Crown Him with many crowns, the
Lamb upon His throne. Our Calvary and the crown, all
music but His own. Awake, my soul, and Welcome,
friends, to another broadcast of Morsels for Zion's Poor. The
author of Hebrews writes in chapter 1, verses 1-4, God, who at sundry
times and in divers manners spake in time past unto the fathers
by the prophets, hath in these last days spoken unto us by his
Son, whom he hath appointed heir of all things, by whom also he
made the worlds. who being the brightness of his
glory and the express image of his person, and upholding all
things by the word of his power, when he had by himself purged
our sins, sat down on the right hand of the majesty on high,
being made so much better than the angels, as he hath by inheritance
obtained a more excellent name than they. It is quite common
for men to mention the term the last days as if it referred to
some future time. Yet it is quite clear in the
scripture that the last days is referring to the very time
in which we live. The last days, or age, began
when Jesus Christ was born of a virgin, taking upon himself
flesh and blood, and manifesting himself as the prophet of God,
the priest, king, and the redeemer of his elect. There is no shortage
of modern-day prophets who go about to regale us with their
predictions and interpretations of the end times, which they
tell us are right around the corner. They are generally self-styled
experts on the books of Revelation, Daniel, and Ezekiel, and can
accurately, as they suppose, tell us all of the events which
are yet to occur based on their revelations and stylized interpretations. While we cannot say with absolute
certainty that there are no future events recorded in the book of
the Revelation, we are certain that Christ is the sum and substance
of that book, even as he is the very subject of every page in
the whole Bible. John plainly tells us that the
book which he wrote is not a book of revelations, plural, but rather
the revelation without an S of Jesus Christ. A man may be able
to count the hairs on the horse's tails and define the various
beasts that arise in that book, but if a man does not see Christ
and Him crucified and reigning in triumphant state, then he
has missed the meaning of that book and has no understanding
of the purpose of the scripture or the work of the Savior who
has come to redeem His children from the sin which has overcome
them and would destroy them apart from His work in their behalf.
It is Christ alone, Christ crucified, and Christ triumphant that we
are called to preach. We are waiting for no future
time or age wherein Christ shall reign in majesty, but do currently
bow down before His mediatorial throne and worship Him as the
King of kings and Lord of lords, O that He might be exalted in
the earth and the heavens both now and forever. Who is like
unto the Lord? among the gods, who is like thee,
glorious in holiness, fearful in praises, doing wonders. Thou
stretchest out thy right hand, and the earth swallowed them.
Thou in thy mercy hast led forth the people which thou hast redeemed.
Thou hast guided them in thy strength unto thy holy habitation. Worthy is the Lamb that was slain
to receive power and riches and wisdom and strength and honor
and glory and blessing. and every creature which is in
heaven, and on the earth, and under the earth, and such as
are in the sea, and all that are in them, heard I saying,
blessing, and honor, and glory, and power be unto him that sitteth
upon the throne, and unto the Lamb, for ever and ever. That's ForThePoor.net.