[054]. A Message From A Poem – Day Is At Hand

[054]. A MESSAGE FROM A POEM – DAY IS AT HAND

This poem is figurative in a sense. I look at the early glimmer of light in the east as the sun soon will rise. Then it increases until it is full day with the bright shining sun.

What the poem does is begin with the harbinger of the dawn in expectation. That expectation is the Rapture of the Church where “last days” prophecy is starting to fall into place. The Timothy line mentioned is this one – {{2 Timothy 3:1-2 “Realise this, that in the last days difficult times will come, for men will be lovers of self, lovers of money, boastful, arrogant, revilers, disobedient to parents, ungrateful, unholy, etc.”))

[[Full long has Nature, all with eager taste

Awaited its redemption from discord]]

That quote about Nature comes from this passage – {{Romans 8:19-22 “The anxious longing of the creation waits eagerly for the revealing of the sons of God, for the creation was subjected to futility, not of its own will, but because of Him who subjected it - in hope that the CREATION ITSELF ALSO WILL BE SET FREE FROM ITS SLAVERY TO CORRUPTION, into the freedom of the glory of the children of God. We know that THE WHOLE CREATION GROANS AND SUFFERS THE PAINS OF CHILDBIRTH TOGETHER UNTIL NOW.”}} All of creation is under the curse but when the Lord Messiah returns to earth at the Second Coming, then all nature will rejoice in its natural redemption when fear and disease and animals preying on each other will be gone:-

{{Isaiah 11:6-9 “The WOLF WILL DWELL WITH THE LAMB and the leopard will lie down with the kid and the calf and the young lion and the fatling together, and a little boy will lead them. Also the cow and the bear will graze. Their young will lie down together and THE LION WILL EAT STRAW LIKE THE OX. The nursing child will play by the hole of the cobra and the weaned child will put his hand on the viper’s den. THEY WILL NOT HURT OR DESTROY IN ALL MY HOLY MOUNTAIN for the earth will be full of the knowledge of the LORD as the waters cover the sea.”}} “My holy mountain” is Messiah’s Millennial kingdom. In prophecy in the Old Testament, mountain is a kingdom, but only in prophetic passages.

The Church age has almost ended, and the Morning Star, who is Jesus Christ, appears and raptures His Church – {{2 Peter 1:19 “and so we have the prophetic word made more sure, to which you do well to pay attention as to a lamp shining in a dark place, UNTIL THE DAY DAWNS AND THE MORNING STAR ARISES in your hearts”}}

“From Morning Star to Sun of Righteousness.” It is the Second Coming when the sun will shine in righteous brilliance on restored Israel in the Millennial Kingdom. {{Malachi 4:1-3 “For behold, the day is coming, burning like a furnace; and all the arrogant and every evildoer will be chaff; and the day that is coming will set them ablaze,” says the LORD of hosts, “so that it will leave them neither root nor branch. But for you who fear My name THE SUN OF RIGHTEOUSNESS WILL RISE with healing in its wings; and you will go forth and skip about like calves from the stall. And you will tread down the wicked, for they shall be ashes under the soles of your feet on the day which I am preparing,” says the LORD of hosts.”}}

Sadly, some people don’t believe biblical prophecy. It is such a loss.

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DAY IS AT HAND

The thin, pale light of dawn begins to show -

That promised glimmer of the coming morn.

Deep in the east a streak of light is drawn -

A harbinger of a sun’s mighty glow.

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Then slowly pales the night as day ascends;

It has no claim on what has been ordained.

But forward looks to what will be attained;

And clearer still, revealing light descends.

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It is not long before encroaching light

Commands its presence right across the sky.

And as the sun attains its place on high,

Its glory warmth bespeaks its rightful might.

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Where do we place our time prophetically?

Is it dark night, or is the day at hand?

Is the horizon streaked above the land

With glimmered light, that seeks ascendancy?

Yes, God’s full plan has left the drawing board

And now progresses on with measured haste.

Full long has Nature, all with eager taste

Awaited its redemption from discord.

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God’s plan, in broad outline, is on display

Across the pages of His Holy Word.

Redemption’s message now is being heard,

And light blue glimmers, promise coming day.

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In these last days, we have confirmed, the signs

That Paul had given to young Timothy.

These point towards the time increasingly

That comes, when God’s prophetic scroll unwinds.

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These signs now shine as beacons on a hill

To testify the cup is almost full;

And ever stronger now will grow the pull

Soon closing our Church age. Our hopes fulfil.

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One dawning streak on the prophetic sky

Is that of Israel dwelling on its land.

That nation is to those who understand,

The fig tree sprouting forth, whose time is nigh.

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Look up and see that your redemption’s near.

The Morning Star glows brightly in the east.

Almost the era of the Church has ceased;

The eastern sky, defined, is bright and clear.

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From Morning Star to Sun of Righteousness -

The hint of dawn will grow to glory’s day.

Prophetic revelations all the way

Will usher in the time of holiness.

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4 June 1999 R.E.Ferguson 10-10-10-10