![]() Ready or Not - Christ’s Return is Imminent – He could come todayĪ. The how is not certain, the when is not certain, but the event is sure! Revelation 22:20 “He which testifies these things saith, ‘Surely I come quickly.’ Amen. Canon Liddon once said: "If Christ is not coming, we might as well lock the west door of this cathedral and throw the key into the river." In other words, Christianity would be proved false and all its lights and hopes would have faded, its great music quenched.į. But the day of the Lord will come as a thief in the night…”Į. The Lord is not slack concerning his promise, as some men count slackness but is longsuffering to us-ward, not willing that any should perish, but that all should come to repentance. But, beloved, be not ignorant of this one thing, that one day is with the Lord as a thousand years, and a thousand years as one day. For this they willingly are ignorant of, that by the word of God the heavens were of old, and the earth standing out of the water and in the water: whereby the world that then was, being overflowed with water, perished: but the heavens and the earth, which are now, by the same word are kept in store, reserved unto fire against the day of judgment and perdition of ungodly men. ![]() 2 Peter 3:3-10 “Knowing this first, that there shall come in the last days scoffers, walking after their own lusts, and saying, where is the promise of his coming? for since the fathers fell asleep, all things continue as they were from the beginning of the creation. No one knows that it is going to happen at all.”ĭ. In his conclusion about Christians who believe in the Rapture, Gutting wrote, “It’s not just that “no one knows the day and hour” of the Rapture. On JThe New York Times ran an article entitled “Epistemology and the End of the World” by Gary Gutting. Acts 1:11 “Which also said, Ye men of Galilee, why stand ye gazing up into heaven? This same Jesus, which is taken up from you into heaven, shall so come in like manner as ye have seen him go into heaven.”Ĭ. And if I go and prepare a place for you, I will come again, and receive you unto myself that where I am, ye may be alsoī. In my Father's house are many mansions: if not, I would have told you. John 15:1-3 “Let not your heart be troubled: ye believe in God, believe also in me. Ready or Not - Christ’s Return is Certain – He is Coming BackĪ. The countdown to the Rapture of the church has begun and we need to realize that “Ready or Not” - here He comes! I can remember playing the game and hearing “IT” say “Ready or not, here I come” and getting rattled because I hadn’t found the perfect hiding place and wasn’t ready. When the person who was “IT” finished counting, IT would say "Ready or not, here I come" and run to find everyone. “IT” stood at the designated home base covering their eyes and counting to an agreed number. One person was “IT” and they were the seeker, or person who would look for the other players who ran and hid. Introduction: When I was a child we played the game of hide and seek.
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