In the midst of human planning and expectation, God often intervenes with unexpected events and revelations. As seen in 2 Kings, even the most dire circumstances can be suddenly reversed by God's sovereign hand. The New Testament emphasizes the role of the Holy Spirit in guiding believers into unexpected truths, as Jesus promised in John 16:13. The book of Revelation, introduced in Revelation 1:1, unfolds a dramatic and unexpected apocalypse, punctuated by sudden judgments, such as that in Revelation 16:15. James 4:13-14 cautions against presumption, reminding us that our lives are but a vapor, subject to God's unpredictable will.
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Come now, you who say, “Today or tomorrow we will go to this or that city, spend a year there, carry on business, and make a profit.” You do not even know what will happen tomorrow! What is your life? You are a mist that appears for a little while and then vanishes.
However, when the Spirit of truth comes, He will guide you into all truth. For He will not speak on His own, but He will speak what He hears, and He will declare to you what is to come.
But the officer on whose arm the king leaned answered the man of God, “Look, even if the LORD were to make windows in heaven, could this really happen?” “You will see it with your own eyes,” replied Elisha, “but you will not eat any of it.”
“Behold, I am coming like a thief. Blessed is the one who remains awake and clothed, so that he will not go naked and let his shame be exposed.”
This is the revelation of Jesus Christ, which God gave Him to show His servants what must soon come to pass. He made it known by sending His angel to His servant John,
The Lord is not slow in keeping His promise as some understand slowness, but is patient with you, not wanting anyone to perish but everyone to come to repentance.
Remember, then, what you have received and heard. Keep it and repent. If you do not wake up, I will come like a thief, and you will not know the hour when I will come upon you.
Therefore keep watch, because you do not know the day on which your Lord will come. But understand this: If the homeowner had known in which watch of the night the thief was coming, he would have kept watch and would not have let his house be broken into. For this reason, you also must be ready, because the Son of Man will come at an hour you do not expect.
For God so loved the world that He gave His one and only Son, that everyone who believes in Him shall not perish but have eternal life. For God did not send His Son into the world to condemn the world, but to save the world through Him.
I have told you these things so that in Me you may have peace. In the world you will have tribulation. But take courage; I have overcome the world!”
For God so loved the world that He gave His one and only Son, that everyone who believes in Him shall not perish but have eternal life.
Above all, you must understand that no prophecy of Scripture comes from one’s own interpretation.
Do not avenge yourselves, beloved, but leave room for God’s wrath. For it is written: “Vengeance is Mine; I will repay, says the Lord.”
As soon as night had fallen, the brothers sent Paul and Silas away to Berea. On arriving there, they went into the Jewish synagogue. Now the Bereans were more noble-minded than the Thessalonians, for they received the message with great eagerness and examined the Scriptures every day to see if these teachings were true.
Jesus answered, “I am the way and the truth and the life. No one comes to the Father except through Me.
The voice spoke to him a second time: “Do not call anything impure that God has made clean.”