As a kid, I never really thought much about end times. I never read Revelation or thought about such terms as the rapture or tribulation.

End time prophesy always seemed like something that would happen one day probably not in my lifetime.

When the Left Behind Series first came on the scene, they got my attention because the books were a fictional account of what might happen after the rapture and leading into the time known as tribulation.

It made me wonder if God’s prophetic timeclock was ticking down to that moment in time.

Many prophesy scholars believe the next prophetic event to take place on God’s timetable will be the rapture.

The Bible if filled with prophesies that talk about Jesus’ first coming as a baby born to a virgin. As well as the scriptures that can be interpreted to speak of the rapture. Jesus Himself talked about going to prepare a place for us in John 14:1-3

Let not your heart be troubled: ye believe in God, believe also in me.

In my Father’s house are many mansions: if it were not so, I would have told you. I go to prepare a place for you.

And if I go and prepare a place for you, I will come again, and receive you unto myself; that where I am, there ye may be also.

And Paul says in 1 Corinthians 15: 51-53

Behold, I shew you a mystery; We shall not all sleep, but we shall all be changed

In a moment, in the twinkling of an eye, at the last trump: for the trumpet shall sound, and the dead shall be raised incorruptible, and we shall be changed.

For this corruptible must put on incorruption, and this mortal must put on immortality.

As the world around us grows darker with each passing year and we see sin’s grip increasing, it’s easy to think the time is quickly approaching when the rapture will take place and the world will descend into chaos led by who the Bible calls the Antichrist.

But as Jesus is quick to point on in Matthew 24, there are signs to watch for that will let us get a sense the season we are living in but only God knows when that moment will come.

Matthew 24: 36: But of that day and hour knoweth no man, no, not the angels of heaven, but my Father only.

Until God gives the command for Jesus to come get His people, there’s plenty of work to be done, and a world filled with people desperately searching for Him. As His feet and hands we are to go until all the nations  

Go ye therefore, and teach all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Ghost:

Teaching them to observe all things whatsoever I have commanded you: and, lo, I am with you always, even unto the end of the world. Amen.

The fields are white, and the harvest is great!

Keep your lamp oil ready because the days are getting darker and the Bridegroom is coning.   

Mary