The feast at the Father’s house: The first feast in the Marriage supper of the Lamb. (267)

Copyright James Dixon 2023.

This post speaks to the pre tribulation rapture of the saints. And it presents a huge logical problem for post tribulation rapture doctrine.

Among Christians of all denominations, the Jewish betrothal and wedding is an almost universally accepted model of the rapture of the church,the Bride of Christ.

Whether pre tribulation, mid Tribulation, or post tribulation, most all agree there will be a marriage feast for the bride and the saints. (Not all saints are the bride).

What most Christians don’t know is that the Jewish wedding consists of TWO feasts.

The first feast, logically is at the groom’s FATHERS house.

It starts when the groom “fetches his bride” and takes her back to his house. Once there, the city elders are called to witness the reading and signing of the Ketubah “to them that overcometh”. After this is tge wedding, and a feast begins. It lasts for 7 days. Why 7 days? Because the Jewish wedding had no set date, and was unannounced, the week gave family and friends time to make arrangements to attend the joyous occasion.

After this week long feast was ended, the wedding party then all proceeded BACK to the bride’s mother’s house for a second, even LONGER feast.

We find the second feast at the bride’s home in Matthew 8:11: And I say unto you, That many shall come from the east and west, and shall sit down with Abraham, and Isaac, and Jacob, in the kingdom of heaven.”

The mention of the cardinal points of the compass tell us clearly that this feast takes place ON EARTH.

So when and where is the FIRST feast?

Its in HEAVEN, at the Father’s house.

John 14:3 And if I go and prepare a place for you, I will come again, and receive you unto myself; that where I am, there ye may be also.

The first feast is at the Father’s house.

Post tribulation doctrine fails to take this into account.

The first feast of the marriage supper:

Rev 19⁷ Let us be glad and rejoice, and give honour to him: for the marriage of the Lamb is come, and his wife hath made herself ready.

⁸ And to her was granted that she should be arrayed in fine linen, clean and white: for the fine linen is the righteousness of saints.

⁹ And he saith unto me, Write, Blessed are they which are called unto the marriage supper of the Lamb. And he saith unto me, These are the true sayings of God.

After this, they mount up and head back to the Brides mothers house.

Rev 19:14  And the armies which were in heaven followed him upon white horses, clothed in fine linen, white and clean.

1 Thess To the end he may stablish your hearts unblameable in holiness before God, even our Father, at the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ with all his saints.

Matthew 8:11. And I say unto you, That many shall come from the east and west, and shall sit down with Abraham, and Isaac, and Jacob, in the kingdom of heaven.”

Blessings!

Of the increase of his government and peace there will be no end.

What lies ahead?

There will be saints that survive the tribulation and their descendants. From all nations. They will repopulate the earth in th 1000 year reign, and I believe the entire universe will be populated, the kingdom of heaven one day. I can only imagine!

1 cor 2:9. But as it is written, Eye hath not seen, nor ear heard, neither have entered into the heart of man, the things which God hath prepared for them that love him.IS 9:7

IS 9:7 Of the increase of his government and peace there shall be no end, upon the throne of David, and upon his kingdom, to order it, and to establish it with judgment and with justice from henceforth even for ever. The zeal of the LORD of hosts will perform this.

Mt 25:21 His lord said unto him, Well done, good and faithful servant; thou hast been faithful over a few things, I will make thee ruler over many things: enter thou into the joy of thy lord

Blessings!

Watch those angels (265)

Angels play an important role in our daily lives, and they play a huge role in the end time harvest. Watching the angels also gives us insight into the order of events soon to unfold.

Luke 16:22 Tells us how we get to heaven. I mean, someone has to show us the way right? It also stands to reason the angels carried the rich man to hell.

The poor man died and was carried by the angels to Abraham’s bosom. The rich man also died and was buried; And in hell he lift up his eyes, being in torments, and seeth Abraham afar off, and Lazarus in his bosom.

An angel removed the stone from the tomb of our Lord Jesus:

Matthew 28:1 And, behold, there was a great earthquake: for the angel of the Lord descended from heaven, and came and rolled back the stone from the door, and sat upon it.

At the rapture, an angel blows a trumpet and calls us out to be with Jesus, to meet him in the air.

1 Thess 4:16 For the Lord himself shall descend from heaven with a shout, with the voice of the archangel, and with the trump of God: and the dead in Christ shall rise first.

In the Tribulation, after the two prophets are killed, after 3.5 days, they are resurrected, and a voice says “come up hither”. I believe this is the voice of an angel also.

Rev 11:12 And they heard a great voice from heaven saying unto them, Come up hither. And they ascended up to heaven in a cloud; and their enemies beheld them.

The next harvest involves angels as well. These are late tribulation martyrs resurrected just prior to Jesus coming to Armageddon.

And I looked, and behold a white cloud, and upon the cloud one sat like unto the Son of man, having on his head a golden crown, and in his hand a sharp sickle.

And another angel came out of the temple, crying with a loud voice to him that sat on the cloud, Thrust in thy sickle, and reap: for the time is come for thee to reap for the harvest of the earth is ripe.  And he that sat on the cloud thrust in his sickle on the earth; and the earth was reaped.

The next harvest does not involve believers. These are unbelievers at the battle of Armageddon, but the angels do their part here also.

Revelation 14:17 And another angel came out of the temple which is in heaven, he also having a sharp sickle. 18 And another angel came out from the altar, which had power over fire; and cried with a loud cry to him that had the sharp sickle, saying, Thrust in thy sharp sickle, and gather the clusters of the vine of the earth; for her grapes are fully ripe.

And the angel thrust in his sickle into the earth, and gathered the vine of the earth, and cast it into the great wine press of the wrath of God.

And the wine press was trodden without the city, and blood came out of the wine press, even unto the horse bridles, by the space of a thousand and six hundred furlongs.

Shortly after Jesus destroys the army at Armageddon, heaven is opened and we saints return with him. Again, the angels have work to do: They must gather the world’s surviving population for judgement. We will not be in this company, we will be judges.

Note the wicked are gathered first when Jesus returns with us. This is not a rapture.

Mt 13:41 The Son of man shall send forth his angels, and they shall gather out of his kingdom all things that offend, and them which do iniquity; shall cast them into a furnace of fire: there shall be wailing and gnashing of teeth. Mt 13:30 Let both grow together until the harvest. At that time I will tell the harvesters: First collect the weeds and tie them in bundles to be burned; then gather the wheat and bring it into my barn.’ ”

The gathering of the Elect: And he shall send his angels with a great sound of a trumpet, and they shall gather together his elect from the four winds, from one end of heaven to the other.

And I saw an angel come down from heaven, having the key of the bottomless pit and a great chain in his hand.

And he laid hold on the dragon, that old serpent, which is the Devil, and Satan, and bound him a thousand years,

And cast him into the bottomless pit, and shut him up, and set a seal upon him, that he should deceive the nations no more, till the thousand years should be fulfilled: and after that he must be loosed a little season. The devil is the last one into hell. How about that?

Blessings!

  

A simple explanation. The short study version of the pre trib doctrine.(264)

If you have a better explanation, I’d like to hear it.

Be a berean. Its very simple: Jesus appears for us, and takes us to the marriage supper of the Lamb. (1 Cor 15:52-53, 1 Thess 4:16-18, John 14:1-3 Mal 3:16-18,Rev 3:10 rev 19:9). Then the Bema seat judgement will take place in heaven (2 Cor 5:10, Rev 11:18), and we recieve our rewards. (Rev 1:6, 5:9-10).

Some years later, we go into our chambers (IS 26:19-20) in heaven, and there is war in heaven, Satan is cast down to earth (Rev 12) and, Jesus pursues him not long after.

Jesus returns ALONE to crush antichrist’s armies at Armegeddon. (Rev 14:19-20, IS 63:3, IS 26:20) , then heaven is opened in heaven, and we return to Judge the world (Rev 19, 1 Cor 6:2, Mt 25:31-41, Rev 20:4). Note the blood from Armegeddon on Jesus vesture in Rev 19.

At that time, the surviving population of the world, called tares and wheat, are gathered by the angels, with the wicked ones gathered first.

Both will be taken to the valley of decision for this judgement(Mt 13:30-32, Mt 25:31-41,Joel 3:14).

The tares are burned, the wheat become mortal kingdom citizens, and repopulate the earth in the kingdom reign of Jesus. Satan is bound for a thousand years. (Rev 20:4-6).

We judge the world here, and rule and reign with Jesus as kings and priests in immortal bodies (1 Cor 6:2, 1 Cor 15:52-53, rev 5:9-10, 2 Thess 3:13, Mal 3:16-18, Rev 20:4).

Blessings!

Copyright 2023 James Dixon.

What is “The second death?” (263)

The second death only applies to unbelievers.

Those in hell are there in soul and spirit, as are those in heaven (Ot saints are there in glorified bodies, see Mt 27:53) A day will come when those in hell are called up for final judgement, receive an eternal body and are cast into the lake of fire for all eternity. “The second death”.

Rev 2:11 He that hath an ear, let him hear what the Spirit saith unto the churches; He that overcometh shall not be hurt of the second death.

Rev 20:14. He who has an ear, let him hear what the Spirit says to the churches. He who overcomes will not be hurt by the second death.’

Blessed and holy is the one who has a part in the first resurrection; over these the second death has no power, but they will be priests of God and of Christ and will reign with Him for a thousand years. Rev 20:6

Rev 20:14 Then death and Hades were thrown into the lake of fire. This is the second death, the lake of fire.

Rev 21:8 But for the cowardly and unbelieving and abominable and murderers and immoral persons and sorcerers and idolaters and all liars, their part will be in the lake that burns with fire and brimstone, which is the second death.”

Blessings!

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A tribute to my wonderful Christian family. (262)

At the death of Vera Godwin 8/14/2023.

The Bummer Lamb.

Every once in a while, a lamb becomes an orphan for a variety of reasons, usually if its mother dies giving birth, or is killed by a predator.

Sometimes the Ewe rejects the lamb. If the lamb is returned to the ewe, the mother will kick the poor thing away.

If a ewe ever rejects a lamb, she will never change her mind.

These precious little lambs will hang their heads so low it looks like something is wrong with their neck. Their spirit is broken.

These lambs are called “bummer lambs”, And if the Shepherd does not intervene, that lamb will die rejected and alone.

SO, do you know what the shepherd will do?

He takes that little lamb into his home. He hand feeds it, and keeps it warm by the fire. He will wrap it up with blankets and hold it to his chest for its comfort, so the bummer can hear his heartbeat.

Once the lamb is strong enough, the shepherd releases the little lamb back into the field with the rest of the flock- with it’s little head held high.

As long as it lives, that little sheep never forgets how his shepherd cared for him. And when the shepherd calls for the flock, guess who runs to him first?

That’s right, that little bummer lamb. He knows his shepherd’s voice immediately.

It’s not that the bummer lamb is loved more than the others, it just knows the one who loves him on a deeper, more intimate level.

The lamb is no more loved than the others, it just believes it is because it has experienced the shepherd’s love one on one.

So many of us are bummer lambs, rejected and broken. But Jesus is the good shepherd. He cares for our every need and holds us close to his heart so we can hear his heartbeat.

We may be broken, but we are deeply loved by our shepherd. https://the-quietplacewithgod.com/inspiration/the-bummer-lamb/

At one point in my life, I was a bummer lamb. Vera Godwin was my shepherd, she was my mom, she had a heart for bummer lambs. And I was blessed to be one of her lambs.

Today, I just want a few minutes of your time to say thank you.

Bobby Brannen: (Brannen family funeral services, Glenville Ga).

Thank you for personally coming to pick up mom after she passed. You did not have to do that. You had employees to do that. But you put your shoes on at 1 am and came anyway. It was such a kind gesture, Thank you.

Meadows Park Nursing home: (Vidalia Ga). Thank you for loving mom. You loved her as your own mother. For 8 years she was in the finest care there is. Thank you, we love you.

Oak Grove Baptist and Lyons Freewill Baptist churches: Thank you for loving mom, and for being mine and her church family for so much of her life. She loved all of you dearly, and we do as well. Thank you, we love you.

Chris Spivey-What can I say? You loved mom, and helped her daily the last 8 years of her life. You were her lunch buddy, you called her mom, and she called you a son.

You were her bingo buddy, a companion, and someone to talk to and pass the time, especially in the evenings when the loneliness creeps in at the nursing home.

Thank you Chris. We love you. And you are family, just as mom wanted. We will not forget you. Look for us to be visiting you. We all thank you, and love you for loving mom.

Kenneth Godwin- You devoted the last 13 years of your life to your mother’s daily care and well being. Tommy and I helped when and where we could, and we worked together to make mom’s remaining years full of life, activity, compassion and love. I like to think we did a pretty good job. I love you brother.

The Bible says in Ephesians 6:2 and other places “”honor thy father and mother, which is the first commandment that comes with a promise”, and in Exodus 20:12 we find that promise: “Honor thy father and mother, so that thy days be long upon the earth. Mom cared for the elderly many times, selflessly, as you did. She lived to be 100.

Yours was a labor of love Ken. Folks like you are the salt of the earth. God is good to his children. You will get that time back.

Judy Coulter- You were the daughter mom didn’t get a chance to raise. I recall once she said of you “she is my grand daughters mother, if you don’t like it, you don’t have to come, but she is going to be there” (family reunion).

Mom made everyone get along, like it or not. She knew the importance and the power of relationships.

You loved her as a mother, and she loved you as her daughter. Thank you, I Love you.

Melody Robinson, Angie Pittman, Judy Coulter and the great grandchildren- collectively your visits kept mom’s days full of love and compassion. And the manicures, and the hair, and the dresses, and the jewelry, and pampering her demonstrated your love on a daily basis. She was always the best looking, best dressed lady on her floor, and that meant a lot to her. You always kept a smile on her face. Mom received more visitation than her entire floor combined. You all loved her, and she said many times that she knew it. She liked to say “I Love you, love you, love you”. That speaks to the power of love and devotion to family. Thank you, we love you.

Mom had a spirit about her: A spirit of peace, compassion, kindness, love and inclusion, and it came from her family. It was the love of Jesus. She had a good relationship with the Lord.

That same spirit was evident in her siblings that went before her. Mary, Everette, Emmerine and uncle William. They all possessed that same sweet, gentle and kind spirit that she did, the spirit of Christ and his commandments. “Love God, and thy neighbor as thyself” And today, that same spirit is evident in her children and grand children. Mom knew the importance and power of good relationships.

And as believers, our relationship with our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ is the most important relationship we have. This relationship affects every other relationship there is, and I am happy to say that there isn’t a single soul in mom’s family that doesn’t have a relationship with Jesus.. What a blessing it is to grow up in such a family!

To the youngers: I want you to take this home with you today:

Remember: Life is about good relationships, and friends are better than money. And as Todd Chrisley often says “don’t value your differences more than you do your relationships” , and as I often say “most things in life are not worth being right about”.

To the grand children and great grand children:  I hope that we elders have set a good example for you, not by words, but in deed and truth.

Remember this: the way that you treat your elders is how YOUR children are going to treat YOU down the road.

The Bible says in Hebrews 10:24 “And let us consider how to stir up one another to love and good works”.

We elders challenge you to continue in your grandmother’s spirit of peace, kindness, love and unity.

We elders charge you children here to continue in your parents, grand parents and great grandparents spirit of love, peace and kindness. We charge you to continue in the example that Jesus, your grandmother, and elders have set for you.

Jesus tells us in John 11:25 “I am the resurrection and the life, he that believes in me shall yet live, though he die.

In another place, the Bible tells us as we believe, so should we also walk.

Jesus gives us a future. He gives us eternal life simply by believing in him.

Mom loved Jesus. At this moment, She is with him in soul and spirit. Yes, God loaned us an angel for 100 years.

Now her mission is complete, and she is back home, with her Saviour, she is happy, and she is reunited and rejoicing with family and loved ones who went before her, and we will be with her again one day too.

But until that time, if the Lord tarries his appearing, again, we must continue in love, peace and kindness, and continue in the example that she set for us.

She would want that. She would expect that. She would demand it of us.

Let us continue to honor her and our Lord Jesus.

It’s funny how life changes one’s perspectives on things. Looking back:

In mom’s last days, I was overcome with gratitude.

I have had two good mothers in my life, many folks don’t have one.

I have had two good fathers in my life, many never have one. Im so blessed. God has been so good to me.

In closing, I was a bummer lamb when mom took me in at nine years old. My head was hanging low when I came to live with her and Cecil. My spirit was broken.

The details and circumstances around how that all came to be after my father died are not important. Just suffice to say that I had a mom that loved me enough to let me go, and another mom with a big enough heart to take me in. Tommy can speak to this as well.

When I say God loaned me an angel, I meant it. He truly did. She loved me. She encouraged and comforted me, she strengthened me, and many others, then released me back into the flock on my own strength, with my head held high.

Mom always made sure I was treated “just like one of the bunch”. And this family did too. That means so much to me. God couldn’t have put me in a better place, with a better mom, with a better family, than this one sitting here today.

Thank you all for loving me. Thank you for treating me as one of the bunch. Thank you for calling me family. Thank you for being my family, I love all of you dearly, God bless you! In Christ Jesus, James.

James Dixon. Jaedixon@aol.com.

Mt 27:52-53. The beginning of the first resurrection. The first fruits harvest. (261)

Jesus rose from the dead on feast of firstfruits. OT saints arose with him shortly after.

That event was prophesied in at least 2 places in the OT.

Hosea 6:1 Come, and let us return unto the Lord: for he hath torn, and he will heal us; he hath smitten, and he will bind us up.

2 After two days will he revive us: in the third day he will raise us up, and we shall live in his sight.

IS 26:19 Thy dead men shall live, together with my dead body shall they arise. Awake and sing, ye that dwell in dust: for thy dew is as the dew of herbs, and the earth shall cast out the dead.

Matthew 27:52-53

⁵² And the graves were opened; and many bodies of the saints which slept arose,

⁵³ And came out of the graves after his resurrection, and went into the holy city, and appeared unto many.

This happened after Jesus resurrection, this company of saints were removed from Abraham’s bosom, see Eph 4:8

⁸ Wherefore he saith, When he ascended up on high, he led captivity captive, and gave gifts unto men.

⁹ (Now that he ascended, what is it but that he also descended first into the lower parts of the earth?

¹⁰ He that descended is the same also that ascended up far above all heavens, that he might fill all things.)

1 Pet 3:19 By which also he went and preached unto the spirits in prison;

20 Which sometime were disobedient, when once the longsuffering of God waited in the days of Noah, while the ark was a preparing, wherein few, that is, eight souls were saved by water.

They are in heaven with Jesus, and are seen as the elders in Rev 4:4. Note they are seated with Crowns. Rev 4:4⁴ And round about the throne were four and twenty seats: and upon the seats I saw four and twenty elders sitting, clothed in white raiment; and they had on their heads crowns of gold.

Our crowning will be in Rev 11:18, the Bema seat judgement. ¹⁸ And the nations were angry, and thy wrath is come, and the time of the dead, that they should be judged, and that thou shouldest give reward unto thy servants the prophets, and to the saints, and them that fear thy name, small and great; and shouldest destroy them which destroy the earth. Also see Rev 5:9-10 “kings and priests” and Rev 1:6. Kings wear crowns.

The next harvest is the dead saints after Calvary, the barley, then it will be our turn.(if alive at the time). First fruits wheat. 1Thess 4:16 “the dead in Christ shall rise first, then we who are alive and remain shall be caught up to meet the Lord in the air, so shall we ever be with the Lord”

The olives, wheat and gleanings follow in the tribulation. These will most all be tribulation martyers. Our harvest precedes them, we will not be in these companies of saints.

“Therefore comfort one another with these words” 1 Thess 4:18.

Blessings!

Copyright James Dixon 2023.

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Myths and Fables. (260)

1 Tim 4:4 And they shall turn away their ears from the truth, and shall be turned unto fables.

One of the worst myths out there is the notion that the Sons of God were inbred offspring of fallen angels and human beings. There is no biblical basus for such an absurd belief.

Gen 6:2 2 That the sons of God saw the daughters of men that they were fair; and they took them wives of all which they chose.

Jesus says angels dont marry nor give in marriage.

Second, It takes two humans to make a human.

Angels arent made from dust of the earth. They have a different DNA. To date, the laws of DNA have not been broken. “Each after its own kind”.

Third, if angels could procreate, logically they would not have stopped with humans, and would have tried to ruin all of Gods creation.

“The Son’s of God could have been Children born in the garden, or born shortly after the fall, but either way, “Son of God” is not a term attributed to angels. Adam is called the Son of God. Was he a fallen angel? Duhhh! There is your answer.

Luke 3:38 Which was the son of Enos, which was the son of Seth, which was the son of Adam, which was the son of God.

Occam’s razor: The simplest explanation that fits the evidence is usually the correct one.

It’s sad how folks put myths and fables above God’s word.

Blessings !

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GOD HAS NOT APPOINTED US TO WRATH. (259)

1 Thess 5:9 For God hath not appointed us to wrath, but to obtain salvation by our Lord Jesus Christ,

There are two wraths mentioned in Revelation. The first wrath mentioned is the wrath of the Lamb.

The second, and logically the last, is the wrath of Satan.

Revelation 12:6 tells us the length of Satan’s wrath, 1260 days.

Rev 12:6 And the woman fled into the wilderness, where she hath a place prepared of God, that they should feed her there a thousand two hundred and threescore days.

Again in Revelation 12:12 and 13, it is pretty obvious this is the last half of the tribulation period.

¹² Therefore rejoice, ye heavens, and ye that dwell in them. Woe to the inhabiters of the earth and of the sea! for the devil is come down unto you, having great wrath, because he knoweth that he hath but a short time.

¹³ And when the dragon saw that he was cast unto the earth, he persecuted the woman which brought forth the man child.

So logically “the wrath of the Lamb” would be the FIRST half of the tribulation.

Why would Jesus leave us here to endure his wrath? It’s ridiculous.

There is no supernatural protection.

Revelation 13:7 And it was given unto him to make war with the saints, and to overcome them: and power was given him over all kindreds, and tongues, and nations.

Rev 6:16 And said to the mountains and rocks, Fall on us, and hide us from the face of him that sitteth on the throne, and from the wrath of the Lamb:

Rev 12:12 Therefore rejoice, ye heavens, and ye that dwell in them. Woe to the inhabiters of the earth and of the sea! for the devil is come down unto you, having great wrath, because he knoweth that he hath but a short time.

There are pre trib rapture deniers who claim that there is no rapture before the tribulation, but they say we will somehow be supernaturally protected. This is not true.

Rev 13:7 And it was given unto him to make war with the saints, and to overcome them: and power was given him over all kindreds, and tongues, and nations.

These people speak evil of Gods promises, positing themselves as experts concerning things they don’t understand. Worse still , they refuse instruction.

God promises to spare us. Rejoice!

Malachi 3:17 And they shall be mine, saith the Lord of hosts, in that day when I make up my jewels; and I will spare them, as a man spareth his own son that serveth him.

¹⁸ Then shall ye return, and discern between the righteous and the wicked, between him that serveth God and him that serveth him not.

Rev 3:10 “Because thou hast kept the word of my patience, I also will keep thee from the hour of temptation, which shall come upon all the world, to try them that dwell upon the earth.”

Blessings!

Copyright 2023 James Dixon.

The armies of heaven. Our return with Jesus. Zech 14:5, Revelation 19:14 1 Thess 3:13. (258)

Who is this army? Its US. Notice our battle dress. A white robe. No sword, no armor. for the fine linen is the righteousness of saints. Rev 19:8

  Zech 14  And ye shall flee to the valley of the mountains; for the valley of the mountains shall reach unto Azal: yea, ye shall flee, like as ye fled from before the earthquake in the days of Uzziah king of Judah: and the Lord my God shall come, and all the saints with thee.

I Thess 3:13 To the end he may stablish your hearts unblameable in holiness before God, even our Father, at the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ with all his saints.

Jude 14:14  And Enoch also, the seventh from Adam, prophesied of these, saying, Behold, the Lord cometh with ten thousands of his saints,

Its very simple: Jesus appears for us, and takes us to the marriage supper of the Lamb. (John 14:1-3)  the Bema seat judgement will take place in heaven (Rev 11:18) and we recieve our rewards (rev 5:9-10) Some years later, he returns Alone, to crush antichrists armies at Armegeddon (Rev 14:19-20) , then a door is opened in heaven and we return to Judge the world (Rev 19, 1 Cor 6:2, Mt 25:31-41, Rev 20:4)  the population of the world will be gathered to the valley of decision for this judgement.

JOEL 3¹⁴ Multitudes, multitudes in the valley of decision: for the day of the Lord is near in the valley of decision.

 Revelation 19:14 And the armies which were in heaven followed him upon white horses, clothed in fine linen, white and clean.

Our Lord appearing for us at any moment is our blessed hope, Paul says to comfort one another with these words. We have so much to look forward to!

Copyright James Dixon 2023.