Believer in Jesus: Are you longing earnestly to going “shootin’ out of your shoes”…you know…in the “Rapture”…the return of Jesus in the clouds to, quick as a wink, take us “Home” to the Father’s House (2 Thessalonians 4:13-18)?  I am…along with a lot of other brothers and sisters in Christ!  It could happen any moment now, and I love the thought of even going without dying.  But seeing Jesus…that’s what we really love about the anticipation of this Event!

1 Thessalonians 4:14-17

14 For if we believe that Jesus died and rose again, even so God will bring with Him those who have fallen asleep in Jesus. 15 For this we say to you by the word of the Lord, that we who are alive and remain until the coming of the Lord, will not precede those who have fallen asleep. 16 For the Lord Himself will descend from heaven with a shout, with the voice of the archangel and with the trumpet of God, and the dead in Christ will rise first. 17 Then we who are alive and remain will be caught up together with them in the clouds to meet the Lord in the air, and so we shall always be with the Lord.

2 Timothy 4:8

In the future there is laid up for me the crown of righteousness, which the Lord, the righteous Judge, will award to me on that day; and not only to me, but also to all who have loved His appearing.

“Walking with the Lord and then suddenly there in the presence of the Lord forever…! My soul… what a day, what a day!” ~ W. A. Criswell

The Lord bless you and keep you…

Pastor Dave