How To Cope with Losing Loved Ones. Part [10] 07/24/2026 (Morning thought)

Leviticus 25:3 Six years thou shalt sow thy field, and six years thou shalt prune thy vineyard, and gather in the fruit thereof; 4 But in the seventh year shall be a sabbath of rest unto the land, a sabbath for the Lord: thou shalt neither sow thy field, nor prune thy vineyard.

According to the reckoning found in the Scriptures, this world is roughly about six thousand years old, give or take some number of years. And when the fulness of time has come, 6000 will give way to the one thousand years of sabbatical rest that we read of in Revelation 20. During that 1000 year sabbatical rest the saints who have been resurrected, together with those who are alive at Jesus’ coming, will live for 1000 years, and will finally cross that threshold.

Wherefore, comfort one another with these words…. [D.A. pp 413] For six thousand years, faith has built upon Christ. For six thousand years the floods and tempests of satanic wrath have beaten upon the Rock of our salvation; but it stands unmoved. [G.C. pp 659] For six thousand years, Satan’s work of rebellion has “made the earth to tremble.” He has “made the world as a wilderness, and destroyed the cities thereof.” And “he opened not the house of his prisoners.”

For six thousand years his prison-house has received God’s people, and he would have held them captive forever, but Christ has broken his bonds, and set the prisoners free….. [G.C. pp 660] For a thousand years, Satan will wander to and fro in the desolate earth, to behold the results of his rebellion against the law of God…. [E.W pp 51] “The saints will rest in the Holy City and reign as kings and priests one thousand years.

Leviticus 26:34 Then shall the land enjoy her sabbaths, as long as it lieth desolate, and you be in your enemies' land; even then shall the land rest, and enjoy her sabbaths. 35 As long as it lieth desolate it shall rest; because it did not rest in your sabbaths, when you dwelt upon it.

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

How To Cope with Losing Loved Ones. Part [9] 07/24/2026 (Evening thought)

Revelation 12:12 Therefore rejoice, ye heavens, and ye that dwell in them. Woe to the inhabitants of the earth and of the sea! for the devil is come down unto you, having great wrath, because he knows that he has but a short time.

Question: How does he know that he has a short time? Answer: He knows because he studies his Bible and if we were to study ours, we will come to the same conclusion, that we also have but a short time….. [2SP pp 87] Satan is a diligent student of the Bible, and much better acquainted with the prophecies than many religious teachers. He has ever kept well-informed concerning the revealed purposes of God, that he might defeat the plans of the Infinite.

[9T pp 16] Satan is a diligent Bible student. He knows that his time is short, and he seeks at every point to counterwork the work of the Lord upon this earth….. That is the reason why those first passages in 1st Thessalonians 4 have such great significance for us today, because our time is short, because we’re now living on the very brink of eternity. There is a prospect before us that some Christians who are alive today just may not pass through the portals of the tomb, that’s how short it is.

The Bible tells us that no man knows the day nor the hour, but the prophecies that are scheduled for the last days are being fulfilled quite rapidly, even as we speak. Not only is the gospel being taken to almost every inhabitable place on the globe, but the fact that for the first time in history, we now have an American Pope, and the makeup of the supreme court is now majority Catholic, (7 out of 9), tells us something is brewing on the horizon. Wherefore, comfort one another with these words.

2nd Thessalonians 2:3 Let no man deceive you by any means: for that day shall not come, except there come a falling away first, and that man of sin be revealed, the son of perdition.

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