THE 21ST

I was in a comedy once in high school. It was a play entitled "It's Coming". Some scenes, some slapstick compete with a pie in the face stage fight. We drew a crowd, but not as large as the All School Play or other venues.

The picture at the right is from Easter Sunday at our church. We always draw a crowd. Counting all our Sunday services which began at 6:30 and ended after the 1:00 worship service, we had over 9,000 in attendance.

And as sure as I believe tomorrow is Thursday, I believe in the Rapture when Jesus will return to earth. I just don't believe it will be May 21, 2011, as some have suggested. Nor do I believe it will be in 2012 as the Mayan calendar indicates. I also didn't believe Nostradamus or some seer like him when he predicted a massive earthquake on the New Madrid Fault back in the 1980's, though some schools did and cancelled on that date.

All I need to know to be a believer is that Jesus is who He said He was and He is who God said He was. When Jesus said no one knows when the Rapture will occur, not even Him, but it will happen in a twinkling of the eye, then that's what I believe. So it may be that the Second Coming will occur on May 21. It may occur in the year 2012. But it will be because a sovereign and Mighty Lord decided it. Certainly not some man.

And no one alive at the time will miss it. Oh, they may miss being raptured because of their disbelief, but they will witness; they will know who Lord of Lords and King of Kings is.

It won't have to announced by any human like Jerry Hicks who uttered the last line of my high school play--It Has Come. For all will know.