Good Tuesday morning! The long weekend is over and it is time for us to get beck to work. Yup, when you find ol' beck, send him to work; you surely don't want to be there! Whoo wee! Did you notice a change in the night temps around here? We seem to have changed from summer nights to autumn nights rather suddenly this weekend. But enough about the weather. One would think that is all we have to talk about around here. Hmm, a complete blank in the Local News section of our radio station's web site. Maybe weather really is the only happening thing around here. I wonder how many people in the world would just love to come live in a place where a small weather change is all there is to talk about on a Tuesday morning? Some places are just a bit too exciting to live in most of the time. As we approach our Revelation study for the first meeting after the summer break, I cannot help but be thankful that nothing much happened here over the holiday weekend. Nothing much that I know about that is.
For some folks, that could be the way they find out about the Rapture. A new day after a quiet weekend; the man arrives at work ready to abuse some employees, and some folks just don't show up for work! What is going on? Why are so many missing? For you and me, the Rapture might be completely different. We get up for a nice drive to our just so wonderful workplace on a Monday morning and.... there the car sits in the driveway while the boss wonders when we are going to get our respective buttocks in to work. The Rapture will happen just that quickly. The Bible says that one will be taken and the other left; leading us to believe that the Rapture will be so quick that even in mid-conversation one of the talkers will just vanish. If you happen to be on a talk show, your microphone might thump to the seat formerly occupied by your body just as the host asks his question. If you choose to reject Jesus, you might be walking with a friend as she asks you one more time to attend a Bible study with her and... suddenly, completely, your friend is not there. If the non-believing and left behind person was walking out here where a person can see for miles, that vanishing will be a very difficult mystery to solve.
On the other hand, for you and for me the mystery might be no mystery at all. Gladly will we put our plans for the evening meal away as we prepare to have our next meal at the wedding feast of the Lamb. With joy we will leave our work behind as we greet the Lord of All. The looming deadline, the next assignment, the toil of the workplace... all left behind as we see Jesus in his glory. The difference between those left on this earth to face the tribulation and those taken up to be with Jesus is huge and hard to get our minds around.
Writing about history, I often find myself imagining too much. When writing about the Rapture, I find it hard to imagine enough. We just don't know all that might happen when so many of us are suddenly snatched up from the Earth. Heavy thinking for a Tuesday after a holiday weekend. Until that great day, go with God and share the Good News!
Bucky
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