Ever find yourself daydreaming? I mean really, really daydreaming. Thinking about Jesus come in the clouds. Thinking about that trumpet playing a wonderfully calling tune.
Paul writes about this in 1 Thessalonians: "15According to the Lord’s word, we tell you that we who are still alive, who are left until the coming of the Lord, will certainly not precede those who have fallen asleep. 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."
"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, ..."
One sweet day the Lord will lead the way ... down ... and we will be caught up together with them in the clouds. Pretty darn sweet, if someone would ask me.
The Thessalonians had mixed up many things, but with Paul's enduring writing, they got it repaired. Paul clarified the theology, started things rolling again, and the testimony about the 2nd coming of Christ was brought more out in the open.
The trumpet will sound, the call will go out, and time will come to close out debts. Why not waiting it out? Why be in such a hurry? It might come before I finish this blog. Oh, but that it would. Aren't we ready?
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