Christ Is Really Going to Return

Christ Is Really Going to Return

John 14:3, “And if I go and prepare a place for you, I will come again, and receive you unto myself; that where I am, there ye may be also.”

            Jesus said that if He went away He would come again to take us to the place that he was preparing for those who love and serve Him.  It is no wonder that devout Christians get excited during the Advent season.  The angels announced to the saints  in the Book of Acts 1:11, “…Ye men of Galilee, why stand ye gazing up into heaven? this same Jesus, which is taken up from you into heaven, shall so come in like manner as ye have seen him go into heaven.”  When Jesus ascended into heaven what was about to become a sad occasion became a blessed one because these saints were given the promise of Christ’s second Advent.

            Now what are we supposed to do as we approach the Advent season?  One thing is for sure, we should not waste our time writing books about the exact date that Christ will return.  The nobleman of the house, just before he went away, told his servants in Luke 19:13, “And he called his ten servants, and delivered them ten pounds, and said unto them, Occupy till I come.”            Pragmateuomai (4231) which is translated occupy here in the AV does not mean that we should go to church and occupy a pew but rather it means to busy oneself with the LORDS work.  In the same manner,  inLuke 24 Jesus said, “Thus it is written, and thus it behoved Christ to suffer, and to rise from the dead the third day: And that repentance and remission of sins should be preached in his name among all nations, beginning at Jerusalem.”  So, Christian musician, you should begin in the church where you minister and in the community where you live and work—those places are your “Jerusalem.