GREAT NEWS - CHRIST JESUS "The LORD our Righteousness" SAVES. Flee to Him Today, friends
"Who
verily was foreordained before the foundation of the world, but was
manifest in these last times for you." -I
PETER
1:20 [KJV]
By
"these last times" is meant this present dispensation, the
dispensation of grace under which we live, and they are called the
last times chiefly for two reasons:
1.
Because Christ was manifested in the last days of the legal
dispensation of the old covenant, which now, as decaying and waxing
old, was ready to vanish away [HEBREWS 8:13], which it did when at
the destruction of Jerusalem the whole of the temple service,
including the sacrifices offered there, was brought to an end.
2.
Another reason why the dispensation under which we live is called
"the last days" is because it is the final
revelation of God. It is "the time accepted," "the
day of salvation," of which all the prophets have spoken
[II CORINTHIANS 6:2; ACTS 3:24].
Christ
is now upon His throne of grace; the great, the glorious, the only
Mediator between God and men is now at the right hand of the Father;
the Intercessor who is able to save to the uttermost all that come
unto God by Him, seeing He ever liveth to make intercession for them,
still lives to plead, as an Advocate with the Father, Jesus Christ
the righteous, as the great High Priest over the house of God. But He
will leave the throne of grace to take His seat on the throne of
judgment; and then "these last days" will close in all the
glories of salvation to His friends, in all the horrors of
destruction to His foes.
-Gospel
report by preacher J.C. Philpot (1802-1869 A.D.)
June
2nd, EARS FROM HARVESTED SHEAVES
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