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The title of this site,  "The Living One", is taken from Revelations 1:


12I turned around to see the voice that was speaking to me. And when I turned I saw seven golden lampstands, 13and among the lampstands was someone "like a son of man," dressed in a robe reaching down to his feet and with a golden sash around his chest. 14His head and hair were white like wool, as white as snow, and his eyes were like blazing fire. 15His feet were like bronze glowing in a furnace, and his voice was like the sound of rushing waters. 16In his right hand he held seven stars, and out of his mouth came a sharp double-edged sword. His face was like the sun shining in all its brilliance.

 17When I saw him, I fell at his feet as though dead. Then he placed his right hand on me and said: "Do not be afraid. I am the First and the Last. 18I am the Living One; I was dead, and behold I am alive for ever and ever! And I hold the keys of death and Hades.   (Revelations 1)


It is written in the Bible, the Scripture of truth, and we believe that God sent his beloved Son to save us from our sins; to help us, to free us and, primarily, to complete the plan of God:


8And there were shepherds living out in the fields nearby, keeping watch over their flocks at night. 9An angel of the Lord appeared to them, and the glory of the Lord shone around them, and they were terrified. 10But the angel said to them, "Do not be afraid. I bring you good news of great joy that will be for all the people. 11Today in the town of David a Savior has been born to you; he is Christ the Lord. 12This will be a sign to you: You will find a baby wrapped in cloths and lying in a manger."

 13Suddenly a great company of the heavenly host appeared with the angel, praising God and saying,
 14"Glory to God in the highest,
      and on earth peace to men on whom his favor rests."   (Luke 2)


He, Jesus, came to seal the plan of God and to restore all things.  At this time, the heavens must hold Him at the right hand of God (the Eternal Father Above), until every enemy (seen and unseen) to the Father is undone.  As this process continues, mankind will race toward a "Day" where Christ will take complete control of this planet (in a way that is not common to man) and suddenly, at the proper time, return:

 

 11I saw heaven standing open and there before me was a white horse, whose rider is called Faithful and True. With justice he judges and makes war. 12His eyes are like blazing fire, and on his head are many crowns. He has a name written on him that no one knows but he himself. 13He is dressed in a robe dipped in blood, and his name is the Word of God. 14The armies of heaven were following him, riding on white horses and dressed in fine linen, white and clean. 15Out of his mouth comes a sharp sword with which to strike down the nations. "He will rule them with an iron scepter." He treads the winepress of the fury of the wrath of God Almighty. 16On his robe and on his thigh he has this name written:
      

KING OF KINGS AND LORD OF LORDS.

(Revelations 19)

 

Until that day, we stand as Ambassadors for Him and His Dominion.  He still rules from "On High" as Heaven's Supreme Battle Commander but God's perfect judgement has measured an "age of grace" for man.  We exhort men, women and children from all nations and every spoken language (Jew or Gentile, rich or poor, in chains or free) to be saved by Him and to serve Him.  We have all heard that God is love, and, indeed, He is.  He is also, however, the Righteous Judge that will decide the eternal ‘housing' of the living and the dead.  The Bible is very clear about this matter.  We cannot really express, in words, how serious this matter is.  It involves your very soul, the essence of who you are; the part of you that is not seen and separates from the body when you die.  How can someone be saved?  How can someone escape eternal damnation?  Believe, with all of your being, that Jesus Christ is the Son of God, the Saviour of all mankind, the fulfillment of the Jewish Law and the Prophets; the only Mediator between God and man.  Repent of all that you know (what God has made evident) is wrong (Romans 2:12-16) and what the Bible says is sinful or evil; confess your sins to God through Christ.  Be willing to pay any price to serve God and the Lord (not men) will see if you are sincere.  Once a person has taken the first few steps into God's kingdom....a new journey, full of joy and triumphs, tears, trials and tribulations has just begun.....God, in His own way, will start "speaking" to that individual. 


Almost 2,000 years ago, the Apostle Paul preached this message to a group of philosophers and religious individuals:


22Paul then stood up in the meeting of the Areopagus and said: "Men of Athens! I see that in every way you are very religious. 23For as I walked around and looked carefully at your objects of worship, I even found an altar with this inscription: TO AN UNKNOWN GOD. Now what you worship as something unknown I am going to proclaim to you.

 24"The God who made the world and everything in it is the Lord of heaven and earth and does not live in temples built by hands. 25And he is not served by human hands, as if he needed anything, because he himself gives all men life and breath and everything else. 26From one man he made every nation of men, that they should inhabit the whole earth; and he determined the times set for them and the exact places where they should live. 27God did this so that men would seek him and perhaps reach out for him and find him, though he is not far from each one of us. 28'For in him we live and move and have our being.' As some of your own poets have said, 'We are his offspring.'

 29"Therefore since we are God's offspring, we should not think that the divine being is like gold or silver or stone-an image made by man's design and skill. 30In the past God overlooked such ignorance, but now he commands all people everywhere to repent. 31For he has set a day when he will judge the world with justice by the man he has appointed. He has given proof of this to all men by raising him from the dead."   (Acts 17)

 

The clock is ticking and time is running out for man (Indeed, time is running out for all of us, as individuals, because we are all aging and will eventually die; death is not the end-it's only the beginning of existence).  No one knows when the Lord will descend but one thing is certain:  He will.  As a final note, in the end, we will all realize that this planet, Earth, was the last (spiritual) battlefield for a war that has been waged for ages.