Many Christians live in a dream. Although many Christians have expected to be taken to the air, eventually they all passed into the earth. During the last century and a half there have been many peculiar predictions regarding the coming of the Lord. Many so-called teachers of prophecy even dared to fix the date when the Lord would descend to the air. However, the years passed and nothing happened. .. In the New Testament the rapture is likened to a harvest, and a harvest is possible only after the crop has matured and ripened. If the crop is not ripe, but is still tender and green, how can the harvest come ? It is impossible. Brothers and sisters, look at the situation among the Lords people today. Look at the crop. Is it ripe ? Do you believe that according to the present stage of growth of the crop the harvest is imminent ? It is impossible. Look at the field - nowhere is there any real growth. .. There is hardly any growth and no maturity... We must realize that glorification with transfiguration depends upon our growing in life until we reach maturity.. GLORIFICATION WILL NOT COME AS AN ACCIDENT, as an OVERNIGHT OCCURRENCE ... As GODS CROP we need to ripen until the time of harvest, the time of our transfiguration and glorification. (Life-Study of Romans - Bro. Witness Lee )
Posted on: Sat, 26 Apr 2014 15:04:16 +0000