IS THE LORD STILL COMING BACK?

                          IS THE LORD STILL COMING BACK?

One of the questions most atheists, Christians, Muslims and Jews are asking is this “is Jesus still coming back?”  The Jews are expecting a messiah to come, the Christians are expecting the return of that messiah{Jesus}, the Muslims are expecting the return of a saviour by name Mahdi while the atheists do not believe that there is a messiah and so have no expectations.

The atheists are saying things like “so Jesus promised to come back, did he? Where is he? He’ll never come.” Some Christians are in doubt if Jesus will still come back as he promised. Others are thinking that he is taking too long to come while yet another faction are expecting him to come any moment from now.

Amidst all these different views about the messiah’s return is one truth which should be considered, that is “the Lord’s promise”. What did the bible say about the messiah’s promised return?

1 1.     Did Jesus ever promise a return?

Jesus himself promised that he was going to come back to reap the harvest and all eyes shall see him when he returns. This promised return is not any man’s ideology. It is the very word of Jesus Himself. For all who are wondering if Jesus is ever going to come. Here are some verses for you to hear from Jesus himself.

And Jesus said, I am: and ye shall see the Son of man sitting on the right hand of power, and coming in the clouds of heaven.{Mark 14:62}

 "At that time the sign of the Son of Man will appear in the sky, and all the nations of the earth will mourn. They will see the Son of Man coming on the clouds of the sky, with power and great glory. And he will send his angels with a loud trumpet call, and they will gather his elect from the four winds, from one end of the heavens to the other. (Matthew 24:30-31)

  For the Son of Man is going to come in his Father's glory with his angels, and then he will reward each person according to what he has done. ((Matthew 16:27)

2.  Why has he not come yet?

³ First, I want to remind you that in the last days there will come scoffers who will do every wrong they can think of and laugh at the truth. ⁴ This will be their line of argument: “So Jesus promised to come back, did he? Then where is he? He’ll never come! Why, as far back as anyone can remember, everything has remained exactly as it was since the first day of creation.”{2Peter 1:3 TLB}

Many have said that Jesus is not coming again. They think that if he was going to come he would have come since. They don’t know that the reason he hasn’t come yet is because he is merciful and wants all of them to repent first, to accept Jesus as their saviour first. He doesn’t want them to perish at his return. He is therefore giving more time for sinners to repent. What a merciful saviour we’ve got. But he will surely come!!!

⁹ He isn’t really being slow about his promised return, even though it sometimes seems that way. But he is waiting, for the good reason that he is not willing that any should perish, and he is giving more time for sinners to repent. ¹⁰ The day of the Lord is surely coming, as unexpectedly as a thief, and then the heavens will pass away with a terrible noise, and the heavenly bodies will disappear in fire, and the earth and everything on it will be burned up.{2Peter 3:9-10}

  3.  What should I do? Keep waiting for him

 And to wait for his Son from heaven, whom he raised from the dead, [even] Jesus, which delivered us from the wrath to come. {1Thessalonians 1:10}

The bible encourages us to keep waiting for him and not to give up. He is coming, the one who delivered us from the wrath to come. Yes! There is a coming wrath and it shall be terrible for all who have not accepted the Lord. Thanks to God for having delivered us already from that wrath. Yes, Jesus Life blood delivers us from the coming wrath.

⁹ Much more then, being now justified by his blood, we shall be saved from wrath through him.

¹⁰ For if, when we were enemies, we were reconciled to God by the death of his Son, much more, being reconciled, we shall be saved by his life. {Romans 5:9-10}

  4.  What will happen to our bodies

One of the most exciting thing about the return of the lord is that we are going to have new bodies. This dying bodies of ours will be transformed into immortal bodies, a celestial nature. Oh! How I long to put on that new body, that incorruptible body. What a joy to know that we shall have heavenly bodies that can never die.

 ⁵⁰ I tell you this, my brothers: an earthly body made of flesh and blood cannot get into God’s Kingdom. These perishable bodies of ours are not the right kind to live forever.

⁵¹ But I am telling you this strange and wonderful secret: we shall not all die, but we shall all be given new bodies! ⁵² It will all happen in a moment, in the twinkling of an eye, when the last trumpet is blown. For there will be a trumpet blast from the sky,^[f] and all the Christians who have died will suddenly become alive, with new bodies that will never, never die; and then we who are still alive shall suddenly have new bodies too. ⁵³ For our earthly bodies, the ones we have now that can die, must be transformed into heavenly bodies that cannot perish but will live forever.{1 Corinthians 15:50-52 TLB}

Dear friends I long to be clothed with this new body. Diseases can’t contaminate this body. There shall be no cancer, AIDS, hepatitis etc. neither would we need to take drugs. For our new bodies shall have divine immunity.

 For we know that when this earthly tent we live in is taken down (that is, when we die and leave this earthly body), we will have a house in heaven, an eternal body made for us by God himself and not by human hands. ² We grow weary in our present bodies, and we long to put on our heavenly bodies like new clothing. ³ For we will put on heavenly bodies; we will not be spirits without bodies.^[a] 4 While we live in these earthly bodies, we groan and sigh, but it’s not that we want to die and get rid of these bodies that clothe us. Rather, we want to put on our new bodies so that these dying bodies will be swallowed up by life. {2Corinthians 5:1-4 NLT}

OH WOW, I LONG FOR THIS NEW BODY!!

5.  When is all this going to happen?

 When is all this going to happen? I really don’t need to say anything about that, dear brothers, ² for you know perfectly well that no one knows. That day of the Lord will come unexpectedly, like a thief in the night. ³ When people are saying, “All is well; everything is quiet and peaceful”—then, all of a sudden, disaster will fall upon them as suddenly as a woman’s birth pains begin when her child is born. And these people will not be able to get away anywhere—there will be no place to hide. {1Thessalonians 5:1-3 TLB}

The truth is that no one knows the time nor the hour when the Lord will return but most of the things that Jesus said will happen before his return are already happening. He will come as a thief in the night, that is to say unexpectedly, to the world but not to us who are born again. His coming will not take us by surprise because we are children of light. We are not in the dark about his coming. It won’t be a shocker for us when he comes because we are expecting him already. As a bride waits for her groom so we wait for the Lords return.

⁴ But, dear brothers, you are not in the dark about these things, and you won’t be surprised as by a thief when that day of the Lord comes. ⁵ For you are all children of the light and of the day, and do not belong to darkness and night. ⁶ So be on your guard, not asleep like the others. Watch for his return and stay sober. ⁷ Night is the time for sleep and the time when people get drunk {1Thessalonians 5:4-7 TLB}

6. Get protected

Most times when preachers talk about the coming of the Lord, they tell us to get ready for his return without telling us exactly how to do so. The few who try to tell us how are found telling us about Ten Commandments and Jewish rituals. If he must not take us unawares as a thief in the night, then there are three things we need to have that will protect us. They are an armor of faith, an armor of love and a helmet of hope of salvation. If believers can have these triad, then his coming will not take us by surprise. God has chosen to save us through our Lord Jesus Christ. He didn’t choose to pour his wrath on us but to live with him forever when he returns.

. ⁸ But let us who live in the light keep sober, protected by the armor of faith and love, and wearing as our helmet the happy hope of salvation.

⁹ For God has not chosen to pour out his anger upon us but to save us through our Lord Jesus Christ; ¹⁰ he died for us so that we can live with him forever, whether we are dead or alive at the time of his return. ¹¹ So encourage each other to build each other up, just as you are already doing. {1Thessalonians 5:8-9 TLB}

7.  Forever with Him

There are all kinds of doctrines being taught in different churches and religious groups about what will happen after the rapture. People have said all manner of stuffs about how long we will be with Christ, and how that we will come back again to earth to reign here on earth and be separated from Christ again and so on and so forth. Well, all I want to say is that the bible says that we shall be caught up to meet the Lord in the air and so shall we be with him forever. We are getting married to him, never to be separated again. We shall spend eternity with him. It really doesn’t matter much to me how beautiful heaven is as much as it matters to me that I will be spending eternity with the one who loves me and gave his life to die on the cross for me. I long to see him and worship him forever.

  Then we which are alive [and] remain shall be caught up together with them in the clouds, to meet the Lord in the air: and so shall we ever be with the Lord. {1Thessalonians 4:17}

  8.  Will he come from the east or west?

Many false christs and prophets have already emerged in different parts of the world claiming to be Jesus. They have deceived so many people and you will be amazed at the number of followers they have. I will mention a few of them in this article.

# Seygey Anatolyevitch Torop{Vissaron}, a former traffic cop in former USSR

# Oscar Ramiro Ortega-Hernandez, a man who tried to kill Obama saying Obama is antichrist and he is the Christ.

# Wayne bent {Micheal Travesser}, a former pastor in 7^th day adventist in new mexico

#Jose Luis de Jesus Miranda, who claimed to be Jesus and antichrist at the same time with the 666 tattoo on his arm. He is in Miami Florida

#Apollo Quiboloy, based in the phillipines.

# Ahn Sahng-Hong, based in south Korea. He believes in God the mother.

# Allan John Miller, who also claims to remember his death on the cross. He has a partner who claims to be Mary Magdalene. They are both in Australia.

# Inri Cristo, based in Brasilia.

I have only mentioned a few names here but trust me many more false christs will arise and deceive many. Now these people are all coming from different countries and most of the people in the world do not know them.

The true messiah, Jesus Christ the son of God will not come from the east or the west, neither will he appear to only a group of people. All eyes shall see him when he comes. His coming will not be a secret one.

⁷ Behold, he cometh with clouds; and every eye shall see him, and they also which pierced him: and all kindreds of the earth shall wail because of him. Even so, Amen. {Revelations 1:7}

 Jesus answered: "Watch out that no one deceives you. For many will come in my name, claiming, 'I am the Christ,' and will deceive many. And many false prophets will appear and deceive many people. At that time if anyone says to you, 'Look, here is the Christ!' or, 'There he is!' do not believe it. For false Christs and false prophets will appear and perform great signs and miracles to deceive even the elect--if that were possible. See, I have told you ahead of time. "So if anyone tells you, 'There he is, out in the desert,' do not go out; or, 'Here he is, in the inner rooms,' do not believe it. For as lightning that comes from the east is visible even in the west, so will be the coming of the Son of Man. (Matthew 24:4-5; 11; 23-27)

  9.  Do you have faith that he is coming

³⁷ For yet a little while, and he that shall come will come, and will not tarry.

³⁸ Now the just shall live by faith: but if any man draw back, my soul shall have no pleasure in him.

³⁹ But we are not of them who draw back unto perdition; but of them that believe to the saving of the soul. {Hebrews 10:37-39}

Do not draw back in unbelief, his coming is nearer than before. Keep your faith alive. If you don’t know Jesus yet, it’s time for you to accept him as Lord over your life. Only those who trust him to save them shall be saved. Only those who have faith shall live.

Everything Jesus said will happen before his return shall definitely be accomplished. To know about the signs of his return, you may want to read my article on “the coming desolations” posted December 28, 2015. The good news is that our redemption draws near.

²⁸ And when these things begin to come to pass, then look up, and lift up your heads; for your redemption draweth nigh.{Luke 21:28}

so Christ, having been offered once and once for all to bear [as a burden] the sins of many, will appear a second time [when he returns to earth], not to deal with sin, but to bring salvation to those who are eagerly and confidently waiting for Him{Hebrews 9:28 AMP}

THE CERTAINTY OF HEAVEN

    THE CERTAINTY OF HEAVEN

 I recently saw an app on face book that determines whether or not people will go to heaven or hell and my first reaction was “wow, this is funny”. It was funny to me because it didn’t make sense that an app could determine our eternal destination. Well that was just a face book app and believe me, many who will take the test will add emotions to it and believe what the app would predict about their eternal destination. Why not? People aren’t sure where they are heading after this life on earth is over.

I have had discussions in the past with a number of believers regarding this issue of eternal destination and I was amazed to find out that a greater percentage of Christians cannot tell with certainty if they will go to heaven or not. They say stuffs like “only God knows those who will go to heaven or hell”.

My unuttered questions to them is “if you are not certain of heaven, then why do you go for evangelism and ask people to accept Jesus?” Why would you want unbelievers to join you in your uncertainty? If I were not born again and someone comes preaching to me to accept Jesus Christ and says to me that he is not sure if this Jesus could guarantee my eternal destination but that I should just accept Him; I would frankly not accept Him.

Most people who are truly born again accepted Jesus because they needed a saviour, they needed help. They needed an assurance of eternal salvation. They knew they couldn’t ever think of going to heaven without the help of God. When I saw how evil and sinful I was and how that I was heading straight for hell without Jesus in my life, I surrendered my life to the only one who is able to save to the uttermost, Jesus Christ the righteous. I was 100% certain that accepting Jesus in my life would guarantee me heaven. I don’t know if my case was different but I believe that most Christians had the same experience and trusted Christ to save them too.

If this is true with most Christians, then one cannot but wonder what happened to that certainty, that hope of eternal salvation; the hope of glory that made people surrender their lives to Christ. How come Christians can no longer tell for sure if they will make heaven or not? At what point did this probability set in? I feel so shocked to hear Christians say its 50-50 chance to make heaven.

14 For we [believers] have become partakers of Christ [sharing in all that the Messiah has for us], if only we hold firm our newborn confidence [which originally led us to Him] until the end,{Hebrews 3:14 AMP}

Most people reading this article will have a hard time believing the truths I am about to reveal from God’s word and this article may perhaps be one of the most controversial Christian literature they will ever read but let God be true and all men liars. I am going to share with you some verses that will help you believe again with all certainty that heaven is your home once you accept Jesus Christ as your saviour.

1.     Why are most Christians uncertain of heaven? Because they don’t know the way to heaven.

I know it sounds foolish to call them Christians and yet say that they don’t know the way to heaven. Yes, they go to church every Sunday and listen to the messages but they are still ignorant of the way to heaven. Well! I am not surprised. Even the disciples that were with Jesus for about 3years and a half didn’t know the way to heaven nor how to get there. They were troubled just like most Christians today and uncertain of their eternal destination. Thankfully, Jesus resolved their ignorance.

“Let not your heart be troubled. You are trusting God, now trust in me. ^2-3 There are many homes up there where my Father lives, and I am going to prepare them for your coming. When everything is ready, then I will come and get you, so that you can always be with me where I am. If this weren’t so, I would tell you plainly. ⁴ And you know where I am going and how to get there.”

⁵ “No, we don’t,” Thomas said. “We haven’t any idea where you are going, so how can we know the way?”

⁶ Jesus told him, “I am the Way—yes, and the Truth and the Life. No one can get to the Father except by means of me. {John 14:1-6 TLB}

Did you notice that Jesus has gone to prepare for our arrival into heaven? There are enough rooms in heaven for everyone who would believe that Christ can save them and take them to heaven. It is a pity that the people for whom the rooms of heaven are prepared do not believe with unwavering certainty that they are going to make heaven. JESUS IS THE WAY, THE TRUTH AND THE LIFE.ANYONE WHO MUST GET TO HEAVEN MUST ACCEPT AND TRUST HIM.

2.     Why can’t most Christians trust in Jesus as the only way to heaven?

Seriously, this is an important question that needs to be answered regarding this entry into heaven. How can a people accept a saviour and still not trust His ability to fulfil His promise of salvation to them? The reason is because many Christians think that it is pretty too cheap to just enter heaven by just one way. Just accepting Jesus is really too easy a criteria to entering a place as eternal and glorious as heaven, many Christians would say. Man always wants to do something else to show how strong or wise he is even though we are all weak without God and God’s foolishness is wiser than the wisdom of all of us put together. Man is always trying to complement what God has already completed and by so doing complicating issues for himself. God has made salvation discrete-just one narrow way; who is Christ Jesus but man would rather chase after Ten Commandments and many Jewish laws. Man prefers the broad way, the sweat- it- out- route, the flex -your –muscles- route, the self- righteousness- route. It seems easier to man to try to save himself. Only few have truly found the narrow way that leads to life though we may have ten thousand people in church.

¹³ “Heaven can be entered only through the narrow gate! The highway to hell^[b] is broad, and its gate is wide enough for all the multitudes who choose its easy way. ¹⁴ But the Gateway to Life is small, and the road is narrow, and only a few ever find it. {Mathhew 7:13-14 TLB}

   3.     They preach about the narrow way in church but don’t understand what they preach.

You probably would have heard your pastor recite and teach on the Matthew 7:13-14 quoted above. The truth is that if we truly understood that Jesus is that narrow gateway to life and that we have found Him already, we wouldn’t need to worry about our eternal destination anymore. Heaven can be entered only through the narrow gate. If we believe it with all certainty, then we would preach to sinners with every boldness and enthusiasm to accept this narrow gate also. We would cry out to the Jews to stop depending on the Ten Commandments and the laws of Moses as the criteria to entering heaven. We would let Muslims know that they don’t need FIVE MUST DO’S before they can enter heaven. Even the atheist would come to realize that moralism and being good enough cannot take them to heaven. EVERY MAN WOULD WANT TO ACCEPT THE NARROW GATE, THE DOOR-JESUS CHRIST THE RIGHTEOUS.

 ⁹ I am the door. If anyone enters by Me, he will be saved, and will go in and out and find pasture.¹⁰ The thief does not come except to steal, and to kill, and to destroy. I have come that they may have life, and that they may have it more abundantly. {John 10:9 NKJV}

In the very words of Jesus” I am the door. If anyone enters by Me, he will be saved” But I am still amazed that many who ought to have entered through him could not enter because they are trying to carry some extra luggage {religious rules and rituals, self -righteousness, moralism etc.}Alongside. Unfortunately for them, the door is so narrow that only FAITH IN CHRIST JESUS can pass through it.

      4.     Pastors are preaching a different gospel

The average believer thinks that the gospel of salvation by faith alone in Christ Jesus is a fake gospel. That is why they attack men of God who preach faith as criteria for salvation. They believe more in the message of works and self- righteousness as the true gospel. They are simply ignorant of what the true gospel really is. They forget so soon the gospel they heard that made them accept Jesus Christ as saviour. They trusted Christ to save them when they surrendered their lives to Him but now have turned from that hope in Christ to depend on self-righteousness.

⁶ I am amazed that you are turning away so soon from God who, in his love and mercy, invited you to share the eternal life he gives through Christ; you are already following a different “way to heaven,” which really doesn’t go to heaven at all. ⁷ For there is no other way than the one we showed you; you are being fooled by those who twist and change the truth concerning Christ.

⁸ Let God’s curses fall on anyone, including myself, who preaches any other way to be saved than the one we told you about; yes, if an angel comes from heaven and preaches any other message, let him be forever cursed. ⁹ I will say it again: if anyone preaches any other gospel than the one you welcomed, let God’s curse fall upon him. {Galatians 1:6-9 TLB}

They have all backslidden unknowingly. The moment you turn away from the true gospel of faith in Christ Jesus to start having confidence in the flesh, you fall away from grace. Most pastors are preaching the laws of Moses as the way to be saved. Paul said there is no other way to heaven than through Christ Jesus. Any pastor, bishop or pope who preaches any other way to be saved is under God’s curse.

 ² Listen to me, for this is serious: if you are counting on circumcision and keeping the Jewish laws to make you right with God, then Christ cannot save you. ³ I’ll say it again. Anyone trying to find favor with God by being circumcised must always obey every other Jewish law or perish. ⁴ Christ is useless to you if you are counting on clearing your debt to God by keeping those laws; you are lost from God’s grace. {Galatians 5:2-4 TLB}

The pastors are preaching that we should go get eternal life by ourselves, that we should work hard to get but Jesus said he is the one who gives eternal life and once he gives you, no man can snatch you from his hands

 ²⁷ My sheep recognize my voice, and I know them, and they follow me. ²⁸ I give them eternal life and they shall never perish. No one shall snatch them away from me, ²⁹ for my Father has given them to me, and he is more powerful than anyone else, so no one can kidnap them from me. ³⁰ I and the Father are one.”{John 10:27-30 TLB}

5.   The believer’s name is registered in heaven

What if I told you that your name is already registered in heaven? Will that boost your assurance that heaven is your home? Verily Verily I say unto you that your name is already written in the lamb’s book of life. If you have accepted the Lamb of God who takes away the sin of the world as your saviour then congratulations to you. You are registered already and your room has been prepared in heaven waiting for you. Stop doubting whether or not you will make heaven. Keep on believing what you believed at first when you surrendered your life to Christ.

³ Go back to what you heard and believed at first; hold to it firmly and turn to me again. Unless you do, I will come suddenly upon you, unexpected as a thief, and punish you.

⁴ “Yet even there in Sardis some haven’t soiled their garments with the world’s filth; they shall walk with me in white, for they are worthy.⁵ Everyone who conquers will be clothed in white, and I will not erase his name from the Book of Life, but I will announce before my Father and his angels that he is mine. {Revelations 3:3-5 TLB}

Those who keep on having faith in Christ have their names indelibly written in the book of life. Jesus will announce them before the father on that day as His own.

We have already overcome the world by faith. The victory that conquers the world is our faith. We shall be clothed in white.

 ⁴ For whatever is born of God overcomes the world. And this is the victory that has overcome the world—our^[a] faith. {1John 5:4 TLB}

   

We are the redeemed of the Lord and our spirits are already mad perfect in heaven. The day He offered up himself as an offering for sin, He perfected us forever. He knew all those who would accept him and has predestined us to eternal salvation. We are registered in heaven with a perfect spirit.

²² But you have come right up into Mount Zion, to the city of the living God, the heavenly Jerusalem, and to the gathering of countless happy angels; ²³ and to the church, composed of all those registered in heaven; and to God who is Judge of all; and to the spirits of the redeemed in heaven, already made perfect; ²⁴ and to Jesus himself, who has brought us his wonderful new agreement; and to the sprinkled blood, which graciously forgives instead of crying out for vengeance as the blood of Abel did.{Hebrews 12:22-24 TLB}

¹⁴ For by that one offering he made forever perfect in the sight of God all those whom he is making holy. {Hebrews 10:14 TLB}

Maybe you are wondering “but when was my name written?” Well before the world began God already chose you and wrote your name in the book of life.

 ⁸ He was alive but isn’t now. And yet, soon he will come up out of the bottomless pit and go to eternal destruction;^[b] and the people of earth, whose names have not been written in the Book of Life before the world began, will be dumbfounded at his reappearance after being dead.*{Revelations 17:8 TLB}

6.     How am I sure that He will take me to heaven?

I can tell you with every assurance that the Lord Himself will come and take us home one day. I don’t know the day but I know it is no longer far. I know our salvation is nearer now than when we first believed. I know that yet a little while He that shall come will come and will not tarry. The only thing you need is to believe in Christ. The just shall live by faith.  

¹⁵ I can tell you this directly from the Lord: that we who are still living when the Lord returns will not rise to meet him ahead of those who are in their graves. ¹⁶ For the Lord himself will come down from heaven with a mighty shout and with the soul-stirring cry of the archangel and the great trumpet-call of God. And the believers who are dead will be the first to rise to meet the Lord. ¹⁷ Then we who are still alive and remain on the earth will be caught up with them in the clouds to meet the Lord in the air and remain with him forever. ¹⁸ So comfort and encourage each other with this news.{1 Thessalonians 4:15-18 TLB}

Did you notice that the BELIEVERS who are dead and those who will be alive at His coming will be taken home to heaven? I thought it would have said, those who kept the Ten Commandments will be taken to heaven or those who are moralists, atheist or Muslims. No! It says the BELIEVERS!

¹¹ He came as High Priest of this better system that we now have. He went into that greater, perfect tabernacle in heaven, not made by men nor part of this world, ¹² and once for all took blood into that inner room, the Holy of Holies, and sprinkled it on the mercy seat; but it was not the blood of goats and calves. No, he took his own blood, and with it he, by himself, made sure of our eternal salvation. {Hebrews 9:11-12 TLB}

3 All honor to God, the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ; for it is his boundless mercy that has given us the privilege of being born again so that we are now members of God’s own family. Now we live in the hope of eternal life because Christ rose again from the dead. 4 And God has reserved for his children the priceless gift of eternal life; it is kept in heaven for you, pure and undefiled, beyond the reach of change and decay. 5 And God, in his mighty power, will make sure that you get there safely to receive it because you are trusting him. It will be yours in that coming last day for all to see. 6 So be truly glad! There is wonderful joy ahead, even though the going is rough for a while down here.{1Peter 1:3-6 TLB}

4 For we have heard of your faith in Christ Jesus and of your love for all God's people. 5 When the true message, the Good News, first came to you, you heard about the hope it offers. So your faith and love are based on what you hope for, which is kept safe for you in heaven. 6 The gospel keeps bringing blessings and is spreading throughout the world, just as it has among you ever since the day you first heard about the grace of God and came to know it as it really is.{Col 1:4-6 GNT}

7.   No fear of the rapture

It’s a pity that whenever the rapture is preached in church, people end up in fear and lack of faith, they start thinking about their self-righteousness, how good or how bad they think they’ve been. This is because they think that the rapture is about God coming to punish their sins. Paul said the rapture should be a thing of joy, comfort and encouragement to us not to scare us. Let me tell you the truth. Christ is not coming to deal with our sins, He already defeated sin on the cross. He is coming to save us from this corrupt world and to take us into our heavenly home. The bride has no reason to be afraid of her groom’s return. She patiently waits for Him with joyous expectation

so also Christ died only once as an offering for the sins of many people; and he will come again, but not to deal again with our sins. This time he will come bringing salvation to all those who are eagerly and patiently waiting for him. {Hebrews 9:28 TLB}

⁹ For God has not chosen to pour out his anger upon us but to save us through our Lord Jesus Christ; ¹⁰ he died for us so that we can live with him forever, whether we are dead or alive at the time of his return. ¹¹ So encourage each other to build each other up, just as you are already doing. {1Thessalonians 5:9-11 TLB}

I believe now that you have read the verses in this article, you will stop thinking that you have a 50-50 chance of making heaven and start believing that in Christ you have 100% certainty and assurance of heaven. God is not a man that He should lie nor the son of man that He should change His plans. His promise is steadfast” WHOSOEVER BELIEVES IN CHRIST SHALL HAVE ETERNAL LIFE”. You can trust God to deliver on His promises. What makes you a believer is your belief in Christ as your saviour and only way to heaven. Once you start doubting this then you are not a believer.  

 ¹⁷ God also bound himself with an oath, so that those he promised to help would be perfectly sure and never need to wonder whether he might change his plans.

¹⁸ He has given us both his promise and his oath, two things we can completely count on, for it is impossible for God to tell a lie. Now all those who flee to him to save them can take new courage when they hear such assurances from God; now they can know without doubt that he will give them the salvation he has promised them.

¹⁹ This certain hope of being saved is a strong and trustworthy anchor for our souls, connecting us with God himself behind the sacred curtains of heaven, ²⁰ where Christ has gone ahead to plead for us from his position as our High Priest,^[b] with the honor and rank of Melchizedek.{Hebrews 6:17-20 TLB}

²⁰ But our homeland is in heaven, where our Savior, the Lord Jesus Christ, is; and we are looking forward to his return from there. ²¹ When he comes back, he will take these dying bodies of ours and change them into glorious bodies like his own, using the same mighty power that he will use to conquer all else everywhere.{Philippians 3:20-21 TLB}

LIKE A BRIDE WAITING FOR HER GROOM.

WE WILL BE A CHURCH READY FOR YOU

EVERY HEART LONGING FOR OUR KING

WE SAY, EVEN SO COME!

LORD JESUS COME!

SO WE WAIT! WE WAIT FOR YOU!