From: Francis Harper
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Francis Harper Message for 7/19/2019
Dear Ones,
We often wonder what we will be doing on the day of the Lord’s coming? “Perhaps you will be in your car driving home from work. Thoughts wander to the game you want to see or the meal you want to eat, when suddenly a sound, unlike any you have ever heard, fills the air. The sound is from high above you. A trumpet? A choir? A choir of trumpets? You don’t know, but you want to know. So you pull over, get out of your car and look up. As you do this you see that you are not the only curious one. The roadside has become a parking lot! Everything has come to a standstill.
“Everyone is looking up, searching the clouds. And what they see, and what you see has never been seen before. A brilliant light spills onto the earth. There are no shadows. None. Angels begin to fill the space above until they occupy every square inch of the sky – north, south, east and west. You can hear them singing, “Holy, Holy, Holy.” Suddenly the heavens are quiet.
“The angels turn, you turn, the entire world turns, and there he is – Jesus. Before you is a person so consuming, so overwhelming that you know, instantly you know, and nothing else matters. Forget stock markets and school reports. Forget sales meetings and football games. Nothing is newsworthy . . . all that mattered matters no more . . . for Jesus Christ has come!” (Author unknown)
It will be a day of fiery judgment for those who have failed to heed the call to prepare for the Lord’s return. See Malachi 4:1-3. Those who are prepared will be “arrayed in fine linen, clean and white; for the fine linen is the righteousness of saints” (Revelation 19:7).
“And he said unto them, Verily I say unto you, be ye therefore ready also; for the Son of Man cometh at an hour when ye think not” (Luke 12:47; 12:40 KJV). “And they said, who then is that faithful and wise servant? And the Lord said unto them, it is that servant who watcheth to impart his portion of meat in due season. Blessed be that servant whom his Lord shall find, when he cometh, so doing. But the evil servant is he who is not found watching. And if that servant is not found watching, he will say in his heart, My Lord delayeth his coming . . . unto whomsoever much is given, of him shall much be required” (Luke 12:50-54, 57 IV; 12:42-45, 48 KJV). What do you want to be doing on the day of the Lord’s coming?
We Shall Behold Him
The sky shall unfold
Preparing His entrance.
The stars shall applaud Him
With thunders of praise.
The sweet light in His eyes, shall enhance those awaiting
And we shall behold Him, then face to face.
O we shall behold Him, we shall behold Him
Face to face in all of His glory.
O we shall behold Him, yes, we shall behold Him
Face to face, our Savior and Lord!
The angel will sound, the shout of His coming,
And the sleeping shall rise, from their slumbering place.
And those remaining, shall be changed in a moment,
And we shall behold him, then face to face.
We shall behold Him, o yes, we shall behold Him
Face to face in all of His glory!
We shall behold Him, face to face,
Our Savior and Lord.
We shall behold Him, our Savior and Lord,
Savior and Lord!
My Love to All,
High Priest Francis Harper
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“We Shall Behold Him”
Many are longing for the coming of the Lord and the establishment of his kingdom. I can identify with the words of Isaiah. I will paraphrase a bit. “O’ Lord we have waited for thee, your coming is the desire of our souls. With my soul I have desired thee in the night. Within my spirit I desire that you will come soon. And it shall be said in that day, Lo, this is our God; we have waited for him . . . this is the Lord we have waited for him, we will be glad and rejoice in his salvation . . . the Lord God will wipe away tears from off all faces” (Isaiah 26: 8-9; 25:8-9).
When I received word of the death of our youngest granddaughter, I said, “Come, Lord Jesus!” These were the sentiments of the Apostle John as he closed his record in Revelation 22:20: “He which testifieth these things, saith, surely, I come quickly [suddenly]; Amen. Even so, come, Lord Jesus.”
Earlier John described the day all of the Lord’s people are waiting for: “And I John saw the holy city coming down from God out of heaven, prepared as a bride adorned for her husband. And I heard a great voice out of heaven saying, the tabernacle [the dwelling place] of God is with men, and he will dwell with them, and be their God. And God shall wipe away all tears from their eyes; and there shall be no more death, neither sorrow, nor crying, neither shall there be any more pain; for the former things are passed away” (Revelation 21: 2-4).
Paul wrote of the Lord’s coming in glory: “For the Lord himself shall descend from heaven with a shout, with the voice of the archangel, and with the trump of God; and the dead in Christ shall rise first; Then they who are alive, shall be caught up together into the clouds with them who remain, to meet the Lord in the air; and so shall we be ever with the Lord” (1 Thessalonians 4:16-17).
Jude quotes a prophecy of Enoch: “And Enoch also, the seventh [generation] from Adam, prophesied of these, saying, Behold, the Lord cometh with ten thousand of his saints, to execute judgment upon all” (Jude 1:14-15). John also testified: “. . . behold, he cometh in the clouds with ten thousands of his saints in the kingdom, clothed with the glory of his Father, and every eye shall see him; and they who pierced him, and all kindreds of the earth shall wail because of him” (Revelation 1:7).
The saints who are living here on earth, when the Lord descends from heaven with the ten thousands, are mentioned by Paul in his letter to the Corinthians: “Behold, I show you a mystery: We shall not all sleep [die], but we shall all be changed, in a moment, in the twinkling of an eye, at the sound of the last trump; for the trumpet shall sound, and the dead shall be raised incorruptible, and we shall be changed. For this corruptible must put on incorruption, and this mortal [body] must put on immortality” (1 Corinthians 15:51-53).
Our waiting for the Lord’s coming will not be in vain. He is faithful who has promised: “I will prepare a place for you, and come again, and receive you unto myself; that where I am you may be also” (John 14:3). This is the good news. The bad news is that, relatively speaking, only a few will be caught up to meet the Lord. The vast majority of all the tribes of earth (shall) mourn” (Matthew 24:37 IV; 24: 30 KJV).
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