Are you supping with the Lord?

Now we are already in the late period of the last days. Many people determine that all testimonies of the arrival of the Lord Jesus are false just because they are afraid of being deceived by false Christs. So, even though they’ve heard someone testifying that the Lord Jesus has returned, they refuse to seek or investigate it, and merely wait for the Lord’s revelation. Can we really meet the Lord’s return by practicing in this way?

Lord Jesus

Answer: The Lord Jesus said, “My sheep hear my voice, and I know them, and they follow me”(Jhn 10:27). “He that has an ear, let him hear what the Spirit said to the churches” (Rev 2:7). The Lord Jesus clearly said that when the Lord comes, He will surely utter words and express the voice of God. All who hear the voice of God, search and accept it, will thus welcome the return of the Lord and be taken before God's throne. Will it do if we hear people testifying to the coming of the Lord, yet do not search or examine it? How could it be feasible to merely await the revelation of the Lord? Could the Lord act in this way? Did the Lord say for us to await His revelation? No, He did not! Thus, such views are simply misleading and deceitful. Only ridiculous fools could say such things. If we await the revelation of the Lord according to this saying, then we can do nothing but wait for death, and bring about our own downfall.

Let us look at the words of Almighty God. “Even more believe that whatever the new work of God, it must be substantiated by prophecies, and that in each stage of such work, all those who follow Him with a true heart must also be shown revelations, else that work could not be that of God. It is already no easy task for man to come to know God. Taken in addition to man's absurd heart and his rebellious nature of self-importance and conceit, then it is all the more difficult for man to accept the new work of God. Man neither studies the new work of God with care nor accepts it with humility: rather, man adopts an attitude of contempt, waiting for the revelations and guidance of God. Is this not the behavior of a man who rebels against and opposes God? How can such men gain the approval of God?” (“How Can Man Who Has Defined God in His Conceptions Receive the Revelations of God?” in The Word Appears in the Flesh). When it comes to the arrival of the Lord, if we blindly cling to our own conceptions and imaginings, if we do not seek the truth, or pay attention to hearing the voice of God, and merely await the revelation of God, then we will never welcome the return of the Lord.

Lord Jesus

We should know that in the Age of Grace, among all those who followed the Lord Jesus, there was not one person who followed because they had first been given revelation. They all heard people's testimony to the Lord Jesus, or heard the utterances and preachings of the Lord Jesus and recognized His voice, and thus they followed the Lord. And although Peter received revelation from God, and recognized that the Lord Jesus was Christ, the Son of God, that happened after He followed the Lord Jesus for a while. From the words and work of the Lord Jesus he had gained some knowledge of the Lord Jesus, and only then was he enlightened by the Holy Spirit. This is fact. In the last days, the incarnate Almighty God does the work of judgment beginning with the house of God. He has expressed millions of words and received countless followers, and not one of them received God's revelation before following. All those who follow Almighty God were enlightened by the Holy Spirit whilst seeking and examining the words and work of Almighty God. They felt that the words of the Almighty God were all the truths, they recognized God's voice, and only then did they accept God's work of the last days and were taken before God's throne. This fulfills the prophecy of the Book of Revelation: “Behold, I stand at the door, and knock: if any man hear my voice, and open the door, I will come in to him, and will sup with him, and he with me” (Rev 3:20).

Yet in the religious community, there are people who refuse to give up their conceptions and imaginings. They merely await the revelation of the Lord, and refuse to hear the voice of God. In particular, the pastors and elders not only do not seek and examine when faced with Almighty God’s work of the last days, but also fabricate rumors, and frantically oppose and condemn Almighty God. They even deceive believers, and try to stop them from examining the true way. These people have been revealed as tares and antichrists by God’s work of the last days. And they are the very people who are laid bare and eliminated by God’s work.

The Bible

In fact, in the two times that God has become flesh to work on earth, He does not reveal it to anyone in advance. For God is the Creator, and He has His own plan for His work. He does not work according to people’s conceptions and imaginations, nor does He ask for people’s advice. Much less does He tell anyone in advance. By working in this way, God is fair to everyone. This perfectly demonstrates His fair and righteous disposition, and, moreover, shows the wisdom of God in His work. God’s sheep will hear the voice of God. God uses practical words and work to reveal those who love the truth, who’re weary of the truth, who are clever, stupid, good, and wicked. This is the very way the Lord Jesus did the work of classification. Just as the Lord Jesus said, “Blessed are the poor in spirit: for theirs is the kingdom of heaven” (Mat 5:3). “Blessed are they which do hunger and thirst after righteousness: for they shall be filled” (Mat 5:6). “Blessed are the pure in heart: for they shall see God” (Mat 5:8). As believers in God, we should be humble, we should hunger and thirst for righteousness, and be pure of heart, just as Jesus asked. Like a clever virgin, we should focus on hearing the voice of God. We should seek and examine the truths expressed by Almighty God. And only in this way can we go to the wedding feast of the Lamb. If we only blindly guard against false Christs and do not seek and examine Almighty God's work of the last days, if we still await the Lord’s revelation, then we have become blind, foolish virgins, and shall be eliminated by ourselves.