I wake every morning disappointed I am still here......and turn expectantly at the crack of thunder.
One day. Maranatha!
Father Murphy walked into a pub and said to the first man he met, “Do you want to go to heaven?”
The man replied, “I do Father.”
The priest said, “Then stand over there against the wall.”
Then the priest asked a second man, “Do you want to go to heaven?”
“Certainly, Father,” was the man’s reply.
The priest said, “Then stand over there against the wall.”
Then Father Murphy walked up to O’Toole and said, “Do you want to go to heaven?”
O’Toole said, “No, I don’t Father.”
The priest said, “I don’t believe this. You mean to tell me that when you die you don’t want to go to heaven?”
O’Toole said, “Oh, when I die, yes. I thought you were getting a group together to go right now.”
bookmark
I think we add our own meaning to things in the bible all the time. In fact, I was listening to John yesterday and there is a place where this happens in the bible and is called out. In John 21, it say’s this:
22 Jesus answered, “If I want him to remain alive until I return, what is that to you? You must follow me.” 23 Because of this, the rumor spread among the believers that this disciple would not die. But Jesus did not say that he would not die; he only said, “If I want him to remain alive until I return, what is that to you?”
The “thief in the night” analogy points out the unexpectedness of the event, not the impact. A home invasion comes like a thief in the night, but you notice it.
>> I can’t wait.
I can. As long as there is one unsaved person on Earth, all Christians should be content to wait as we work to reach that person. Until that day, we have the honor of being Christ on Earth and not saying, “I want my reward now. The rest of them had their chance.”
If Jesus chooses to return before all are saved, then that is His right. But, it isn’t our place to say “I can’t wait” as long as there is work to be done here on Earth by those He gave the Great Commission.
I am not against a rapture but i don,t think any one is going to go to heaven with out dieing.
And i suppose i am just judging every one by my self, but my body would not be fit go to heaven even if it were perfectly clean, flesh and blood can not inherit the kingdom of God.
This whole rapture idea is based on a speculation about a single Biblical phrase. Obviously a catchy idea, but I’m not lying awake at night about it.
In this technologically-self-imprisoned society that we live in, an event of such magnitude, without question, generate such a scene that Hollywood has never considered, nor could any ‘computer-generated’ scene be put together with any accuracy.
I could see the panic within the military, of those involved in action at that moment, be it air, sea, or land. Consider those who are in “The Silent Service”. Submarines are crewed with exact numbers of crew to perform all the functions necessary, in peace and war.
All the moving machinery of air, sea, and land have the possibility of having their trained operators missing, in this event. All at once, globally.
No, there would be not enough ‘talking heads’, or radio voices, to cover all of such an event.
Some years ago websites were set up to send post-Rapture messages to loved ones. It required users to provide a password that they had to submit at intervals or the messages would be sent.
This gave some wit a naughty idea. They set up a website to get this information and messages, then they got a bunch of fake names and addresses, to send these messages randomly to the emails of the senders and receivers.
So, all at once, people would get emails from people that did not exist, claiming to have been their friend. Who they, of course, would not remember.
Fortunately, the wits wised up and decided to not send out all these fake emails, as it might have resulted in some real harm, not just confusion.
We must live every day as if Jesus might return that day. We don’t know when will come.
We do not know the day or hour when He will come. Or, more likely, when we will go to Him.
In the wake of a death in the family I've been hitting the resurrection passages a lot this past couple weeks. The resurrection is the great hope the new testament points us to, far more than just "dying and going to heaven" (though that is certainly there).
"And the dead in Christ will rise first."
I watched 'Thief in the Night' as well...I am convinced that I read in the scriptures that events in the film will happen as portrayed...