Awaiting the “Blessed Hope.”
“Looking for that Blessed Hope, and the glorious appearing of the Great God and our Savior Jesus Christ” (Titus 3:13).
Our world will not continue on as it has for some six thousand years. There’s coming a time when the Lord will bring judgment to this rebellious world. That judgment will be the seven-year Great Tribulation spoken of in the Book of Revelation and also prophesied in the Old Testament. It will culminate with the Second Coming of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ. We only have to look around at all that is taking place in our world today to realize that the Lord has been extremely patient and not willing any should perish, but His judgment will come and that judgment may come very soon.
The church has looked for the Lord’s coming in the Rapture of the church since its inception two thousand years ago. The Rapture is any moment catching away of all believers before the judgment coming in the Great Tribulation. The Bible gives us many signs of what the world will be like just before He comes. I won’t go into the signs in this article, but, let’s just say, that our world is looking much like the Bible said it would before the judgment.
Although the title of this article is somewhat humorous (Where’s Scotty when you need him); all true believers are longing for the Lord to come for us amid this evil world that has for the most part rejected Him. His coming for us is imminent. It could happen at any moment. Whether He does come soon or we must wait a little longer; we must be ready when He comes. If you do not know the Lord and have not been born of the Spirit, then it is extremely important to make sure that you are among the redeemed.
We are saved and made ready for the Rapture by repenting of our sins and placing our faith in Christ and His Sacrificial death on the Cross. The Lord sacrificed His life at Calvary to pay the sin debt owed by each of us to God. We cannot save ourselves. Today, the Lord draws whosoever will hear the Gospel and come to Him. Tomorrow judgment will come on all those who have gone their own way rejecting the love offered them by the One that proved that love on the Cross.
The First Epistle to the Thessalonians written by the Apostle Paul tells us exactly what will happen when the “Blessed Hope” promised happens. The following is the account by Paul with commentary:
“For the Lord Himself (Jesus) shall descend from Heaven with a shout, and the voice of the Archangel with the Trump of God: and the dead in Christ will rise first (all believers who have died): then we which are alive and remain shall be caught up (Raptured) together with them in the clouds, to meet the Lord in the air: and so shall we ever be with the Lord. Wherefore comfort one another with these words” ( 1 Thessalonians 4:16-18).
The Lord, through the Apostle Paul, wanted His church to be comforted with these words. We are to look for the “Blessed Hope,” expecting it to happen at any time. The Lord, Himself, gave us the promise of His return for us just before His Crucifixion. He comforted His disciples, and us, with these words in the following verse:
“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 of 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 unto Myself; that where I am, there you may be also” (John 14:1-3).
The Lord was letting us know that no matter what we go through in this fallen world our final destination will be with Him in Heaven and we will receive all the blessings of God.
We, as believers, have the promise of the Lord’s soon return for us. We will meet Him in the air and be with Him forever. As our world heads toward certain judgment, we can rest assured that we will be “caught up” before the start of the worst time the world has ever seen or will see. Our Lord loves us and we are not “appointed to wrath” which is what awaits the Christ-rejecting world, but we are saved by the One Who died for us and will return for us. So as we walk out our daily lives by faith in Jesus and what He accomplished at the Cross; we look for His soon return. We’ll close with one of the final verses in the Book of Revelation which closes out the Word of God and in which He gives His last words to the church He loves and the church responds with a heartfelt desire for His soon return:
“….Surely I (Jesus) come quickly. Amen. Even so, come, Lord Jesus” Revelation 22:20).
Always Remember,
God Loves You!
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