Waiting is difficult! Whether we’re waiting for cold symptoms to subside, a job offer, or a storm in our life to end, it’s never fun waiting (to say the least).
It’s also not easy waiting for Jesus to take us home to heaven as He promised in John 14:2-3. Yet I know so many of you, like me, have been waiting decades for His appearing.
Recently, I have been thinking about Simeon and Anna who greeted the Savior in temple when His parents came to present Him to the Lord (Luke 2:22-38). The Holy Spirit had previously revealed to Simeon that he would not die until he had seen the Messiah. While the text does not tell us that Anna had the same revelation, she evidently remained watchful for Christ at age 84.
Just as God rewarded Simeon and Ana for their faith, I believe He will reward those of us who remain watchful for the Lord’s return for us.
For those of you who are eagerly waiting for the rapture, I see several reasons to remain hopeful that Jesus is coming for us in the very near future.
1. THE STAGE IS SET
Perhaps the strongest indicator of the season is this: many events the Bible describes as happening in the last days seems to be right on the brink of coming to full fruition. It’s as if the stage is all set and we are just waiting for the curtain to rise and the actors to appear. If it were a musical production, we would already hear the orchestra playing the overture.
The Bible tells us that destructive earthquakes will take place during the tribulation. Secular geologists today warn that in many areas of our world we are right on the brink of devastating earthquakes. Much of the west coast of the United States is a prime example of this. But just as God led Lot out of Sodom before He destroyed the city, I believe the Lord will remove the great number of believers on the west coast via the rapture before His judgment strikes.
The players in the Gog-Magog invasion of Israel are all in place, yet God has not yet put the hook in the jaw in Gog. The foundations for a one world government and religion are all in place and ready to go once the Lord takes His church away (2 Thess. 2:3-10). The technology the antichrist needs for worldwide dominance is already in use in China. And is not the placing of chips in people today a forerunner of the mark of the beast?
We see so many signs of the coming tribulation that tell us it will soon be here. And if this time of wrath is so near, how much closer must be Jesus’ appearing to take us home?
So many end-time Bible prophecies seem ready to happen; they are waiting for just the right catalyst to leap into full fruition. As JD Farag often says, it’s like watching someone stretch a rubber band to its limit; we know it will snap at some point. I believe the rapture represents the breaking point that will cause so many biblical prophecies to quickly come to full fruition in the world.
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