BIOLA RADIO PROPHECY MESSAGE
by Dr. Ralph L. Keiper
THE EVENT OF EVENTS
W e read the newspapers, listen to thé radio, watch the television in order to know what is going on in the world. The Bible tells us that there are great news events to transpire in the days ahead. In fact, the Bible is a Book of news, the greatest event of which is the physical, bodily, literal return personally to this earth of the Lord Jesus Christ. This is why the Bible is the good news of God’s prom ised redemption for man. The angels brought this good news to the shep herds as they declared, “Behold, I bring you good tidings of great joy, which shall be to all people. For unto you is bom this day in the city of David a Saviour, which is Christ the Lord.” Many of us have received the Good News with gladness and as a result we have the promise of eternal life. The event of the second coming of Christ will outclass anything else which has ever appeared in the head lines of our newspapers. It will be an indescribable event. Actually it will be a mysterious event because, first, all true believers will be taken from the earth, or raptured, to meet Him in the clouds. What a glorious, visible event this will be. This is testified to us as we read in Acts, in the words of the heavenly truth, “Ye men of Galilee, why stand ye here gazing up into heaven? this same Jesus, which is taken up from you into heaven, shall so come in like manner as ye see him go into heaven” (Acts 1:11). The disci ples were given the blessed promise concerning the very one whom they had known both before and after His resurrection. The very same Jesus, not merely a spiritual form, but a physical Jesus, having flesh anid bone, would come again. The words “like maimer” are very interesting in the light of our studies. The idea is something unusual and out of the ordinary; something
absolutely foreign to what might be expected. The event of Christ’s ascending into heaven with the attending message of angels was not a surprise to the disci ples. They had now remembered the words which our Lord Jesus Himself had declared unto them. They remem bered He had said, “Let not your heart be troubled: ye believe in God, believe also in me. In my Father’s house are many mansions: if it were not so, I would have told you. I go to prepare a place for you. And if I go to prepare a place for you, I will come again, and receive you unto myself; that where I am, there ye may be also” (John 14: 1-3). Humanly speaking, this event for which the believer waits will startle and defy the world. With all the wis dom of science brilliant men are un able to fathom where the Lord Jesus Christ is. The same is true from the point of view of philosophy, this truth is fan tastic. But with the proven veracity of the Word of God, it is the very basis and foundation of our hope, and confidence. The Lord God almighty gives testi mony to the fact of this great event, “So Christ was once offered to bear the sins of many; and unto them that look for him shall he appear the sec ond time without sin unto salvation” (Hebrews 9:28). The first time He came He was humiliated, and received a crown of thorns. When He comes again He will receive the crown of glory. Are you looking for this great and blessed event? We will not only be observers or spectators, but we shall be participants as we meet the Lord in the air (I Thess. 4:13-18). Have you put your faith and trust in Him? “But as many as received him, to them gave he power to become the sons of God, even to them that believe on his name” (John 1:12). 12
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