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Awaiting His Return. The End Is Near! All Aboard!
Contributed by William Akehurst on Apr 25, 2023 (message contributor)
Summary: What will be the sign of HIS Coming? "As in the Days of Noah..." Noah heard the Words of GOD, obeyed HIS Commands and built the ARK before GOD's Judgment came upon the earth. Look around you. Are we not living in days similar to Noah? The end is near! Get Ready, Get aboard!
2023.04.23.Sermon Notes. Awaiting His Return. Get everyone - All on board.
William Akehurst, HSWC
References: Matthew 24:37, Matthew 24:3-14; Matthew 24:36-44; Genesis 6:5-22; Genesis 7:1-23; Genesis 9:12-17; John 3:16-18; 1 Thessalonians 5:4-6; 1 Thessalonians 4:16-18; 2 Peter 2:5; 2 Peter 2:6; 2 Peter 3:3-10; 2 Peter 3:14-15; Romans 11:25; Matthew 24:44; Revelation 22:20
BIG IDEA: What will be the sign of HIS Coming? "As in the Days of Noah..."
Noah heard the Words of GOD and obeyed HIS Commands and built the ARK before GOD's Judgment came upon the earth. Look around you. Are we not living in days similar to Noah? The end is near. Get Ready, Get onboard ...Awaiting HIS Return.
Matthew 24:37 (NKJV) “But as the days of Noah were, so also will the coming of the Son of Man be.”
What will be the sign of your coming?
And of the end of the age?
Two questions asked of JESUS by the disciples.
Two returns. The Rapture of the Church, and the Return of CHRIST. (After Tribulation)
Matthew 24:3-14 (NKJV)
3 Now as He sat on the Mount of Olives, the disciples came to Him privately, saying, “Tell us, when will these things be? And what will be the sign of Your coming, and of the end of the age?”
4 And Jesus answered and said to them: “Take heed that no one deceives you. 5 For many will come in My name, saying, ‘I am the Christ,’ and will deceive many. 6 And you will hear of wars and rumors of wars. See that you are not troubled; for all these things must come to pass, but the end is not yet. 7 For nation will rise against nation, and kingdom against kingdom. And there will be famines, pestilences, and earthquakes in various places. 8 All these are the beginning of sorrows.
9 “Then they will deliver you up to tribulation and kill you, and you will be hated by all nations for My name’s sake. 10 And then many will be offended, will betray one another, and will hate one another. 11 Then many false prophets will rise up and deceive many. 12 And because lawlessness will abound, the love of many will grow cold. 13 But he who endures to the end shall be saved. 14 And this gospel of the kingdom will be preached in all the world as a witness to all the nations, and then the end will come.
AS THE DAYS OF NOAH WERE, SO ALSO WILL THE COMING OF CHRIST BE, ONE TAKEN, ONE REMAINS.
Matthew 24:36-44 (NKJV)
36 “But of that day and hour no one knows, not even the angels of heaven, but My Father only. 37 But as the days of Noah were, so also will the coming of the Son of Man be. 38 For as in the days before the flood, they were eating and drinking, marrying and giving in marriage, until the day that Noah entered the ark, 39 and did not know until the flood came and took them all away, so also will the coming of the Son of Man be. 40 Then two men will be in the field: one will be taken and the other left. 41 Two women will be grinding at the mill: one will be taken and the other left.
42 Watch therefore, for you do not know what hour your Lord is coming. 43 But know this, that if the master of the house had known what hour the thief would come, he would have watched and not allowed his house to be broken into.
44 Therefore you also be ready, for the Son of Man is coming at an hour you do not expect.
BE READY
The next high holiday on the Judeo-Christian Calendar is Pentecost.
To Christians, we celebrate receiving the Comforter, the HOLY SPIRIT who came to the disciples in that Upper Room.
In Jewish culture, it is the 49 days from Passover and the Exodus from Egypt leading up to receiving the LAW or the TORAH at Mt Sinai. Currently Orthodox Jews are “Counting the Omer” or counting each day up until that day when the celebrate GOD’s WORD, the TORAH. They literally get ready by counting the days.
We to must ‘count the days’, and be ready for CHRIST’s Coming.
When will that be? Matthew 24:42-44 we do not know, but we are to watch, to keep guard, to guard our house, our minds and this Temple of the HOLY SPIRIT, until HE Comes.
JESUS said, that HIS Return would be when the world was in turmoil as it was in the days of Noah. Matthew 24:37 37 But as the days of Noah were, so also will the coming of the Son of Man be.
NOAH and THE ARK. Let’s review the account of that time in Genesis 6-9.
