THE RAPTURE AND THE DAY

THE RAPTURE AND THE DAY

I like your reference to David. It sets forth the joy we should look for when Christ gets His right place here. The rapture is the first wave of His power. He thinks first of His own. They enjoy the first fruits of His coming, but the bride would not only look for her own joy of being with Him, but, as in concert with His concerns (which no one but a wife could be), she looks for Him as the King, the Root and Offspring of David, as well as the morning Star. The morning Star is the rapture — the harbinger of the day. In natural things when the morning star is seen it is a sure indication that the day is at hand. I can understand an individual saint looking only for the rapture, but the bride must also look for the day when her Lord will get His rights.

I was thankful for my time at ————. Kindest love to the little remnant, and say to them — We ought to be like a ^[p. 178] moral life-boat, seeking to save every one we can out of the wreck around us.

The Spirit and the bride say, “Come”; the end or the remnant return to the best trait at the beginning, which is a heart devoted to Christ personally. Ephesus, with all its light, left its first love, because they turned to earth instead of to the place where He is. Which would you prefer, a portrait of a person or of the place where the person is? Your heart is necessarily in the place where your treasure is. The love cannot be renewed unless you go in spirit to the place where He is, and then you are not asking to go to heaven, but that He would come and receive you unto Himself.