JESUS IS COMING...!

"He which testifieth these things saith, Surely I come quickly" (Rev 22:20).

This last testimony, last promise, and last prayer in the Bible is connected with the Coming of the Lord. And yet, most Christians only believe that Jesus may come some day, and not 'quickly'. Heaven and earth shall pass away, but the Lord's Word shall never pass away without fulfilment. Our Lord knew that many are going to doubt and despise this most blessed promise, "I come quickly." So for such doubters, He has deliberately said, "SURELY I come quickly." God's Word is very sure, and yet, 'SURELY' is added.

How sad that, despite this, people still doubt to their own destruction! Look at the warning the Lord is giving to such doubters: "If that evil servant shall say in his heart, My Lord delayeth his coming; and shall begin to smite his fellow servants, and to eat and drink with the drunken; the lord of that servant shall come in a day when he looketh not for him, and in an hour that he is not aware of, and shall cut him asunder, and appoint him his portion with the hypocrites: there shall be weeping and gnashing of teeth!" (Matt 24:48-51). If he who thinks that the Lord will delay His Coming is called an evil servant, and is cut into pieces and thrown into the place meant for hypocrites to howl and cry eternally, how much greater a punishment will come upon the one who says that the Lord will delay His Coming!

Dear reader, believe His promise, "Surely I come quickly." Maybe today, maybe even this moment, the Lord will come.

"Are you watching, are you waiting,

In the raiment pure and white?

Would you join at His appearing,

If our Lord should come to-night?"

Only those who are 'ardently' waiting for His appearing, those who love His appearing, those who are filled with the hope of His Coming, will keep purifying themselves even as He is pure, and live in readiness for His Coming. "It doth not yet appear what we shall be: but we know that when He shall appear we shall be like Him... Every man that hath this hope in him purifieth himself even as He is pure" (I Jn 3:2,3).

- Late Pastor T.U.Thomas, in Morning Manna