More
Insight…
By Pastor F. M. Riley
December 25, 2021
“And
the Lord said unto Noah, Come thou and
all thy house into the ark: for thee have I found
righteous before Me in this
generation,” Genesis 7:1
“In
the selfsame day entered Noah, and
Shem, and Ham, and Japheth, the sons of Noah, and Noah’s
wife, and the three
wives of his sons with them, into the ark,” Genesis 7:13.
INTRODUCTION
Short
and to the
point, for those who have eyes to see, and ears to hear,
Matthew 13:16.
PAST, PRESENT, & FUTURE
THE PAST
Yesterday
was
Christmas Eve, December 24th, but even more
important, yesterday was
eight days before the end of this present 120th
year. The Lord
Jesus explicitly said that “And as it was in the
days of Noah, so
shall it be also in the days of the Son of man,”
Luke 17:26; Matthew
24:38-39.
It was eight
day before the flood when God gave Noah the seven day
warnin, “For yet
seven days, and I will cause it to
rain upon the earth forty days and forty night; and every
living
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substance that I
have made will I destroy from
off the face of the earth,” Genesis 7:4.
In this
present day repetition of “the days of
Noah,” yesterday, Dec. 24th, was eight
days before the end of
this present 120th year. Many
believers were expecting some kind of warning to be given,
just as it was in “the
days of Noah.”
Was such a
warning given? Give
this some serious
thought! After the flood in Genesis 8:22, the Lord told
Noah, “While the
earth remaineth, seedtime and
harvest, and cold and heat, and summer and winter, and day
and night shall not
cease.”
But then
in Amos 3:14-15, the Lord speaks
about dealing with the transgressions of Israel, and
explicitly says, “And
I will smite the winter house with
the summer house; and the houses of ivory shall perish,
and the great houses
shall have an end, saith the Lord.” Compare
Isaiah 5:9. These
Scriptures are
obviously to be fulfilled during the tribulation period. Well, guess what?
Tuesday,
Dec 21st
was the first day of winter. But
the weather was mild. We
have had only
three light frosts here in this part of Missouri. Then yestday, Dec.
24th, eight
days before the end of this 120th year, the high
temperature record
for this date was broken.
The previous
high temp for Dec. 24th here in Missouri, was 71 degrees,
set back in 1889. Yesterday
we reached 73 degrees.
So hot last night it was hard to sleep. This
appears to be the “sign” we
were expecting from the Lord
eight days before
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the end of this 120th
year. Compare
Isaiah 30:26 and Malachi 4:1.
THE PRESENT
Today
is Christmas
day, Dec. 25th, exactly seven days before the end
of this present
120th year, ending on Dec. 31st. The pattern fits
exactly with “the
days of Noah.”
Christmas
day is traditionally observed as the day when Christ was
born in
Bethlehem. There
are good Scriptural
reasons to doubt this theory. Yet it is presumed to be the day Christ was born. But look what it
has become…..
Christmas
Day for
the masses of people, has become a day of drunkenness,
doping, lusting,
flirting, cheating, lying, stealing, anger, hate, fighting,
and killing. Full
bloomed PAGANISM.
This
will be going
on all over America today, while true believers are
enjoying their Christmas dinner,
exchanging gifts, and thanking God for His blessings. But true believers
today are very much in the
minority in relation to world population.
There
is no
question in my mind that the Lord is offended by such
wickedness, debauchery,
and evil on Christmas Day, or on any other day of the year. Unbelieving
humanity totally ungrateful for
the blessings of God.
THE FUTURE
The
future is often
foreshadowed by the past.
So it is with
this present repetition of “the days of
Noah,” Luke 17:26.
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Noah, in
response to God’s warning in Genesis 7:4, entered the Ark on
the very last day
of the 120 years, and thereby was saved from the JUDGMENT of
the flood poured
out upon the wicked who were LEFT BEHIND.
The last day
of this
present 120 years is December 31st.
Significantly, this last day is a Saturday, and
therefore the weekly
Sabbath day of the Jewish people. The
next day will be Sunday, the first day of the week. Does this “ring
any bells” for our
readers? It
should!
Romans 6:5
clearly
states that if we (believers) have been planted in His (the
Lord’s) likeness,
we shall also be raised in His likeness.
It is plainly and clearly stated in Matthew 28:1 that
at the end of
the Sabbath, and the beginning of the first day of
the week, the two
Mary’s (the Lord’s disciples) came to see the tomb of the
Lord Jesus. But
He wasn’t
there. He
had risen from the dead
exactly as the Jewish Sabbath day was ending, and the first
day of the week
(Sunday) was beginning.
Now this is exactly the
layout of the days right here at the
end of this 120th year. This
year is ending on a Jewish Sabbath day, and the new year is
beginning on the
first day of the week.
Now what are the
odds of this being “coincidence?”
Infinitesimal! Some
brother in
Christ has already put forth the effort
to study the future calendar years, and has found
that the days of
the month of
December will
not fall exactly this way for another
4
400 years. Hello!
Is our gracious Lord trying to tell His people
something? I
surely think so!
CONCLUSION
Just
as Noah
entered the Ark on the very last day of the 120 years, I
expect the Lord’s
church and believing people,
will be “caught
up” (raptured) into Heaven on the
last day of this present 120 years; December 31st. That is only
seven days from the day
I am writing this study.
Will
the reader be
READY (saved by grace…Eph. 2:8-10), or
will the reader
be LEFT BEHIND to face
the JUDGMENT of the terrible tribulation?
The choice is set before our readers, and I advise
every reader to
choose the “way” of the Lord, Proverbs 14:12; John 14:6. Will we meet in
glory in seven more days?
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