[FONT=Calibri, sans-serif]PSALM23:6 says, “Surely goodness and mercy shall follow me all the daysof my life,[/FONT]
[FONT=Calibri, sans-serif]andI shall dwell in the house of the LORD forever.” That is the wishof everyone who strives for righteousness.[/FONT]
[FONT=Calibri, sans-serif]Thereare one of two ways a person whom God judges to be righteous, mayenter His House: S/he either goes in individually or as part of awhole mass of people. We can go in individually at the end of ourlife in the flesh, or we can go in on the Lord's Day of Judgment ofthe nations. Either way, it is best that we not be caught unawares,that we present ourselves in the best light possible. Nobody knowswhen they will die on earth. While it's true that those in placeslike hospices know that they will die soon, they don't know the exactday or time until it is actually upon them. Similarly, nobody knowswhen, after all this time, God will judge the nations, deciding whichpeople will go with Him and which people, having been evil, will berooted out and separated from the righteous. [/FONT]
[FONT=Calibri, sans-serif]Asnobody knows the day and the hour they will cease to exist on earth,so nobody knows the day and the hour that God will appear. Jesus inMatthew 24:36 says, “But concerning that day and hour no one knows,not even the angels of heaven, nor the Son, but the Father only. Foras were the days of Noah, so will be the coming of the Son of Man.For as in those days before the [/FONT]
[FONT=Calibri, sans-serif]floodthey were eating and drinking, marrying and giving in marriage, untilthe day when Noah entered the ark, and they were unaware until theflood came and swept them all away, so will be the coming of the Sonof Man.” Concerning the Flood, not even Noah knew the exact time itwould happen, but because God judged him and his family to berighteous, He told only Noah to build the arc for, as He told him inGENESIS 6: 17, “For behold, I will bring a flood of waters upon theearth to destroy all flesh in which is the breath of life underheaven. Everything that is on the earth shall die.” He does not saywhen.[/FONT]
[FONT=Calibri, sans-serif]Allof us who strive for righteousness has, in a sense, the same standingas Noah, for we know that the Lord will make his appearance to judgethe nations, after which the world as we know it will be no more. [/FONT]
[FONT=Calibri, sans-serif]Jesusin Matthew 25:31-33 says, “When the Son of Man comes in his glory,and all the angels with him, then he will sit on his glorious throne.Before him will be gathered all the nations, and he will separatepeople one from another as a shepherd separates the sheep from thegoats. And he will place the sheep on his right, but the goats on theleft.”[/FONT]
[FONT=Calibri, sans-serif]Andwho will be the sheep, and who will be the goats? Jesus goes on tosay in 25:35-40, “Then the King will say to those on his right,‘Come, you who are blessed by my Father, inherit the kingdomprepared for you from the foundation of the world. For I was hungryand you gave me food, I was thirsty and you gave me drink, I WAS ASTRANGER AND YOU WELCOMED ME, I was naked and you clothed me, I wassick and you visited me, I was in prison and you came to me.’[/FONT]
[FONT=Calibri, sans-serif]Thenthe righteous will answer him, saying, ‘Lord, when did we see youhungry and feed you, or thirsty and give you drink? And when did wesee you a stranger and welcome you, or naked and clothe you? And whendid we see you sick or in prison and visit you?’ And the King willanswer them, ‘Truly, I say to you, as you did it to one of theleast of these my brothers, you did it to me.’”[/FONT]
[FONT=Calibri, sans-serif]Doyou think that those people with plenty but shared none of it, orthose who rejected strangers, or those who let people languish inprison rather than helping them, or those who say to the sick, 'Letthose who can't afford a doctor buy a casket,' will be among thesheep on the day the Lord comes? Do you think those people will dwellin the House of the Lord forever, before He comes? The only hopethose people have, is to see the light of God before their day andhour comes, by doing what the Lord in Matthew 25 says the righteouswill do.[/FONT]
[FONT=Calibri, sans-serif]andI shall dwell in the house of the LORD forever.” That is the wishof everyone who strives for righteousness.[/FONT]
[FONT=Calibri, sans-serif]Thereare one of two ways a person whom God judges to be righteous, mayenter His House: S/he either goes in individually or as part of awhole mass of people. We can go in individually at the end of ourlife in the flesh, or we can go in on the Lord's Day of Judgment ofthe nations. Either way, it is best that we not be caught unawares,that we present ourselves in the best light possible. Nobody knowswhen they will die on earth. While it's true that those in placeslike hospices know that they will die soon, they don't know the exactday or time until it is actually upon them. Similarly, nobody knowswhen, after all this time, God will judge the nations, deciding whichpeople will go with Him and which people, having been evil, will berooted out and separated from the righteous. [/FONT]
[FONT=Calibri, sans-serif]Asnobody knows the day and the hour they will cease to exist on earth,so nobody knows the day and the hour that God will appear. Jesus inMatthew 24:36 says, “But concerning that day and hour no one knows,not even the angels of heaven, nor the Son, but the Father only. Foras were the days of Noah, so will be the coming of the Son of Man.For as in those days before the [/FONT]
[FONT=Calibri, sans-serif]floodthey were eating and drinking, marrying and giving in marriage, untilthe day when Noah entered the ark, and they were unaware until theflood came and swept them all away, so will be the coming of the Sonof Man.” Concerning the Flood, not even Noah knew the exact time itwould happen, but because God judged him and his family to berighteous, He told only Noah to build the arc for, as He told him inGENESIS 6: 17, “For behold, I will bring a flood of waters upon theearth to destroy all flesh in which is the breath of life underheaven. Everything that is on the earth shall die.” He does not saywhen.[/FONT]
[FONT=Calibri, sans-serif]Allof us who strive for righteousness has, in a sense, the same standingas Noah, for we know that the Lord will make his appearance to judgethe nations, after which the world as we know it will be no more. [/FONT]
[FONT=Calibri, sans-serif]Jesusin Matthew 25:31-33 says, “When the Son of Man comes in his glory,and all the angels with him, then he will sit on his glorious throne.Before him will be gathered all the nations, and he will separatepeople one from another as a shepherd separates the sheep from thegoats. And he will place the sheep on his right, but the goats on theleft.”[/FONT]
[FONT=Calibri, sans-serif]Andwho will be the sheep, and who will be the goats? Jesus goes on tosay in 25:35-40, “Then the King will say to those on his right,‘Come, you who are blessed by my Father, inherit the kingdomprepared for you from the foundation of the world. For I was hungryand you gave me food, I was thirsty and you gave me drink, I WAS ASTRANGER AND YOU WELCOMED ME, I was naked and you clothed me, I wassick and you visited me, I was in prison and you came to me.’[/FONT]
[FONT=Calibri, sans-serif]Thenthe righteous will answer him, saying, ‘Lord, when did we see youhungry and feed you, or thirsty and give you drink? And when did wesee you a stranger and welcome you, or naked and clothe you? And whendid we see you sick or in prison and visit you?’ And the King willanswer them, ‘Truly, I say to you, as you did it to one of theleast of these my brothers, you did it to me.’”[/FONT]
[FONT=Calibri, sans-serif]Doyou think that those people with plenty but shared none of it, orthose who rejected strangers, or those who let people languish inprison rather than helping them, or those who say to the sick, 'Letthose who can't afford a doctor buy a casket,' will be among thesheep on the day the Lord comes? Do you think those people will dwellin the House of the Lord forever, before He comes? The only hopethose people have, is to see the light of God before their day andhour comes, by doing what the Lord in Matthew 25 says the righteouswill do.[/FONT]