Silence

 Greetings to you all in the name of the Lord Jesus Christ,

     Acts 1:7-8 says, “ And he said unto them, It is not for you to know the times or the seasons, which the Father hath put in his own power.  But ye shall receive power, after that the Holy Ghost is come upon you: and ye shall be witnesses unto me both in Jerusalem, and in all Judaea, and in Samaria, and unto the uttermost part of the earth.”

     Silence doesn’t mean that no one is at home.  Most of the time there is a lot of noise in ones life.  My Mom would always have t he JTV on either the food channel or the Chicago Cubs. That didn’t mean she was watching it, but that it was just on.  It seems as if noise, no matter what it was, would provide satisfaction for her.   There are times with some people, where they say very little and when the time is appropriate, they speak. 

     There are some times in the Bible when God is silent. One of those periods was from the Book of Malachi to the coming of the Lord Jesus Christ to be born of a virgin in Bethlehem.  The years from Malachi to Christ, number about 400 years.A lot was going on in the world during those times.  The Greeks had come into power and then the mighty Roman army marched in and conquered the world.  Galatians 4:4 reminds us that Christ was born int he fulness of times and it was in exactly the right  moment as prophesied by Daniel.  The testimony of the Wise men gave evidence of that.  Of course the greatest event in the history of the church was about to take place in the resurrection of Christ from the tomb.  It is because of that empty tomb and only because of it, that the church exist, or that Christianity exists , or that we have a New Testament, or song books, or churches on every street corner.  The Lord Jesus Christ walked around after the resurrection for a total of forty days.  His last words are the passage above.  “But ye shall receive power…”  That power would come ten days later at Pentecost when the Holy Spirit, the Other Comforter would come into the lives of every believer.  The words of above are a record of God’s last words that He has spoken.  He later  spoke to us by moving holy men to write the Word of God in what we call the New Testament.  That is how He speaks to us today.  Does that mean that God is not here because we do no hear His voice audibly?  Certainly not.  The existence of our planet is evidence of God Himself.  God has not spoken audibly, but He has given us His Word.  The next sound that we will hear coming from heaven is the sound of a trumpet announcing the calling up of the believers as in First Thessalonians chapter four.  The signs are gathering all around us  and prophecies are almost complete.  Some say t ht  silence is golden but I say the sound of the trumpet  in t he coming  day will be golden.  Praise God today for His soon coming.