The Creator Returns

THE CREATOR RETURNS

Matt.24: 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.

 

God, the Being and the concept, is greater than all our thoughts and imaginations. He has revealed Himself in the masculine and so we call God with the words Him, He, and Father, and yet God cannot be whittled down to any gender. He of course surpasses gender, but still we must remain within the parameters of His revelation. So those of us who have come to know the Creator willingly and happily interact with Him in the masculine sense. And those who want to change that approach do violence to God’s Word as well as usually bring many other unscriptural changes.

But so often people, even professing believers, lose sight of the fact that the Scriptures reveal that Jesus, the Word, and the Second Person of the Trinity is also the Creator. Because Jesus is also called the “Son” we subconsciously think of Him as somehow subordinate to the Father and yet the mystery is that He is equal with the Father. In reality attempting to dissect the Godhead and place post-its on each divine entity is completely beyond us. Again, we are gloriously restrained to act only within the parameters of God’s Word. Believe me there is enough profound depth as to provide treasure for a lifetime regardless of how dedicated you are to dig for it.

As with all things associated with God there is a great mystery as it pertains to creation. I mean God creates with a word? And God is a spirit so when we imagine a giant mouth with lips and a tongue we are using our sphere of reference which may help but is infinitely limited in scope and reality. When God speaks a word it is outside human understanding and exists in essence and power and holiness in the eternal and divine realm. It is the most gracious gift God ever gave us when He gave us His written Word, and then gloriously gave us His Word in flesh. Yes I am walking on eternal stepping stones here.

And here is a little dip into the unimaginable realm. When Jesus, who is the Word, spoke a word to create, that Word was Himself. Go ahead and roll that around in your little pea shooter and then act like you know it all. We have so constricted our God and presented His as some super human which by the way is what the demonic revelations from Joseph Smith told him. No, our God surpasses knowledge and yet God still gave us glorious glimpses and revelations of Himself through His Word and the teaching ministry of the Spirit. The church has even neglected that gift and many seek some new and different story about God from all sorts of story tellers who are spreading nothing more than their own imaginations and opinions wrapped up in nice and alluring packages. Do not be deceived.

But do not also be deceived into being satisfied with your comfortable and minute view of Almighty God. As long as you stay well inside the Scriptures you can through prayer and meditating on the Word allow the Spirit to expand you view of God in a way that will edify you and also expand you worship and obedience. And this also applies to our view of Jesus. Many believers continue to see Jesus as the lowly servant shepherd who is still meek and mild and will turn the other check. But although we still live in the age of gospel grace ordained by God, make no mistake, Jesus is a consuming fire who has made plans to return to His creation.

No hyperbole here. No exaggeration. No fairy tale. When the Creator Jesus returns to this earth it will be an event unlike any other. No Bethlehem here. This time it is the Mount of Olives and this time that mountain will split which will be just the beginning.

II Thess.1: ³ We are bound to thank God always for you, brethren, as it is meet, because that your faith groweth exceedingly, and the charity of every one of you all toward each other aboundeth;

⁴ So that we ourselves glory in you in the churches of God for your patience and faith in all your persecutions and tribulations that ye endure:
⁵ Which is a manifest token of the righteous judgment of God, that ye may be counted worthy of the kingdom of God, for which ye also suffer:
⁶ Seeing it is a righteous thing with God to recompense tribulation to them that trouble you;
⁷ And to you who are troubled rest with us, when the Lord Jesus shall be revealed from heaven with his mighty angels,
⁸ In flaming fire taking vengeance on them that know not God, and that obey not the gospel of our Lord Jesus Christ:
⁹ Who shall be punished with everlasting destruction from the presence of the Lord, and from the glory of his power;
¹⁰ When he shall come to be glorified in his saints, and to be admired in all them that believe (because our testimony among you was believed) in that day.

This will be an amazing spectacle which will bring vengeance upon the planet. Does this seem a little out of character for Jesus? Well that is what men thought about the Jesus born in Bethlehem. That could not be God because he was so humble and meek and mild. But now they claim that the warring Jesus could not be God because He is so powerful and brings such justice. You see, man doesn’t want either revelation of Jesus. Let’s be honest, man doesn’t want any God except the one he creates and that meets his own fallen lusts.

But do not be deceived. The coming of the Creator is already in the wings and God has most graciously provided us with some signs of His coming which the world and most of the church conveniently ignore or study as if they were a curiosity. The Creator, Jesus, had every right and surely the power to destroy the entire creation just because of man’s rebellion. But not only did He not destroy it, He died for us His enemies. And against that backdrop the Righteous One will come again and bring the justice that He took upon Himself and yet was overwhelmingly refused. And the day that Jesus comes back will be revealed as unlike anything man could have ever imagined. Most of our imaginations are molded to accommodate our own opinions which are always weighted toward our own interests.

 

But as the Scriptures attempt to reveal to us when the Creator Jesus returns He will not bring grace and mercy, those will have come to an end, but He will bring a wrath filled justice that will descend upon the inhabitants of earth. People will beg for refuge and they will find none. They will even beg for death and not find that either. How can I describe the coming holocaust? Anything we thought was violent here on earth cannot be compared with divine retribution. It will consume every human being with a fright and fear that will immobilize them. The most fear you have ever felt here will be seen as nothing.

But here comes the Creator, and He brings His wrath with Him. Oh my. I cannot imagine such a thing. The Creator is inflamed and He has been moved to action. He who created everything with just a Word now returns to bring divine justice upon all the living beings here on earth. I realize it seems so surreal and unimaginable, but that is part of the evil one’s ruse. You see, being unprepared for the Lord Christ’s return is the devil’s desire for every human being. And he has been marvelously successful in achieving that desire. And even in the church there is precious little warning, and even if there is it is usually couched in doctrinal terms emanating from a dry eyed preacher well trained in the hermeneutical skills but severely lacking any passion that would authenticate his doctrinal belief system.

But the people clamor for advice in how to achieve their wants and lusts and elevate their earthly circumstances. And men are only too happy to provide people with what they want. But if you knew the Creator was at the door and that He was about to visit human kind with violent justice, would you not warn them? Well only one conclusion can be drawn by the overwhelming silence coming from evangelical pulpits. They do not believe it anymore.

And so here we are floating downstream along with the unbelieving world. The climax of all created time is at hand and yet where are the sentries crying out a warning? When are the watchmen shouting out through tears? These best dressed pretenders only seek themselves and are ignorant of spiritual realities and looming consequences. Men and women both stand and speak words of wind which have no substance and are nonsense in the realm of the eternal. They do not warn about the wolves; they are the wolves. And a man who does not warn his flock of impending danger is a hireling and not a shepherd. Fasting and prayer have given way to a myriad of self serving conferences complete with great food, tables of items for sale, wonderful hotel rooms, and well paid speakers who bask in the human adulation.

And while this is all taking place with great intensity the Lion of the Tribe of Judah is ready to pounce upon this world. “Where is the gentle shepherd Jesus?” they ask. The day has come. The deception is complete. The falsehoods and caricatures have done their duty. And now most of the church is sleeping and continually pushing the snooze button. But the night is far spent; the day is upon us; the time is here. The true church will soon be removed. I have no energy to argue about exactly in what order these things will take place. I call us all to repent and draw close to our Great Redeemer. Do not rely upon your well rehearsed conversion story.

Watch and pray, for in an hour when you least expect it, the Creator will come.