Monday, April 29, 2019

We read in Isaiah 5:26: "he will lift up an ensign to the nations from far, and will hiss unto them from the end of the earth: and, behold, they shall come with speed swiftly."

The Reformation Party in its current state is simply a human ensign or banner that looks in hope for what is described in the Westminster Larger Catechism's exposition of the second petition of the Lord's Prayer:

"In the second petition, (which is, Thy kingdom come,) acknowledging ourselves and all mankind to be by nature under the dominion of sin and Satan, we pray, that the kingdom of sin and Satan may be destroyed, the gospel propagated throughout the world, the Jews called, the fullness of the Gentiles brought in; the church furnished with all gospel-officers and ordinances, purged from corruption, countenanced and maintained by the civil magistrate: that the ordinances of Christ may be purely dispensed, and made effectual to the converting of those that are yet in their sins, and the confirming, comforting, and building up of those that are already converted: that Christ would rule in our hearts here, and hasten the time of his second coming, and our reigning with him forever: and that he would be pleased so to exercise the kingdom of his power in all the world, as may best conduce to these ends."

When it is God's time to raise this banner and blow upon it, it will swiftly be accomplished.  Blow He will, as described at http://www.historicism.net/aBrakel.htm .

But for now we live in "the day of small things."