The Glory of His Day: Have we forgotten God's promise of great blessing for mankind?

WHAT WILL GOD'S TOMORROW BE LIKE?

A new age is about to dawn. Will it see God wreak his wrath on the world or bring in a wonderful tomorrow? The answer may lie in a Bible phrase ignored and forgotten today.

Ignored in commentaries, untaught in pulpit, the truth of a wonderful day when Christ displays his full glory as Almighty God was found only accidentally by the author when looking for something else.

Yet, in the early church the 'day of Christ', mentioned seven times in Paul's epistles, was the apostles' 'blessed hope'. Saints eagerly looked for Christ to appear in a blaze of piercing light to curb evil, reward saints, banish sickness and poverty and save the world.

Spoken by the prophets, taught by Jesus and confirmed by his apostles, this great day of blessing was, they held, the very next thing God would do. Now though it finds little or no place in most Christian thinking.

To the author the nearness of this glorious day, Christ's own day, is the vital truth God would impress upon believers at this time. Many though see only the 'rapture' as their hope of escape from a day of doom and destruction ahead.

He is convinced the now imminent 'appearing' will be when the Lord is revealed in all his glory for all the world to see and the time for Him to bring in a whole new and blessed day in man's experience.