The Signs
Of
The Coming Of The Son Of Man
By
The
Twelve Apostles
Practise
Detachment
And Jesus left the multitudes and went with his
disciples up to Mary's home; and as they sat about the board to dine he said, “My
little flock, fear not; it is your Father's will that you shall rule the
kingdom of the soul. A ruler in the house of God is servant of the Lord of
Hosts, and man cannot serve God except by serving men. A servant in the house
of God cannot be servant in the house of wealth; nor in the synagogue of sense.
If you are tied to lands, or bonds, or wealth of earth, your hearts are knit to
things of earth; for where your treasures are there are your hearts. Dispose of all your wealth, distribute it among the poor,
and put your trust in God, and you nor yours will ever come to want. This is a
test of faith, and God will not accept the service of faithless one.
Right Priority And Earthly Riches
The Head: What is necessary is not for the children of God to exclude themselves from the earthly riches and wealth. Rather, they should have the right set of priorities. All the things of God are the most important. Man should know this. It is when people abandon the things and ways of God because of earthly riches and wealth, that is the time people begin to have problems and continue to have problems.
This statement, “Dispose of all your wealth, distribute it among the poor, and put your trust in God, and you nor yours will ever come to want.” creates problems where there religious organizations. The ministers of God overlook making efforts to make money and wealth, they fail to do work. As a result, people cannot do all the things that they should do for God. The ministers of God remain there suffering hunger, ulcer and other health problems, and the sick ministers do not have money to go for treatments.
And sometimes, it seems that the Saints come to suffer in poverty, to establish a church. Afterwards, the people who come to enjoy the wealth of the church, destroy and disorganize all things in their dining and wining.
God never said that He wants poverty. Instead, people have to set their priorities right. All good things, including money and wealth, are important in the house of God. When all these things are not available, many prayers and worship, services and ministrations, cannot be done or performed. But humanity should not place riches and wealth first. And they should not abandon all the things that they should do for God because of earthly riches and wealth.
The Coming Of The Master
“The time is ripe; your Master comes upon the
clouds; the eastern sky is glowing with his presence now. Put on reception
robes; gird up your loins; trim up your lamps and fill them well with oil, and
be prepared to meet your Lord; when you are ready, he will come. Thrice blessed
are the servants who are ready to receive their Lord.
Behold, for he will gird himself, and will prepare a sumptuous feast for
everyone, and he himself will serve.
“It matters not when he shall come; it may be at the
second watch; it may be at the third; but blessed are the servants who are
ready to receive. You cannot leave your door ajar and go to sleep, and wait in
blissful ignorance of the fleeting time; For thieves
will surely come and take away your goods and bind and carry you away to
robbers' dens. And if you are not carried forth, the Master when he comes will
not regard a sleeping guard as friend, but as a foe. Beloved, these are times
when every man must be awake and at his post, for none can tell the hour nor
the day when man shall be revealed.”
And Peter said, “Lord is this parable for us, or for
the multitudes?”
And Jesus, “Why need you ask? God is not a man that he should show respect for
one and cast another off. Whoever will may come and gird himself, and trim his
lamp, and find a turret in the tower of life where he may watch, and be
prepared to meet the Lord. But you, as children of the light, have come, and
you have learned the language of the court, and may stand forth and lead the way.
But you may wait, and think that you are ready to receive the Lord, and still
he does not come. And you may grow impatient and begin to long for carnal ways
again, and may begin to exercise your rule; To beat,
and otherwise maltreat the servants of the house, and fill yourselves with wine
and meat. And what will say the Lord when he shall come?
“Behold, for he will cast the faithless servant from
his house; and many years will come and go before he can be cleansed, and be
thought worthy to receive his Lord. The servant who has come into the light,
who knows the Master's will and does it not; the trusted guard who goes to
sleep within the turret of the tower of life, shall feel the lash of justice
many times, while he who does not know his Master's will and does it not, will
not receive the graver punishment.
“The man who comes and stands before the open door of opportunity and
does not enter in, but goes his way, will come again and find the door made
fast, and when he calls, the door will open not. The guard will say, ‘You had
the pass-word once, but you threw it away and now the Master knows you not;
depart.’
And verily I say to you, to whom much has been given, much is required; to whom
a little has been given, a little only is required.”
Parable Of The Faithful Servant And The Evil Servant
"Let your waist
be girded and your lamps burning; and you yourselves be like men who wait for
their master, when he will return from the wedding, that when he comes and
knocks they may open to him immediately. Blessed are those servants whom the
master, when he comes, will find watching. Assuredly, I say to you that he will
gird himself and have them sit down to eat, and will
come and serve them. And if he should come in the second watch, or come in the
third watch, and find them so, blessed are those servants. But know this, that if the master of the house had known what hour
the thief would come, he would have watched and not allowed his house to be
broken into. Therefore you also be ready, for the Son of Man is coming at an
hour you do not expect."
Then Peter said to
Him, "Lord, do You speak this parable only to us,
or to all people?"
And the Lord said,
"Who then is that faithful and wise steward, whom his master will make
ruler over his household, to give them their portion of food in due season?
Blessed is that servant whom his master will find so doing when he comes.
Truly, I say to you that he will make him ruler over all that he has. But if
that servant says in his heart, 'My master is delaying his coming,' and begins
to beat the male and female servants, and to eat and drink and be drunk, the
master of that servant will come on a day when he is not looking for him, and
at an hour when he is not aware, and will cut him in two and appoint him his
portion with the unbelievers. And that servant who knew his master's will, and
did not prepare himself or do according to his will, shall be beaten with many
stripes. But he who did not know, yet committed things deserving of stripes,
shall be beaten with few. For everyone to whom much is given, from him much
will be required; and to whom much has been committed, of him they will ask the
more.
The
Signs
Continuing later, Jesus Christ said, “Behold, the signs of what I say are in the sky. But
men can see them not. When men behold a cloud rise in the west they say, ‘A shower of rain will come,’ and so it does. And when
the wind blows from the south they say, ‘The weather will be hot,’ and it is
so. Behold, men can read the signs of earth and sky, but they cannot discern
the signs of Holy Spirit. But you shall know. The storm of wrath comes on. The
carnal man will seek a cause to drag you into court, and cast you into prison
cells. And when these times shall come let wisdom guide. Do not resent.
Resentment makes more strong the wrath of evil men.
“There is a little sense of justice and of mercy in the vilest men of
earth. By taking heed to what you do and say, and trusting in the guidance of
the Holy Spirit, you may inspire this sense to grow. You thus may make the
wrath of men to praise the Lord.”
The Christians went their way, and came unto
Then He also said to the multitudes,
"Whenever you see a cloud rising out of the west, immediately you say, 'A
shower is coming'; and so it is. And when you see the south wind blow, you say,
'There will be hot weather'; and there is. Hypocrites! You can discern the face
of the sky and of the earth, but how is it you do not discern this time?
Signs In The East
The eastern sky is glowing with His presence now.
The Head: The signs include the following:
1. The first visit in the east was the arrival of Hosts of Angels and Saints of Heaven at Bethlehem, soon after Jesus Christ was born.
2. The visit of the three wise men from the east.
3. The visit of the shepherds in the east. The geographical region which includes Israel is called the Middle East.
4. The celebrations of the congregation of the wise men in east, Persia. The congregation were the members of Zarathrustism, who sent the three wise men.
5. The visit of the wise man from the east, the royal prince of India.
6. The welcome by the three wise men in the east.
7. The meeting with the six wise men in the east, Persia.
8. The meeting with the seven wise men by the east, Egypt.
9. The council of the twelve great wise men in the east, The Twelve Apostles.
10. By all these signs, humanity supposed to know that the FirstSon of God, Jesus Christ, is truly the Lord and Saviour. Butt humanity did not make the efforts that they should make.
11. And the gatherings of various groups of wise men, from various nations of the world.
12. Many kings, rulers, came to see and find Him in Nazareth.