“And the Lord direct your hearts into the...patient waiting for Christ...Be patient...unto the coming of the Lord...Be ye also patient...for the coming of the Lord draweth nigh.”
No matter what one’s prophetic position as to our Lord’s Second Coming, all agree, waiting is an essential part of this most blessed and important event. We are not only told “to wait for His Son from heaven,” but to wait patiently. Waiting is one thing, but waiting patiently is quite another. To have the first without the latter can be torturous.
Waiting for the arrival and appearance of a loved one whose long absence has created a great longing of the soul, can be difficult as well as agonizing, to say the least. I remember in my early teens, during the Second WW, hearing of wives leaving their husbands, committing infidelity, because of the long wait. Men who in many cases had been their childhood sweethearts, their first-love, so to speak.
The Bible teaches, in the latter days, because many will feel the Lord delays His coming, they will fall away into the arms of this adulteress world. Thereby leaving and forsaking the Lover of their souls. As with Moses of old when he went up into the Mount to be with the Lord, the people gave up their separated position because they refused to wait beyond the allotted time they had imagined. So it will be before His awesome arrival!
As my beloved friend, Marvin Clanton used to say, “Our clocks run fast.” Scriptures tell us, in our Eternal God’s sight, one day is as a thousand years and a thousand years as one day. According to this, Jesus promised to return to earth a second time, just a little over two days ago.
“For ye have need of patience, that, after ye have done the will of God, ye might receive the promise.”
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