Get Ready For the Return

With the impending and imminent return of our King Jesus, are we ready for His coming?

Much has been told about the Biblical prophesies of the final days.  We have been “promised” not just warned…of what things will happen.  A great falling away, and love for the Lord will grow cold.  Those who have an emotional attachment as opposed to a willful decision to love and be loyal to Jesus will follow their emotions into a place of betrayal and apathy.  

Just like in a marriage when the glitter and glitz wears off and personal happiness trumps best interests of the others in the relationship or family, a broken covenant is an accepted norm by society in these days, and divorce rates are staggering.

The great promise is that those who remain true and faithful to their love decision regarding Jesus, will be taken out (as in Rescued) before the dreadful day of the Lord.  Again, like in a marriage covenant, love and loyalty will bring rewards despite the difficult days.  

How do we get ready for that day?  First order of business is to check our heart. Make sure we have a do or die attitude that we actually live by.   If you first formed an intellectual attachment to the Lord or the church or the good organizations who claim His name and didn’t make a willful heart decision (love is not an emotion but a decision) to follow Jesus, no matter what, then it is time to re-think your relationship.

We who believe THE Truth about Who Jesus is and love Him, are committed to following the Sovereign God of all Creation.  He is THE ONE, Who wrapped Himself in Jewish flesh, Who came to die our death and Who made the way for our resurrection unto eternal life in unbroken fellowship with our Creator, as was the original plan for Humanity from the very beginning.  

We are in a personal relationship according to an unbreakable sacred eternal covenant not merely "performing" according to an intellectual ideology or fleeting emotion. Once we enter in, by faith, trusting Him, our sacred covenant that was signed in His Holy Blood stands forever.

Jesus came as God in the flesh and commands our loyalty to Himself.  His sheep know His voice and are expected to pay attention when He speaks.  Do we personally read and follow His Word?  Do we hear Him speak to us?  Do we know His voice? Do we give instant obedience to what we hear?  If not, why not?

It has been prophesied from long ago that the day of Yeshua's (Jesus the Christ's) return, will come like a thief in the night when least expected, and will bring a judgement that no one on earth can escape.  But there is another event we must add to our calendar of expectation and that is His imminent return for the purpose of rescuing His people from the inescapable judgment to come.  

It is written that this event will be in the "twinkling of an eye", when those who are united in Him, saved by His Blood sacrifice on the Cross, will be suddenly evacuated from the earth realm before the "great and dreadful day of the Lord". 

1 Thessalonians 4:16-18:

"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. 18 Therefore encourage one another with these words."

I Corinthians 15:50-55

"50 I declare to you, brothers and sisters, that flesh and blood cannot inherit the kingdom of God, nor does the perishable inherit the imperishable. 51 Listen, I tell you a mystery: We will not all sleep, but we will all be changed— 52 in a flash, in the twinkling of an eye, at the last trumpet. For the trumpet will sound, the dead (In Christ) will be raised imperishable, and we will be changed. 53 For the perishable must clothe itself with the imperishable, and the mortal with immortality. 54 When the perishable has been clothed with the imperishable, and the mortal with immortality, then the saying that is written will come true: “Death has been swallowed up in victory.”

55 “Where, O death, is your victory?

    Where, O death, is your sting?"

Human love warns.  God's love warns even more urgently.  We must not allow His warnings to go unheeded and into a pathetic human file called "apathy".  Let us embrace them as the Merciful promises from our Gracious Lord that He intends to execute one day in His eternal timing. 

Opinions vary as to the timing, but we must never doubt His promise. The point remains and I encourage all my friends and family to Get ready For His Return especially when it will be (for those who know Him) a time when He comes in the clouds to pick us up ahead of the dreadful day of that final battle here on earth.   If we live out our earthly lives as if this promised event might happen at any moment, we will be ready.      

The Holy Spirit is Calling.  Can you hear Him?