Jesus is coming again...

In a previous blog we spoke of redeeming our time; 

numbering our days to realise, even if we live until we are 80 years old, our time on earth is short. We only have one life to live for the Lord Jesus.

However, as Christians we shouldn't be looking to live for 80 or 90 years.

We should begin each day expecting that our Lord Jesus could come back for us. 

This should encourage us further to live for our Lord Jesus, as any day he could come back.

The Bible is full of references to Jesus' coming. 

His first coming has happened. It was when he came to this earth as a man and went to the cross to die for our sins.

His Second coming is yet to happen.

Jesus' second coming is split into two parts. 

The Lord Jesus will come to the earth again, in power, to set up His kingdom and reign.

However, before this the Bible speaks of the Lord Jesus coming back for his own people. He will come back again for those who love him; this event has been called the rapture. The word means "caught up"; we will be "caught up" into the air to be with Jesus.

There are three key passages in the Bible that describe this event...

John 14:1-3

“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, there you may be also. 

1 Corinthians 15:51-53

Behold, I tell you a mystery: We shall not all sleep, but we shall all be changed—in a moment, in the twinkling of an eye, at the last trumpet. For the trumpet will sound, and the dead will be raised incorruptible, and we shall be changed. For this corruptible must put on incorruption, and this mortal must put on immortality.

1 Thessalonians 4: 16-17

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. 

So to paraphrase what the Bible says (and you can compare the verses)

Jesus has gone to heaven. 

He has gone to prepare a place for you and I. 

Right now He is preparing a home for each of us, a home we will enjoy with Him, forever.

But Jesus is coming again, He is coming to take us to be with Him, to be where He is. 

Not all of us will die! 

Because Jesus is coming for us. He will descend from heaven (but not to earth at this point) and call us up to be with Him in the air. 

This will happen quicker than a blink- in the twinkling of an eye. 

All true believers who have died already will be raised first. They will be followed by all believers who remain on the earth at that moment(that is you as you read this)! 

We will be raised to be with Christ and our bodies will be changed.

We will put on new immortal bodies; suited for Heaven and Eternal life. 

We will be like Christ. 

And so we shall always be with the Lord Jesus.

Always and forever, with Him. 

Love,

Dave

Ps. Let us know if you have any questions about prophecy and future events.