Comfort One Another
by Pastor Cornelius R. Stam
Increasing world tension and the present trend of events in
the Middle East have always filled many with fear, and there are even
sincere believers in Christ who fear that perhaps the “Great
Tribulation” of prophecy, with all its horrors, is at hand.
It is true indeed that even Paul’s epistles warn this world of the
judgment to come. “…The Day of the Lord”, he says,
“so cometh as a thief in the night”.
“For when they shall say, Peace and safety; then
sudden destruction cometh upon them, as travail upon a woman with child;
and they shall not escape” (I Thess.5:2,3).
But before this time comes, the Lord will recall His ambassadors, as the
apostle tells us in the following passage:
“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:
“Then we which are alive and remain shall be caught up together with
them in the clouds, to meet the Lord in the air: and so shall we ever be
with the Lord.
“Wherefore comfort one another with these words”
(I Thess.4:16-18).
This is the event with which “the dispensation of the grace of
God” will be brought to a close. Then will follow “the day of
His wrath”, but even as Paul goes on to tell about this in the
passage which follows, he reassures the members of Christ’s Body that
they will not be included amongst those to whom the Lord will come as
“a thief in the night”.
“But ye brethren, are not in darkness, that that day
should overtake you as a thief. Ye are all the children of light…God
hath not appointed us to wrath, but to obtain salvation by our Lord Jesus
Christ, who died for us…Wherefore comfort yourselves
together…” (I Thess.5:4-11).
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