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No Comments When The Stars Begin To Fall
As we approach the apocalypse those who believe in a pre-tribulation rapture of the church are getting anxious and are pretty sure Christ could return any day. The Bible warns us that setting dates is impossible as Christ himself said he didn’t know. We forget that Jesus Christ is the Son of God; he is not God himself.
That to many may seem blasphemous but the reality is that Jesus Christ lowered himself to becoming flesh so that we could be saved from the wrath of God. Christ was a Holy Spirit filled man. He knew the Father because he fellowshipped with God all the time. He had a natural connection with his father but came to earth for that one purpose. Men had sinned and to pay for that sin a man had to die. God requires blood to cover sin. The blood of Jesus Christ was precious blood and the value of it was above price.
It was more valuable than anything else. When it was spent, there wasn’t anything it couldn’t pay for. That is why if the blood of Christ is rejected there is nothing more that can be paid for the removal of your sin.
We hope for the rapture, for God getting us out of this messy place we live. We tried to make America heaven on earth but it wasn’t. It is filled with a people who are now far from God. Some give God lip service but for the most part, God’s commandments are ignored and following Christ is offered as one of many options in an enlightened world.
The truth is, Christ has always been accepted by a peculiar people. Not many truly follow Christ and there are so many variances it’s hard to say which one is “real”. So the church makes war on itself on a regular basis and most usually devolves into some effort to achieve solutions to all the ills of men instead of the worship of God.
As we waste so much time trying to figure out how to survive a culture that’s gone mad, we realize that maybe God isn’t going to rapture us quite as fast as we thought. Lot was “raptured” at the last minute. It wasn’t till the rain started falling that Noah was told to close the door. I’m kinda thinking that it’s going to get a whole lot uglier before God raptures his church and that is why I’m thinking more of a post tribulation or close to it.
Remembering that there will be silence in heaven for the space of a half an hour and it is then all hell breaks loose, perhaps it is at that point the rapture takes place. Remember, it is at the end that God pours out his wrath on the world. During the tribulation it is Satan pouring his wrath out on the world.
We are clearly told it is an hour when we think not, that Christ will return. Jesus even wondered if there would be faith when he returns. Lots of people are pretty sure he’s going to come and save us from the tribulation but what he said was, he will save us from the wrath to come. Christ saves us from the wrath of God and not the wrath of man.
Silence in heaven, deathly quiet, fear is everywhere and the whole world, after living through those last three and a half years, are well aware something is about to happen. I don’t want to be among those who propose that the Lord tarries, but Oh Lord, what a morning, when the stars begin to fall.