THE SEVEN COSMIC FUNCTIONS OF THE LORD JESUS:
7. CONSUMMATION
The Hebrew word (kalah) is consummation, meaning completion,
adverb completely; also destruction;-altogether,(be utterly) consume-(d) consummation was determined ( full utter) end, riddance.
The last days begun at the time when the LORD JESUS came in
the flesh (Mt. 1:20-23; Jn. 1:14; Heb.1:2) and He explicitly revealed what will eventually happen before the first stage
and final day of His second coming (Isa. 11:1-16;
Zec. 8:12-23; Mt. chptr. 24; Mk. chptr. 13; Lk. 17:22-37; 1 Thes. 4:13-18; 2
Thes. 2:1-5; 1 Tim. 3:16; Rev. chptr. 8-22).
All of the prognosticated events of the LORD JESUS both in
the Old Testament and the New Testament will precisely be fulfilled until the
completion of all sequences concerning the dispensations of the ages of
humanity and existence of the world.
When the LORD JESUS CHRIST came as the
humble Messiah, by His Incarnation to the world, He foretold many events that
will happen before His majestic return as King of kings and LORD of lords (Rev.
19:11-16).
Many future events has been made known to His disciples (Mt. chptr. 24; Mk. chptr. 13; Lk. chptr. 17, 21; 1 Thes.
4:13-17; and 2 Thes. 1:1-12; 2 Pet. 3:9-13; Rev. Chptrs. 11-22). After
the LORD JESUS had perfectly accomplished the redemption and Salvation of all
death bound sinners (Ti. 2:14; Heb. 10:10),
He gave command to His adherents to make disciples of all nations (Mt. 28:18-19) and said, that anyone that believed
in Him, the works that He had done, they will do also and greater works than
what He had done, they will do (Jn. 14:12).
The works that the LORD has given to His followers will certainly be
for the completion of His purpose (Eph. 1:9-10); “That in the dispensation of the fullness of
time, to gather all things in one, in the LORD JESUS, things in heaven and
things on earth”.
The restoration of Israel as a nation has been fulfilled in 1948
when the United Nation’s required votes from many nations were gathered for the
recognition of Israel to return to their home land (Jer. 30:3; Ez. 11:17; 36:24). This was prophesied by the LORD to
Jeremiah and to Ezekiel.
After the preaching of the Gospel of the Kingdom in the
whole world for a witness to all nations, then the end will come (Mt. 24:14).
All the signs of the times that will surely happen in the
present and future, will eventually be the completion of all the prophesied
events foretold by the LORD JESUS.
Paul the Apostle of the LORD JESUS had written certain
glorious events about the first stage of the LORD’S second coming; he explained
a mystery that will precisely happen (1Cor. 15:51-54) “Not all of us shall die, but all shall be changed,
and in a moment, in the twinkling of an eye, at the last trumpet; for the
trumpet will sound and the resurrection of the dead, of the LORD’S faithful
adherents will
be raised imperishable and those who are alive in that moment will be changed.
The perishable body will be imperishable, for the LORD JESUS
will take for Himself all the people who had truly devoted their all for Him to
be eternally with Him (1 Thes. 4:15-18).
Because the LORD JESUS is the resurrection and the life (Jn. 11:25), therefore, all who believed in Him and
faithfully subjected their all to Him will live with Him having eternal life
given by the LORD (Jn. 10:27).
The LORD JESUS had explicitly revealed that the faithful to
Him will be taken (Mt. 24:40-41; Lk. 17:34-36).
And there will be great tribulation that never happened in the past except in
those days, and it will never happen again (Mt.
24:21, 22) and these great tribulation will be shortened for the sake of
the elect (Dan. 12:1).
Tribulation in Greek word is thlipsis which means affliction, pressure (lit. or fig.) anguish, persecution, tribulation, trouble. This great tribulation will happen
in the days of the antichrist; these future events had been revealed by the
LORD JESUS to Daniel (Da. 12:1; Rev. chpt. 13).
At the end of the great tribulation, the battle of Armageddon (Rev. 16:16) will be the last battle before the LORD
JESUS set up His Millennial visible reign within a thousand years. In this
battle at Megiddo, all the enemies of the LORD will be wiped out by the LORD to
get rid of all the wicked people who received the mark of the anti Christ and
will be defeated by the LORD’S magnificent power and might (Rev. 19:19-21); all of them will be consumed.
Then He will establish His one thousand years visible reign in the
world together with His faithful adherents, those who were resurrected from
death, and those who did not received the mark of the beast (Rev. 20:4). Within the thousand years visible reign
of the LORD JESUS, satan will be bound into the abyss for a thousand years (Rev. 20:2).
For a thousand years, there will be peace and orderly government of
the LORD JESUS, without any corruption, because all will be under subjection to
Him who is the King of Kings and Lord of Lords (Rev.
19:16) and the only one whose JUDGMENTS ARE TRUE AND RIGHTEOUS (Rev. 19:2).
After the thousand years reign of the LORD JESUS, satan will be
released from the prison, and will deceive the nations which are in the four
corners of the earth, Gog and Magog to gather them together for the last war,
the number of them is like the sands of the seashore (Rev.
20:8); they will fight against the saints, but will be destroyed by the
fire of the LORD from heaven (Rev. 20:9).
Then the LORD JESUS will throw the devil in the lake of fire and
brimstone, where the beast and false prophet are there also, and they will be
tormented day and night forever and ever (Rev. 20:10).
In the parable of the tares and the good seed (Mt. 13:37-43), the LORD JESUS explained clearly the
meaning of the parable that pertains to those who will remain with the LORD in
His Kingdom and those who will be thrown in the furnace of the lake of fire (Rev. 20:15; 21:8) “If anyone’s name was not found written in the book of life, he was thrown
in the lake of fire”.
After the final judgment for all the wicked (Rev. 20:11-15), there will be a new heaven and new earth, and
the new Jerusalem the Holy City coming down from heaven (Rev. 21:1-2). All the saints of the LORD JESUS will
be with Him forever and ever, there’s no death, nor sorrows or pain (Rev. 21:4).
The fulfillment of the Eternal Purpose (Eph.3:11) carried out by the LORD JESUS will precisely be accomplished regardless of any
hindrances, nor interruptions of world events because the LORD JESUS as EL
GIBBOR, and YAHWEH NISSI, is incomparably victorious in all His ways. In the
consummation of all things, the Majestic Eternal Glory of the LORD JESUS CHRIST
will remain in the whole new world and in eternity.
THE FUNCTIONS OF GOD THE HOLY SPIRIT
The LORD JESUS CHRIST is the one who revealed to us the important
functions of the God the Holy Spirit, for all who love JESUS. God the Father
gave the Holy Spirit as another “Comforter” [parakletos in Greek word], an
intercessor, consoler, advocate (Jn. 14:16-17).
It is through JESUS that God the Father sends the Holy Spirit to dwell in us (Jn. 14:26).
The Holy Spirit teaches us all things, and brings to our remembrance
all that JESUS had told us (Jn. 14:26), and
this is the significant work of God the Holy Spirit because He is our guide
into all the TRUTH (Jn. 16:13). And He is the
Comforter [parakletos in Greek word] that means intercessor, consoler (Jn. 14:26; 15:26).
The Holy Spirit have functions in the work of the LORD JESUS (Zec. 4:6 ), and all the functions of God the Holy
Spirit is ALL FOR JESUS. He bears witness to the LORD JESUS CHRIST (Jn. 15:26) because He is the Spirit of the Truth.
God the Holy Spirit is the one who convicts the world concerning sin
and righteousness and judgment; concerning sin because many don’t believe in
JESUS; concerning righteousness because JESUS went to the Father and He can’t
be openly seen; concerning judgment because the ruler of this world has been
judged (Jn. 16:7-11 ).
When the LORD JESUS came in the flesh, He offered Himself through
the Eternal Spirit for the redemption of the world from sin (Heb. 9:14 )The Holy Spirit intercedes for us (Gal. 4:6 ) the one crying Abba Father on our
behalf, because we are adopted children of the LORD JESUS (Jn. 1:12).
Now we learned that the TRIUNE GOD have different functions in
orderliness, complimentary and integral to their individual functions.
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