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TOE CLAUDE NEWS
Claude, Texas JULY 30, 1984.
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Morning Worship 11:00 a.m.
Training Union 6:30 p.m.
Evening Worship 7:30 p.m.
Prayer Meeting, Wednesday 7:30 p.m.
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FIRST BAPTIST CHURCH
Claude, Texas
"Spare thy people, O Lord, and give
not thine heritage to reproach, that
the heathen should rule over them:
wherefore should they say among the
people, Where is their God?" Joel 2:17
Moments of Meditation
by Fredna W. Bennett
For all our days are passed a-
way in thy wrath: we spend our
years as a tale that is told. Psalm
90:9.
In comparison to eternity, our
life is short, our days are few,
and a year passes as quickly as a
tale that is told.
This Psalm was penned while
the children of Israel were wan-
dering in the wilderness waiting
for the people who had refused to
go into the promised land to die
and pass away in God's wrath
because of their unbelief.
When we consider our own con-
dition in the wilderness of this
world, we know our lives are as
a tale that is told. The events of
each year can be summed up and
told as a tale that is told. Some
years are a pleasant story, others
a tragic story. Most are a mix-
ture of pleasure and sorrow.
When a day or a year has pass-
ed, it is gone. We need to be
most careful that our time is
spent in a thoughtful way, doing
the work our hands find to do.
Too often we spend our years as
the telling of an idle tale—soon
itold—soon gone.
Considering these things, the
Psalmist prayed: "O my God, take
me not away in the midst of my
days: thy years are throughout all
generations. Of old hast thou laid
the foundation of the earth: and
the heavens are the work of thy
hands. They shall perish, but thou
shalt endure: yea, all of them
shall wax old like a garment; as
a vesture shalt thou change them,
and they shall be changed: But
thou art the same, and thy years
shall have no end. The children
of thy servants shall continue,
and their seed shall be established
before thee."
The signal for
Christ's return
Howard It. Kami, Editor
Destiny Magazine
Mcrrimac, Mass.
Today the forces of evil are be-
ing restrained and the winds of
world-wide conflict are stayed un-
til the signal is given for the re-
moval of those who are to escape
as Lot escaped the destruction of
the cities of the plain. The num-
ber of those to be "sealed" in this
latter time is symbolically express-
ed as 144,000, which is a complete
number in Divine chronology, in-
dicating that there is a definite
number of persons who are to
receive an invitation to the Mar-
riage Supper. Until the number
of those who are to be saved from
the evil to come is complete, the
signal that will precipitate the
world into a period of mourning
and tribulation will not appear.
Nevertheless, the many evidences
of restraint that we see all about
us are in themselves a sign that
it is near!
To those whose desire is not to
experience the Great and Terrible
Day of the Lord, but whose peti-
tion is, "Even so come, Lord Jes-
us," the matter of great interest
is concerned with any clues that
may be found beforehand as to
what the sign will be. Let us
■therefore examine the passage in
Matthew's Gospel as closely as
possible. He states: "And then
'shall appear' the sign of the Son
of man 'in heaven.' The Greek
word translated "appear" can also
be rendered "shine." In a footnote
in The companion Bible this fact
is confirmed as an alternative
translation, making it possible to
render the passage:
"And then shall shine the sign
of the Son of man in the sky."
(Matt. 24:30.)
Smith and Goodspeed translate
"heaven" as "sky," thus more
correctly designating the place of
a heavenly display of some sort
that will constitute the Sign of
the Son of man. In this same
connection it is of interest to
carefully appraise our Lord's
statement when, in admonishing
His followers. He said:
"If any man shall say unto you,
Lo, here is Christ, or there; be-
lieve it not. For there shall arise
false Christs, and false prophets,
and shall shew great signs and
wonders; insomuch that, if it were
possible, they shall deceive the
very elect. Behold, I have told
you before. Wherefore if they shall
say unto you, Behold, he is in the
desert; go not forth: behold, he
is in the secret chambers; believe
it not. For as the lightning come-
th out of the east, and shineth
even unto the west; so shall also
the coming of the Son of man
be." (Matt, 24:23-27.)
Ferrar Fenton translates the
27th verse of this quotation as
follows:
"For as the lightning bursts out
with a flash from east to west,
'in like manner will the presence
of the Son of Man be'."
Smith and Goodspeed render
ithe passage in Luke 17:24, which
also refers to the lightning-like
effect of the presence of the Son
of man, as follows:
"For just as when the lightn-
ing flashes, it shines from one
end of the sky to the other, that
will be the way with the Son of
Man."
Thus, the suddenness of a light-
ning flash is used to illustrate
what the signal will be that will
lighten the heavens, announcing
the presence of the Son of man.
When speaking of the Mystery
of Iniquity, Paul declared:
"And then shall that Wicked be
revealed, whom the Lord shall
consume with the spirit of his
mouth, and shall destroy with the
brightness of his coming." (II
Thes. 2:8.)
Instead of translating this as
"the brightness of his coming,"
Ferrar Fenton renders it: "the
manifestation of His presence."
But this manifestation of His
presence will be signalled by the
"shining forth" of the Sign of the
Son of man in the sky; therefore,
this manifested glory will also be
the brightness of His coming.
Paul describes the suddenness
with which the summons to the
Marriage Supper of the Lamb will
come, when the trumpet of the
Lord will sound, for the blowing
of this trumpet is closely associat-
ed with the time when the Sign
of the Son of man will appear in
the sky (I Thess. 4:16-18). Con-
versely, therefore, when the Sign
of the Son of man does shine
forth, the signal will have been
given that the voice of the trum-
pet will be heard, summoning the
dead to arise and the living to be
translated—those who are to es-
cape the coming tribulation. It
was these righteous ones to whom
Malachi was referring when he
wrote:
"They that feared the Lord
spake often one to another: and
the Lord hearkened, and heard
it, and a book of remembrance
was written before him for them
that feared the Lord, and that
thought upon his name. And they
shall be mine, saith the Lord of
hosts, in that day when I make
up my jewels; and I will spare
them, as a man sporeth his own
son that serveth him. Then shall
ye return, and discern between
the righteous and the wicked, be-
tween him that serveth God and
him that serveth him not." (Mai.
3:16-18.)
Reading these words set down
by Malachi, which are so full of
meaning, each one may examine
himself and determine what is
required of him if he wishes to
strive to be counted worthy to
have his name listed in this Book
of Remembrance. The Lord states,
"In that day, when I make up
my jewels, I will spare them as a
man spareth his own son that
serveth him." As we see the day
approaching—and chronology cle-
arly indicates that the time has
now come when these events have
been placed upon the Divine a-
genda—we should be more than
ever concerned with the necessity
to daily fulfill the requirements
so that ours may be found among
■the names of those listed who are
to become a special treasure unto
the Lord.
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Rev. K015ERT II. HARPEK
RECIPROCITY
Mr. Emerson lias written that
bolts and "bars are not the
best of our institutions, nor is
shrewdness in trade a mark of
wisdom." Of the statement we
may constantly be reminded,
though we may be careful to
lock our homes. But the fact to
be noted is that time works
against the effort of the offender
and that he leaves his fingerprints
on everything he touches.
Life is such that a man cannot
escape from the eyes of his fel-
lows without leaving traces of
himself behind him. How, then,
can he escape from the eyes of
God? When we consider that the
rays of a distant world striking
our eyes tonight have been
traveling here, at the rate of
186,000 miles a second, for a
hundred years, we get a faint
impression of the vastness of
the universe that God has created.
And in all the universe there is
not a place where a man can
hide from God!
And, if perchance, a man might
hide himself somewhere apart
from man, God, a minister of
conscience would hurry him to
the bar a thousand voices within
him cry, "Thou art the man!"
But there is a brighter side to
the law of reciprocity. For it
also applies to good deeds. Men
are urged to cast their bread upon
the waters, as knowing they shall
find it after many days. Great as
the assurance that the good will
be returned upon your head, you
are to be good, first of all, because
God is good, and wills that you to
be good.
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