Assonbly of Ged. 24th December 1978 PRAYER BULLETIN - No.12a Dear Prayer Partners, "Someone is coming! Someone is coming", tais was the word that was passing round the Temple at Jerusalem about ‘the year AD 1. Old Simeon and Anna were excitedly discussing this wonder among their friends (Luke 1.25-38). It was almost time. The Scriptures predicted the coming of the Messiah; the time~table as set out in Daniel's Prophecy (Chapt 9) made it clear that the time was near! 4nd then He cane! Hallelujah! You know the Christmas etory - a Babe in a manger at Bethichen! He came - and according to plan (Gal 4.4) “But when the fulness of the time was come, God sent forth Hie Son, made of a women, made under the Law, to redeam then that were under the Law, that we might receive the adoption of sons”. Hie coming vas all pre-arranged by God - even to the very place & hour, A-little time ago, I knelt, in Jerusalem, at the place where, they say, the crib once stood ~'and I worshipped! However, we do not stop to adore a helpless Babe in = manger, but rather the Man who died on the Cross, rose fron the dead and Who io now at the right hand of the Majesty on high. his ie the Christ which the world needs! He alone can effectively deal with its sin problem. "Oh, Plato, Plato,"cried Socrates, "I knowGed can forgive sins, but I do not know HOW!" Yes, that ie the quest- ion. Man's ingennity has been marvellous in the realms of science, discovery, etc., but it has found no way by which man can escape sin's Power to weaken, deprave, debauch, and dam the soul. BUT AN ANSWER HAS BEEN FOUND!'*Hiis name shall be called Jesus for He shall eave His People from their sins". (Matt 1.21). God's great Gift was not merely a Babe in a manger, but the Man who died on the Cross that we might have our sine forgiven and live forever! His first coming brought light to the lost, life to the perishing, comfort to those who mourned, joy to those who waited in hope. But, alas, it brought only sorrow’and darkness to those who rejected God's marvellous Caristmas Gift! As the first coming of our Lord wes according to God's pre-arranged plan, even so will His second coming be. (Hed 10.37) "Nor yet a little waile and He that shall come will cone, and will not tarzy". There are many signs today that indicate the noar approach of His Second Advent. Oh, What a joy and glory that coming will be to those who are ready to meet Him! But what edness it will bring to those who have rejected His clains, and refused Eis grace! Someone’ is coming! Yes, Gomeone is coming again! Millions of believ- ing hearte throughout the world are waiepering it to one another excitedly! "Jesus is coming again!" The aigne are all around us — Hallelujah! But the central sign of all signs - is the retum of Joreel to the land of Palestine. It is the great outstanding wonder! (Luke 21.29-30) "Behold the Pig Tree and all the trees, when they ow shoot forth, you see and know of your own selves thet summer is nigh at hand. So likewise ye, when ye see these things come to pass kmow that the Kingdon Of God’is nigh at hand". The Pig Tree (Israel) is moving with life! Sné has nationalised after 2000 years of hibernation! Jerusalem is no longer "trodden down of the Gentiles" (Iuke 21.24). The same is true of all the "trees" - the netions. Never in history has so many nations nationalised in so short 2 time. The revived Roman eupire ia evolving rigat now (3.3.C) Brethren! Israel's return to the land means the dispersion is at am end, and the Church of Jesus Christ is almost completed! "Oh, it mast be the breaking of the day". The hour ie late - if ever all the means of grace should be used with all diligence IT 19 NOW! More self-examinstion, more separation and holiness, mure intercession for the lust, more gathering together for prayer and the ministry of the Word(Hed 10.25), more witnessing, more participation in Missionary endeavour! "Little Children, It ie the last time!” SOMBONE IS COMING! Hallelujah - Someone ie coming!!! Glory!!!