What is the first coming The first coming was preparation for the second coming How Three short stories Parable of the expectant steward I llustration of the Days of Noah Parable of the ten virgins ID: 405018
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Second ComingSlide2
What is the first coming?
The first coming was preparation for the second coming. How?Slide3
Three short stories:
Parable of the expectant steward
I
llustration of the Days of
Noah
Parable
of the ten virginsSlide4
Parable of the expectant steward
Luke 12:35-40Slide5
Parable of the expectant steward
Let
your waist be girded and
your lamps burning; and you yourselves be like men who wait for their master, when he will return from the wedding, that when he comes and knocks they may open to him immediately.
Blessed
are
those servants whom the master, when he comes, will find watching. Assuredly, I say to you that he will gird himself and have them sit down
to eat,
and will come and serve them.
And if he should come in the second watch, or come in the third watch, and find
them so, blessed are those servants. But know this, that if the master of the house had known what hour the thief would come, he would have watched and not allowed his house to be broken into.Therefore you also be ready, for the Son of Man is coming at an hour you do not expect.Slide6
Illustration of the Days of Noah
Matthew 24:37-44Slide7
Illustration of the Days of Noah
But
as the days of Noah
were, so also will the coming of the Son of Man be.
For as in the days before the flood, they were eating and drinking, marrying and giving in marriage, until the day that Noah entered the ark, and did not know until the flood came and took them all away, so also will the coming of the Son of Man be.
Then two
men
will be in the field: one will be taken and the other left.
Two
women will be
grinding at the mill: one will be taken and the other left. Watch therefore, for you do not know what hour your Lord is coming. But know this, that if the master of the house had known what hour the thief would come, he would have watched and not allowed his house to be broken into. Therefore you also be ready, for the Son of Man is coming at an hour you do not expect.Slide8
Parable of the ten virgins
Matthew 25:1-13Slide9
Parable of the ten virgins
Then the kingdom of heaven shall be likened to ten virgins who took their lamps and went out to meet the bridegroom. Now five of them were wise, and five
were
foolish.
Those who
were
foolish took their lamps and took no oil with them, but the wise took oil in their vessels with their lamps.
But while the bridegroom was delayed, they all slumbered and slept.
And
at midnight a cry was heard: ‘Behold, the bridegroom is coming; go out to meet him!’ Then all those virgins arose and trimmed their lamps. And the foolish said to the wise, ‘Give us some of your oil, for our lamps are going out.’ But the wise answered, saying, ‘No, lest there should not be enough for us and you; but go rather to those who sell, and buy for yourselves.’ And while they went to buy, the bridegroom came, and those who were ready went in with him to the wedding; and the door was shut.Afterward the other virgins came also, saying, ‘Lord, Lord, open to us!’ But he answered and said, ‘Assuredly, I say to you, I do not know you.’
Watch
therefore, for you know neither the day nor the hour in which the Son of Man is coming
.Slide10
What is common between these stories?
We MUST be READYSlide11Slide12
What should we do?
No fear, no worry.
We are all baptised and we partake in his communion so we are ready! All we have to do is repent.Slide13
REMEMBER!
“But of that day and hour no one knows, not even the angels of heaven, but my Father only
.”
Matthew 24:36“Watch therefore, for you do not know what hour your Lord is coming.”
Matthew
24:42