Dreaming of a City
Samuel Smith
23 Jan'19
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Dreaming of a City
Friends, the events Christ spoke of in
Beloved, such was the situation before the first advent of Christ on earth. The people of God longed for their deliverance from the hands of the Roman Empire. The heavy taxes imposed on them made them to yearn for the appearing of the Messiah. This experience of ancient Israel is a type of what the spiritual Israel will go through before the second appearing of the Messiah.
Whatever is happening on the face of planet earth today is telling us that we are living in the time of the end.
"The fast-fulfilling signs of the times declare that the coming of Christ is near at hand. The days in which we live are solemn and important. The Spirit of God is gradually but surely being withdrawn from the earth. Plagues and judgments are already falling upon the despisers of the grace of God. The calamities by land and sea, the unsettled state of society, the alarms of war, are portentous. They forecast approaching events of the greatest magnitude" {9T 11.1}.The solution to our earth's problems does not lie in the hands of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration’s (NASA) discovery of life support systems on other planets. Rather, the solution to our world's problems lies in the unshakable hope in the promise: "I come quickly" (
Jude Adjei Asamoah