Tuesday 11 March 2014

WE MUST WITNESS FOR CHRIST BEFORE HE RETURNS

SIGNED! SEALED! DELIVERED! 
THE COVENANT CANNOT BE EXECUTED UNTIL IT HAS BEEN WITNESSED. 
IT MUST BE SIGNED AND SEALED BY THE COVENANT PEOPLE OF GOD. YOU AND I, THE BRIDE OF CHRIST.
THIS IS NECESSARY BEFORE IT CAN BE DELIVERED. 
Is there something that must be seen before the Bridegroom goes off with His Bride? Well in the wedding ceremony we know what that is. The Bride signs the covenant before witnesses. And Jesus Himself told us quite clearly what must happen before he returns.
Here are His very words.
"And this gospel of the kingdom shall be preached in all the world
for a witnessunto all nations,
and then shall the end come." (Mat.24. 14)
The verse above seems to be a key to the covenant as it applies to the Apocalypse. It seems that the job of witnessing to the nations must be wrapped up before this age comes to an end. Only then shall see the second coming of Christ.
So just who did God have in mind to bring this epic final witness. Who will be bringing their testimony before kings and rulers and before all nations up until the time of the end? Well it seems that God's covenant people, (His Church), were going to be involved. His Elect would be spreading the Gospel to the ends of the earth. Through an avenue of grace God's Christian, (and returning Jewish), Elect would be divinely enabled to bring their witness to Jesus Christ/Yeshua Hamashiach. Empowerment for witness would come by the inner working of the Holy Spirit. Christ is the head of His church. His people are His body. We live in vital union with Him. Before this age ends the Body of Christ is destined to bring in the final witness. Then comes the return of Messiah and the grand finale to holy history.
The Bride of Christ, even in a time of great travail, is destined to be resplendent in white, even the righteousness of the saints. She will purchase the 'gold refined in the fire' and be covered in the glory of her Father. Her partial blindness will be healed and she will see clearly for the first time. And in the power of this epic and climactic Holy Spirit outpouring the Bride of Christ will come into the End-Time Revival that Joel saw. (Joel 2:28-32) All this will be seen by the watching world.

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