Tuesday, October 27, 2009

Be Ready!

Of all the "end times" debates (rapture? no rapture? tribulation? no tribulation? anti-Christ? pre/mid/post/pan/non-millenium rapture/tribulation? etc.), there is one abiding fact that must be reckoned with: Jesus IS coming back. This is certain. The one thing the Bible is absolutely clear about without ANY disagreement by any theologian, scholar, church, or denomination: YOU MUST BE READY for His coming. Hiding your head in the sand like an ostrich simply because you say you don't believe in the coming of the Lord will not stave off the dire consequences any less than the ostrich will become lion food for his actions! How silly are children who hide under the protection of their bed sheets from monsters lurking in their bedrooms, as if their bedsheets could protect them if the monsters were real? Perhaps that is why so many think they can hide under the same bedsheets of ignorance today, because the bedsheets of their childhood seemed to work all too well at protecting them from the imaginary monsters, and God is, to them, nothing more than an imaginary monster who wants nothing more than to cast them into the pit of hell. Oh, the pity of it all when in the end the Truth will be clearly seen and fully known...the Love of God provided Jesus to bear such a hell in their place and to be the true substitution and protection for them from that horrible destiny, from that very real monster. This is the same Jesus Who is now alive forevermore, Who WILL CERTAINLY return for His own, for those who look for His appearing, those who love Him, those who trust in Him and come to God through Him. When will He come? Nobody knows the day or the hour, but we DO know the season is upon us. It could be today. Nothing else matters about any of the other details of the end times, really. Only this...HE IS COMING BACK. ARE YOU READY? Are you living for eternity now, or are you only living for now? Well, if you're not ready, maybe all that other stuff really does matter after all.


"For God so loved the world that He gave His only begotten Son, that whoever believes in Him should not perish but have everlasting life. For God did not send His Son into the world to condemn the world, but that the world through Him might be saved. "He who believes in Him is not condemned; but he who does not believe is condemned already, because he has not believed in the name of the only begotten Son of God. And this is the condemnation, that the light has come into the world, and men loved darkness rather than light, because their deeds were evil. For everyone practicing evil hates the light and does not come to the light, lest his deeds should be exposed. But he who does the truth comes to the light, that his deeds may be clearly seen, that they have been done in God." John 3:16-21 NKJV


"But know this, that if the master of the house had known what hour the thief would come, he would have watched and not allowed his house to be broken into. Therefore you also be ready, for the Son of Man is coming at an hour you do not expect." Luke 12:39-40 NKJV

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