2 Chronicles 29:1-36; Ezekiel 45:1-25; John 20:19-31
But lift thou up thy rod, and stretch out thine hand over the sea, and divide it: and the children of Israel shall go on dry ground through the midst of the sea. Exodus 14:16
The Lord, through Moses, made a passage for His people through the Red Sea, illustrating our salvation. The Lord also made a passage through the Jordan River (Josh. 4:17), illustrating our sanctification. Some day the Lord will make a passage through the air for His people (1 Thess. 4:17), illustrating our future glorification. From beginning to end it is all His blessed work. Are you living in the expectation of that great passage though the air? —W. Ross Rainey
Soon the “trump of God” will call us, soon we’ll meet Him in the air,
He, the altogether lovely, and the fairest of the fair. —J. Booth