The Appearing of Christ 48 – Watch & Pray II

We continue to consider the significance of being ready for the coming of the Lord. Readiness is associated with watching and praying in the Word of God. Watching is the faculty of the mind of the spirit. Our spirit man is always in a state of watchfulness – attentive and perceptive to every moving and …

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The Appearing of Christ 47 – Watch & Pray I

“Therefore keep watch, because you do not know on what day your Lord will come… So you also must be ready, because the Son of Man will come at an hour when you do not expect him” (Mat. 24:42,44). The call to be ready for the coming of the Lord has often been shouted from the …

The Appearing of Christ 46 – Opening of the Spiritual Temple

As I write these words, a great joy and expectation fills my heart. I rejoice in the kingdom program that God is getting ready to unveil on the earth. With every passing day, the groan of expectation grows louder in our hearts. We long to see the coming forth of all that we have seen …

The Appearing of Christ 45 – Revealing Man’s Self-deification

Man is born with an inherent instinct for self-preservation. Science teaches that it is the first law of nature. Self-preservation is an instinctive tendency to ensure one’s safety and survival, at best, and one’s self-seeking and greed, at worst. This instinct is perverted when man abandons his divine nature and violates God’s rightful dominion in …

The Appearing of Christ 44 – Casting off Offences

“For it must needs be that offences come; but woe to that man by whom the offence cometh” (Mat. 18:7) At the root of all of Mystery Babylon’s perversions and trappings is the carnal man; the man of sin who works from the midst of men’s hearts. This man has made the earth tremble, shaken kingdoms, …

The Appearing of Christ 43 – Futility of the World & the Man of Sin

In our last message we considered the great apostasy taking place in the institutionalized religious system of our day. This apostasy is fundamentally a falling away from Christ as head, from the love of the truth, from the pursuit of the pureness of His indwelling life and the administration of the Spirit in every sphere …

The Appearing of Christ 42 – The Great Apostasy

“Let no one deceive you by any means; for that Day will not come unless the falling away comes first, and the man of sin is revealed... whom the Lord will consume with the breath of His mouth and destroy with the brightness of His coming” (2 Thes. 2:3,8)In our recent messages we have been …