"Let not your heart be troubled, you believe in God, believe also in Me. In My Father's house are many mansions; if it were not so, I would have told you. I go to prepare a place for you. And if I go and prepare a place for you, I will come again and receive you to Myself; that where I am you may be also. And where I go, you know, and the way you know." John 14:1-4 NKJV
This is the future but with God, time is eternal, there is no measure of it at all. It just stands still. Read about this in 2 Peter 3:8: 'But, beloved, do not forget this one thing, that with the Lord one day is as a thousand years and a thousand years as one day.' When we die, time has finished for us. For those who are left behind, time still goes on and they miss us. For us, we have entered into eternity. Time has ceased. It's an amazing thing.
Jesus has gone before us and is preparing a place for us to live. Now it only took 6 days to create this world and it's a pretty good place to live; what about Heaven? Jesus has been preparing this for some two thousand years. It must be truly amazing! It'll be everything that home is intended to be, and more. Home here on earth is a special place for us; there's usually no place like it. Home is the place that homeless people long for. That place of security; that special place. they long for this, and many never seem to find it again.
Jesus will return. there is no doubt about that. It is fact! 1 Thessalonians 4:13-18 says:
'But I do not want you to be ignorant brethren, concerning those who have fallen asleep, lest you sorrow as others who have no hope. For if we believe that Jesus died and rose again , even so, God will bring with Him those who sleep in Jesus. For this we say to you, by the Word of the Lord, that we who are alive and remain until the coming of the Lord will by no means precede those who are asleep. For the Lord Himself will descend from Heaven with a shout, with the voice of an archangel and with the trumpet of God. And the dead in Christ will rise first. Then, we who are alive and remain shall be caught up together with them in the clouds to meet the Lord in the air. And thus we shall always be with the Lord.'
The words, 'caught up', actually mean rapture. This word is not in the bible but it means that the church - His people, will be caught away to Heaven, firstly the dead in Christ and then the living - all who have trusted in Christ and who await His return.
Some will be seized; snatched away; caught up in the air. The Lord's coming will have a three fold announcement"
(1) A loud Shout
(2). The voice of an archangel
(3). And the trumpet of the Lord.
There's a three fold promise:
(1) The dead will rise
(2). Those who are alive will be caught away
(3). We'll be with the Lord forever
Don't you just want to be there? It will be a glorious day and don't forget, we should be preparing for it now. It could happen any day. No one knows, not even Jesus, when that day will come. We may be talking with someone and all of a sudden, be snatched away to be with Jesus. It may sound ridiculous, but trust me, it's the truth and it will happen.
Are you going to be prepared and ready? It can only happen to you if Jesus is your Lord. Please don't get left behind. It'll be too late then.
Copyright 2019 Grahame Howard
dailylifewithjesus@protonmail.com
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