WHEN GOD GATHERS HIS JEWELS

Mala 3:14 - 4:2 Ye have said, It is vain to serve God: and what profit is it that we have kept his ordinance, and that we have walked mournfully before the LORD of hosts? And now we call the proud happy; yea, they that work wickedness are set up; yea, they that tempt God are even delivered. Then they that feared the LORD spake often one to another: and the LORD hearkened, and heard it, and a book of remembrance was written before him for them that feared the LORD, and that thought upon his name. And they shall be mine, saith the LORD of hosts, in that day when I make up my jewels; and I will spare them, as a man spareth his own son that serveth him. Then shall ye return, and discern between the righteous and the wicked, between him that serveth God and him that serveth him not. For, behold, the day cometh, that shall burn as an oven; and all the proud, yea, and all that do wickedly, shall be stubble: and the day that cometh shall burn them up, saith the LORD of hosts, that it shall leave them neither root nor branch. But unto you that fear my name shall the Sun of righteousness arise with healing in his wings; and ye shall go forth, and grow up as calves of the stall.

Roma 2:6-10 Who will render to every man according to his deeds: To them who by patient continuance in well doing seek for glory and honour and immortality, eternal life: But unto them that are contentious, and do not obey the truth, but obey unrighteousness, indignation and wrath, Tribulation and anguish, upon every soul of man that doeth evil, of the Jew first, and also of the Gentile; But glory, honour, and peace, to every man that worketh good, to the Jew first, and also to the Gentile:

God has called us to glory
-this is our purpose and the Church's inheritance.

1 Peter 5:10 But the God of all grace, who hath called us unto his eternal glory by Christ Jesus, after that ye have suffered a while, make you perfect, stablish, strengthen, settle you.

• I answered and told him that there is more than this life.
• I want to ensure my eternity.
• Things do not appear easy sometimes in the present.
• But one day something great is going to happen.

• Those who are crooked seem to get by with it.

Eccl 8:11 Because sentence against an evil work is not executed speedily, therefore the heart of the sons of men is fully set in them to do evil.

Though it appears the evil always get by and the good doers seem to not be noticed and continue on anyhow.... God sees and writes it in a book of remembrance.

• They shall be God's.
• Malachi said they are being noticed.
• One day all the universe will behold those who stepped out and did right.
• God will gather His jewels soon.

1Cor 3:11-15 For other foundation can no man lay than that is laid, which is Jesus Christ. Now if any man build upon this foundation gold, silver, precious stones, wood, hay, stubble; Every man's work shall be made manifest: for the day shall declare it, because it shall be revealed by fire; and the fire shall try every man's work of what sort it is. If any man's work abide which he hath built thereupon, he shall receive a reward. If any man's work shall be burned, he shall suffer loss: but he himself shall be saved; yet so as by fire.

One day it will be revealed.

• The sufferings of this present time are not worthy to be compared with the glory which shall be revealed (Ro. 8:18).
• There is a great day of revelation come.
• A great revealing to come.
• Many things will be revealed then.
• The true hearted believers as well as the hypocrite.
• The real and the fake.

1Pet 4:12-3 Beloved, think it not strange concerning the fiery trial which is to try you, as though some strange thing happened unto you: But rejoice, inasmuch as ye are partakers of Christ's sufferings; that, when his glory shall be revealed, ye may be glad also with exceeding joy.

• God made us from the clay of the earth.
• And He is changing us at this time into the jewels he shall one day gather.

A day of revealing will occur.

• Fiery trials today only REFINE the gold.
• They PURGE the jewels to make them from chunks of coal into diamonds.

• But the righteous shall rejoice!!

1Pet 5:1 The elders which are among you I exhort, who am also an elder, and a witness of the sufferings of Christ, and also a partaker of the glory that shall be revealed:

God is soon going to gather together all things in heaven and in earth in Christ.

GATHERING

Gene 49:10 The sceptre shall not depart from Judah, nor a lawgiver from between his feet, until Shiloh come; and unto him shall the gathering of the people be.

Matt 25:32 And before him shall be gathered all nations: and he shall separate them one from another, as a shepherd divideth his sheep from the goats:

Phil 2:9-10 Wherefore God also hath highly exalted him, and given him a name which is above every name: That at the name of Jesus every knee should bow, of things in heaven, and things in earth, and things under the earth;

Colo 1:20 And, having made peace through the blood of his cross, by him to reconcile all things unto himself; by him, I say, whether they be things in earth, or things in heaven.

Ephe 1:10 That in the dispensation of the fulness of times he might gather together in one all things in Christ, both which are in heaven, and which are on earth; even in him:

At the fullness of times

• When God thinks sufficient time has been given to earth and mankind to see all choose to serve Him or not serve Him, this gathering will occur.
• We need to be serious about being one of those jewels.
• We need to see what makes us one of those jewels.

WE ARE THE JEWELS

Exod 19:5 Now therefore, if ye will obey my voice indeed, and keep my covenant, then ye shall be a peculiar treasure unto me above all people: for all the earth is mine:

Deut 7:6 For thou art an holy people unto the LORD thy God: the LORD thy God hath chosen thee to be a special people unto himself, above all people that are upon the face of the earth.

Isai 62:3-4 Thou shall also be a crown of glory in the hand of the LORD, and a royal diadem in the hand of thy God. Thou shalt no more be termed Forsaken; neither shall thy land any more be termed Desolate: but thou shalt be called Hephzibah "my delight is in her", and thy land Beulah "married wife": for the LORD delighteth in thee, and thy land shall be married.

So we see that those who love God's word will be those jewels.

The rest will be burned away as chaff and the jewels will remain.

• This morning we mentioned that there will be a shaking and all will be shaken that can be shaken.
• Only those in the Kingdom which cannot be removed will remain standing.
• In Exodus, God told the Israelites to SPOIL the Egyptians.
• They spoiled the gold and silver and jewels.
• And later in the story we read where they melted these things down and made golden plating for the Tabernacle.
• They made the ark of the covenant and covered it with this gold.
• Silver spoons were made for the sacrifices.

Colo 2:13 And you, being dead in your sins and the uncircumcision of your flesh, hath he quickened together with him, having forgiven you all trespasses;

Colo 2:15 And having spoiled principalities and powers, he made a shew of them openly, triumphing over them in it.

• And we were taken and lovingly placed within the TABERNACLE, or the BODY OF CHRIST, the CHURCH
• He forgives us and steals us from the devil and makes us His temple.

One day He will come to take His jewels home

• He will gather together his jewels.

• But God looks at us like HIS TEMPLE!!!

THE TIME OF GATHERING WILL REVEAL MANY THINGS

2The 2:1-3 Now we beseech you, brethren, by the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ, and by our gathering together unto him, That ye be not soon shaken in mind, or be troubled, neither by spirit, nor by word, nor by letter as from us, as that the day of Christ is at hand. Let no man deceive you by any means: for that day shall not come, except there come a falling away first, and that man of sin be revealed, the son of perdition;

• The day of CHRIST is when He is all in all.
• When we are gathered to Christ, there will first come a falling away.
• The wicked will be revealed.
• The man of sin will be revealed.
• Right now he is hidden... he is not exposed.
• That is why Paul said do not let anyone deceive you.
• He is out there.
• The man of sin.
• He is hidden and deceives.
• If he was revealed he could not deceive for all would know what he is up to.

2The 2:6-7 And now ye know what withholdeth that he might be revealed in his time. For the mystery of iniquity doth already work: only he who now letteth will let, until he be taken out of the way.

• IT IS A MYSTERY OF INIQUITY because it is hidden.
• He hides.
• He exalts himself above God.
• He is a spirit.
• But his day is coming.
• But when the time is right for God to shake all things, then he shall be revealed.

2The 2:8-10 And then shall that Wicked be revealed, whom the Lord shall consume with the spirit of his mouth, and shall destroy with the brightness of his coming: Even him, whose coming is after the working of Satan with all power and signs and lying wonders, And with all deceivableness of unrighteousness in them that perish; because they received not the love of the truth, that they might be saved.

• And here we see what Paul wants us to know.
• Here we see how to be a jewel of God and not a follower of this sin.
• We must LOVE THE TRUTH.
• Those who do not really love truth will be attracted to this man of sin like a magnet.
• And when that day of gathering comes, THE wicked will be revealed.
• Malachi said when God gathers His jewels, THEN shall you discern the righteous form the wicked.

Matt 7:21-23 Not every one that saith unto me, Lord, Lord, shall enter into the kingdom of heaven; but he that doeth the will of my Father which is in heaven. Many will say to me in that day, Lord, Lord, have we not prophesied in thy name? and in thy name have cast out devils? and in thy name done many wonderful works? And then will I profess unto them, I never knew you: depart from me, ye that work iniquity.

• Jesus is the WORD made flesh - way, truth, life.
• We must love the TRUTH - KNOW JESUS.
• KNOW means LOVE.
• And he said the ones who DO THESE SAYINGS OF MINE will be like wise men who built a house on a rock.
• The winds cannot blow it down.
• The day of falling away shows the fool's house fall while the wise house stood.

• The jewels withstand the fire, while the stubble burns away.

• Over and again this same picture is seen.

Reve 14:1 And I looked, and, lo, a Lamb stood on the mount Sion, and with him an hundred forty and four thousand, having his Father's name written in their foreheads.

Reve 14:8 And there followed another angel, saying, Babylon is fallen, is fallen, that great city, because she made all nations drink of the wine of the wrath of her fornication.

We must love the truth.

We must DO something about our faith.

• Jesus said those who DO these sayings of mine.
• We are being made into jewels.
• If we love Jesus enoygh, we will obey Him when He said, "He that believeth and is baptized shall be saved".
• If we love Jesus enough, we will obey His ordained apostles, like Peter, who said, "Repent, and be baptized every one of you in the name of Jesus Christ for the remission of sins, and ye shall receive the gift of the Holy Ghost." (Acts 2:38).
• We will love Him more than we are concerned that friends mock us.
• We will love Him more than this world.

• We need to have that love.

• Not only will the wicked be revealed, but Malachi said that at the time of gathering the righteous will be revealed.
• The jewels will have been refined and completed.

THE BRIDE REVEALED

Reve 21:1-3 And I saw a new heaven and a new earth: for the first heaven and the first earth were passed away; and there was no more sea. And I John saw the holy city, new Jerusalem, coming down from God out of heaven, prepared as a bride adorned for her husband. And I heard a great voice out of heaven saying, Behold, the tabernacle of God is with men, and he will dwell with them, and they shall be his people, and God himself shall be with them, and be their God.

• Christ's Bride is going to have a new home like no othe rgroom ever made for His bride to be!
• It will be showcased in a new heaven and a new earth.
• And John saw the BRIDE IN GLORY descend.
• And a voice said this is the Tabernacle of God.
• The JEWELS spoiled from the Egyptians formed the Tabernacle.
• We are the Tabernacle.
• Together, all of the jewels comprise the CITY and the TABERNACLE.
• God cleans us out of the worst sins and makes us sparkling jewels.
• John never saw anything so beautiful.

Reve 21:18-21 And the building of the wall of it was of jasper: and the city was pure gold, like unto clear glass. And the foundations of the wall of the city were garnished with all manner of precious stones. The first foundation was jasper; the second, sapphire; the third, a chalcedony; the fourth, an emerald; The fifth, sardonyx; the sixth, sardius; the seventh, chrysolite; the eighth, beryl; the ninth, a topaz; the tenth, a chrysoprasus; the eleventh, a jacinth; the twelfth, an amethyst. And the twelve gates were twelve pearls; every several gate was of one pearl: and the street of the city was pure gold, as it were transparent glass.

• Where will you be?
• We will all comprise the Bride, but we will be a jewel in it.

Reve 22:20 He which testifieth these things saith, Surely I come quickly. Amen. Even so, come, Lord Jesus.

"Because I saw the beautiful CITY , the CHURCH, in all her glory. I saw all the jewels gathered. I want Him to come and gather His jewels!!!!"

Acts 2:38 Then Peter said unto them, Repent, and be baptized every one of you in the name of Jesus Christ for the remission of sins, and ye shall receive the gift of the Holy Ghost.