CHRISTMAS MESSAGE
Monday – December 26, 2016
MERRY CHRISTMAS from Eastern Gate Ministries International and The Three Minute Word publications to all of you! This is a joyous event for it celebrates the birth of the Lamb of God.
John 1:29 (KJV)
29 The next day John seeth Jesus coming unto him, and saith, Behold the Lamb of God, which taketh away the sin of the world.
Dear saints of God, Jesus is not in the manger today, He is not on the Cross, He is not in the grave, but He is ascended to the right Hand of Majesty on High (His God and our God, His Father and our Father). Listen to Jesus on His way from Hell to Heaven with the eternal Blood and testimony of redemption.
John 20:15-17 (KJV)
15 Jesus saith unto her, Woman, why weepest thou? whom seekest thou? She, supposing him to be the gardener, saith unto him, Sir, if thou have borne him hence, tell me where thou hast laid him, and I will take him away.
16 Jesus saith unto her, Mary. She turned herself, and saith unto him, Rabboni; which is to say, Master.
17 Jesus saith unto her, Touch me not; for I am not yet ascended to my Father: but go to my brethren, and say unto them, I ascend unto my Father, and your Father; and to my God, and your God.
As cute as the baby Jesus must have been, as delightful as the young Jesus must have been, and as exciting as it must have been to be in the company of the ministering Jesus nothing compares with what was accomplished in His crucifixion and resurrection. Jesus was the Lamb of God, the One that God the Father said was coming in the Garden of Eden to take away the curse of sin. Jesus came to the earth the first time as a Lamb, when all is satisfied He will sweep the Church from the earth into Heaven (Rapture), and then when Justice has been done (Tribulation), He is returning to the earth as a King often described as the Lion (King) of Judah (tribe of Judah is His physical lineage). The following passage applies to believers.
1 Timothy 6:12-16 (KJV)
12 Fight the good fight of faith, lay hold on eternal life, whereunto thou art also called, and hast professed a good profession before many witnesses.
13 I give thee charge in the sight of God, who quickeneth all things, and before Christ Jesus, who before Pontius Pilate witnessed a good confession;
14 That thou keep this commandment without spot, unrebukeable, until the appearing of our Lord Jesus Christ:
15 Which in his times he shall shew, who is the blessed and only Potentate, the King of kings, and Lord of lords;
16 Who only hath immortality, dwelling in the light which no man can approach unto; whom no man hath seen, nor can see: to whom be honour and power everlasting. Amen.
When Jesus returns to the earth to reign He will be upon a white horse and we will be those riding “white horses, clothed in fine linen, white and clean”.
Revelation 19:11-16 (KJV)
11 And I saw heaven opened, and behold a white horse; and he that sat upon him was called Faithful and True, and in righteousness he doth judge and make war.
12 His eyes were as a flame of fire, and on his head were many crowns; and he had a name written, that no man knew, but he himself.
13 And he was clothed with a vesture dipped in blood: and his name is called The Word of God.
14 And the armies which were in heaven followed him upon white horses, clothed in fine linen, white and clean.
15 And out of his mouth goeth a sharp sword, that with it he should smite the nations: and he shall rule them with a rod of iron: and he treadeth the winepress of the fierceness and wrath of Almighty God.
16 And he hath on his vesture and on his thigh a name written, KING OF KINGS, AND LORD OF LORDS.
Following this triumphant return of Jesus into the earth, Satan (beast) is cast into the Lake of Fire, the Messiah reigns and rules in the earth for one-thousand years and we reign and rule with Him. At the end of the thousand years Satan is loosed for a season and again deceives the peoples of the earth.
Revelation 20:7-10 (KJV)
7 And when the thousand years are expired, Satan shall be loosed out of his prison,
8 And shall go out to deceive the nations which are in the four quarters of the earth, Gog and Magog, to gather them together to battle: the number of whom is as the sand of the sea.
9 And they went up on the breadth of the earth, and compassed the camp of the saints about, and the beloved city: and fire came down from God out of heaven, and devoured them.
10 And the devil that deceived them was cast into the lake of fire and brimstone, where the beast and the false prophet are, and shall be tormented day and night for ever and ever.
Wow, Jesus Himself has been ruling the earth for a thousand years, King David has been sitting on the throne of Israel for a thousand years yet the peoples of the earth chose deception and rebel against God yet again. This of course brings the final wrath of God.
Revelation 20:10-15 (KJV)
10 And the devil that deceived them was cast into the lake of fire and brimstone, where the beast and the false prophet are, and shall be tormented day and night for ever and ever.
11 And I saw a great white throne, and him that sat on it, from whose face the earth and the heaven fled away; and there was found no place for them.
12 And I saw the dead, small and great, stand before God; and the books were opened: and another book was opened, which is the book of life: and the dead were judged out of those things which were written in the books, according to their works.
13 And the sea gave up the dead which were in it; and death and hell delivered up the dead which were in them: and they were judged every man according to their works.
14 And death and hell were cast into the lake of fire. This is the second death.
15 And whosoever was not found written in the book of life was cast into the lake of fire.
Following this all things are set right by our God, He makes all things new.
Revelation 21:1-5 (KJV)
1 And I saw a new heaven and a new earth: for the first heaven and the first earth were passed away; and there was no more sea.
2 And I John saw the holy city, new Jerusalem, coming down from God out of heaven, prepared as a bride adorned for her husband.
3 And I heard a great voice out of heaven saying, Behold, the tabernacle of God is with men, and he will dwell with them, and they shall be his people, and God himself shall be with them, and be their God.
4 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.
5 And he that sat upon the throne said, Behold, I make all things new. And he said unto me, Write: for these words are true and faithful.
Think about what happened in the Garden of Eden, the four thousand years to Calvary, the two thousand years to the catching away, the seven years of Tribulation, the return of Christ and the thousand year reign, the great and final deception by Satan, the destruction of all that had been created, and the creation of a new earth and heaven. We should never trivialize sin, look at the cost, however above it all was the mercy and love of God.
By: Dr. David Wood, Author, Bible Teacher, and Prophetic Voice
