He's returning!

This is just a good word for today! I love how the words of Jesus just transcend space and time. He said:

"Let not your hearts be troubled; you 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 to Myself; that where I am, there you may be also. And where I go you know, and the way you know" (John 14:1-4).

I love Thomas because without him one of the most famous verses in the Bible would be missing. So in the next verse he says, "Lord, we do not know where You are going; how can we know the way?" And Jesus replies with one of the most famous verses in scripture which begins, "I am the way..." See the way is a person. If you want to find your way to the very gates of heaven and into His presence, you won't do so by rules or religious acts. The way is a person. The way is Jesus Christ of Nazareth. It is a relationship with this person named, Jesus.

Jesus is returning, Arnold Schwarzenegger was not the first person to say, "I'lll be baaaacch!" General Douglas MacArthur from WWII was not the first person to say, "I shall return!" No Jesus made that promise two thousand years ago. Jesus taught about the rapture before Paul ever wrote about to the church in Thessalonica (1 Thes. 4:16-17) or the church in Corinth (1 Cor. 15:51-53).

Jesus taught; "I tell you in that night there shall be two men in one bed; the one shall be taken, and the other shall be left. Two women shall be grinding together; the one shall be taken, and the other left. Two men shall be in the field; the one shall be taken, and the other left. And they answered and said to him, 'Where Lord'?"

That should be everyones question; "Where Lord?" Then Jesus almost answering in code says, "Wherever the body is, there will the eagles be gathered together" (Luke 17:34-37). After reading His answer some of us are still saying, "Where Lord?"

Let's walk through this, the body in the original Greek, means the whole body. And the church those who are believers in Him are called His body (1 Corinthians 12:27). So where the body of the Christ is, there will the eagles be gathered together. Eagles gather in the air above the peaks of mountain, even above the area controlled by the prince of the power of the air (Ephesians 2:2, 6:12). The body of Christ is going to meet the Lord in the air, that what Paul wrote in 1 Thessalonians 4:16-17, where the eagles are gathered, to be forever with the Lord.

When, well "no man knows the day or the hour" but it will be "In a moment, in a twinkling of an eye, at the last trumpet" (1 Corinthians 15:52). It will take place prior to the seven year tribulation, that why Jesus says, "Watch and Pray always that you might be counted worthy to escape all these things that are about to take place and stand before the Son of man" (Luke 21:36).

The rapture is basically an invitation to a party that is out of this world (Revelation 19:7). Jesus gave a half dozen parable that make mention of a wedding feast or a great banquet or dinning at the table with Abraham, Isaac and Jacob. Don't miss this party, you need to RSVP. You know the way!