AUGUST 7

GO NOT A-CHASING

“Wherefore if they shall say unto you, Behold, He is in the desert; go not forth: behold, He is in the secret chambers; believe it not. – For wheresoever the carcass is, there will the eagles (Greek, vultures) be gathered together.” (Matt. 24:26,28)

In the 27th verse, tucked in between these two verses just given, Jesus gave a clear explanation of His own coming. “For as the lightning cometh out of the east, and shineth even unto the west; so shall the coming of the Son of man be.” He would not come sneaking in from the desert, nor hiding in the secret chamber, but as the brilliancy of the lightning, which illuminates everything to be seen as it really is, He shall uncover every secret thing, and be revealed in the power and glory of His kingdom. We are not children of the night, we are of the day, and even His coming unto us shall be as the LIGHT.

But while Jesus inserted this qualifying explanation of His own coming into this passage, He was teaching us of the coming of the deceivers, those false christs, who would come claming to be the “anointed of God,” for that is what the word “christ” really means. It is true that HE IS ANOINTING HIS OWN WITH THE SAME SPIRIT OF WHICH HE IS, yet these false ones, psuedo-christs, make their own claims about themselves, and “he that speaketh of himself seeketh his own glory.” (John 7:18). Go not out into the desert to see them, go not into the secret chambers to see them, because wheresoever the carcass is, there are the vultures gathered together.

Vultures feed upon dead bodies, dead flesh. Eagles do not feed upon rotting flesh, they require fresh meat. If you go chasing out with the vultures you will only partake of the death realm. “IN HIM is life, and His life is the light of men.” (John 1:4).

Others shall say, “go here,” and “go there,”
Wandering souls in deserts quite bare.
Feeding on flesh as vultures that glean,
Turning again to ways that demean.
“Go ye not forth,” the Master did say,
Eagles await the dawn of His day.

Ray Prinzing