Before Jesus Comes...
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Jesus will surely come, but that day is not yet here.
The Author gives us reasons why He cannot come back today. She draws our attention to what must yet happen before He returns. God is going to sanctify His Name!
She brings correction to the many future expectations in circulation that do not line up with the witness of Scripture.
There is power in the blood of the Lamb for the restoration of the unity of the Church and for the conversion of Israel — God's eldest son — to their Messiah, even to the breakthrough of the kingdom of God and peace on earth.
Truly, Jesus is Lord and Messiah!
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Before Jesus Comes... - Ali Mettau-Ras
Before Jesus comes…
He is the root and the descendant of David, the bright morning star
Ali Mettau-Ras
Jilco Ministries
Clinton, BC
Canada
2018
Copyright © 1995 Ali Mettau-Ras
Requests for information should be addressed to:
Ms. K.N. Torn
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1076 BV Amsterdam
Netherlands
Original title: Eer Jezus komt
Translation: H.H. Hanemaayer (2018)
ISBN: 978-0-9953049-3-2
All rights reserved. No part of this book may be reproduced in any form—except for brief quotations in a review or professional work—without permission from the author.
Unless otherwise indicated, all Scripture quotations are from the ESV® Bible (The Holy Bible, English Standard Version®), copyright © 2001 by Crossway. Used by permission. All rights reserved.
Scripture quotations marked as [NASB] are from the New American Standard Bible®, Copyright © 1960, 1962, 1963, 1968, 1971, 1972, 1973, 1975, 1977, 1995 by The Lockman Foundation. Used by permission.
Scripture quotations marked [NKJV] are from the New King James Version of the Bible, copyright © 1988 Thomas Nelson, Inc. Used by permission. All rights reserved.
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Contents
Prologue
The Holiness of Jesus
The love of Jesus
The value of Jesus’ sacrificial blood
Jesus and the Name of God
God’s Name in the Apocalypse
Tested against the Bible
The escape theory tested
Epilogue
Prologue
Write the vision and make it plain on tablets, that he may run who reads it.
For the vision is yet for an appointed time; but at the end it will speak, and it will not lie.
Though it tarries, wait for it; because it will surely come, it will not tarry.
Hab. 2:2, 3
In the Spring of 1968, as I was seeking the Lord, He answered and began to teach me in a very special way. The first lesson He gave me concerned His Name. Up to that time I never thought much about the Name of God, but now that Name started to live and become very important.
I asked the Lord to teach me what was important to Him for us to know in this day and age. First of all He drew my attention to His Name!
Secondly, He directed my attention to Jerusalem, the place where He wants to return to. He explained to me that He once again desired to accept Israel as His holy people and to restore the priesthood to them. I had never thought of Israel as priests. However, this seemed to be of importance to God’s future plans.
Next the Lord directed my attention to the two peoples. His desire is to join the Gentile Christian church and Israel into one.
But before He does this, He wants to use the Gentile Christian church to provoke Israel to jealousy. Now I had heard about this before. In my youth I had been taught that we were supposed to make Israel jealous. But the Lord put a different spin on this. He explained to me that He Himself is going to make Israel jealous and in this process will use us as well. So, it will be His sovereign act, He is the one that will do it.
During His teaching, the word witness lit up. Israel is God’s witness. The Church too is His witness. The Lord has prepared Himself two witnesses, witnesses of His great and mighty deeds.
The authors of the Bible do tell us about God’s mighty deeds. They had an eye for what He was doing. I asked the Lord: Where can I see you in action in our present time?
The Lord answered me: Watch what My Spirit is doing in the Church and in Israel.
To my surprise He also showed me that today Israel had not received the promised land with His blessing, but that Israel herself had tried to bring about the fulfilment of His promises. That is why there is no peace in the Middle East.
The Lord desires unity among the believers, but He does reject the unity the World Council of Churches is contending for.
I started to ask the Lord for prophets. After all, the Lord has not changed! If He called forth prophets in the past, why not today? The nations and the Church are so confused, the Lord has to call forth prophets. So, I prayed for a prophet for the Church and one for Israel.
The Lord assured me that He would give prophecy.
Half a year later, in the fall of 1968, the Lord, again in answer to my prayers, brought me into contact with the prophetic message of Rev. Leenhouts. In his books I found back all these subjects, but clearer and more extensively. I learned much from him.
When I present here a Bible study about the coming days then no doubt much influence can be found from his prophetic message. Specifically, this is the case when I touch on the book of Revelation. However, I must put this down in my own words and the way I understand it.
In hindsight, I notice that at that time the Lord did not draw my attention to His return. Apparently, the return of the Lord is not one of the first things we should look for in our days. Specifically, my attention was directed to everything that as yet has to be fulfilled before the Lord returns. Yes, Jesus will come back, that is certain. He said: Behold, I am coming soon.
But this ‘soon’ has already lasted for more than two thousand years. This should warn us that the Lord experiences time differently than we do. Measured in eternity, these two thousand years are but a few days.
When in our time the call goes forth that Jesus is about to return, we should not be tempted to lose sight of what must yet happen before He does come back.
With the expectation of the return of Jesus we should keep in mind several aspects to have a biblical view of the future.
We should not think too little of the holiness of Jesus, nor should we make light of the love of Jesus.
Furthermore, we also should not make light of the worthiness of Jesus’ death on the cross, nor expect too little of the power of His shed blood.
We must not separate Jesus from the Name YHWH!
We should without bias put to the test visions of the future against all biblical testimony.
A. Mettau-Ras, 1995
The holiness of Jesus
God is holy
Israel knew and experienced God as holy and to be feared, an awe-inspiring and dreadful God. The best way Israel could picture God was to compare Him to fire. He is as fire. For the Lord, your God, is a consuming fire, and a jealous God.
Dt. 4:24; Heb. 12:29.
This is how Israel experienced God. Now the appearance of the glory of the LORD was like a devouring fire on the top of the mountain in the sight of the people of Israel.
Ex. 24:17. God manifested Himself in the fire and spoke from out of the fire. Did any people ever hear the voice of a God speaking out of the midst of the fire, as you have heard, and still live?
Out of heaven he let you hear his voice, that he might discipline you. And on earth he let you see his great fire, and you heard his words out of the midst of the fire.
Dt. 4:33, 36. See also: Dt. 4:11, 12; Ex. 19:17-20 and Dt. 5:4, 22.
Israel feared God, stood in awe of Him and was afraid of His fire; Dt. 5:25; Dt. 18:15; Ex. 19:18, 19; Ex. 20:20.
Israel’s God is a holy God, the one and only God, incomparable and far above all other gods. He is a God who acts to save His people from the power of His enemies. This is what Moses sang when Israel came out of Egypt, Who is like you, O LORD, among the gods? Who is like you, majestic in holiness, awesome in glorious deeds, doing wonders?
And in Isa. 40:25 the Lord says: To whom then will you compare me, that I should be like him?
No one can see God and live (Ex. 33:20). That is why God hid Himself in the cloud for Israel’s protection, so they would not die