Posted on 07/02/2013 5:05:25 AM PDT by Gamecock
I wake every morning disappointed I am still here......and turn expectantly at the crack of thunder.
One day. Maranatha!
Father Murphy walked into a pub and said to the first man he met, “Do you want to go to heaven?”
The man replied, “I do Father.”
The priest said, “Then stand over there against the wall.”
Then the priest asked a second man, “Do you want to go to heaven?”
“Certainly, Father,” was the man’s reply.
The priest said, “Then stand over there against the wall.”
Then Father Murphy walked up to O’Toole and said, “Do you want to go to heaven?”
O’Toole said, “No, I don’t Father.”
The priest said, “I don’t believe this. You mean to tell me that when you die you don’t want to go to heaven?”
O’Toole said, “Oh, when I die, yes. I thought you were getting a group together to go right now.”
If Jesus comes to earth tomorrow or in a thousand years, to us it should make no difference, live each day as if it is the end and enjoy it in Christ.
To live is Christ and to die is gain. :-)
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I think we add our own meaning to things in the bible all the time. In fact, I was listening to John yesterday and there is a place where this happens in the bible and is called out. In John 21, it say’s this:
22 Jesus answered, “If I want him to remain alive until I return, what is that to you? You must follow me.” 23 Because of this, the rumor spread among the believers that this disciple would not die. But Jesus did not say that he would not die; he only said, “If I want him to remain alive until I return, what is that to you?”
The “thief in the night” analogy points out the unexpectedness of the event, not the impact. A home invasion comes like a thief in the night, but you notice it.
>> I can’t wait.
I can. As long as there is one unsaved person on Earth, all Christians should be content to wait as we work to reach that person. Until that day, we have the honor of being Christ on Earth and not saying, “I want my reward now. The rest of them had their chance.”
If Jesus chooses to return before all are saved, then that is His right. But, it isn’t our place to say “I can’t wait” as long as there is work to be done here on Earth by those He gave the Great Commission.
Indeed, the “thief in the night” analogy has only to do with “you won’t know when it’s coming” - but when it comes, you’ll definitely know it happened/is happening.
Indeed. The shepherd searches until what he has lost is found.
Jesus taught us that we need to seek out the lost, the sinner, time and again, and bring him back to the fold.
Wouldn’t a shepherd, encountering a bear or a wolf in the dark fight it, even give his life for his sheep?
every morning after bacon & coffee? or before? - might as well be awake and fed first - just sayin
Nice. But still disappointed.
A day on earth? A day in Heaven....is there really a choice to be made?
I see it like when my mortal father would come get me from the hay field....I see the truck bouncing up the pull road....now I am waiting for the sound of the horn. Then I will know I am going home.
Work is satisfying in the field, hot sticky, and itchy.... still, a clean field is a beautiful thing....but it can’t compare to the ice water, warm biscuits, and cool comfort of the Big House when the whole family is home.
I am not against a rapture but i don,t think any one is going to go to heaven with out dieing.
And i suppose i am just judging every one by my self, but my body would not be fit go to heaven even if it were perfectly clean, flesh and blood can not inherit the kingdom of God.
This whole rapture idea is based on a speculation about a single Biblical phrase. Obviously a catchy idea, but I’m not lying awake at night about it.
Have no fear, we have a rock-ribbed promise from Christ that all of the elect will be saved! Not one will be missed! We have the honor of witnessing and spreading the gospel until that last one hears and believes. We witness and preach in confidence because we know His sheep will hear His voice and follow Him! (John 10:27)
“All that the Father giveth me shall come to me; and him that cometh to me I will in no wise cast out.” (John 6:37)
yes, home is home, but God put us here in the field for a reason. We are not to despise his creation and wish to leave it — it’s kind of strange, we wish to be with Him, yet not to wish so much that we kill ourselves to be with Him :-P
Not strange to me.
We have a job. A duty. At the end of the line, we get to go home (heaven).
The duty isn’t all bad, but some of it is. Home is all good.
But you don’t drop you duty and head home early. You keep working.
Just the way I was raised.
In this technologically-self-imprisoned society that we live in, an event of such magnitude, without question, generate such a scene that Hollywood has never considered, nor could any ‘computer-generated’ scene be put together with any accuracy.
I could see the panic within the military, of those involved in action at that moment, be it air, sea, or land. Consider those who are in “The Silent Service”. Submarines are crewed with exact numbers of crew to perform all the functions necessary, in peace and war.
All the moving machinery of air, sea, and land have the possibility of having their trained operators missing, in this event. All at once, globally.
No, there would be not enough ‘talking heads’, or radio voices, to cover all of such an event.
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