God's Church
Prophecy in Motion
by C. Elden McNabb
Introduction
It is true that, for a person to believe in God and accept Jesus Christ as his or her savior is the first step toward a relationship with God. A considerable amount is said in the New Testament about the basics of our personal relationship with God, such as love, faith, hope, the pursuit of righteousness, and so forth. We are encouraged to manifest the fruit of the Spirit, and warned to avoid the works of the flesh.
Yet, with all that is said about salvation and the personal life of the believer, there is a far greater volume that is written about how God planned the development of things in the world, prophesied of it, and caused it all to come to pass. There is a knowledge of God which can be found out, and, being found, it is food for the souls of the believers. God even said in Jeremiah, that He would give us pastors after His own heart, and that they would "feed (us) with knowledge and understanding."
Jesus said, "Take my yoke upon you and learn of me." Paul also said "Until we all come in the unity of the faith, and of the knowledge of the Son of God." Therefore, my responsibility, and the responsibility of the rest of the leaders of God's people, is to search out that knowledge and understanding, and to feed the people of God.
Accordingly, I present this treatise for your edification. I hope that you will learn much about God and His ways, and that you will come to a much greater understanding, as you consider the truths which I have presented here. Peter said, "It was revealed (unto the prophets), that not unto themselves, but unto us, they did minister" the things of Christ and salvation. Knowing this, we understand that the words of God, by Isaiah, are to us. "My thoughts are not your thoughts, neither are my ways your ways." If we are ever to understand the things of God, we must begin to try to find out His way; to conform our thoughts to His way of thinking.
The words of Jesus, in Matt. 25:1-5, have come to pass. Christianity has gone to sleep. But The Apostle Paul told "The Woman," "Awake thou that sleepest, and arise (as though) from the dead, and Christ shall give thee light." When "The Elect Lady" has received the light, her ministers will make the cry, "Behold, the bridegroom cometh." It will then be high time for us to rise up; to take our Bibles in our hands, (Psa. 119:105) and "trim our lamps." It may be that we will have enough light to go in to the wedding.
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