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The Apostle John was thrilled with the thought of the Lord's return and shouted, "Amen: come, Lord Jesus." If we are in fellowship with Him and know Him, we long for His coming. No Christian looks forward to death with joyful anticipation, but he does long for the coming of the Lord to take him home. I have been looking for the Lord's return for years. At the same time, I have felt that I should labor most diligently in the cause of giving the Jews the Word of God lest our Lord delay His coming for the saints until they have first given the gospel to all Israel in order that the Jews may carry the message to every nation, tongue, and tribe (Rev., chap. 7) after the church has been raptured. If He comes during my lifetime, I shall rejoice. If in His infinite wisdom He sees fit to delay His coming and to allow me to pass through the experience called death, I shall, like the psalmist, see Him when I awake in His righteousness and shall be with Him forever and ever. The last words of the revelation of God to us are found in the following prayer: "The grace of the Lord Jesus be with the saints. Amen." His grace is sufficient for each of us. Let us live for the Master; let us labor for Him, let us serve Him, let us serve Him through life's short day. He will surely come. He will reward us abundantly and use us forever and ever in most delightful service as the years of eternity roll. My plea to everyone, Jew or Gentile, who reads the message of this book is that, if he has not already accepted the Lord Jesus Christ as his sin offering, he do so immediately; that he trust Him with all his heart, and like Samuel of old, say, "Speak; for thy servant heareth" and, again like Saul of Tarsus, "What shall I do, Lord?" "… if thou shalt confess with they mouth Jesus as Lord, and shalt believe in thy heart that God raised him from the dead, thou shalt be saved: for with the heart man believeth unto righteousness; and with the mouth confession is made unto salvation" (Rom. 10:9,10). |
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