This morning in prayer I was talking to the LORD about the evils all around us and how hard it’s becoming to have a lifestyle we’ve been used to. Then I started thinking about how God, from the beginning of man, chose ‘men with faith in Him’ to bring His Son to the earth as the Savior of the world and to lead us into the LIFE that is truly life; into the PEACE the world knows nothing about; to show us the way to endure the EVIL days while we wait His coming.
From the beginning of mankind God chose a generational line, from the “first man Adam to the last man Jesus Christ.” Adam gave over his (man’s) dominion of his inheritance of the earth - to the devil - when Adam disobeyed his Father God about eating from the tree of the knowledge of good and evil. Satan worked through Eve to get Adam to eat the fruit. Adam’s son Cain killed his brother Abel whom God favored. Adam and Eve then had another son. Eve said of Seth: “God has granted me another son in place of Abel.” “Seth also had a son and he named him Enosh. At that time people BEGAN to call on the Name of the LORD.” Genesis 4:25-26
After Seth, then the others came in the chosen line on down through the generations to Noah. Noah’s grandfather, Methuselah, lived 969 years, and Noah’s father, Lamech, lived 777 years. Noah became a father at the age of 500 years old and Noah lived to be 950 years old. (Genesis 5) Why don’t we live this long? Our sin ‘nature’ that Adam passed on has caused our lifespan to diminish over time.
In Matthew chapter 1 is recorded the ongoing chosen line with Abraham (from Noah’s son Shem), for the genealogy of God’s Son coming into the world as our Savior. Abraham to Isaac and then Jacob, and then from Jacob’s 12 sons, the line comes through Judah, and is why Christ is called the “LION OF JUDAH.” He’ll come again but not as the LAMB of God, but as the LION with a ROAR of VICTORY. Jesus is called “the First and the Last.” (Revelation 22:13) “I am the Alpha and the Omega, the First and the Last, the Beginning and the End.”
That was God’s purpose of the “chosen line” of men, to bring His Son into the world as our Savior Redeemer, and by the miraculous way of a virgin with the seed of God’s Spirit, so the father of Jesus would not be a man with the sin nature passed on to Him. Then from Christ’s line (not having a wife or any sexual relations) comes the last of the chosen line: born-again Spirit-filled believers.
God spoke to Noah, and Noah believed God. This is what qualifies a man (or woman) to be called a man (or woman) of God through whom God works and speaks. Noah must have spent a maximum of 100 years (and probably slightly less) building the Ark. This time frame was the time God gave to Noah to also warn people about the coming judgment and to turn to the LORD GOD to be saved. The Ark was God’s way of saving His chosen line for human life to continue. Jesus Christ is also known as the ARK OF GOD. Are you in Him?
We are told in Scripture: “As it was in the days of Noah so shall it be at the coming of the Son of Man.” (Matthew 25:37) Jesus IS coming again to reign one thousand years on the earth to conquer all evil and even death, and to renew all things that God once called “good.” What God has said, God will do in the time He has purposed.
I don’t know about you, but I am finding myself unable to enjoy life like I used to. The only thing that I really find enjoyment in is my husband and children and friends who love the LORD. My heart is increasingly grieved as evil rapidly intensifies on the earth because of man’s evolving godlessness, technology, and evil activity against anything to do with God and God’s people. But, it’s all building up to the coming of Satan personified, “the Man of Lawlessness.” Satan thinks he has accomplished his will to reign with his evil one world order because every nation’s government has finally become godless, sadly even America. According to 2 Thessalonians 2: “The One who now RESTRAINS him (the devil embodying a man) will continue to restrain him until He (God’s Holy Spirit) is taken out of the way. Then the lawless one will be REVEALED (on earth for all to worship), whom the LORD JESUS WILL SLAY with the breath of His Mouth and annihilate by the majesty of His arrival (Revelation 19:11 on).” GLORY!
When the Holy Spirit is taken off the earth, God’s Spirit-filled people go with Him to meet the LORD HIMSELF in the clouds. (Daniel 12 talks about it.) This is what is scripturally known as “the rapture of the Bride of Christ.” Then watch out! The remaining judgments from chapters 11-18 of Revelation are still coming: 7th Trumpet Judgments and the 7 Bowl Judgments begin, which is called the GREAT TRIBULATION years on the earth (a short time of 3 ½ years or 7 years depending on your study about that time). Last chance people! When the KING of king and LORD of lords returns – that’s it! No more mercy from God. God has been patient long enough! His patience has a time-period, isn’t that interesting.
God has a new world coming with His Son and His holy people. Hallelujah! “No eye has seen, no ear has heard, no heart has imagined, what God has planned for those who love Him.” (1 Corinthians 2:9) This is what I long for! This is our LORD’s longing too!
In the book of Revelation, we see the current and coming judgments on the earth (the 7 seals, 7 trumpets and 7 bowls of Revelation chapters 11-18) used by God to incite/provoke/motivate/inflame people to call on the LORD JESUS as their Savior - before it’s too late. When will it be too late? When King Jesus returns just as He said He would, on time and in all His glory!
Revelation 19 then describes what happens to the godless nations of this world, and to Satan and his beast and prophet (technology and media), and even death. (Chapters 19-22). But sadly, as we see and hear, all these holy judgments that are rooted in the love of God (yes they are rooted in His love!) won’t bring all people to their knees in surrender and worship of the One True Living God, but only “the few.” What we do see happening is man furthering his false belief that he is in control. “The fools says in his heart that there is no God.”
You know what I love about my LORD JESUS? If I was the only one throughout the history of mankind to believe in Him, He still would’ve come and died for just me, to pardon me and bless me with the love and life of my Father God.
I find it interesting that in the last chapter of the Bible (Revelation 22), it is titled “Eden Restored.” What God first intended for those who love and obey Him – God has and will accomplish through His Son: the only FAITHFUL AND TRUE!