The job of the righteous in the Last Days

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“Therefore wait for Me,” says the Lord, “Until the day I rise up for plunder; My determination is to gather the nations To My assembly of kingdoms, To pour on them My indignation, All My fierce anger; All the earth shall be devoured With the fire of My jealousy. Zephaniah 3:8  #churchleadership #faith #Israel #Jesus #lastdays #Messiah #righteousness #salvation #SignsOfTheTimes  https://lightforthelastdays.co.uk/articles/christianity-and-the-last-days/the-job-of-the-righteous-in-the-last-days/

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00:00And in the midst of this gloomy scenario, the prophet also calls for the righteous to wait for the Lord.

00:07He says that he's going to gather the nations and pour out on them his indignation.

00:12Or says he's going to restore a pure speech to the peoples in chapter 3, famous passage where he says in verse 9,

00:21I will restore to the people a pure language that they may call on the name of the Lord to serve him with one accord.

00:26Some have actually referred that to the fact that in modern Israel they've restored the ancient language of Israel.

00:34You could see that as a partial fulfilment of this prophecy, but I think it's more than that.

00:39It's speaking about restoring your language to praise the Lord.

00:42People will call upon the name of the Lord, even restoring some kind of a heavenly language.

00:47Not speaking here about gifts of the Holy Spirit, but maybe that's part of it,

00:51that God is going to restore a living language in which we can communicate with the Lord by the Holy Spirit

00:57and bring all people together in one so that we are no longer divided as we were at the time of the Tower of Babel,

01:04as people were divided by different tongues, so they were divided by cultures, by religion, by race.

01:10God wants to bring us together into one in the Lord to worship him in spirit and in truth.

01:15And calling on the name of the Lord is a passage used in the Old Testament for true worship,

01:20true worship of the Lord, the true God, as opposed to worshipping the false gods which are around them.

01:26And he goes on to say that he will leave behind a meek and a humble people

01:31who will trust in the name of the Lord,

01:34and the meek shall inherit the earth is one of the things that Jesus says.

01:37And a lot of the end-time passage here, I believe, does speak about the coming time when Jesus is going to return

01:42in person, in power and in glory, and reign on the earth.

01:47Many Christians don't actually believe in a literal millennial kingdom, but it's there in the Bible.

01:53And the Bible says that the same Jesus who died the first time and was sacrificed for our sins,

01:58went up to heaven after his resurrection, is going to come again.

02:02But this time in a different form, this time as king of kings and lord of lords,

02:06and dwell amongst us and restore the earth to the way it was before Adam and Eve fell.

02:13Going to bring an end to war, bring an end to violence,

02:17bring an end to all of the things which are defining the world today.

02:21And in the passage here it says,

02:23the king, he has cast out, the Lord has taken away your judgments, verse 15,

02:28he has cast out your enemy, the king of Israel, the Lord is in your midst,

02:31you shall see disaster no more.

02:35And it goes on to say,

02:36the Lord your God in your midst, the mighty one will save,

02:40he will rejoice over you with gladness,

02:42he will quiet you with his love,

02:44he will rejoice over you with singing.

02:48I believe that by the Spirit, the Lord is with us today,

02:51because Jesus said,

02:51we're two or three gathered together in my name,

02:54I'm there in the midst.

02:55But this is talking about some kind of more visible presence of the Lord

02:59Lord, on the earth, at the time of the second coming of Yeshua,

03:04Jesus the Messiah.

03:06It says the king of Israel is going to be in your midst,

03:08and when he's in your midst, you're going to see disaster no more.

03:12The time of the second coming of Jesus is going to bring an end

03:14to all the disasters, all the troubles,

03:16all the negativity which we see taking place in the world today,

03:20and bring an end to sin and rebellion,

03:22and above all, bring an end to the role of Satan,

03:26the enemy, in ruling over the nations.

03:29He'll be cast out and placed into the abyss,

03:31from which he can no longer deceive the nations.

03:34So at that time, the king is going to be in your midst.

03:37And if we are believers in Yeshua,

03:39I believe we're going to be coming back with him,

03:41and reigning with him during that time,

03:42when Jesus is reigning on the earth,

03:44and bringing peace and justice to the world.

03:47I would very much like to see that happen, wouldn't you?

03:50And be there when it happens,

03:52because it's going to be a glorious time.

03:54Today we live in such a distressing world,

03:56when turning on the news is almost a torment,

03:59and just hear one disaster after another.

04:03Imagine hearing about one glorious event after another,

04:06about one restoration after another,

04:08about one peace between peoples,

04:11about all the things which we would long to see taking place.

04:14It's going to happen when Jesus returns.

04:16And the wicked will be cast off,

04:18but those who are saved will be with the Lord.

04:20In that glorious time.

04:22And Zechariah is promising over this.

04:23He says, even the Lord is going to rejoice over you.

04:26He's going to rejoice over you with singing.

04:28The Lord likes to hear us singing to him,

04:31but the Lord is actually going to sing to us,

04:32so that'll be good, won't it?

04:34I guess he'll be more tuneful than we are.

04:36But you can imagine that he's so rejoicing over his people,

04:40and over the restoration,

04:41that he's singing for joy

04:43at what he's seeing taking place on the earth.

04:45It's going to be a glorious time

04:47and a glorious deliverance from the evil which is taking place.

04:53It goes up, Phenesis was saying,

04:55he's going to deal with the afflicted,

04:56he's going to save the lame and those driven out.

05:01Those who are excluded from the assembly of the nations

05:04in this present evil age,

05:06those who find themselves outsiders

05:08because of either their faith in Yeshua,

05:10or because of their race,

05:13particularly if they're Jewish,

05:15and they're going to be brought in

05:16into the kingdom of God.

05:18And God is saying those who have been excluded

05:20will now be included.

05:22And those who have been included

05:24in this present evil age

05:25will be excluded if they're not right with God.

05:29So there'll be a reversal of the present state.

05:33And he'll give you fame and praise

05:34among all the nations

05:35and all the peoples of the earth.

05:38Finally, he says,

05:38they're going to regather the peoples.

05:41So bring all the,

05:43return your captives before your eyes.

05:46So there'll be the final complete restoration of Israel

05:49at the time of the second coming of Yeshua,

05:52Jesus the Messiah,

05:54which is something to look forward to.

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