July 19, 2008

Is this the season?

I don't know about you

but I've been thinking a bit more lately

about the Rapture.

Now none of us know when the Rapture will occur

(remember this if you ever hear

someone that has set a definite date

for they are surely false prophets)

and there is speculation from some as to whether

there will even be a "rapture" prior to

Christ's second coming.

Several of those who believe in a Rapture of the Church,

that I have talked to (or read),

seem to think this could be the "season"

(within this generation).

Reasons for this way of thinking

are based on events that seem to have already occured

and others that are occuring now.

Will we in "our generation" or our children's generation

experience the Rapture?

Of course, there have been, in the past,

those who felt it was "at the door"

during their stay on the earth,

only to be mistaken.

Which brings me to my point here.

The Rapture is rarely discussed, as I understand it,

in seminaries because it is too controversial

(and perhaps because of prior misguidings

and many false prophets)?

Hence therefore it is rarely preached in our pulpits.

It is written...

"No one knows about that day or hour,

not even the angels in heaven, nor the Son,

but only the Father.

So you also must be ready,

because the Son of Man will come at an hour

when you do not expect him."

- Matthew 24:36,44 NIV

Many are not watching anymore

and are not being told to watch.

The church is a little gun-shy

about explaining future prophecies?

Has this become the hour when you do not expect Him?

Perhaps this is the season...
Keep watch.