The future of the born-again believers.
Many persons wonder:
"Is it a difference between the future of the world of non-christians
and the born-again christians?" To that question I will answer: Yes, a
great difference!
Jesus says to
his children these comforting words: "Let not your heart be fearful
and filled with anguish: Believe in God and believe in me. In my
Fathers house there are many mansions. If it was not so, I would have
told you. I go home to prepare a place for you. When I have prepared
that place for you I will come back and take you to me, so that you can
be where I am."
The words "take you to me," are very strong. They
point forward to that blessed moment when Jesus is coming to take us to
himself by a happening which St. Paul calls "a rapture." Rapture, in
this connection means "someone comes and takes you by force", by a
mighty power, I would say.
Paul says that
this happening will be "with a mighty shout, by the trumpet of the
archangel, by a great resurrection power. The dead in Christ will rise
first and after that we who are alive at his coming, We will be caught
up in the air in the clouds. Then we will meet the Lord Jesus and see
him just as he is. After that we will be forever with the Lord.
Comfort each other with these words."
This will be a joyful happening for all born-again
christians. All who have a personal faith in the Lord Jesus, will
experience this wonderful act from God.
All they who are in
paradise, resting in nearness of Jesus, will in that moment
experience a wonderful change. The spirit will be clothed with a
glorious body. We who are alive at his coming will receive a new and
glorious body, like the body he has in his glory.
This will be a moment of a great departure and a
great left behind. Millions and millions of saved souls will be caught
up in the air, and millions of non-believers will be left behind to
face a terrible time on this earth, described in the last book of the
Bible, The Revelation.
Let us pause for a
moment...- I will give you the most important question in all
eternity. Are you saved? Are you a born-again believer If not,
believe in the name of the Lord Jesus and you shall be saved. You have
red or heard those verses in NT called "the Little Bible." For God so
loved the world that he gave his only begotten Son, so that every one
who believes in Him shall not be eterny lost but have eternal life."
Believe in the most wonderful name in eternity and
you will be saved for eternity. God bless you
!
Oddvar Tegnander
