As With That Other Thing

For as in the days before the flood, they were eating and drinking, marrying and giving in marriage, until the day that Noah entered the ark, and did not know until the flood came and took them all away, so also will the coming of the Son of Man be.  Matthew 24:38-39

Last week the frozen food delivery company from Minnesota let us know they were quitting in this area. As with that other thing, we can no longer see the yellow trucks delivering to our homes. No, not the Meadow Gold trucks, if you happen to be old enough to recall those yellow things, but the Schwan's trucks. In the rural areas we can see the signs of the times by what we can no longer have delivered to our homes. The milk man gave it up years ago, then newspaper carriers, and now frozen foods. I may have forgotten some others. Letter carriers may be next. When UPS calls it quits, I figure we should just step outside and await the coming of our Lord, because as the folks out in the sticks will say, "No more Amazon packages? We're done here!"

Strangely to us perhaps, none of those things are in the Revelation, the Olivet Discourse, or any of the other prophecies of the end times. Quite the opposite actually, as our Lord states that things will be pretty normal just before He returns. We like to scan the scriptures and listen to the sermons for an announcement: next Tuesday at 4:30, be ready to go - but, we can either be ready all the time through our salvation in Christ, or not be ready at all. For in either case, the surprise will be complete, else Paul would not have used the image of a snatching away. 

Oh to be snatched away by the Lord today! 

Bucky