JANUARY 1
STANDING WHEN HE APPEARS
OLUBI JOHNSON
1Corinthians 16:13 (KJV)
Watch ye, stand fast in the faith, quit you like men, be strong.
This appearing of the Lord will be both GREAT AND TERRIBLE: for it will bring BOTH blessing, like for the man at the beautiful gate (Act. 3:1-9), and punishment, like for Ananias and Sapphira (Act.5:1-11). Not all will stand when He appears: in fact many will fall(Joel. 2:11).
Zechariah 13:8-9
And it shall come to pass in all the land,” says the LORD, “That two-thirds in it shall be cut off and die, But one-third shall be left in it: I will bring the one-third through the fire, Will refine them as silver is refined, And test them as gold is tested. They will call on My name, And I will answer them. I will say, ‘This is My people’; And each one will say, ‘The LORD is my God’.
Here the scriptures reveal that two-thirds of the Church will fall: be cut off and die. This does not necessarily mean they will go to hell, but will die physically, prematurely and lose some of their eternal reward (1Cor.3:11-15).
God allows this, so that the remaining one-third will then be purified and refined and subsequently produce new Christians after their kind (Gen. 1:11-12) and so God will have a glorious Church without spot, blemish, wrinkle or any such thing (Eph. 5:26-27).
To stand when He appears, we must be watching and praying always:
Luke 21:36
“Watch therefore, and pray always that you may be counted worthy to escape all these things that will come to pass, and to STAND BEFORE THE SON OF MAN.”
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