Come, Lord Jesus!
2 Peter 3:13 NLT
We are looking forward to the new heavens and new earth He has promised, a world filled with God’s righteousness.
Revelation 22:6-7, 12-13 NIV
The angel said to me, “These words are trustworthy and true. The Lord, the God who inspires the prophets, sent his angel to show his servants the things that must soon take place.” “Look, I am coming soon! Blessed is the one who keeps the words of the prophecy written in this scroll... Look, I am coming soon! My reward is with me, and I will give to each person according to what they have done. I am the Alpha and the Omega, the First and the Last, the Beginning and the End.”
Revelation 1:1 NIV
The revelation from Jesus Christ, which God gave him to show his servants what must soon take place.
Revelation 1:3 NIV
... the time is near.
Revelation 3:11 NIV
I am coming soon.
In Light of His Soon Return, We...
GET READY for His Return
Matthew 24:42 NIV
“Therefore keep watch, because you do not know on what day your Lord will come.”
Revelation 1:3 ESV
Blessed is the one who READS aloud the words of this prophecy, and blessed are those who HEAR, and who KEEP what is written in it, for the time is near.
Revelation 22:7 NI
“Look, I am coming soon! Blessed is the one who KEEPS the words of the prophecy written in this scroll.”
What does God tell us to do in this book?
* Remain FAITHFUL
* Resist EVIL
* Live in HOPE
* LOVE radically
* WORSHIP no matter what
* TELL others the Good News
* LISTEN to what the Spirit says
* WAIT His return
In Light of His Soon Return, We...
GET READY for His Return
GATHER for His Return
Revelation 22:17 NIV
The Spirit and the BRIDE say, “Come!”
Hebrews 10:24-25 NIV
And let us consider how we may spur one another on toward love and good deeds, not giving up meeting together, as some are in the habit of doing, but encouraging one another—and all the more as you see the Day approaching.
“The physical presence of other Christians is a source of incomparable joy and strength to the believer.”
-Dietrich Bonhoeffer
In Light of His Soon Return, We...
GET READY for His Return
GATHER for His Return
GROAN for His Return
Romans 8:22-23 NLT
For we know that all creation has been groaning as in the pains of childbirth right up to the present time. And we believers also groan, even though we have the Holy Spirit within us as a foretaste of future glory, for we long for our bodies to be released from sin and suffering.
Revelation 22:17 NIV
The Spirit and the bride say, “COME!” And let the one who hears say, “Come!” Let the one who is thirsty come; and let the one who wishes take the free gift of the water of life.
2 Timothy 1:12 NIV
I know whom I have believed, and am convinced that He is able to guard what I have entrusted to Him until that day.
“And for us this is the end of all the stories, and we can most truly say that they all lived happily ever after. But for them it was only the beginning of the real story. All their life in this world and all their adventures in Narnia had only been the cover and the title page; now at last they were beginning Chapter One of the Great Story, which no one on earth has read; which goes on forever; in which every chapter is better than the one before.”
-C. S. Lewis, The Last Battle
Revelation 22:20-21 NIV
He who testifies to these things says, “Yes, I am coming soon.” Amen. Come, Lord Jesus. The grace of the Lord Jesus be with God’s people. Amen.
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