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The King Is Coming
Contributed by John Lowe on Mar 13, 2018 (message contributor)
Summary: He is coming to call His own. The dead in Christ will rise first, and then those believers who are still alive will be caught up together to meet the Lord in the air. So shall we ever be with the Lord in that place He has prepared.
1-2-04
Title: The King Is Coming
Text: “But of that day and hour no one knows, not even the angels in heaven, nor the Son, but only the Father.” (Mark 13:32)
Scripture Reading: Mark 13:32-37
32 “But of that day and hour no one knows, not even the angels in heaven, nor the Son, but only the Father.
33 Take heed, watch and pray; for you do not know when the time is.
34 It is like a man going to a far country, who left his house and gave authority to his servants, and to each his work, and commanded the doorkeeper to watch.
35 Watch therefore, for you do not know when the master of the house is coming—in the evening, at midnight, at the crowing of the rooster, or in the morning—
36 lest, coming suddenly, he find you sleeping.
37 And what I say to you, I say to all: Watch!”
The King is coming!
The King is coming!
Praise God! He’s coming for me!
Those are the words to a song by the Gaithers. It always sends a chill down my spine. Just imagine; Jesus is coming back for us! His return is a matter of prophesy, But Christianity is both History and prophesy. The most important event in human history occurred when the Son of God came to earth. His coming was prophesized accurately. Everything happened just as the Bible said it would. Each prophesy was fulfilled with meticulous exactness.
The very first mention of His coming is found in Genesis 3:15. There in the Garden of Eden, God spoke to the serpent, “And I will put enmity between you and the woman, and between your seed and her Seed; He shall bruise your head, and you shall bruise His heel.”
Jesus is the seed of the woman, and it is Jesus Christ who bruises the head of Satan. He struck a mortal blow to his evil head at Calvary, and at His resurrection. The final deadly blow will come when He returns the second time. The apostle John was speaking of Jesus, when he said that He was “…born, not of blood, nor of the will of the flesh, nor of the will of man, but of God” (John 1:13).
Jesus was born to a virgin; no man had anything to do with His birth. He was conceived, when the Holy Spirit overshadowed a young girl by the name of Mary. Other scriptures attesting to His virgin birth are:
• Isaiah 7:14: “Therefore the Lord Himself will give you a sign: Behold, the virgin shall conceive and bear a Son, and shall call His name Immanuel.”
• Matthew 1:23: “Behold, the virgin shall be with child, and bear a Son, and they shall call His name Immanuel,” which is translated, “God with us.”
• Luke 1:27: “To a virgin betrothed to a man whose name was Joseph, of the house of David. The virgin’s name was Mary.”
• Galatians 4:4: “But when the fullness of the time had come, God sent forth His Son, born of a woman, born under the law.”
It is clear that the Old Testament said that the Savior would be born to a woman, who would be a virgin. And it is just as clear that the New Testament declares that the Son of God was born to a virgin.
Another prophesy said He would be born in the town of Bethlehem.
• Micah 5:2: “But you, Bethlehem Ephrathah, though you are little among the thousands of Judah, Yet out of you shall come forth to Me the One to be Ruler in Israel, Whose goings forth are from of old, from everlasting.”
• Luke 2:4: “Joseph also went up from Galilee, out of the city of Nazareth, into Judea, to the city of David, which is called Bethlehem, because he was of the house and lineage of David.”
• John 7:42: “Has not the Scripture said that the Christ comes from the seed of David and from the town of Bethlehem, where David was?”
It is clear that the Old Testament said that the Savior would be born in Bethlehem. And it is just as clear that the New Testament declares that the Son of God was born in Bethlehem to a virgin.
Jesus came to us once, but Bible prophesies proclaim that He is coming back. In fact, Jesus promised that He would come back. John recorded that He said, “And if I go and prepare a place for you, I will come again and receive you to Myself; that where I am, there you may be also” (John 14:3). This is the first time in the Bible where you find a mention of God taking anyone off this earth to go out yonder to a place that He has prepared. But that’s God’s purpose, and He keeps moving toward that day, when Jesus will call all believers, living and dead, out of this world to be eternally with Him.