Christ, as a bride's heart is at one with her bridegroom's. Pride and arrogance are gone forever; now at last the church kneels contrite before the cross of Christ, sharing with Him the corporate burden that the sins of the world have laid on Him. Yes, "there IS" word from the Lord!
--Robert J. Wieland
From the "Dial Daily Bread" Archive: August 18, 2006.
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