The following was written and posted on several sites on a very disappointing anniversary one year ago today:
Tuesday, 22nd October, 2019
It was on a Tuesday, 175 years ago, that the Great Antitypical Day of Atonement commenced. Unfortunately, we have had to “remain here in this world because of insubordination many more years”. Our great High Priest desires to continually abide in us, so that we will live just as He lived while on this earth; speaking only His words, allowing Him to work His works in and through us, and going only where He instructs us to go.
In this Day of Atonement we are to be finished with sin forever; we are to cease from our works; we are to keep the fast of self denial that He has chosen. It is also a true sabbath of rest in Him, of which the weekly Sabbath is a constant reminder. (With this in mind, please read carefully Isaiah 58, the chapter that our prophet was specifically Instructed to refer us to.) Let us no longer keep our precious Saviour “waiting with longing desire for the manifestation of Himself in His church. When the character of Christ shall be perfectly reproduced in His people, then He will come to claim them as His own.” It is our “privilege...not only to look for but to hasten” this beautiful outcome.
Are we this day, with His faith, rejoicing in “everlasting righteousness” and keeping our garment spotless? Are we today, with His mind, each moment capturing every thought, gaining “eternal victories” over self, as He works in us “both to will and to do of His good pleasure” – His holy people?
Our Beloved twice owns each one of us – “by creation and redemption”. He gave everything and “He has bought us and our sins” and “He shall save His people from their sins.” So, “Let us go up at once, and possess it; for we are well able to overcome it.” For “He is able”; and we have “judged Him faithful who had promised.” We believe that everything He has said He will do! In love and gratitude let us no longer hold back, but willingly give Him all, waiting on Him continually, ready for the sealing and our destiny at this time – His Bride.
175 years – a very solemn anniversary.
Now it has been 176 years!
