Jesus Christ, From Eternity To Eternity. Part [16] 07/11/2026 (Morning thought)

1st Thessalonians 4:16 For the Lord himself shall descend from heaven with a shout, with the voice of the archangel, and with the trump of God: and the dead in Christ shall rise first.

[The Faith I Live By pp 46] And now, O Father, glorify thou me with thine own self with the glory which I had with thee before the world was. John 17:5. Christ was one with the Father before the foundation of the world was laid. This is the light shining in a dark place, making it resplendent with divine, original glory. His divine life could not be reckoned by human computation. The existence of Christ before His incarnation is not measured by figures.

[The Faith I Live By pp 47] The divinity of Christ is the believer’s assurance of eternal life. All the communion between heaven and the fallen race has been through Christ. It was the Son of God that gave to our first parents the promise of redemption. It was He who revealed Himself to the patriarchs. Adam ... understood the gospel.... Jesus was the light of His people—the light of the world—before He came to earth in the form of humanity.

The first gleam of light that pierced the gloom in which sin had wrapped the world, came from Christ. And from Him has come every ray of heaven’s brightness that has fallen upon the inhabitants of the earth. In the plan of redemption, Christ is the Alpha and the Omega—the First and the Last. We therefore end with a passage of Scripture that will buoy the Christian’s hope, for it is a promise of raw Divine power that will be manifested through Christ, to all believers from their graves.

1st Thessalonians 4:17 Then we which are alive and remain shall be caught up together with them in the clouds, to meet the Lord in the air: and so, shall we ever be with the Lord.  Wherefore, comfort one another with these words.

May The Lord add His blessing to the study of His word. God bless!

Jesus Christ, From Eternity To Eternity. Part [15] 07/11/2026 (Evening thought)

Psalms 33:6 By the word of the Lord were the heavens made; and all the host of them by the breath of his mouth. 7 He gatherers the waters of the sea together as an heap: he lays up the depth in storehouses.

[The Faith I Live By pp 46] Christ was one with the Father before the foundation of the world was laid. This is the light shining in a dark place, making it resplendent with divine, original glory. Christ is the pre-existent, self-existent Son of God.... In speaking of His pre-existence, Christ carries the mind back through dateless ages. He assures us that there never was a time when He was not in close fellowship with the eternal God....

He was the commander of the heavenly intelligences, and the adoring homage of the angels was received by Him as His right. He was equal with God, infinite and omnipotent. But He humbled Himself, and took mortality upon Him. As a member of the human family, He was mortal; but as a God, He was the fountain of life to the world. He could, in His divine person, ever have withstood the advances of death, and refused to come under its dominion.

But He voluntarily laid down His life, that in so doing He might give life and bring immortality to light. He bore the sins of the world, and endured the penalty, which rolled like a mountain upon His divine soul. He yielded up His life a sacrifice, that man should not eternally die. He died, not through being compelled to die, but by His own free will. And this wonderful mystery, the incarnation of Christ and the atonement that He made, must be declared to every son and daughter of Adam.

Psalms 33:8 Let all the earth fear the Lord: let all the inhabitants of the world stand in awe of him. 9 For he spoke, and it was done; he commanded, and it stood fast.

May God add His blessing to the study of His word. “Good night” and God bless!