The Last Chapter

Ephesians 1:13-14    In Him you also trusted, after you heard the word of truth, the gospel of your salvation; in whom also, having believed, you were sealed with the Holy Spirit of promise, 14 who is the guarantee of our inheritance until the redemption of the purchased possession, to the praise of His glory.

Ephesians 1 leading up to this passage is packed full of the sovereignty of God with big words like predestination, adoption, dispensation, mystery, and the list could go on. In those passages is wrapped up God’s plan for humanity lost in sin, and the saving power of the Gospel of Salvation by his Son at the cross. There is so much packed into those passages, you must just simply take your time to read them. After those passages, the author Paul writes and prays for the readers to have spiritual wisdom; for God to grant the readers understanding. He knows his writings connected by the “Therefore”(vs.13) are weighty and powerful. This is not a passage in the Bible to be skimmed over; one needs God to open our minds to these truths.

Ephesians 1:3 Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who has blessed us with every spiritual blessing in the heavenly places in Christ, 4 just as He chose us in Him before the foundation of the world, that we should be holy and without blame before Him in love, 5 having predestined us to adoption as sons by Jesus Christ to Himself, according to the good pleasure of His will, 6 to the praise of the glory of His grace, by which He made us accepted in the Beloved. 7 In Him we have redemption through His blood, the forgiveness of sins, according to the riches of His grace 8 which He made to abound toward us in all wisdom and prudence, 9 having made known to us the mystery of His will, according to His good pleasure which He purposed in Himself, 10 that in the dispensation of the fullness of the times He might gather together in one all things in Christ, both which are in heaven and which are on earth–in Him. 11 In Him also we have obtained an inheritance, being predestined according to the purpose of Him who works all things according to the counsel of His will, 12 that we who first trusted in Christ should be to the praise of His glory.

The Bible is not a book to be read to get finished and see how it ends. The book of Revelations is a book of the prophecy of the end of time, yet as a believer in Christ, all the world will suffer will not matter if you believe in Him and the rapture of the saints whom are His disciples. Slow down and read the Bible word for word. When you get perplexed, begin to truly study His Word. He will reveal the truths found in it to a heart that is ready for it. The more time you spend daily in this study and prayer, the more He reveals to you. The Holy Spirit that comes to live inside of you found in that promise of verse 13, is who opens the truths of God to you. Without Him, the Bible is just another book you speed through to get to finish and see how it ends. Without Him, you will not like the last chapter.