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The Promises of Jesus’ Return and Recompense
In this episode, Jesus speaks about two important promises: His imminent r… (visit YouTube for more)
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This is Jesus speaking, and he says: Behold, I am coming soon, bringing my recompense with me to repay each one for what he has done.
So there are two quite exciting promises or maybe sobering promises in this verse. First, that Jesus is coming soon. Now, of course, what does soon mean?
The Bible says that a thousand years is as a day to God. His perspective on time is quite different to us. And so when he says, I’m coming soon, he means in the age, in the age of man, he’s coming back. But precisely when that is, we don’t know. And yet the promise is that he’s coming.
And then the second promise is that when he comes, he’s bringing rewards so that we are repaid in accordance with what we’ve done. Now again, we can’t do anything to earn our salvation, but what about how we are measured on the basis of how we’ve lived?
