At the end of last week’s blog post, I wrote that even though you may have failed to keep one or more resolutions that you made at the beginning of this year, you can be sure that God keeps His promises. Thinking about the end of my blog post and the beginning of this year brought to mind the names that Jesus declared near the end of the New Testament:
“I am the Alpha and the Omega” (Revelation 22:13a)
Although I never studied Greek, I know that Alpha and Omega are the first and last letters in the Greek alphabet. The Lord Jesus goes on to say:
“the Beginning and the End, the First and the Last.” (Rev. 22:13b).
Dr. David Jeremiah, in his Study Bible, writes: “Christ’s three titles prove that He can and will fulfill His promise to reward all according to their works. Jesus contains everything that can be said. The Beginning and the End expresses His sovereignty and eternal nature. The First and the Last refers not only to Jesus in Revelation but also to the Lord God in Isaiah 44:6 and 48:12. No one is before Him or after Him. Christ has started everything, and He will complete everything (Philippians 1:6 and Hebrews 12:2). Christ controls all of history and all of eternity.”
In a booklet entitled “What Can We Know About the Endtimes?” Martin De Haan II of Radio Bible Class writes: “No amount of effort can stop the clock of history. No mortal, no matter how influential, wealthy, or well-known can break through the tyranny of time. Every day that passes, every flash of a digital crystal, brings us closer to the dramatic events predicted in the Bible. We can put time to good use. But we cannot stop it. Not for a moment.”
Martin De Haan II gives the following outline of seven major events of the endtimes:
- Return In The Air: Christ comes back for His own.
- Rise of the Antichrist: Christ is challenged.
- Unparalleled Trouble: Christ troubles the nations and Israel.
- Return To The Earth: Christ comes to rescue and judge Israel, and to judge the nations.
- 1,000-Year Reign: Christ rules the world from an earthly throne.
- Final Judgment: Christ defeats His enemies and judges unbelievers.
- New World: Christ creates a new heaven and a new earth.
Thanks to the Internet, we can access many ministries, including Radio Bible Class, which began in 1938. Many Biblical studies and publications are available at: https://ourdailybreadministries.ca/
Praise be to God, who loves us with an everlasting love!
Steve