The Visitation

The first visitation recorded occurred in Genesis 3, when God came to meet with Adam at the Tree of the Knowledge of Good and Evil.

It probably wasn’t the first time God visited Adam. Adam was responsible for preparing a sacrifice of worship.

Adam was hiding in the Garden because judgment had exposed his bad decision to eat the forbidden fruit.

The Visitation in the Days of Jesus

We know based on scripture that God came to earth. He came to the temple, and the leadership wasn’t ready to receive him.

John 1:1 “In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God.

John 1:2 “The same was in the beginning with God.”

John 1:3 “All things were made by him; and without him was not any thing made that was made.”

John 1:14 “And the Word was made flesh, and dwelt among us, (and we beheld his glory, the glory as of the only begotten of the Father,) full of grace and truth.”

In Luke 19:41-44, God had come to the temple to fulfill the covenant promises he had made to Abraham. But he weeps over Jerusalem because they missed the hour of their visitation.

He said, If they had known the things that belong to their peace! In other words there are things that accompany salvation. There were promises that are now hidden from them.

God is stretching out his hand in these final days

God so loved the world that he gave his only begotten Son that whosoever believeth on him shall not perish but have everlasting life.

God, the Word, who was with God, becomes the sacrifice. What he offers is his life as a sacrifice.

He commits the sacrifice into our hands in the form of communion. He tells us to eat his flesh and drink his blood. He gives bread and a cup as substitutes.

Life is an infinite power source. God breathed life into Adam in the beginning, as recorded in Genesis 2:7.

God is coming again to make a visitation; this time, he is coming to receive a people to himself. Jesus said, the Father seeks for those who worship in spirit and truth.

Will you be ready?