Post by BSG-Mom on Nov 25, 2017 14:18:49 GMT -6
Today I participated in the shoutbox and added some thoughts on waiting for the harpazo. I heard the heart of saints with oil lamps lit.
How I could identify!
Waiting requires endurance, and for the Bride, knowledge of truth.
And we DO KNOW the truth!
So did Noah who spent a hundred plus years preaching future destruction to no avail as he built an Ark.
Then there was Abraham and his Bride, Sarah who were promised multiple descendants. The waiting was so long, they took things into their own hands and bore a child through an Egyptian woman. After all, Sarah was way beyond childbearing years.
Rachel, the favored Bride of Jacob waited for a very long time. Finally, after six sons were born from Leah and two maid servants, God “opened her womb” (Gen 30)
Hannah, another favored Bride, was barren to the point of great sorrow. Finally, she bore a son, Samuel. She was so thankful she “lent her son to the Lord;”
and Samuel “remained in the temple forever.” (First Samuel 1)
I might venture to say, those disobedient Hebrew children also waited begrudgingly.
Forty years around the same mountain until the rebels were weeded out.
There is so much drama in the pages of the Old Testament.
Prophets preached the Promise and warned against unbelief, only to be scoffed and eventually martyed. So, God withheld his voice from Israel four hundred years until the time would come for His Son to be born.
And another Bride waited. Elizabeth, Mary’s cousin. Her son John would once again proclaim the coming Promised One.
Disillusionment tempts me as I await the Rapture.
Signs come and go with the Jewish feasts; visions and dreams as well.
But I’m not at all discouraged. In fact, the opposite is true.
We, the Bride are in great company with those who persevered as they waited. And when we were betrothed to our Groom centuries ago, it was the custom to share a covenant meal and hear His words as He said:
“Let not your heart be troubled;...I am going to prepare a place for you, and will come again and receive you to Myself; that where I am, there you may be also. (John 14)
Rise up my darling! come away with me my fair one! Look, the winter is past, and the rains are over and gone. The flowers are springing up,the season of singing birds has come, and cooing of turtle doves fills the air. The FIG TREES are forming young fruit and fragrant grapevines are blossoming. Rise up, my darling! Come away with me, my fair one!"( Song of Solomon 2:10-)
ARE THESE NOT ENCOURAGING PASSAGES FOR THE BRIDE!
How I could identify!
Waiting requires endurance, and for the Bride, knowledge of truth.
And we DO KNOW the truth!
So did Noah who spent a hundred plus years preaching future destruction to no avail as he built an Ark.
Then there was Abraham and his Bride, Sarah who were promised multiple descendants. The waiting was so long, they took things into their own hands and bore a child through an Egyptian woman. After all, Sarah was way beyond childbearing years.
Rachel, the favored Bride of Jacob waited for a very long time. Finally, after six sons were born from Leah and two maid servants, God “opened her womb” (Gen 30)
Hannah, another favored Bride, was barren to the point of great sorrow. Finally, she bore a son, Samuel. She was so thankful she “lent her son to the Lord;”
and Samuel “remained in the temple forever.” (First Samuel 1)
I might venture to say, those disobedient Hebrew children also waited begrudgingly.
Forty years around the same mountain until the rebels were weeded out.
There is so much drama in the pages of the Old Testament.
Prophets preached the Promise and warned against unbelief, only to be scoffed and eventually martyed. So, God withheld his voice from Israel four hundred years until the time would come for His Son to be born.
And another Bride waited. Elizabeth, Mary’s cousin. Her son John would once again proclaim the coming Promised One.
Disillusionment tempts me as I await the Rapture.
Signs come and go with the Jewish feasts; visions and dreams as well.
But I’m not at all discouraged. In fact, the opposite is true.
We, the Bride are in great company with those who persevered as they waited. And when we were betrothed to our Groom centuries ago, it was the custom to share a covenant meal and hear His words as He said:
“Let not your heart be troubled;...I am going to prepare a place for you, and will come again and receive you to Myself; that where I am, there you may be also. (John 14)
Rise up my darling! come away with me my fair one! Look, the winter is past, and the rains are over and gone. The flowers are springing up,the season of singing birds has come, and cooing of turtle doves fills the air. The FIG TREES are forming young fruit and fragrant grapevines are blossoming. Rise up, my darling! Come away with me, my fair one!"( Song of Solomon 2:10-)
ARE THESE NOT ENCOURAGING PASSAGES FOR THE BRIDE!
