Will FATHER be well pleased with us as HE shakes the world kingdoms?
Will you be found occupying or be preoccupied with the harpazo?
Jesus speaks in Luke chapter 19:
11 Now as they heard these things, Jesus spoke another parable, because He was near Jerusalem and because they thought the Kingdom of God would appear immediately.
12 Therefore He said: “A certain Nobleman went into a far country to receive for Himself a Kingdom and to return.
13 So He called ten of his servants, delivered to them ten minas, and said to them, ‘Do business till I come.’
Or as the KJV version says, “Occupy till I come.”
14 But his citizens hated Him, and sent a delegation after Him, saying, ‘We will not have this man to reign over us.’
15 “And so it was that when He returned, having received the Kingdom, He then commanded these servants, to whom He had given the money, to be called to Him, that He might know how much every man had gained by trading.
16 Then came the first, saying, ‘Master, Your mina has earned ten minas.’
17 And He said to him, ‘Well done, good servant; because you were faithful in a very little, have authority over ten cities.’
18 And the second came, saying, ‘Master, Your mina has earned five minas.’
19 Likewise He said to him, ‘You also be over five cities.’
20 “Then another came, saying, ‘Master, here is Your mina, which I have kept put away in a handkerchief.
21 For I feared You, because you are an austere man. You collect what you did not deposit, and reap what you did not sow.’
22 And he said to him, ‘Out of your own mouth I will judge you, you wicked servant. You knew that I was an austere man, collecting what I did not deposit and reaping what I did not sow.
23 Why then did you not put my money in the bank, that at my coming I might have collected it with interest?’
24 “And he said to those who stood by, ‘Take the mina from him, and give it to him who has ten minas.’
25 (But they said to Him, ‘Master, he has ten minas.’)
26 ‘For I say to you, that to everyone who has will be given; and from him who does not have, even what he has will be taken away from him.
27 But bring here those enemies of mine, who did not want me to reign over them, and slay them before me.'”
By all accounts, the shaking has begun around the globe.
Paul wrote by The Holy Spirit in Hebrews 12:
25 See that you do not refuse Him Who speaks. For if they did not escape who refused Him Who spoke on earth, much more shall we not escape if we turn away from Him who speaks from Heaven,
26 Whose Voice then shook the earth; but now He has promised, saying, “Yet once more I shake not only the earth, but also heaven.”
27 Now this, “Yet once more,” indicates the removal of those things that are being shaken, as of things that are made, that the things which cannot be shaken may remain.
28 Therefore, since we are receiving a Kingdom which cannot be shaken, let us have grace, by which we may serve God acceptably with reverence and Godly fear.
29 For our God is a Consuming Fire.
A promise is by nature positive whereas a judgment is negative.
Paul wrote by The Holy Spirit in Colossians chapter 1:
15 He is the Image of the invisible God, the Firstborn over all creation.
16 For by Him all things were created that are in Heaven and that are on earth, visible and invisible, whether thrones or dominions or principalities or powers. All things were created through Him and for Him.
17 And He is before all things, and in Him all things consist.
18 And He is the Head of the Body, the church, Who is the beginning, the Firstborn from the dead, that in all things He may have the preeminence.
19 For it pleased the Father that in Him all the fullness should dwell,
20 and by Him to reconcile all things to Himself, by Him, whether things on earth or things in heaven, having made peace through the Blood of His cross.
His Kingdom is above all present kingdoms of the world. Therefore, those kingdoms will ultimately submit to His Kingdom one way or another. Kingdoms which are not His, will fall since they were built on wood, hay, and stubble.
Jesus further spoke in Luke chapter 21:
25 “And there will be signs in the sun, in the moon, and in the stars; and on the earth distress of nations, with perplexity, the sea and the waves roaring;
26 men’s hearts failing them from fear and the expectation of those things which are coming on the earth, for the powers of the heavens will be shaken.
27 Then they will see the Son of Man coming in a cloud with power and great glory.
28 Now when these things begin to happen, look up and lift up your heads, because your redemption draws near.”
Don’t be scared, be prepared! This shaking is a promise and those of us who built our foundations on The Rock will weather such shaking.