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Prepare and Be Ready

(Mt24:36-44)

God prepares in advance (Ge22:8; Eph2:10).

Because He is omniscient He knows in advance and

Because He is omnipotent He prepares in advance.

Faith is believing Him and waiting for Him, and

The life of this faith is eating the food He prepared and preparing to be ready to enter the place He prepared.

Whether a nation or a company,

If it predicts, calculates and prepares for any situation, it can survive.

Similarly, whether a family or an individual,

If they can plan in advance and prepare, they can be successful.

God revealed His attribute since the beginning (Ps74:16, 147:8) as

He prepared the sun for the earth,

For the vegetation the earth, and for man the vegetation.

For Adam God made the Garden of Eden (Ge2:8).

However, deceived by the serpent,

Adam ate the forbidden fruit and was banished from the Garden.

Yet God clothed him in the garment of skin (Ge3:21),

A sign for how He would prepare for all mankind in the future.

Before the Israelites entered Egypt

God called down famine on the land and destroyed all their supplies of food (Ps105:16-17);

Before the famine, God sent ahead one man and

Let him prepare food through the seven years of great crops (Ge41:57); and

Before they left for Egypt God spread a table for them (Ps78:23-25).

To remind them this for generations,

God commanded them to build the sanctuary where the name Jehovah was, and

Later the Temple of Jerusalem was built on Moriah where

God provided for Himself (Ge22:13-14; 2Ch3:1).

Yeshua said, "Destroy the temple and I will raise it again in three days (Jn2:19), because

Through the death and the resurrection of the temple of His body,

He would reveal that, according to the prophecy (Mal3:1)

He is the Lamb of God whom God Himself prepared before the creation (Jn1:29; 1Pe1:19-20), for

He is the incarnate Word who was with the Father in then beginning (Jn1:1, 18).

He promised that He would

Prepare a place for those who believe and follow Him - the Father's house (Jn14:1-6).

As He died, Yeshua said, "It is finished (Jn19:30), declaring that He:
1) Laid down His life according to the Father's command, fulfilling His plan since the beginning (Jn10:17-18);
2) Condemned the devil the divider (1Jn3:8); and
3) Tore His flesh and shed His blood, making a way for men to follow Him to the Father's house (He10:19-20).

The Father raised Him from the dead and

Yeshua ascended to the heavenly throne prepared for Him in the beginning (He1:2).

The Holy Spirit comes to believers in the name Yeshua and

Lets them know that He went ahead to prepare a place in the Father's house (Jn14:2), and

Thus urges them to prepare and be ready to enter there.

The man of the Spirit senses that

The return of the Son of Man who will take him is nearing (Mt24:3-14; 1Th5:1-3; 2Pe3:10-12).

Therefore, he puts every effort to

Lay all his time, treasure and talent in heaven for

He longs to finally see the Lord and enter the Father's house.

O Lord,

This age is like that of Noah (Mt24:37-39),

Eating and drinking, marrying and giving in marriage, giving birth,

Selling and buying, tearing down and building...

Let us all hear Your footsteps through the signs of this age.

Let us prepare diligently (Mt25:10) so that

Not one of us would be left behind but all enter that place You prepared (Mt24:40)!

Amen.