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HE SHALL COME TO BE GLORIFIED
FRIDAY, JANUARY 3
Daniel 7:1-14

2 Thessalonians 1:7-10

 

He comes not as an infant
in swaddling band,

but as King to reign.

 

HE SHALL COME TO BE GLORIFIED
 
To Daniel, exiled in Babylon, God gave the extraordinary privilege of seeing a “Grand Panorama of History” in two separate but parallel and confirmatory visions. In the visions, he saw a succession of four World Empires dominating the world scene. In chronological order they were the Babylonian, Medo-Persian, Greek and Roman empires. Each superpower in turn ruled the world centred around the Holy Land, but finally God’s Kingdom fills the earth.
 
Daniel’s amazing preview of world history has mostly been fulfilled by now. Only the last stage is yet to be. In the “Grande Finale,” Daniel saw God’s Kingdom being established in this manner:
 
1. “…as a stone was cut out without hands, which smote the image upon his feet, and brake them to pieces… and the stone… became a great mountain, and filled the whole earth” (Dan 2:34-35).
 
2. “but the judgment shall sit, and they shall take away his dominion, to consume and to destroy it… And the kingdom and dominion… shall be given to the people of the saints of the most High…” (Dan 7:26-27).
 
3. “and, behold, one like the Son of man came with the clouds of heaven… And there was given him dominion, and glory, and a kingdom, that all people, nations, and languages, should serve him: his dominion is an everlasting dominion… his kingdom that which shall not be destroyed” (Dan 7:13-14).
 
The Apostle Paul’s prophecy further confirms: our “Lord Jesus shall be revealed from heaven with his mighty angels, In flaming fire taking vengeance on them… that obey not the Gospel of our Lord Jesus Christ” (2 Thess 1:7-8).
 
Reader, do not be found among those that “obey not the gospel of our Lord Jesus Christ” (2 Thess 1:8). Read God’s Word and be wise: be found on the Lord’s side. He shall come to be glorified!
 
THOUGHT: God’s Kingdom shall not be destroyed.
PRAYER: Help me, Father, to live with Thy Kingdom in view. Let me not put all my hopes in this passing world that is soon to be destroyed.

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