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Jeremiah 33:14-15 NIV: 14 ‘The days are coming,’ declares the Lord, ‘when I will fulfil the good promise I made to the people of Israel and Judah. 15 ‘In those days and at that time, I will make a righteous branch sprout from David’s line; he will do what is just and right in the land.
Just the day before, as we were talking, my wife just mentioned that one of the significant differences of our faith that reflects the reality of God is the fulfilment of the various prophesies in the bible. Jeremiah, a prophet of God with the book that bears his name, active during the reign of King Josiah until the fall of Jerusalem prophesied about the coming of Christ during those ancient times. God spoke through Jeremiah of raising up the Messiah, which is Jesus Christ, the righteous branch, through the line of David. The sculptured cross at the Chapel of the Holy Cross, Sedona, beautifully symbolises, by its old dead vertical trunk, the old tribes of the Israelites who rejected God while other trunk that is reaching upwards and branches out represents the flourishing tribe of Judah and the line of David.
Jeremiah 33:14-15 is one of the many prophesies of the Old Testament fulfilled by Jesus Christ. In the New Testament, we have a whole book of Revelation that speaks of the future, the signs and times before the second coming of Christ, the great tribulation, the Great White Throne of God, the Bema Judgment Seat of Christ until the new heaven and new earth, and the new Jerusalem with Christ and God living among His people once again.
In the span of our lives, we may have received our own fair share of prophesies. Be patient and continue to persevere on in our walk of faith. The day will come when the prophesies for our own lives will become reality in the course of the LORD’s own timing in accordance with His perfect will. Some prophesies may only be fulfilled when we are spiritually ready in our hearts. Don’t give up believing and trusting God. Instead, continue in our steadfast love for Him, serving Him with all our strength, soul, mind, and heart; allowing the Holy Spirit to transform us day by day into the image of Christ!
Have an examplary week ahead, everyone fulfilling God’s plans and purposes for our lives! I pray that the LORD our God will grant us wisdom and discernment in our daily tasks as we discharge our responsibilities at work, in college, at home, and in church! Amen!
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