Ready or Not...Jesus is Coming

There was a great new article posted today on Rapture Ready. It goes through many of the signs Christ told us to watch for...signs that would let those of us who are watching for them, know that Jesus is getting very close to the day when he will re-enter human history.

Remember the childhood game hide and seek. Remember how the person who was it called out at the end of his count to one hundred, “Ready or not, you shall be caught. Here I come.” Jesus voiced a similar warning when he said, “Therefore keep watch, because you do not know the day that your Lord will come . . . So you must be ready, because the Son of man will come at an hour when you do not expect him” (Matt. 24:42, 44 NIV emphasis mine). In Luke’s account Jesus says, “Be careful, or your hearts will be weighed down with dissipation, drunkenness and anxieties of life, and that day will close on you unexpectantly like trap. For it will come upon all those who live on the face of the whole earth. Be always on the watch, and pray that ye may be able to escape all that is about to happen, and that you may be able to stand before the Son of man (Luke 21:34-36 NIV).

An article in the October 2006 issue of Christianity Today posted what 114 Evangelical leaders thought the focus of the Church would be for the next fifty years. Not one of them mentioned the possibility that Jesus could return and that we should be ready. Is this a trend throughout the whole Church? Are we to assume that they think we have at least fifty years left before he comes? Do we? Or are we just repeating what happened to the Jews at Christ’s first coming when he wept over Jerusalem because they didn’t know the time of their visitation (Luke 19:41-44)? He told the people they could discern the signs of the weather and accurately predict them but he said, “Ye hypocrites, ye can discern the face of the sky and of the earth; but how is it that ye discern not this time?” (Luke 12:56).

See it here; http://www.raptureready.com/soap/becker1.html

Please read this entire article as he goes on to discuss some of the other lesser known signs, like the Jews preparing for a third temple and their search for a red heifer. These are events that you will NEVER see reported on the Today Show.

It is simply amazing to read the news going on in the world and to then understand that for the first time in human history everything is poised and set to welcome our King.

I can say one thing here with 100% certainty.....when the trumpet blows and the loud voice says, "Come up here!"....you won't care how much money you have in the bank, what kind of car you drive, whether your kid made the traveling hockey team, how much money you lost in the stock market, or how much you dislike your job. At that moment only one thing will be eternally important....DO YOU KNOW JESUS AND DOES HE KNOW YOU?