A GREAT DAY COMING

#267/41f                                       A GREAT DAY COMING

Scripture  Revelation 1:7-8                                                                                           Orig. 1/5/1963

Passage: 7 “Look, he is coming with the clouds,” and “every eye will see him, even those who pierced him”; and all peoples on earth “will mourn because of him.” So shall it be! Amen.

8 “I am the Alpha and the Omega,” says the Lord God, “who is, and who was, and who is to come, the Almighty.”

Keywords:                    Judgment                    End Time

Introduction

            In the last decade of the 19th Century when the motor car had already become an established innovation in France, and was feeling the pangs of birth in this country, in England, it was treated as an evil.  As late as 1896, England still had on her statute books a law which vitally restricted the power-propelled vehicle.  It could not travel the public highways at speeds greater than 4 miles per hour, and even then had to be preceded by a man bearing a red flag.

            I don’t know whether that red flag prevented any trouble or not, but I do know that there are red flags of danger which need to be raised, and the one I raise concerns the certainty of the coming judgment.

I.          Controlled by the Power of the Holy Spirit

            Guiding men to all truth. 

·         That we are sinners.  [There] is none righteous.  For all have sinned and come short of the glory of God.

·         That Christ saves.  Joel—It shall come to pass that whosoever shall call upon the name of the Lord shall be saved.

·         That the day of final reckoning is coming.

            Bringing about the glorification of the Saviour.

·         Historic Jesus

·         Messianic Jesus

·         Glorified Jesus.  Isaiah---swords into plowshare, spears into pruning hooks, nation shall not lift up sword against nation.

II.         Compensated by the Coming of Christ

            From this moment on, never again will a doubt exist.  At present we have our doubts. 

·         There are people who are sincere in their unbelief—"I just can’t see it.”  They need the example of godly lives.  Doubting Thomas.

·         There are others who don’t want to see.  But their eyes will then be opened.  “For every eye shall see him.”  They will think of every testimony.  Freddie Hutchinson—cancer of lung (45) not too late.

·         Even some Christians with eyes closed.  But God will open those eyes—tears of joy will flow like rivers down the cheeks of assured people.  Hallelujah, what a Saviour!

            This will be a glory unequaled in the history of the world.

III.       Completed by the Judgment of God

·         Time

            At a time appointed.  But of that hour knoweth no man.  Matthew 25:44 “Therefore be ye also ready for in such an hour as ye think not, the son of man cometh.”

            At a time known only to Him.  To awaken our fears—II Peter 3 “The day of the Lord will come as a thief in the night.”  To intensify our watchfulness—at Watch Night, someone mentioned the 10 virgins.  To increase our patience.

·         Circumstances

            The judge will be the great three in one.  God the Father—truth.  God the Son—love.  God the Holy Spirit—justice.

            The object will be the final overthrow of evil.