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Show THE DAY AND THE HOUR OF THE SON OF MAN COMING Matthew 24: 36-44 Weare still here! end would come, the still here! Listen at what Jesus said about that day and hour of Yesterday was the day some people said the judgment would be. But we the Son of Man coming. are There would be wars, .-- lA.)t.J l.U i.<) international unrest, r:J=j famines, pestilence, persecutions, false Christ. Jesus said the holy place would be in abomination, the great tribulation would come, world powers will smite the gentiles without notice, the glorious appearing of the Lord will be to all nations, Israel will re-gather, fig tree, sign people will be warned of the coming events. Still the end although it is soon coming, will not be known. For "that day and hour knoweth no man, no not the angels of heaven, but my Father only." It will be like the day of Noah. Noah warned the people for 120 years to get ready. He built an ark for their protection. He called them to repent. Yet they went about eating and drinking, marrying and giving in marriage as if nothing new was happening. In other words, they went about their business as usual. They did the things that were comfortable and that they had always been doing. They ignored the signs of the times and the warnings of the preacher. It was not until the water began to fall and the flood rose that they realized their situation. In fact they looked around and realized that strange things were happening. Some that had been with and had been very close to them of the the were gone. Jesus tells the story of the five wise and the five foolish who filled with oil. lamps. lamps groom. They They waited and waited and waited and soon the time Their took their were was They gone. It and five of them went with him and five five had nothing to carry them over were in the slumbered and midnight. slept. The trumpet scrambled to get their lamps was they woke up. The bridegroom was upon them. They lite, to be ready, to be prepared at the last moment. All to no avail. sounded and went out to meet the bride For the bridegroom came lamps but left. Five had extra oil to re-trim their midnight hours. They had run out of oil. Like Daniel it thrown in the lions den. Like the Hebrew boys it was praying too late to cool off after they were thrown in the fiery furnace. The Bible reminds us that the faithful, the always ready, the continuously prepared will be the ones who will go in, who will be ready, who will be wise, when the time comes. was too late to start after he was |
