Rapture or Second Coming

Have you noticed lately what is going on in the world around us? I mean, we have all these little and some bigger wars going on. Weather patterns that are bizzare and sometimes killer. I mean has it been ultra hot here lately or what. And what about the tidal wave thing, man that killed some people now! People are dying from all kinds of diseases, kids are revolting against their parents and even some homes have parents abusing their own children!! See all these things are scripural, the Bible talks of these things when Jesus us teaching about His return. You can find the stories in Matthew and Luke. See the truth is Jesus will come again for each of us. Many of us default to the rapture as Christ's second coming and this is true, however when Jesus instructs on His return He doesn't limit it to the rapture. In fact it isn't until the book of Revelation, that we even get a more definative description of the rapture. See when Jesus instructs of His return He tells of the two women grinding wheat together and one will be taken the other left. He tells of two men working in a field, one will be taken and the other one left. A man and his wife will be sleeping when one will be taken and the other left. See unlike the movie of the rapture called "Left Behind", the scriptures leave out the word "behind". It simply states that one will be left. You see we equate left behind to the rapture, while Jesus is merely stating that when He returns, one will be left. Think of it like this, a married couple are involved in a car accident where one of them dies and the other survives. Isn't the survivor left? Jesus has come for one of them but left the other. For whatever reason, God will use the situation to try and get through to someone. My mother and father-in-law were sleeping one night, the next day my mother-in-law had been taken to be with Jesus, while my father-in-law was left. My point is this, THE RETURN OF CHRIST IS NOT LIMITED TO THE RAPTURE!! Christ will return for each of us when He sees fit. It might be at the rapture, but it might not. I will tell you this, he gaurantees his return in YOUR lifetime. In Matthew 24:34, Jesus says this, "I assure you, this generation will not pass from the scene before all these things take place." These things are the messed up events of the world that are predicted as well in God's Word, of which Jesus tells us about. Since these things are taking place as we speak that would tell me that Jesus could come for me at anytime in any fashion. Therefore!!! It is critical that we are READY for His return by keeping our lives as committed to Christ as we can. Then we can be sure when He comes for us we will spend our eternity with Him.

God Bless, and if you need Christ in your life and would like me to pray for you or with you, send me an email. God choses YOU!

Peace

Wayne