Team Daily Devotions for September 2024
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Monday, September 30
The Coming Kingdom
For the earth shall be full of the knowledge of the Lord as the waters cover the sea.
Isaiah 11:9
What’s ahead for earth? Perhaps your first thoughts are the Rapture and the Tribulation. Let’s start thinking about the thousand-year reign of Christ, which begins when He returns at the end of the Tribulation.
Bible Reading:
Isaiah 2:1-5
Isaiah anticipated this period throughout his book.
In chapter 2, he said many people will say to one another, “Come, and let us go up to the mountain of the Lord…He will teach us His ways,” and the nations “shall beat their swords into plowshares” (verses 3-4).
He also avows that Jesus will reign on the throne of David (9:7), and even nature will be changed: “The wolf also shall dwell with the lamb” (11:6).
And so much more!
One day the earth will be as it should be! The future reign of Christ on earth—followed by eternity in the new heavens, the new earth, and New Jerusalem—is what we need to keep our hearts hopeful today. We can rejoice in our future!
In Jesus Christ we have been chosen from eternity, accepted in time, and united for eternity. Dietrich Bonhoeffer0
