Yes, it’s true. Ever since Jesus Christ entered the Most Holy Place of the heavenly sanctuary in 1844, knowledge here on earth has rapidly increased. Among the greatest leaps in technological advancement have been those in the realm of communication. Communication in everyday life has been tremendously facilitated through telephone, telegraph, facsimile, cell phone, and e-mail. All of these inventions have become crucial to successful business in the civilized world, especially as they go hand-in-hand with the constant need to travel.

Some key matters to be communicated may include meeting someone’s arrival at an airport or preparing for some significant event. Yet such are but faint examples of the greatest, most solemn message that urgently needs to be conveyed in these hectic days: Prepare for the close of probation and get ready to meet the soon arrival of Jesus Christ in the clouds of glory! God has given us “text messages” about this in His word - the Holy Bible.

“Christ is spoken of as walking in the midst of the golden candlesticks. Thus is symbolized His relation to the churches. He is in constant communication with His people. He knows their true state. He observes their order, their piety, their devotion. Although He is high priest and mediator in the sanctuary above, yet He is represented as walking up and down in the midst of His churches on the earth. With untiring wakefulness and unremitting vigilance, He watches to see whether the light of any of His sentinels is burning dim or going out.”1

Landline telephone communication is sometimes hindered by static. Likewise in the spiritual realm, Lot, the nephew of Abraham, encountered a breakdown of his communication with heaven when his wife became too busy focusing earthward. The same danger exists today.

More recent technology also has its pitfalls. Sometimes when talking on a cell phone, we need to stop and remain in one place to avoid losing connection. We have to pause in order to stay in tune with the signal coming from the satellite in the sky.

Again, likewise in the spiritual realm, there is a powerful signal coming from the sky - actually from the third Heaven where Christ is. Often we need to stop running around in order to stay tuned with it. Then when we get the full message from Him, we are duty-bound to communicate it also to others.

Addressing a son in the faith, the apostle Paul desired “that the communication of thy faith may become effectual by the acknowledging of every good thing which is in you in Christ Jesus” (Philemon 6). Peter urges us to have your “conversation honest among the Gentiles: that whereas they speak against you as evildoers, they may by your good works, which they shall behold, glorify God in the day of visitation” (1 Peter 2:12).

“God expects those who bear the name of Christ to represent Him. . . . They are to be a sanctified, purified, holy people, communicating light to all with whom they come in contact.”2

It may often involve travel or inconvenience, yet “there is missionary work to be done in many unpromising places. The missionary spirit needs to take hold of our souls, inspiring us to reach classes for whom we had not planned to labor and in ways and places that we had no idea of working. The Lord has His plan for the sowing of the gospel seed. In sowing according to His will, we shall so multiply the seed that His word may reach thousands who have never heard the truth.

“Thousands upon thousands, and ten thousand times ten thousand angels are waiting to cooperate with members of our churches in communicating the light that God has generously given, that a people may be prepared for the coming of Christ.”3 What more advanced - more gratifying - form of communication can exist? And what a privilege it provides!