Follow up to the previous video - Ron Paul´s interview: Warning! The Economy is Collapsing

Posted by Jean-Louis: 
A friend of mine posted a video on FB showing the former presidents millionaires who keep on benefiting from old laws protecting their retirement  assets, perks and financial gains through their books contracts running into the millions of dollars. He was complaining about the injustice, hypocrisy and inequality of these practices approved and sanctioned by the laws making a travesty of the Constitution. My reply  to him:
 
As believers in Christ and His true, pure, eternal, unchanging, never failing Word, we can declare with assurance: But God... The day of reckoning is coming soon when " 'They will fling their silver into the streets and their gold will become an abhorrent thing; their silver and their gold will not be able to deliver them in the day of the wrath of the LORD. They cannot satisfy their appetite nor can they fill their stomachs, for their iniquity has become an occasion of stumbling. Ezekiel 7:19. 

 James declares in James 5:3: Your gold and your silver have rusted; and their rust will be a witness against you and will consume your flesh like fire. It is in the last days that you have stored up your treasure!

This  doesn´t apply only to the high and mighty only but to those who trust in riches, chariots and horses, and their scheming instead of the Lord God our Father and the Lord Jesus who alone can save us from destruction and has given us the peace we need in these days of great turmoil, perplexity and confusion. 

How well do I know the presence of my Lord Jesus in the middle of the storms of life?

• He brought them knowing full well how we would react in advance and in being confident that we would choose to be with Him wherever He leads...He told us that because 
• we are His friends wherever He is we would be also....because
• He is and has the only Word of life, our ark of Salvation, we are in His boat, He is in command, He told us the end from the beginning.....that
•  He is the One will sustain us with His vision in our hearts slowly unfolding while we serve Him in waiting patiently for the great day of His coming.
•  He is the mirror though which we see ourselves....we will one day see Him fully as He sees us and know Him as we are known and for ever be with Him,
• He is the desire of all nations and the hope of glory, 
• the lifter of our head,
•  the lover of our souls,
•  our hiding place, our shield and our great reward, 
• our daily bread, our water of life... 
• the inexhaustible fount of wisdom and understanding... 
• a sure foundation for our time... 
• Jesus who gives us even the theme of the Praise that transports us into His heart of love, through the veil that was torn so that 
• we could access with bold confidence the throne of grace in which 
• we stand by faith in the power of His might... 
• our eyes open, 
• our ears unstopped,
• our hearts beating on a heavenly rhythm, 
• our empty hands in prayers waiting to be 
• filled with blessings, shared with others....
• our lips filled with praise and songs to 
• His majesty, His glory the beauty His holiness, bowing down while beholding

the radiance of the Light that surrounds His throne for ever and ever Amen. https://thelightseed.blogspot.com.br/.../peace-be-still.html

 Peace, Be Still

Written and posted by Jean-Louis  
To read a study on Paul´s shipwreck on Malta, 
" A ship named Relations" click, Here

 For he spoke and stirred up a tempest
that lifted high the waves.   
They mounted up to the heavens and went down to the depths;
in their peril their courage melted away. They reeled and staggered like drunkards; 

they were at their wits’ end.     
Then they cried out to the LORD in their trouble,
and he brought them out of their distress.  
He stilled the storm to a whisper;
the waves of the sea were hushed. 
They were glad when it grew calm,
and he guided them to their desired haven.
Let them give thanks to the LORD for his unfailing love
and his wonderful deeds for mankind.  
Let them exalt him in the assembly of the people
and praise him in the council of the elders. Psalm 107: 25-32.

Land, land, a chorus of sea-gulls heralded

Childlike, dolphins merrily pirouetted

Celebrating with the rhythm of whimsical waves

This propitious journey with delighted voyagers.

Suddenly, a venomous storm

Escaping from an Aeolian windbag,

Stinking and green with envy

Unfurled its fury on the peaceful seascape.

The cloudy canvass thickens,

The undulating liquid walls

Rise, with threats of wrath.

Are we in this deadly dance moving

Toward an unavoidable shipwreck?

The increasing tempest suspends

The harmony of the Mediterranean abyss

Feeding the human fear

At the thought that their last hour

Had chimed without any recourse. 

The heart in this reflex instant

When the compass swings wildly

Remembers that God exists

And humbly kneels

Asking for pardon and mercy.

The time for good deeds is gone

No more “Our Fathers”, “Hail Marys”

On beads to recite, nor “Om Shantis”

The re-winded video unfolds as lightning

On the screen  of the impotent memory.

The refuge of conscience is no use.

No more hypocrisy, no more subterfuge

Everything is in the scales

No more karma, no more bribes

Here come the angel executioner
Executing the sentence 

Or eternal life and its recompense.

As I was quietly contemplating my lot
A soft voice, above the furious wind

Asked me the following:

“Tell me, “can you with one word, calm the waves?

Perhaps, are you the captain of your own ship?

Can your eyes pierce the dark clouds

And predict your own future?”

Recognizing the divine presence and the voice

That saved my life many times before,

From war, from human violence,

From unchained elements,

I left my appeased heart

In the hands of my Savior

Who invites all to come and rest

In the secure love that emanates 

from the mercy seat  surrounded

by the wings of the worshiping cherubim.

At last, my struggle calmed by his Word

The ship arrived safe at port

Where, from the beginning

It was following its intended course.

Grace and Peace to you all. Remember the cross of Jesus who gives us the victory by the shed blood of the Lamb and the testimony of our lips confessing that He is the Lord and the Savior of our souls. 

Where's the Comfort? Terry James

Republished from raptureready.com
 

Pre-Trib belief antagonists are on the rise. Rapture critics, even among those who claim to believe in the eventuality of a Rapture, just not the pre-Tribulation view of that event, purport to present evidence on every side that our times trumpet the obvious: The world is about to enter the Tribulation. Christ's call to believers, they say, just isn't going to happen before Christians suffer at least part of the terrors of that beastly era. 

They offer that anyone with knowledge of issues and events going on should recognize that the New World Order bunch is transforming America and the world into the kingdom of Antichrist. All is about to come together for the Gog-led invasion into the Middle East. As a matter of fact, many hold that World War III has already begun.

Advanced computer and other control technologies and instrumentalities are in place for locking everyone on the planet into fiscal bondage and physical slavery to the final empire as prophesied by Daniel. 

Those of us who believe there is coming a supernatural Rapture-escape from these judgments on sinful mankind are just living in fantasyland is the collective message I infer from emails and articles that increasingly assault my senses. That I, and all of you, should begin prepping with food, water, gold, silver, and finding a good bunker in which to hunker down during these upcoming days seem to me to be the things these Rapture naysayers are presenting. Seldom do I hear coming from our opponents on the question of the Rapture the admonition to be trying to witness with all our might the gospel of Jesus Christ. I guess there will be plenty of time for that once the Antichrist regime is firmly in place. 

While the Pre-Trib proponent holds at the heart of his effort winning as many souls to Christ as possible so those saved won't go through that time of horrors, many of the anti-Rapture antagonists want to do things to make sure they are more comfortable while trying to survive that hellish time. 

Coincidentally--or perhaps not--these just happen to, in some cases of TV and other ministries who openly disdain the thought of Rapture, offer for sale all of these things for survival. The packaged food items invariably are proclaimed to have shelf lives of three decades or longer. So, we can, if we survive, have these supplies to partake of well into the Millennium, I suppose. This, based upon the general theme that they believe the seven-year Tribulation, not the Rapture, is imminent. There have been over the past few years a number of debates taking place on whether there will be the Pre-Trib Rapture or not. The best I've heard was the one at the Pre-Trib study group meetings when Dr. Mark Hitchcock completely destroyed the anti-Rapture arguments of the Bible Answer Man. 

There are some such debates scheduled for prophecy conferences in the near future. These will perhaps offer new food for thought, but I doubt whether they will change minds on either side of the controversy. 

Personally, I believe the time for debate on this matter is past. It is time now to just offer the assurance of that soon to come exhilarating moment when Christ will say "Come up here!" (Revelation 4:1). 

There are so many scriptural assurances of the Pre-Tribulation Rapture that we could fill many articles with them. As a matter of fact, we have done just that on the Rapture Ready website. 

I wish to mention only one Rapture factor here, because I believe it is the most reassuring of all truth in God's telling His children that they are not appointed to His wrath. Here we interject the question proposed in our title: Where's the Comfort? By that we ask: What comfort is there in the argument that Christians will go through the Tribulation?

Paul the apostle first assures us of this fact: "For God hath not appointed us to wrath, but to obtain salvation by our Lord Jesus Christ" (1 Thessalonians 5:9). But, it is the next thought from the mind of God that should cause warm reassurance in the spiritual heart of every believer: "Wherefore comfort yourselves together, and edify one another, even as also ye do." (1 Thessalonians 5:11). 

Get it? We are to "comfort" ourselves, not wring our hands looking for these things to destroy us or to look for Antichrist. We are to be looking for our "blessed hope" (Titus 2:13).
There is no comfort --nor is there directive in God's Word--to be had in anticipating going through the time of God's wrath and almost certain martyrdom (probably by beheading). There is no comfort in looking for the worst dictator in the planet's history to hunt us down and lop off our heads. 

Here is what God's Word promises instead of the dreaded scenario proposed by the Rapture antagonists: For this we say unto you by the word of the Lord, that we which are alive and remain unto the coming of the Lord shall not prevent them which are asleep. For the Lord himself shall descend from heaven with a shout, with the voice of the archangel, and with the trump of God: and the dead in Christ shall rise first: Then we which are alive and remain shall be caught up together with them in the clouds, to meet the Lord in the air: and so shall we ever be with the Lord. Wherefore comfort one another with these words." (1 Thessalonians 4:15-18) --
--Terry

Spurgeon, Faith's Checkbook, "It Will Not Be Long"

Reblogged from The End TimeThe end Time
"Be ye also patient; stablish your hearts: for the coming of the Lord draweth nigh." (James 5:8)

Spurgeon: "The last word in the Canticle of love is, "Make haste, my beloved," and among the last words of the Apocalypse we read, "The Spirit and the Bride say, Come"; to which the heavenly Bridegroom answers, "Surely I come quickly." Love longs for the glorious appearing of the Lord and enjoys this sweet promise - "The coming of the Lord draweth nigh." This stays our minds as to the future. We look out with hope through this window."

"This sacred "window of agate" lets in a flood of light upon the present and puts us into fine condition for immediate work or suffering. Are we tired? Then the nearness of our joy whispers patience. Are we growing weary because we do not see the harvest of our seed-sowing? Again this glorious truth cries to us, "Be patient." Do our multiplied temptations cause us in the least to waver? Then the assurance that before long the Lord will be here preaches to us from this text, "Stablish your hearts." Be firm, be stable, be constant, "stedfast, unmoveable, always abounding in the work of the Lord." Soon will you hear the silver trumpet which announces the coming of your King. Be not in the least afraid. Hold the fort, for He is coming; yea, He may appear this very day."

The Promise of Resurrection

By Gary Stearman on June 1, 2013

Reblogged from  http://www.prophecyinthenews.com/the-promise-of-resurrection/

 

Under the leadership of the Apostles, the church was founded, despite wave after wave of conflict, opposition, persecution and internal strife. In miraculous contrast to all this confusion, the letters and books of the New Testament arose as a perfect complement and conclusion to the Old Testament canon. The very existence of the Bible is a miracle!
In effect, its message is a miracle inside a miracle. And it is built around one basic idea: The righteous in Christ will one day arise to eternal life.

For the last two thousand years, various factions have risen to serve as interpreters of Holy Scripture. They have established a variety of church governments, each with its own ecclesiastical polity. Their belief systems have not always involved correct biblical interpretation. Still, the church has pressed forward in a world that seems strangely alienated from the Kingdom of God. Sometimes in power and zeal, other times in poverty and persecution, it has succeeded even when failure seemed imminent.

Through the struggle, groups of the faithful have risen to perform great miracles before falling back into obscurity. Some assemblies are known by little more than their names: Waldenses, Albigensians and others. On the other hand, courageous individuals like John Huss and William Tyndale are the subjects of detailed and dramatic history.

Many believers established great missionary movements. Most particularly, in the nineteenth century, missions covered the world with the Gospel. But after that, Christians in the millions suffered hostility, along with the vilest and most degrading intolerance, often culminating in torture and death. Russia, China and the Mideast became the killing fields of Christendom.

Christ’s Resurrection: Centerpiece of Our Faith

Over the centuries, Christians have willingly suffered shame, pain and death because their faith never failed. Its spiritual power is supernaturally driven. Its persistence and resolve is the product of the most basic biblical promise: resurrection. At some level, every believer knows that he will live forever in God’s presence, and that he will do so in a resurrected, physical body.

In Psalm 16, David prayed that the Lord would preserve him, then raise him to new life in the era of the coming Kingdom. Then, through the leading of the Spirit, he gave voice to his deep desire by prophesying the resurrection of Jesus Christ, who would come a thousand years later to present Himself to Israel, then to be crucified and rise from the dead:
“8 I have set the LORD always before me: because he is at my right hand, I shall not be moved. 9 Therefore my heart is glad, and my glory rejoiceth: my flesh also shall rest in hope. 10 For thou wilt not leave my soul in hell; neither wilt thou suffer thine Holy One to see corruption. 11 Thou wilt shew me the path of life: in thy presence is fullness of joy; at thy right hand there are pleasures for evermore” (Ps. 16:8-11).

Here, David is looking ahead to his own rebirth on the basis of the Lord’s future resurrection. Here, Israel’s first king (who suffered so many distresses, setbacks, defeats, personal failures and disappointments on Earth) predicts life, joy and pleasure in his own future. During his lifetime, all Israel must have been acquainted with this belief. But only a few decades after his death, they had all but forgotten his encouraging words.

Long before David, in the days of the patriarchs, Job had once spoken of the eternal life that he faithfully expected. His lifespan of about 200 years places him in the same time frame as Abraham (c. 2000 B.C.), who lived to be 175. Even then, there was the well-established belief that there would be an era in the distant future, when men would be resurrected through the actions of a “redeemer.” This word comes from the Hebrew term for a near kinsman who would pay a debt owed, or a responsibility that required fulfillment. In his anguish, he wrote:
“25 For I know that my redeemer liveth, and that he shall stand at the latter day upon the earth: 26 And though after my skin worms destroy this body, yet in my flesh shall I see God: 27 Whom I shall see for myself, and mine eyes shall behold, and not another; though my reins be consumed within me” (Job 19:25-27).

Later, in the seventh century B.C., Isaiah wrote of the future resurrection in the context of Israel’s prophesied birth pangs. In Matthew and Luke, Jesus mentions the metaphor of Israel’s birth as an event of the end times. This would be the same era that Job called “the latter day.” Here is a clear prophecy of the regathered Israel, after many years of trial, finally experiencing the promised resurrection:
17 Like as a woman with child, that draweth near the time of her delivery, is in pain, and crieth out in her pangs; so have we been in thy sight, O LORD. 18 We have been with child, we have been in pain, we have as it were brought forth wind; we have not wrought any deliverance in the earth; neither have the inhabitants of the world fallen. 19 Thy dead men shall live, together with my dead body shall they arise. Awake and sing, ye that dwell in dust: for thy dew is as the dew of herbs, and the earth shall cast out the dead. (Isa. 26:17-19).

As Jesus neared the end of His public ministry, He was given word that Lazarus, brother of Mary of Bethany was sick, even dying. Jesus delayed His arrival for four days. Those who loved Lazarus thought that his death was final, and that Jesus could have prevented it:
“20 Then Martha, as soon as she heard that Jesus was coming, went and met him: but Mary sat still in the house. 21 Then said Martha unto Jesus, Lord, if thou hadst been here, my brother had not died. 22 But I know, that even now, whatsoever thou wilt ask of God, God will give it thee. 23 Jesus saith unto her, Thy brother shall rise again. 24 Martha saith unto him, I know that he shall rise again in the resurrection at the last day. 25 Jesus said unto her, I am the resurrection, and the life: he that believeth in me, though he were dead, yet shall he live: 26 And whosoever liveth and believeth in me shall never die. Believest thou this? 27 She saith unto him, Yea, Lord: I believe that thou art the Christ, the Son of God, which should come into the world. (Jn. 11:20-27).

David, Job, Isaiah and many others had looked forward to the coming Redeemer. That day in Bethany, Jesus had to remind them that He was the resurrection! To forcefully make the point, He then raised Lazarus, who went on to live a normal life until his own natural death came again. At this time, Christ had not yet risen, therefore the order of the resurrections had not begun.

The New Testament opens with the four Gospels. Together, they present His resurrection in a historical context. In this way, they are linked with the prophetic promises of the Old Testament.

Following the Gospels, and beginning with Acts, the deeper theological truths of the resurrection are developed, mostly by the Apostle Paul. First Corinthians 15 gives his heartfelt explanation of Christ’s own resurrection as the first, to be followed by others. The order of the resurrections is key to understanding Bible prophecy:
“20 But now is Christ risen from the dead, and become the firstfruits of them that slept. 21 For since by man came death, by man came also the resurrection of the dead. 22 For as in Adam all die, even so in Christ shall all be made alive. 23 But every man in his own order: Christ the firstfruits; afterward they that are Christ’s at his coming. 24 Then cometh the end, when he shall have delivered up the kingdom to God, even the Father; when he shall have put down all rule and all authority and power. (I Cor. 15: 20-24).

Resurrection: Jerusalem Saints

As Christ was raised at Feast of Firstfruits, a number of saints rose with Him. Detailed clarifications of this event are nowhere to be found. But apparently, this select group is comprised of representatives of greater spiritual Israel:
“52 And the graves were opened; and many bodies of the saints which slept arose, 53 And came out of the graves after his resurrection, and went into the holy city, and appeared unto many” (Matt. 27:52,53).

We know that after His resurrection, Christ preached to the spirits in Hades, announcing his victory over death. We also know that around that time, He led a triumphal parade of the saints to heaven.

Interestingly, King David, fervent advocate of the resurrection, was not among them. Later, in Acts,
29 Men and brethren, let me freely speak unto you of the patriarch David, that he is both dead and buried, and his sepulcher is with us unto this day. 30 Therefore being a prophet, and knowing that God had sworn with an oath to him, that of the fruit of his loins, according to the flesh, he would raise up Christ to sit on his throne; 31 He seeing this before spake of the resurrection of Christ, that his soul was not left in hell, neither his flesh did see corruption. 32 This Jesus hath God raised up, whereof we all are witnesses. 33 Therefore being by the right hand of God exalted, and having received of the Father the promise of the Holy Ghost, he hath shed forth this, which ye now see and hear. 34 For David is not ascended into the heavens: but he saith himself, The LORD said unto my Lord, Sit thou on my right hand, 35 Until I make thy foes thy footstool” (Acts 2:29-35).

Resurrection: The Church

Next in the order of resurrections will be the specific group identified by Paul: “27 Now ye are the body of Christ, and members in particular” (I Cor. 12:27). This event, usually called the Rapture, will come just prior to a time of judgment. (See the passage in Isaiah, quoted above.) Paul, writing to the Thessalonians, links the Rapture to “the day of the Lord:”
16 For the Lord himself shall descend from heaven with a shout, with the voice of the archangel, and with the trump of God: and the dead in Christ shall rise first: 17 Then we which are alive and remain shall be caught up together with them in the clouds, to meet the Lord in the air: and so shall we ever be with the Lord. 18 Wherefore comfort one another with these words. 5:1 But of the times and the seasons, brethren, ye have no need that I write unto you. 2 For yourselves know perfectly that the day of the Lord so cometh as a thief in the night. 3 For when they shall say, Peace and safety; then sudden destruction cometh upon them, as travail upon a woman with child; and they shall not escape” (I Th. 4:16 – II Th. 5:3).

Notice that this resurrection includes both the dead and the living “in Christ.” This two-word phrase denotes the positional sanctification of the believer. It is never used to describe the Old Testament saints.

Resurrection: Old Testament Saints

Later, the majority of the Old Testament saints will be raised prior to the Millennium, at the time of Christ’s Second Coming. In the following quotation from Daniel, the period indicated as “that time” seems to be the second half of the Tribulation. Among students of Bible prophecy, there is a great deal of disagreement on this point, some including the Old Testament saints with the Rapture, and others with the Second Coming:
“1 And at that time shall Michael stand up, the great prince which standeth for the children of thy people: and there shall be a time of trouble, such as never was since there was a nation even to that same time: and at that time thy people shall be delivered, every one that shall be found written in the book. 2 And many of them that sleep in the dust of the earth shall awake, some to everlasting life, and some to shame and everlasting contempt. 3 And they that be wise shall shine as the brightness of the firmament; and they that turn many to righteousness as the stars for ever and ever” (Dan. 12:1-3).

This passage of Scripture seems to fit well with the statement made by Jesus in His Olivet Discourse. In this context, He comes in the clouds of glory at the end of the Tribulation, sending His angels to harvest the elect from their graves:
“And then shall appear the sign of the Son of man in heaven: and then shall all the tribes of the earth mourn, and they shall see the Son of man coming in the clouds of heaven with power and great glory” (Mt. 24:30).

Resurrection: Tribulation Saints

It appears that at roughly the same time as the resurrection of the Old Testament saints, we also see the raising of the persecuted saints of the Tribulation. They are specifically mentioned as having withstood the rigors placed upon them by the Antichrist:
“4 And I saw thrones, and they sat upon them, and judgment was given unto them: and I saw the souls of them that were beheaded for the witness of Jesus, and for the word of God, and which had not worshipped the beast, neither his image, neither had received his mark upon their foreheads, or in their hands; and they lived and reigned with Christ a thousand years. 5 But the rest of the dead lived not again until the thousand years were finished. This is the first resurrection. 6 Blessed and holy is he that hath part in the first resurrection: on such the second death hath no power, but they shall be priests of God and of Christ, and shall reign with him a thousand years. (Rev. 20:4,5).

One might ask why this is called “the first resurrection.” Certainly, there have been other resurrections prior to this one. The most persuasive answer is that this resurrection is linked to all the resurrections that have gone before it. In effect, they are all taken together and classified as “first.” After this, will come the final judgment and the “second death.”

Resurrection: Millennium Saints

There is little direct prophecy that speaks of resurrection during the thousand-year period of the Lord’s reign upon the Throne of David. Still, we must mention it, since it is generally conceded that life and death will still go on during this era .
Isaiah, writing of that period, mentions that in fact, some will die at that time. Also, as in the Antediluvean era, the span of human life will be greatly extended:
“20 There shall be no more thence an infant of days, nor an old man that hath not filled his days: for the child shall die an hundred years old; but the sinner being an hundred years old shall be accursed” (Isa. 65:20).

Where there is death, there must be resurrection, but not all of the resurrected shall experience glorification and eternal life in the presence of God:
“16 For by fire and by his sword will the LORD plead with all flesh: and the slain of the LORD shall be many” (Isa. 66:16).
The end of the Millennium will be tumultuous, to say the least. But we are given very little in the way of detail about its interconnected events.

Resurrection: The Wicked

The final resurrection is commonly held to be the one linked to the judgment at the Great White Throne. As can be seen from the following description, it comes at the end of the Millennium after a great, rebellious explosion of human depravity, led by Satan:
“7 And when the thousand years are expired, Satan shall be loosed out of his prison, 8 And shall go out to deceive the nations which are in the four quarters of the earth, Gog and Magog, to gather them together to battle: the number of whom is as the sand of the sea. 9 And they went up on the breadth of the earth, and compassed the camp of the saints about, and the beloved city: and fire came down from God out of heaven, and devoured them. 10 And the devil that deceived them was cast into the lake of fire and brimstone, where the beast and the false prophet are, and shall be tormented day and night for ever and ever. 11 And I saw a great white throne, and him that sat on it, from whose face the earth and the heaven fled away; and there was found no place for them. 12 And I saw the dead, small and great, stand before God; and the books were opened: and another book was opened, which is the book of life: and the dead were judged out of those things which were written in the books, according to their works. 13 And the sea gave up the dead which were in it; and death and hell delivered up the dead which were in them: and they were judged every man according to their works. 14 And death and hell were cast into the lake of fire. This is the second death. 15 And whosoever was not found written in the book of life was cast into the lake of fire” (Rev. 20:7-15).

Certainly, the wicked dead are in view here. The great preponderance of those subjected to judgment at this point seem to be doomed to fiery judgment. But with the opening of the “books,” there also seems to be one last survey of a deceased remnant.

Those written in the “book of life” – apparently a small minority by this time – will escape “the second death.” God’s grace prevails to the very end. Perhaps the Millennial saints are included in this group, but there is much uncertainty about this.

One thing, however is quite certain: We who are redeemed will one day rise to walk in glorified bodies just like Christ’s. The dream of every man is physical immortality. Like David, we know that through Christ, we have been given this priceless gift. Paul’s epistle to Titus gives it perhaps its best-known title:
“13 Looking for that blessed hope, and the glorious appearing of the great God and our Saviour Jesus Christ” (Titus 2:13).

We watch and await His coming with unshakable faith, and the blessed hope of the resurrection.