Homesick!

This World Is Not Our Home

“In My Father’s House are many mansions: if it were not so I would have 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 be also” (John 14:2,3).

The Lord made this promise to His Disciples just before His death. They had been with Him for some three and a half years and He was about to go by way of Calvary. This promise, although I’m sure encouraging to the Apostles, was a promise to return for His church at the end of the age, just prior to the judgment that would befall a world that had rejected Him.

After the Lord’s departure, The Apostle Paul would also encourage and reassure us in His epistle to the Thessalonians. He said that the Lord has not appointed those that are His own to rath (to go through the end-times Great Tribulation). The Lord, Himself, will descend from Heaven and we will meet Him in the air. The church has been awaiting this blessed event since the time of Christ’s first Advent. It’s called the “Blessed Hope.” It’s a sure hope because, as our introductory verse tells us, the Lord Himself made us this promise.

We are in the end times right now and prophetically nothing must take place prior to the Rapture of the church. What we are experiencing in the world today with lawlessness abounding and everyone doing what seems right in their own eyes with little regard for the ways of God, causes those that are truly watching for His coming to look for His soon return.

“For our citizenship is in Heaven, from which we eagerly wait for the Savior, the Lord Jesus Christ” (Philippians 3:20).

Though things may be getting darker in our troubled world, we know that the Bible foretold just how things would be just prior to the Lord’s return, and as we look around us we see the coming fulfillment of all that was prophesied for these last days. The world is not our home and we are homesick for our Heavenly home. We are awaiting the day when our Father tells His Son that the hour has come. That will be the day! The day we have been waiting for when we shall see the One that loved us and died for us that we might be with Him forever.

“And so shall we ever be with the Lord” (1 Thessalonians  4:17b).

Always Remember,

God Loves You!

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