IN THE MORNING... Christ comes to judge and save.
Jonathan Edwards has a profound meditation on Genesis 19:24 - when God the Son brings down judgement on earth from His Father in the heavens.
Many of us focus only on the two LORDs working together on earth and in heaven - but Jonathan Edwards also makes much of the fact that this happens at dawn - as the sun was rising - IN THE MORNING
"Gen. 19:23, 24, "The sun was risen upon the earth when Lot entered into Zoar. Then the LORD rained upon Sodom and upon Gomorrah brimstone and fire from the LORD out of heaven."
This signified that the terrible destruction of the wicked is at the beginning of the glorious day wherein the Sun of righteousness rises on the earth...
So it was in the days of Constantine
and so it will be at the fall of Antichrist;
and so it will be at the end of the world.
Job 38:12-13 - "Have you commanded the morning or assigned the dawn its place, that it might spread to the ends of the earth and shake the wicked out of it?"
So Dagon fell once and again before the ark early IN THE MORNING.
So after the disciples had toiled all night and caught nothing, yet IN THE MORNING Christ came to them, and they had a great draught of fishes.
So Christ rose from the dead early IN THE MORNING.
It is said concerning God's church, that "weeping may continue for a night, but joy will come IN THE MORNING."
The children of Israel were all night pursued by their enemies at the Red sea; in the night they were in the sea, in a great and terrible east wind, but IN THE MORNING watch the Lord looked through the pillar of cloud and fire, and troubled the hosts of the Egyptians; and IN THE MORNING the children of Israel came up out of the sea, and the host of the Egyptians was destroyed, and the children of Israel rejoiced and sang.
Jacob, after wrestling with the Angel in the night, obtained the blessing IN THE MORNING.
"He that rules over humanity is like the light IN THE MORNING at sunrise on a cloudless morning, like the brightness after rain that brings grass from the earth."
2 Samuel 23:4.
Psalms 49:14, "The upright shall rule over them IN THE MORNING."
IN THE MORNING, when the Sun of righteousness shall rise with healing in his wings, the day comes that shall burn as an oven (as that day burnt in which Lot entered into Zoar), and all the proud, yea, all that do wickedly, shall be stubble, and the righteous shall tread down the wicked, and they shall be as ashes under the soles of their feet." Malachi 4, at the beginning.
The church in the 59th Psalm, after expressing her great troubles from her enemies, and declaring how God should destroy them, says, verse Psalms 59:16, "But I will sing of thy power; yea, I will sing aloud of thy mercy IN THE MORNING, for thou hast been my defence and refuge in the day of my trouble."
So likewise the church, in speaking of her troubles, in Psalms 143:8, "Cause me to hear thy loving-kindness IN THE MORNING, for in thee do I trust; cause me to know the way wherein I should walk, for I lift up my soul unto thee."
It is said of the church, Psalms 46:5, "God is in the midst of her, she shall not be moved; God shall help her, IN THE MORNING."
Hosea 6:1-3, "Come, let us return to the LORD.
For He has torn us to pieces,
but He will heal us;
He has wounded us,
but He will bind up our wounds.
After two days He will revive us;
on the third day He will raise us up,
that we may live in His presence.
So let us press on to know the LORD.
As surely as the sun rises, IN THE MORNING
He will appear;
He will come to us like the rain,
like the spring showers that water the earth."