Today’s Devotion
Topic: BEHOLD HE COMES (Self Assessment)
Background: Jesus is coming soon- the signs are clear. Isaiah prophesied about this about 700 years before Jesus was born. However we are as adamant as our fathers were in the days of Noah. Jesus warns that “as it was in the days of Noah, so it will be at the coming of the Son of Man. For in the days before the flood, people were eating and drinking, marrying and giving in marriage, up to the day Noah entered the ark” ( Matthew 24: 37- 38).
This study therefore seeks to explore the various TRUTHS surrounding the second coming of Christ and provide an opportunity for self assessment- whether or not we will make the number when He appears. Please read the passages below carefully and share the revelations the Holy Spirit gives you with us.
Text: Isaiah 62: 10-11
10 Go through, go through the gates, prepare the way for the people, build up, build up the highway clear it of stones. Lift up a signal over the peoples. 11 Say to the daughter of Zion, behold your salvation comes; behold, his reward is with Him, and His recompense before Him.
Questions:
i. Will Jesus ever come again as some say He will? (read: Acts 1: 9- 11, Revelations 22: 12)
ii. Why is He coming? (read: John 14:3)
iii. Why has His coming delayed then? (read: 2 Peter 3: 9- 11)
iv. Isaiah 62: 10 instructs us to prepare the way for the people and to remove the stones to clear the highway for His Coming.
a. What in your opinion does “prepare the way for the people” mean?
b. Also what are some of the “STONES” in the lives of believers today and the church at large that serve as a blockade to an easy walk with the Lord unto salvation?
v. Is Jesus coming to take the whole world with Him? (read: Matthew 7: 21, Revelations 22: 14- 15)
vi. What are the practical events that will happen when the Lord shows up in the sky eventually? (read 1 Thessalonians 4: 16)
vii. How does the phrase “His reward is with Him” interprets to the new testament believer?
viii. So what must One do to be saved? (read: Acts: 3: 19, Acts: 16: 31, Romans 10: 8)
vx. What have you learnt from today’s bible study?
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