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By Elizabeth Prata
This post first appeared on The End Time in September 2012. I notice that my "Throwback" essays that I choose are usually prophecy. I am sad that eschatological topics have become marginalized, or too "controversial" to discuss. Many people avoid them altogether. This should not be so. They exist to orient us to our actual home, heaven, to excite us about the work we do now for when we see Him later, and to encourage us. (1 Peter 2:11, 1 Thessalonians 4:18).
I'm excited for what lay ahead and of course mainly to be rid of this body of death and sin no more! There are exciting times ahead, whether we enter into them through death's door or through the rapture, we are all one day closer to it than we were yesterday. Be excited!
Imagine how excited JESUS is! I like to think that He is excited as any groom who awaits his bride would be. As the moment draws closer the more excited any groom becomes. He is eager, thinking of all the love He has for his soon to be bride.
Jesus is the ultimate bridegroom, so His love and excitement is superlative and perfect, excellently outpacing our excitement at His soon return!
I know we sense the nearness of the time. We know the rapture can happen imminently, it has always been imminent. But the time seems so close, and we're excited to see our Groom.
Our Groom is even more excited to claim His Bride, I am sure!
Don't you think so too?!
"And Jesus said to them, “Can the wedding guests mourn as long as the bridegroom is with them? The days will come when the bridegroom is taken away from them, and then they will fast." (Matthew 9:15).
The long dry spell of life without Him bodily on earth is almost over.
John the Baptist said,
"The bride belongs to the bridegroom. The friend who attends the bridegroom waits and listens for him, and is full of joy when he hears the bridegroom's voice. That joy is mine, and it is now complete." (John 3:29).
O, we long to hear His voice, but He longs for His Bride, and waits for the Father to tell the Son:
"GO GET YOUR BRIDE."
"For the Lord himself will descend from heaven with a cry of command, with the voice of an archangel, and with the sound of the trumpet of God. And the dead in Christ will rise first. Then we who are alive, who are left, will be caught up together with them in the clouds to meet the Lord in the air, and so we will always be with the Lord. Therefore encourage one another with these words." (1 Thessalonians 4:16-18).
Be encouraged! We are one day closer to that moment than we were yesterday!
This post first appeared on The End Time in September 2012. I notice that my "Throwback" essays that I choose are usually prophecy. I am sad that eschatological topics have become marginalized, or too "controversial" to discuss. Many people avoid them altogether. This should not be so. They exist to orient us to our actual home, heaven, to excite us about the work we do now for when we see Him later, and to encourage us. (1 Peter 2:11, 1 Thessalonians 4:18).
I'm excited for what lay ahead and of course mainly to be rid of this body of death and sin no more! There are exciting times ahead, whether we enter into them through death's door or through the rapture, we are all one day closer to it than we were yesterday. Be excited!
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Imagine how excited JESUS is! I like to think that He is excited as any groom who awaits his bride would be. As the moment draws closer the more excited any groom becomes. He is eager, thinking of all the love He has for his soon to be bride.
Jesus is the ultimate bridegroom, so His love and excitement is superlative and perfect, excellently outpacing our excitement at His soon return!
I know we sense the nearness of the time. We know the rapture can happen imminently, it has always been imminent. But the time seems so close, and we're excited to see our Groom.
Our Groom is even more excited to claim His Bride, I am sure!
Don't you think so too?!
"And Jesus said to them, “Can the wedding guests mourn as long as the bridegroom is with them? The days will come when the bridegroom is taken away from them, and then they will fast." (Matthew 9:15).
The long dry spell of life without Him bodily on earth is almost over.
John the Baptist said,
"The bride belongs to the bridegroom. The friend who attends the bridegroom waits and listens for him, and is full of joy when he hears the bridegroom's voice. That joy is mine, and it is now complete." (John 3:29).
O, we long to hear His voice, but He longs for His Bride, and waits for the Father to tell the Son:
"GO GET YOUR BRIDE."
"For the Lord himself will descend from heaven with a cry of command, with the voice of an archangel, and with the sound of the trumpet of God. And the dead in Christ will rise first. Then we who are alive, who are left, will be caught up together with them in the clouds to meet the Lord in the air, and so we will always be with the Lord. Therefore encourage one another with these words." (1 Thessalonians 4:16-18).
Be encouraged! We are one day closer to that moment than we were yesterday!
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