IT WON'T BE LONG NOW
"Speak unto the children of Israel, saying, in the seventh month, on the first day of the month, shall ye have a Sabbath, a memorial of blowing of trumpets, an Holy convocation" (Lev. 23:23-24). And it came to pass that God's people in loving obedience to His hallowed command assembled themselves on this day with great anticipation and eagerness in their hearts, year in and year out. To all, there's always the first time. To others, maybe their fifth or their tenth year of attending the Feast of Trumpets. Through the years, we have read lots of booklets and articles in the Plain Truth and Prove All Things magazines explaining in detail the significance of this momentous event. We also heard numerous sermons and sermonettes on this topic, again and again.
I wonder if it ever crossed your mind to ask yourself any of these questions? Where is, oh God, the promise of your coming? When will this age of human misrule, injustice, corruption and violence come crushing to its end? How far, oh God, will you allow juvenile delinquency, marital infidelity, drug addiction, rape, murder, robbery and the like to dictate the everyday affairs of human lives? How long, will blinded humanity be in pain and suffer their unbearable existence where only a handful earn so much in contrast to multiple billions living in utter poverty struggling daily to even survive? How long, Oh God?
How long will your people spiritual Israel remain in ignorance, void of understanding of the stunning purpose of their beings, of who they are and what they are. When will your marvelous truths reflected in your seven annual festivals be opened to the understanding of all? Just how far, oh God will you allow all these sufferings, division, stripes and wars, famine and starvation to remain to be the order of the day? When will the devil and the third part of the stars of heaven he had drawn on his tail be restrained from deceiving the world? When will the wicked one be chained and together with his demons cast down in the utter darkness of the bottomless pit? When will God's family come together in complete unity with Jesus Christ and God the Father? How much longer, O God?
When will you intervene,
oh God and put things right as it was in the beginning? These questions- where, when and how long- have echoed over time in the hearts and minds of the called out ones, the chosen and the faithful? It has been on the lips of Godly men and women since time immemorial.
The answer to these questions was given long ago by the prophet John in Revelation 19:7: "Let us be glad and rejoice, and give honor to him: for the marriage of the Lamb is come, and his wife hath made herself ready." Is the bride ready? Is it then possible that God the Father had restrained the return of our savior Jesus Christ simply because the bride until now had not yet made herself ready? Or was it a product of mere coincidence that when the baton of leadership was passed on to Mr. Tkach, the number one commission entrusted to him was to make the church ready? And ready he was to fulfill the prophesied end-time I Thessalonians, "Great Falling Away."
How close are we to the fulfillment of the most awaited event of all events in human history? Be not greatly alarmed and troubled because certain events have yet to happen. In the book of Matthew we read: "For then shall be great tribulation such as was not since the beginning of the world to this time, no nor ever shall be. And except those days should be shortened, there should no flesh be saved: but for the elect's sake those days shall be shortened" (Matt.24:21-22).
"And they cried with a loud voice, saying, how long, O Lord, holy and true, dost thou not judge and avenge our blood on them that dwell on the earth? And white robes where given unto everyone of them: and it was said unto them, that they should rest yet for a little season, until their fellow servants also and their brethren, that should be killed as they were, should be fulfilled" (Revelation 6:10-11).
In Exodus, we read how the Eternal God pleaded with His chosen people. "How long refuse ye to keep My commandments and My laws?" (Exo.16: 28). Today, the same God is still asking a similar question. How long refuse ye to consider the handiwork of My fingers? Are the sun, the moon and the stars not enough physical signs in the heavens to remind you that I have purposely placed them there for a very important reason? God says have I not, "appointed the moon for seasons: the sun knows his going down?" (Psalm 104:19). You stubborn and hardheaded people, when will you learn to blow the dust off your Bibles, study My word and prove, once and for all, if all these things they speak of Me in the holy scriptures are not so? How long O God?
"Rejoice and be glad…"(Revelation 19:7). IT WON'T BE LONG NOW! When the church shall have made herself ready. When the on going sorting and sifting of God's people shall have been completed. When the final countdown of the ten mighty nations are in place. When the remaining hidden truths about the gospel of God's kingdom are now unveiled, preached and published around the world. When the dreaded wrath of the devil will be over. Then, the seventh and last trumpet will be blown in the open sky to announce the coming of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ together with the thousands of His saints to cleanse the earth with all its wickedness and start the rebuilding and installation of God's perfect government across the four quarters of this planet. It won't be long now.
It won't be long now when the world will finally be at peace. When all of our troubles would cease. When the lamb could now peacefully dwell with the lion. When the leopard could now lie down with the kid. When the wolf and the bear will no longer be wild. It won't be long now.
"….. Yes, I am coming soon." Revelation 22:20 " Even at the door!!"
Romeo Samudio
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