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  06-01 Fundamentalist Baptist Doctrine, Part 1 Article One: “Of the Scriptures” 06-02 Fundamentalist Baptist Doctrine, Part 2 Article Two: “Of the True God” 06-03 Fundamentalist Baptist Doctrine, Part 3 Article Three: “Of the holy Spirit” 06-04 Fundamentalist Baptist Doctrine, Part 4 Article Four: “Of the atonement for sin . . .” 06-05 Fundamentalist Baptist Doctrine, Part 5 Article XIII: “Of the church . . .” 06-06 Fundamentalist Baptist Doctrine, Part 6 Article XIV: “Of Baptism and the Lord’s Supper . . .” 06-07 Fundamentalist Baptist Doctrine, Part 7 Article XIV: “Of Baptism and the Lord’s Supper . . .” 06-08 Not Far Away 06-09 Maintaining a Testimony 06-10 “Even in Dying” 06-11 Things God Especially Loves, Part 1 Humility 06-12 Things God Especially Loves, Part 2 Sincerity 06-13 Things God Especially Loves, Part 3 Helping Hands 06-14 Things God Especially Loves, Part 4 The Mind of Christ 06-15 Things God Especially Loves, Part 5 Running toward Righteousness 06-16 Things God Especially Loves, Part 6 Owning Your Own Heart 06-17 Things God Especially Loves, Part 7 Being a Peace Maker 06-18 “The Joy Set Before Him” 06-19 “And Because of This . . .” 06-20 Fulness of Joy 06-21 Name It and Claim It Religion 06-22 Promises of God: The Restoration of Israel 06-23 The Way 06-24 Forgetting What Is Behind 06-25 Nobody Takes Your Best 06-26 True Greatness 06-27 The Day of the Lord: The Day of Rest 06-28 “Being Like the Most High” 06-29 The Amazing Truth 06-30 Prisoners

 

Thought for the Morning
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The Day of the Lord: The Day of Rest

“The whole earth is at rest and is quiet, they break forth into singing. Yea, the fir trees rejoice at thee, and the cedars of Lebanon, saying, Since thou are laid down, no feller is come up against us.”
Isaiah 14:7-8

From the teaching series, “Lessons from Isaiah”: Lesson No. 33

The Day of the Lord will be a day of rest for the whole earth. There will be no constant strife and war. It will be a thousand years of peace, imposed upon the world by the Lord Jesus, and enforced by him through his saints.

God will, as Jesus said, destroy this heaven and this earth (Mt. 24:35; also, 2Pet. 3:7-13; and Rev. 21:1), but not before He gives the earth to Jesus for a thousand years. If we research the genealogies and years given to us in the Bible, we find that almost six thousand years of man’s history has passed. If a thousand years is as a day in God’s sight (2Pet. 3:8), then Jesus’ day, the Day of the Lord, will certainly be the seventh “day” of man’s time on earth. The seventh day was from the beginning ordained by God as a day of rest.

In the ancient prophecies, such as the one above, men are often referred to as trees, and Satan has chopped a lot of us down. He comes only to “steal, kill, and destroy”, and he has destroyed many an otherwise happy and blessed life. When the feller of trees, Satan, is cast into the bottomless pit for the thousand years of the Lord’s day (Rev. 20:1-3), the earth will rejoice for its liberty from the father of all lies. The coming of the Lord to reign on the earth and the casting of Satan into the pit for a thousand years will be the two principal events that lead the earth into that happy thousand years of rest.

God’s ways are perfect. He ended each week with the day of rest. So will He end the week of man’s miserable rule on earth with the day of the “one mediator between God and man, the man, Jesus Christ.”