Dear friend,
How is the Second Coming of Christ related to our faith?
Our Lord hinted to us that, at that time of His Second Coming, true faith will be a rarity. "When the Son of man cometh, shall he find faith on the earth?" (Luk. 18:8) The answer to that rhetorical question is "yes", only because faith is the gift of God. At any one time in the history of mankind, there are always, by faith, the "elect, which cry day and night unto him, though he bear long with them." (Luk. 18:7) God's grace never fail to grant faith to His people.
The spirit of antichrist shall dominate the end time, just before Jesus' return. Such a spirit is not a spirit that denies the use of the terms, such as "Christ" or "Christianity" or any such like good terms. Rather, it is a spirit that insists on its wrong definition of those terms, resulting in a corruption of the formal expression of the faith. So, in the end times, there will be many who think they are doing God's service, representing His cause, when in actual fact, they have departed from the faith. "The Spirit speaketh expressly, that in the latter times some shall depart from the faith." (1Ti. 4:1) We must be ready to meet such challenges, and to prepare our children for them.
How? "Preach the word; be instant in season, out of season; reprove rebuke, exhort with all longsuffering and doctrine. For the time will come when they will not endure sound doctrine; but after their own lusts shall they heap to themselves teachers, having itching ears; and they shall turn away their ears from the truth and shall be turned unto fables." (2Ti. 4:2-4)
On this matter there are many sleeping Christians not well prepared for the Lord's return. It will do us well to take heed to the following words: "Of that day and that hour knoweth no man, no, not the angels which are in heaven, neither the Son, but the Father. Take ye heed, watch and pray: for ye know not when the time is. — Blessed are those servants, whom the lord when he cometh shall find watching. — Looking for that blessed hope, ... the glorious appearing of the great God, and our Saviour Jesus Christ." (Mar. 13:32-33; Luk. 12:37; Tit. 2:13)
Specifically, what are you and am I doing by way of preparing for His Second Coming?
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