Saturday, May 21, 2011

Return of Christ



I just have some Scripture on the topic…

I can’t even envision what this is going to look like.  That is how I study the Bible, I read and then picture it in my mind and with these matters I can only imagine in part what that will look like.  A friend of mine suggested that the sky will look like a paper bag being ripped open.  I don’t know if that is true or not, but that would be pretty amazing.

I Thessalonians 4
16 For the Lord himself will come down from heaven, with a loud command, with the voice of the archangel and with the trumpet call of God, and the dead in Christ will rise first. 17 After that, we who are still alive and are left will be caught up together with them in the clouds to meet the Lord in the air. And so we will be with the Lord forever.

This is another great passage, the promise of Christ coming back and the reassurance that we should not feel troubled or worried.  We should be about His business and when the time comes we should not be worried or scared, but overjoyed.
John 14
 1 “Do not let your hearts be troubled. You believe in God; believe also in me. 2 My Father’s house has many rooms; if that were not so, would I have told you that I am going there to prepare a place for you? 3 And if I go and prepare a place for you, I will come back and take you to be with me that you also may be where I am. 4 You know the way to the place where I am going.”


I like this one, it is a challenge for us to be doing the work we are called to and not sit around just waiting and looking at the sky.  There is a time for that, but it shouldn’t be all we are doing.
Acts 1
11 “Men of Galilee,” they said, “why do you stand here looking into the sky? This same Jesus, who has been taken from you into heaven, will come back in the same way you have seen him go into heaven.”


And of course this passage has to be mentioned.  It is pretty self explanatory, but speaks to the issue of predicting God’s timing.
Matthew 24
36 “But about that day or hour no one knows, not even the angels in heaven, nor the Son, but only the Father. 37 As it was in the days of Noah, so it will be at the coming of the Son of Man. 38 For in the days before the flood, people were eating and drinking, marrying and giving in marriage, up to the day Noah entered the ark; 39 and they knew nothing about what would happen until the flood came and took them all away. That is how it will be at the coming of the Son of Man. 40 Two men will be in the field; one will be taken and the other left. 41 Two women will be grinding with a hand mill; one will be taken and the other left.
   42 “Therefore keep watch, because you do not know on what day your Lord will come. 43 But understand this: If the owner of the house had known at what time of night the thief was coming, he would have kept watch and would not have let his house be broken into. 44 So you also must be ready, because the Son of Man will come at an hour when you do not expect him.


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