WEDNESDAY, MARCH 21
Luke 21:25-38
Zechariah 14:17-18

“…all the families of the earth
unto Jerusalem to worship the King…”

THE RETURN OF CHRIST

Jesus prophesied the sufferings of the Jews before His millennial reign. He continued to tell them of the scene before He returns bodily to earth. There will be strange sights in heaven. Men’s hearts will become discouraged with sighs and fainting. The sight will be too fearful causing many to be exceedingly perplexed not knowing what to do. People were “failing,” has the meaning of “dying,” choosing rather to die because of the great fear. This was prophesied by Jeremiah as “Jacob’s trouble” (Jer 30:7).

The end of these perplexities is the coming of the Lord Jesus Christ in a cloud. This will be a spectacular event for He will come with power and great glory. Read Zechariah 14:4.

Jesus exhorted His disciples to observe the signs of the times. If they could judge with much certainty and assurance the approach of summer by the budding forth of the trees, and if the sign of the fig tree with shoots was a sign that it was already spring and summer would surely follow, they should take His words all the more seriously. Jesus warned the people to be watchful and not to be caught by the world’s trap of inordinately pursuing material things and to keep their hearts from being overcharged by the cares of this life. “Love not the world, neither the things that are in the world. If any man love the world, the love of the Father is not in him” (1 John 2:15).

Jesus encouraged the people to pray always. Prayer is the breath of the Christian. As man cannot live without breathing, so a genuine Christian cannot live without prayer. Christians must hear the words of Christ to make sure of their salvation from the coming wrath of God.

THOUGHT: Am I looking forward to the return of Christ?
PRAYER: Father, let me pray and prepare myself to meet Jesus in the air before He judges this world.