| E-MAIL SERVICE | Sign me up to receive the daily Word of Righteousness free via my E-mail address! ( ONLY AVAILABLE IN ENGLISH ) | |
| ARCHIVES | I want to check out the daily Words of Righteousness for any of the last fourteen days or from previous weeks. ( ENGLISH ONLY ) | |
| FEEDBACK | I have a question or comment about today's Word of Righteousness. ( ENGLISH AND SPANISH ONLY ) | |
| BOOK LIST | I would like to see the complete book list of the Words of Righteousness author Robert B. Thompson. (SOME SPANISH TITLES AVAILABLE ) |
The Daily Word of Righteousness
The Vision of the Day of the Lord, #5
The appearance of them is as the appearance of horses; and as horsemen, so shall they run. (Joel 2:4)
The Lord and His saints will return on horses in the Day of the Lord.
The thirty-ninth chapter of the Book of Job describes the war horses of God. It is interesting that the Spirit, in this chapter, describes the war horse, and then speaks of the young eagles sucking up blood and being where the slain carcasses are (Job 39:27-30). This is the passage quoted by the Lord Jesus when He spoke of His coming (Matthew 24:28, Luke 17:37).
Habakkuk "saw" the horses of Armageddon:
Thou didst walk through the sea with thine horses, through the heap of great waters. (Habakkuk 3:15)
The armies of Heaven will follow Christ at His coming, riding on the white war horses of God.
And the armies which were in heaven followed him upon white horses, clothed in fine linen, white and clean. (Revelation 19:14)
This is the Wife of the Lamb, returning with Jesus in the "morning" of the Day of the Lord.
Who is she that looketh forth as the morning, fair as the moon, clear as the sun, and terrible as an army with banners? (Song of Solomon 6:10)
Like the noise of chariots on the tops of mountains shall they leap, like the noise of a flame of fire that devoureth the stubble, as a strong people set in battle array. (Joel 2:5)
The coming of the large and mighty army will terrify the inhabitants of the earth. It will be a furious invasion marked by the sounds and sights of war and destruction.
The saints will be "a strong people set in battle array."
Today the believers in Christ neither are mighty nor are they in battle array. It is in these last days that such an army will be formed. Those of us who are alive now will be required to go through intensive training, and it appears reasonable that the same training is being administered to those who no longer are alive in the flesh but are living with God in the spirit realm.
If it were not for the unchanging Word of God we would not believe such an army could be formed. The Christian churches of our day are as the valley of dry bones of the thirty-seventh chapter of the Book of Ezekiel.
The contemporary Christian ministry in the wealthy nations is characterized by the love of money and self-glorification. The people are spiritually immature, spiritually lazy, and indifferent to the demands of the Gospel of the Kingdom. Paul's teaching of grace—the transition from the Law of Moses to the law of the Spirit of life—has been corrupted until it is not recognizable as a true scriptural doctrine, a doctrine of godliness.
The teaching of the "rapture" error has forced an unscriptural division between the Jewish and Gentile believers. The Jews are perceived as an "earthly" kingdom while the Gentile believers, instead of being one "olive tree" with Israel as the Scripture teaches clearly, are regarded as a "heavenly" kingdom.
To be continued.