Saturday, January 15, 2022

 

The Rapture revisited: part 1   

 

I had a dream some years back about the rapture, as I was ascending, I remembered looking back at the things I had left behind. I remember being given the choice to stay, or to continue ascending. There really wasn’t a choice for me personally, but it got me thinking. Can you honestly walk away from the thinks you have acquire if God calls you at a moment’s notice? Secondly, why was I looking back and not forward? Am I totally committed or serving but not with all of my heart? Are things controlling me or am I in control? I thought about the people I failed to reach; I will never have the chance to reach them ever again. If not but for your daddy’s grace this day will bring great joy and at the same time great sadness. Why you may ask?

 Revelations 21:4 Is a good place to start: And God shall wipe away all tears from their eyes; and there shall be no more death, neither sorrow, nor crying, neither shall there be any more pain: for the former things are passed away. This isn’t contextually accurate, but I wanted to point out the need for God to wipe away our tears. See also Isaiah 25:8

 I posted this dream back in May 2013, I wanted to see if anybody else was having dreams about the rapture. I did indeed fine many such dreams, however mine was different no one else mention being given the choice to stay in witness. In this dream I didn't see Jesus, I only heard his voice, If I would have seen him perhaps my focus would have been on Him and only Him. That’s why this dream has trouble me all these years.

 The wiping away off tear, is the focal point, why?

 Luke 17:29. But on the day when Lot went out of Sodom, fire came down from heaven and destruction came on them all.

30.  So will it be in the day of the revelation of the Son of man.

31.  On that day, if anyone is on the roof of the house, and his goods are in the house, let him not go down to take them away; and let him who is in the field not go back to his house.

32.  Keep in mind Lot’s wife.

33.  If anyone makes an attempt to keep his life, it will be taken from him, but if anyone gives up his life, he will keep it.

34.  I say to you, in that night there will be two men sleeping in one bed, and one will be taken away and the other let go.

35.  Two women will be crushing grain together; one will be taken away and the other let go.

36.  Two [men] shall be in the field; the one shall be taken, and the other left.

I gave you this scripture because I wanted to make a point, most teaches focus on things, but there is one other reason Lot's wife could have been looking back.    

 Lot just before the destruction of Sodom

Gen 19:12   Then the men said to Lot, are there any others of your family here? sons-in-law or sons or daughters, take them all out of this place;

13.  For we are about to send destruction on this place, because a great outcry against them has come to the ears of the Lord; and the Lord has sent us to put an end to the town.

14.  And Lot went out and said to his sons-in-law, who were married to his daughters, Come, let us go out of this place, for the Lord is about to send destruction on the town. But his sons-in-law did not take him seriously.

15. And when morning came, the angels did all in their power to make Lot go, saying, Get up quickly and take your wife and your two daughters who are here, and go, for fear that you come to destruction in the punishment of the town.

16.  But while he was waiting, the men took him and his wife and his daughters by the hand, for the Lord had mercy on them, and put them outside the town.

17.  And when they had put them out, he said, go for your life, without looking back or waiting in the lowland; go quickly to the mountain or you will come to destruction.

 26.  But his wife looked back from behind him, and she became a pillar of salt.

 It is believed by some, that Lot had four daughters only two of them escaped with their parents, the other two were left behind.

 

Conclusion:

 Consider what it will be like at the rapture, the joy of seeing the lord but the sadness and lost for those unreached, especially your loved ones, and the guilt one might carry from those missed opportunities.  Make every effort to win the lost. especially those in your circle of influence. But most importantly is to keep your eyes on the prize, the Lord Jesus Christ.


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