When The Church is Caught Up

We are living, I am convinced, in the last days of the Age of Grace, the conclusion of the Church Age, and as a disciple of Jesus Christ and a Bible believing Christian, I am looking for "the blessed hope" of my Lord's return for His people. This short video, that I've also put up on the Iowa Seed Sowers website, brings out the reality that this longed-for event will happen on what seems to be just another ordinary day. Check it out:

There's just one thing I wish was different in this video, and that is the scene where the dark-haired woman takes a seat on the bench next to the blonde-haired woman. I would have liked to see her engage in a gospel conversation with that woman, or sharing a gospel tract, rather than just sitting there waiting for her train.Watch that little segment again: the two young women sitting on a bench, looking away from each other. Its so easy to look away, to look at nothing. But I am called to look towards people, not away from them! How often do I pass up these opportunities to serve our King as an ambassador, calling the lost to be reconciled to God (2 Corinthians 5:19-21), and one day SOON, it will be our last opportunity. That's what I desire to be doing when He comes.

One last thing: when the believers are caught up, did you notice what they leave behind?

Everything.

We leave everything behind.

2 Corinthians 4:18 

Are You Ready?

Titus 2:12-14

"Teaching us that, denying ungodliness and worldly lusts, we should live soberly, righteously, and godly, in this present world; Looking for that blessed hope, and the glorious appearing of the great God and our Saviour Jesus Christ; Who gave himself for us, that he might redeem us from all iniquity, and purify unto himself a peculiar people, zealous of good works."

1 Thessalonians 4:15-17

"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 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."