Peace in Troubling Times
Dearly beloved of God, we are highly favored and privileged to live in the Administration of the Grace of God.
In Christ and by his accomplishments we have passed from death unto life, we have entered the Kingdom of God’s beloved Son, and there is no condemnation to those who are in Christ.
We have already been justified by Christ, and it is absolutely certain that we will be glorified with him. God declares that these are established, certain realities.
We live in troubling times, but there will be troubling times until Christ returns to save us.
Jesus said, “These things I have spoken unto you, that in Me you might have peace. In the world you will have tribulation: but be of good cheer; I have overcome the world.”
Jesus was delivered to death for our offences, and was raised again for our justification. Therefore being justified by believing, we have peace from God through our Lord Jesus Christ, by whom also we have access by believing into this grace wherein we stand, and rejoice in hope of the glory of God.
Regardless of current world events, do not be troubled thinking that we will go through the events of the Lord’s Day; we will not. We live in the Administration of the Grace of God.
This administration of grace began on the Feast of Pentecost when Jesus Christ sent the promise of the Father.
From that moment to this, everyone who confesses Jesus as Lord and believes that God raised him from the dead will be saved.
It is Christ in you, the hope of glory. We will obtain the glory of our Lord Jesus Christ. We will not go through the great tribulation, wrath, judgment, and condemnation.
This Administration of the Grace of God began with an act of God when he instructed His Son to send the spirit He had promised, and it will end with an act sanctioned by God when He sends the Lord Jesus Christ to gather the Church together up to meet him in the air.
Dearly beloved, the signs and seasons of the Lord’s Day will not begin to take place until AFTER the Church is removed from the earth and it is at rest with the Lord.
The Lord Jesus Christ will remove the Church from the earth, and we will be at rest in the heavenlies before the signs and seasons of the Lord’s Day begin to unfold.
What we see today may be troubling, but we are not living in the Lord’s Day. That day cannot begin until the Church of the Grace of God is gathered up to Christ, we are glorified, and we are at rest with the Lord.
The entire book of Revelation concerns the Lord’s Day; it does not concern us. Do not be troubled or disturbed by those who say that it concerns us; live having the peace of God in your heart, dearly beloved.
The Lord Jesus Christ will come to gather the Church of Grace up to meet him in the air and glorify it.
After he shall have come to be glorified in his saints, and admired in all that believe, he will later come to the earth as King of kings, and Lord of lords in the Lord’s Day. He will carry out the judgment of God against the ungodly and wicked ones who have rejected him.
Be at peace, dearly beloved, don’t be troubled by current events. The departure of the Church will take place before the man of sin is revealed on earth and the Lord’s Day sets in.
Certainly, the mystery of lawlessness is already at work. Only that which now restrains it will do so until it is taken out of the way. After we are gathered together up to the Lord in the air God will remove the restraint.
Now you know what now restrains the man of sin from being revealed. Don’t be shaken in mind, or disturbed by anyone who says the Day of the Lord is present; do not be deceived by such talk.
As God delivered Noah before the flood occurred, and He delivered just Lot before the judgment of Sodom and Gomorrah, He will send Jesus Christ to deliver us from wrath of God.
Do not let your heart be troubled, dearly beloved. Do not be discouraged. The Lord is faithful, and He will strengthen you, and guard you from the evil one.
May the Lord guide your hearts into the love of God, and into the patience of Christ; he is coming!
May the Lord of peace Himself give you peace always by all means. The Lord be with you all, dearly beloved. Let the peace of God rule in your heart in these troubling times.