The next great event on God's prophetic calendar is the moment when millions are missing, ‘Lift off for glory’ is number one on God's agenda for the church. I tell you, this is the ultimate grace trip — it's what the ol’ gospel song calls: that great gettin up morning.’ Two thousand years have come and gone since the Lord frst made that glowing promise to His bewildered disciples in the Upper Room (cf. John 14:3). You know as well as I do, so much has happened across the word since then. We think of some key events, within the last 100 years, of cosmic significance.

The scope for comment on the final two Olivet Discourse parables is enormous - the Ten Virgins of Matthew 25:1-13 and the Talents of verses 14-30. The final section of that chapter from verse 31, is an important straightforward prophecy, when the nations (ethnos or Gentile survivors of the Great Tribulation) are likened to sheep and goats.

As Mount Saint Helens rumbled during the spring months of 1980, one man stood firm in is resolve to remain on the mountain. Harry R. Truman, an innkeeper, refused to leave his home despite an evacuation order and repeated warnings that came via reoccurring earthquakes. He acknowledged it was ‘possible’ the mountain might ‘blow’ someday, but he never reached the place where he was wiling ‘to pack up his bags' and leave his home.

The Jew - Chosen Of God

by David Newell