AFTER JESUS' RESURRECTION

With the interruption to my writing because of taking care of my daughter following her surgery, Good Friday has come and gone, Resurrection morning has come and gone, and at this point Jesus is on earth making appearances to confirm His resurrection to His followers prior to His ascension into heaven.

He lived.

He died

He was resurrected and lived again.

He ascended to the Father.

He is awaiting the predestined time God has appointed for Him to return - - and He will!

God has kept the details cloaked in just enough mystery that we have to have total reliance on Him.  All we need to know is that He said it, so He will do it - - and it could be very, very soon.   However, many believe His coming will be in 2 stages.

Oh what a glorious day that will be!  Glorious, that is, for those who are prepared to meet Him.

For everyone else, not so much.

Many Christians look forward to what has been dubbed 'The Rapture', though that is not a term used in the Bible.  There is widespread belief that we will be caught up in the air to be forever together with the Lord - - but that is not the true Second Coming, and it is His Second Coming, when He returns to Jerusalem and enters the Eastern Gate, that will precipitate the final judgment.

As it was in the days of Noah, so shall it be in the days of the coming of the Son of Man.  Right up to the moment of His coming, people will be 'doing what they do' with no regard for Him.  The love of most will have waxed cold.  People will be lovers of pleasure rather than lovers of God.  The condition of the world looks right now like the world it is predicted to be at the close of the age.  And that is how long He promises to be with us:  to the very end of the age.  (Matthew 28:20b)

I don't want to be here after His Spirit is withdrawn.  The Tribulation - - particularly the last 3 1/2 years will be awful.  People will come to the Lord at that point, at an enormous cost, but it is still better to suffer for that relatively short period than to face eternity without God.  It is a sobering reality to ponder.



(I actually wrote this a few months ago - - but just found it in my drafts after posting my most recently written perspective on Hamas and Israel....so am going to publish it now as well...better late than never.)