Just yesterday, the thought of that long awaited blast of the “Last Trump (1Corinthians 15:52)” came to mind. It’s the next event on God’s prophetic time table, when believers, both dead and alive, will be caught up into heaven to meet the Lord. For those left behind, seven years of chaos will ensue. As I rehearsed God’s promise once again, a sense of confident expectation was renewed. Though we don’t know when the trumpet will sound, we know that it is imminent, and we live in expectancy.
The writer of Scripture encourages… “But I would not have you to be ignorant, brethren, concerning them which are asleep, that ye sorrow not, even as others which have no hope. For if we believe that Jesus died and rose again, even so them also which sleep in Jesus will God bring with him. For this we say unto you by the word of the Lord, that we which are alive and remain unto the coming of the Lord shall not prevent (precede) them which are asleep. For the Lord himself shall descend from heaven with a shout, with the voice of the archangel, and with the trump of God: and the dead in Christ shall rise first: Then we which are alive and remain shall be caught up together with them in the clouds, to meet the Lord in the air: and so shall we ever be with the Lord. Wherefore comfort one another with these words. (1Thessalonians 4:13-18).”
Though some will scoff, and treat God’s promise as if it were the last chapter of “Mother Goose,” for those of us who know the power and exactness of the Word of God, just the thought of that great event, The Rapture, causes our hearts to beat faster. We long for that day when we will stand in the presence of our Great God, and hear His “Welcome home.”
For those of you who are moved by the thought of our Lord’s return, would you also consider the apostle Paul’s words, “Redeeming the time, because the days are evil. (Ephesians 5:16).” There is much to be accomplished in these “last days.” “…the night cometh when no man can work. (John 9:4)”