The Last Days
James Herschel Lyda
6/26/2011
What does the term the Last days
refer to?
2 Timothy 2:24 And the servant
of the Lord must not strive; but be gentle unto all men, apt to teach, patient,
25 In meekness instructing those that
oppose themselves; if God peradventure will give them repentance to the
acknowledging of the truth;
26 And that they may recover themselves out
of the snare of the devil, who are taken captive by him at his will.
That is the way we are supposed to
live our lives. But
2 Timothy 3;1 ¶ This know also,
that in the last days
perilous times shall come.
Perilous: means at great risk;
hazardous; dangerous
2 For men shall be lovers of their own
selves, covetous, boasters, proud, blasphemers, disobedient to parents,
unthankful, unholy,
3 Without natural affection, trucebreakers,
false accusers, incontinent, fierce, despisers of those that are good,
4 Traitors, heady, highminded,
lovers of pleasures more than lovers of God;
5 Having a form of godliness, but denying the
power thereof: from such turn away.
6 For of this sort are they which creep
into houses, and lead captive silly women laden with sins, led away with divers
lusts,
7 Ever learning, and never able to come to
the knowledge of the truth.
The Last Days are referring to a
period of time in which things begin to grow exceedingly perilous and people
are growing further and further away from God’s commandments and ordinances.
Churches are teaching that you do not have to keep the commandments but that is
not what the Bible says.
Hebrews 1:1 ¶ God, who at sundry
times and in divers manners spake in time past unto
the fathers by the prophets,
2 Hath in these last days spoken unto us by his Son, whom he hath appointed heir
of all things, by whom also he made the worlds;
Without the promise that Christ would
come to die for our sins, the worlds would have been destroyed.
3 Who being the brightness of his glory, and
the express image of his person, and upholding all things by the word of his
power, when he had by himself purged our sins, sat down on the right
hand of the Majesty on high;
Here we see the days that Christ was on the earth
were referred to as the last days. So the last 2000 years have been a
part of the last days. In the beginning God created the earth and all
that is in it in six days and then rested on the seventh day
2Peter 3:8
But, beloved, be not ignorant of this one thing, that one day is with the Lord
as a thousand years, and a thousand years as one day.
It seems, based on the creation that
six thousand years were determined upon the earth for all things to mature and
then the seventh (or seven thousand year) day was to be a day of rest. Christ
and His church came into existence on the fourth day (four thousand year) which
was the last part of the week or the last days. Ever since Christ was on
the earth things have grown steadily worse. The closer we come to the seventh
day they get even more perilous. I say that we are not living in the last days
but in the LAST day.
Mathew 24:36
But of that day and hour knoweth no man, no, not the
angels of heaven, but my Father only.
37 But as the days of Noe
were, so shall also the coming of the Son of man be.
38 For as in the days that were before the flood
they were eating and drinking, marrying and giving in marriage, until the day
that Noe entered into the ark,
39 And knew not until the flood came, and
took them all away; so shall also the coming of the Son of man be.
People today are eating and drinking
(most people do this as the most common past time today). It is the same as
when Noe was preaching of the end of the world.
40 Then shall two be in the field; the one
shall be taken, and the other left.
41 Two women shall be grinding at the mill;
the one shall be taken, and the other left.
42 Watch therefore: for ye know not what hour
your Lord doth come.
43 But know this, that if the goodman of the house had known in what watch the thief
would come, he would have watched, and would not have suffered his house to be
broken up.
44 Therefore be ye also ready: for in such an
hour as ye think not the Son of man cometh.
This last day is fast coming to a close.
Be diligent for the
Son of man cometh very soon.
1
Thessalonians 4: 15 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.
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.
I truly believe that
before this day ends or very near the end of it (the six thousand year
day), Christ will come back to collect His bride and we will be with Him
wherever He is forever.
Isaiah 4: 1 ¶ The
word that Isaiah the son of Amoz saw concerning Judah
and Jerusalem.
2
And it
shall come to pass in the last days, that the mountain of the LORD’S house
shall be established in the top of the mountains, and shall be exalted above
the hills; and all nations shall flow unto it.
3
And many
people shall go and say, Come ye, and let us go up to the mountain of the LORD,
to the house of the God of Jacob; and he will teach us of his ways, and we will
walk in his paths: for out of Zion shall go forth the law, and the word of the
LORD from Jerusalem.
4
And he
shall judge among the nations, and shall rebuke many people: and they shall
beat their swords into plowshares, and their spears into pruninghooks:
nation shall not lift up sword against nation, neither shall they learn war any
more.
Christ will set up a
kingdom (Mountain) on this earth after the Tribulation (Jacob’s great time of
trouble), that shall rule over the entire earth and everyone that is left alive
will be taught the pure undefiled Word of God.
2 Peter 3: 3 ¶ Knowing
this first, that there shall come in the last days scoffers, walking
after their own lusts,
4 And saying, Where is the promise of his coming? for
since the fathers fell asleep, all things continue as they were from the
beginning of the creation.
I have heard people say
that they have heard this all their life and it hasn’t happened yet.
5 For this they willingly are ignorant of, that
by the word of God the heavens were of old, and the earth standing out of the
water and in the water:
6 Whereby the world that then was, being overflowed with water, perished:
7 But the heavens and the earth, which are now, by the same word are kept in
store, reserved unto fire against the day of judgment and perdition of
ungodly men.
8 ¶ But, beloved, be not ignorant of this one
thing, that one day is with the Lord as a thousand years, and a thousand years
as one day.
9 ¶ The Lord is not slack concerning his
promise, as some men count slackness; but is longsuffering to us-ward, not
willing that any should perish, but that all should come to repentance.
The lord does not delay
the fulfilling of His promises but is giving mankind as long as He can to come
to the knowledge of the truth and repent.
10 But the day of the Lord will come as a thief
in the night; in the which the heavens shall pass away with a great noise, and
the elements shall melt with fervent heat, the earth also and the works that
are therein shall be burned up.
The earth and the works
of man will be burned up but the foundation of the world will still exist and
will be made new.
11 ¶ Seeing then that all these things
shall be dissolved, what manner of persons ought ye to be in all holy
conversation and godliness,
12 Looking for and hasting unto the coming of the day of God, wherein the heavens
being on fire shall be dissolved, and the elements shall melt with fervent
heat?
13 Nevertheless we, according to his promise, look for new heavens and a new earth,
wherein dwelleth righteousness.
This is referring to
the making a new earth from the charred foundation that is left (never totally
destroyed)
14 Wherefore, beloved, seeing that ye look for such things, be diligent that ye may
be found of him in peace, without spot, and blameless.
15 And account that the longsuffering of our Lord is salvation; even as our
beloved brother Paul also according to the wisdom given unto him hath written
unto you;
16 As also in all his epistles, speaking in them
of these things; in which are some things hard to be understood, which they
that are unlearned and unstable wrest, as they do also the other
scriptures, unto their own destruction.
After the Thousand year
reign of Christ and His bride there will a judgement
of all that was left after the bride was separated from the world. Those that
are found lacking will be cast into the lake of fire and destroyed.
Malachi 4:1 ¶ For,
behold, the day cometh, that shall burn as an oven; and all the proud, yea, and
all that do wickedly, shall be stubble: and the day that cometh shall burn
them up, saith the LORD of hosts, that it
shall leave them neither root nor branch.
2
But unto
you that fear my name shall the Sun of righteousness arise with healing in his
wings; and ye shall go forth, and grow up as calves of the stall.
3
And ye
shall tread down the wicked; for they shall be ashes under the soles of your
feet in the day that I shall do this, saith the LORD
of hosts.
The righteous will walk
upon the same ground on which the wicked will be destroyed.