“Keep Watch”

“Now learn this lesson from the fig tree: As soon as its twigs get tender and its leaves come out, you know that summer is near. Even so, when you see all these things, you know that it is near, right at the door. Truly I tell you, this generation will certainly not pass away until all these things have happened. Heaven and earth will pass away, but my words will never pass away.

“But about that day or hour no one knows, not even the angels in heaven, nor the Son, but only the Father. As it was in the days of Noah, so it will be at the coming of the Son of Man. For in the days before the flood, people were eating and drinking, marrying and giving in marriage, up to the day Noah entered the ark; and they knew nothing about what would happen until the flood came and took them all away. That is how it will be at the coming of the Son of Man. Two men will be in the field; one will be taken and the other left. Two women will be grinding with a hand mill; one will be taken and the other left.

“Therefore keep watch, because you do not know on what day your Lord will come. But understand this: If the owner of the house had known at what time of night the thief was coming, he would have kept watch and would not have let his house be broken into. So you also must be ready, because the Son of Man will come at an hour when you do not expect him.

Matthew 24:32-44

Jesus Himself, has spoken of the giant fish, and Noah and the flood, and how the coming of the Son of Man would be. For as in the days before the flood, marrying and giving in marriage, until the day Noah entered the ark, they did not know when the coming of the Son of Man would be.

Jesus compared Jonah’s three days inside the big fish to the three days He would experience in the grave before His resurrection.

God gave us His Word; it’s a book that is filled with truth – not fairy tales. And one day, we will live happily ever after with Him when Jesus comes again and receives His children to Himself.

We have a reason for optimism if we’re looking for Christ’s return.

Our Daily Bread – May 20, 2014