“Immediately after the distress of those days “‘the sun will be
darkened, and the moon will not give its light; the stars will fall from the sky, and the heavenly bodies will be shaken.”
Greetings in the name of Jesus!
Every soul who read these sermons about the end times is precious to the writer and to his Lord. Those who do not read but catch something “worldly” from some Antichristian elements about these sermons, even their souls are precious to the writer and to his Lord. As a disciple of Jesus Christ, it is fair important to know that Jesus Christ ascended into the heaven and the same way, his second coming on the earth is also predicted and is going to happen for sure. And, Many believe in a false teaching like Jesus has taken birth somewhere on earth right now. They meant that reincarnation of him has happened. In fact, as a religious person, I would like to hear ‘Jesus, Jesus’ in the whole world, but it will never be like so as a spiritual one! 27th verse clearly have stated that, for as lightning that comes from the east is visible even in the west, so will be the coming of the Son of Man. That is swiftly! And so, we have to disclose such wrong teachings or wrong messages about Jesus who preach to us that he has been born, will get grown, will get famous and then he will come to the world’s stage. Magi had witnessed of a star when Christ first came into this world and the same way, the second coming of him will have more evident heavenly signs being seen. We will study about one of these signs in our sermon over here. In last sermon, we talked about a time of distress from the Book of Daniel and here we will go beyond that time and talk afterwards things. Immediately after the distress of those days… Here, it can be a symbolic language for sun to become darkened. It is not as a reference about some scientific fact that after millions of years, sun’s fuel will come to end. It will be an immediate thing! As we test reference of Isaiah 13:10 about this verse, we come to know, “The rising sun will be darkened and the moon will not give its light.” So, it will be that day’s rising sun which will be darkened. It will not be some news of attacking Israel with rockets or bombs… It will be a whole more of a different thing! At death of Jesus, it happened so, “At noon, darkness came over the whole land until three in the afternoon.” Mark 15:33. Sun got rising on that day also. After that day’s sun rising, Jesus was handed over to Pilate. There, Pilate asked Jesus, “Are you the king of the Jews?” On that day, if Jesus had made proper reply to Pilate then his life was going to be spared! King refused to become a king because, His kingdom was not of this world! Then instead of Jesus, a man called Barabbas who committed murder in the uprising was released. Then Pilate had Jesus flogged, and handed him over to be crucified. Soldiers began mocking Jesus and put a purple robe on him, then twisted together a crown of thorns and set it on him and they began to call out to him, “Hail, king of the Jews!” When they needed to mourn before Jesus, they started mocking him. Sun, moon, stars and heavenly bodies give signs of that mourning! There are suns addicted to get pleasures from the world. They need to get darkened for a while as a symbol of mourning. That means, they need to mourn of a repentance and commit themselves as a sinners to Jesus. Then he will forgive them their sins. We read in Luke 7 about Roman Centurion who let his sun of high esteem to be darkened for the glory of Jesus. There Jesus was amazed and he said in his favor, “I tell you, I have not found such great faith even in Israel.” Luke 7:9. In the end times, sun of Israel is burning at high esteem. We can see her renown raising everywhere but, Antichrist will come and he will deceive Israel and then Israel have to mourn over it, because she won’t know her true messiah! “Look, he is coming with the clouds," and "every eye will see him, even those who pierced him"; and all peoples on earth "will mourn because of him." So shall it be! Amen.” Revelation 1:7. Just as we find day’s great light, we find night’s great light which is the moon. There is a different glory of night! The moon must leave her light of glory so that Jesus shall come to her and then say, “Go now and leave your life of sin.” John 8:11. Jesus gives New Life, Eternal life to those who leave their old life, their old testament with devil. Mourning of a proper time comes to help, not pleasures of all hours. Many lights like those glittering of late night parties and late night mobile usage are throwing people in bigger sins and those who mourn of a proper time will get saved from assigning with the hypocrites. How is that assigning with the hypocrites? “There will be weeping and gnashing of teeth.” Matthew 24:51. It is hell! When stars or say of a proper term meteoroids fall from the sky, they get vaporized in the air while entering into the environment of the earth. Let’s learn from them something amazing… The faithful and wise servant will act like a falling star and that servant will allow own existence to be vaporized for giving testimony of Jesus and as a sign of his coming. They do get themselves humble, and they fall from the sky but, Like a falling star which makes to the land of earth and gives it destruction, they do not begin to beat their fellow servants and to eat and drink with drunkards, Matthew 24:49. They feed their household their food at the proper time. They do know from beginning of their journey about their master’s in charge which will never get late. They do know their calculation. They do know their own falling! Daniel was having that calculation and he knew that, His master will never come late. Take sun, moon, stars or heavenly bodies, God does not show favoritism, Galatians 2:6. And that is why, kingfisher company type Christians should beware of coming judgment! Their master will come at an hour when they do not expect him. The heavenly bodies will be shaken. Because the Lord of the heaven and the earth is coming! Everything gets bow down before the sovereign God! At that time, will people of earth have heard of the coming of the Son of Man? Yes, they will have heard about his coming but, they may want to see him through their carnal eyes. And those who will want to believe after watching through their carnal eyes, many of them will get late! They are not elected because, they will have not followed the commands of Jesus. “Not everyone who says to me, ‘Lord, Lord,’ will enter the kingdom of heaven, but only the one who does the will of my Father who is in heaven.” Matthew 7:21. Many get terrorized with above verse and if it is so then there is surely a need of mourning in repentance! Heavenly bodies are having proud over their powers just like some magician who would have proud over his magic. “Nobody can do magic like me!” God made everything good but He never told anywhere that he had done some magic! There He expressed satisfaction that all and everything was made perfect and final which mankind needed and which mankind do really wanted and thus He made all perfect. Joseph saw a dream in which sun, moon and eleven stars bowed down before him. We can say that the whole Israel bowed down before him because, on those days it was a great famine all over the world and only Joseph was having enough of food to distribute to all! And he was made the king of all the world! Think when King of kings and Lord of lords will come, it is surely going to happen that the sun, the moon and stars and heavenly bodies will bow down before him, leaving their light for a while or will get darkened for that hour! Israel has to come to the repentance. The Lord has established her, not her wars have! Well, We have seen about the signs of the coming of Jesus but let us take a look over the signs of being an unfaithful servant: “Nobody can become Christian or Christian servant like me!” “I have special blessing of the Lord over me!” “My holiness, my work, my writing, it’s just the best!” “Just a little sin can never get us in trouble and even it is not a sin!” “I will live Christian life on Sunday only. All other days are just fine, well who watches over me?” “I must get acclaimed every time and I must get complements from the people!” “I can never be taught but by me only!” “The faithful and wise servant is the one who set trend of his own. You don’t know either anything in it!” We can’t call a servant ‘faithful’ who sees polluted church but is not willing to cleanse it. He has brought his worldly sun in so much of light that even after the destruction of his church, that two-edged sword will never come forth in his sermons through which he can cleanse that pollution from its root! Nobody knows the Day and Hour of the second coming of Jesus. Nobody knows when Jesus will complete building home for us in the heaven. It is symbolic if you understand about completion of that home. It is completion of a digit actually after which no elect will remain to be saved! Entering in the heavenly home is entering from Jesus’s death to his resurrection! And what will happen last? What will happen after those signs? “And he will send his angels with a loud trumpet call, and they will gather his elect from the four winds, from one end of the heavens to the other.” Matthew 24:31. Some pictures have shown angels keeping their hands on the shoulders of saved souls and bringing them to the Lord of hosts. We will see angels at that time! We will see our Lord! We will see saints! And our darkened hearts will turn to light of the heaven and become filled with it forever! This month of July, 2019, we will see some heavenly signs! We keep hope that we shall be ready. We should turn ourselves to get darkened for a while so that Jesus can be enlighten in the world. John Newton said, “My memory is nearly gone, but I remember two things- that I am a great sinner and that Christ is a great savior.” Lastly… “Lift your eyes up, and sing for the Lord. Christ is riding and coming. (2) His riding is on the clouds, Angels we cannot count. All tribes are watching him, They mourn much before him. Get yourselves darkened before him. Christ is riding and coming. “Lift your eyes up, and sing for the Lord. Christ is riding and coming. (2) Copyright@www.dainikvachan.online
(Studies in Biblical Literature 99) Anne Moore - Moving Beyond Symbol and Myth - Understanding The Kingship of God of The Hebrew Bible Through Metaphor-Peter Lang Publishing Inc. (2009) PDF