Luke 24:25-27 “Then he said upon them, O fools and so slow of heart to believe all that the prophets have spoken:  Ought not Christ to have suffered these things and to enter into his glory?  And beginning at Moses and all the prophets he expounded unto them in all scriptures the things concerning himself.

One of my Old Testament teachers told us that if he could ever be at any event in the past this walk with these two disciples and the Lord would be this event.  To hear the Lord expound upon all the scriptures relating to him from the writings of Moses and all the prophets would also make his heart burn within him as it would reveal all the scriptures about the Lord.  In Luke twenty-four verse forty-four the Lord again reinforces the scriptures by stating these are the words that I spoke unto you while I was yet with you, that all things must be fulfilled, which was written in the law of Moses, and in the prophets, and in the psalms, concerning me.  In second Peter chapter one verses fifteen through twenty-one Peter explains that even with his eyewitnesses of the Lord’s ministry and even his experience he shared with the Lord on the Mount of Transfiguration, we have the more sure word of prophecy to place our faith on the Lord.  These verses show how important it is to hide God’s Word in your heart to be the light unto my feet and a lamp unto my path as I go on our journey on this earth. 

With this knowledge of how important the writings of the Old Testament were in revealing the Lord to the world on His first coming how much more such we look to the scriptures for understanding His second coming.  Peter writes in his second epistle chapter three how he write these words to stir up your pure minds concerning the writings of the prophets as well as the commandment given to the apostles of the Lord concerning His second coming.  He warns us as believers that in the last days there will be a rejection of the return of the Lord.  But this is not the case for the day of the Lord will come as a thief in the night in which the heavens and earth will pass away with a great noise and the elements shall melt with fervent heat. 

Just as the scriptures were not really understood concerning the Lord’s first coming by the Jewish nation until their fulfillment by the Lord’s ministry, death, and resurrection; so are the scriptures concerning His second coming by the world today.  We need therefore to heed the warning of the Lord found in Matthew chapter twenty-four verse forty-four of being ready for His return, for we don’t know the hour of His return but it could come at any moment.