Rapture

Monday 28 November
READ: I Thess. 4: 16 - 18
MORE LESSON: : I Thess. 5: 1 - 9

From creation through different dispensations in the dealing of God with man, the eternal agenda of God unfolds. God is not a God of chance and error working haphazardly. Like a master-strategist, He is working with an eternal plan and takes each move at the right time. God is a God of times and seasons and makes everything beautiful in His time, as portrayed in Eccl. 3: 11, He hath made everything beautiful in his time: also he hath set the world in their heart, so that no man can find out the work that God maketh from the beginning to the end. The birth of His Son, Jesus Christ, which was prophesied dispensations earlier, was unfolded at the right time. According to Gal 4: 4, When the fulness of the time was come, God sent forth his Son, made of a woman, made under the law. The resurrection of Jesus also happened after He spent the appointed number of days in the grave. The Holy Spirit was released at the fullness of time for Pentecost.
It is time again for another major step in the eternal agenda of God. Be it known to you today that the next thing on God's agenda is the returning of His Son Jesus Christ. God sent His Son to die at the right time, He raised Him from the dead at the appointed time and He is going to make Him come back to bring the saints home at the appointed time. The appointed time for the coming of the Lord is now! The fullness of time has come and it could happen any moment from now. The next most important agenda of God on the face of the earth is what is popularly called the rapture.
The word rapture is not in the Bible. However, it is a generally accepted doctrinal term which is used to describe the 'catching away' of the saints to meet the Lord in the sky. 'Rapture' is used to describe the global event when the Lord will appear in the cloud with a mighty trump and all those that are ready will be caught up to be with Him, The Lord himself shall descend from heaven with a shout, with the voice of the archangel, and with the trump of God: and the dead in Christ shall rise first: 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: 1 Thess 4:16-17.
Any man that misses the rapture is in for great trouble. His eternal chances are dimmed as such will be left behind to face untold tribulations. Remember the great hymn which says, When the trumpet of the Lord shall sound, the time shall be no more. Remain rapturable.

Prayer/Action
* Today and for the rest of my life, I will live a rapturable life.
* I refuse to be distracted by the cares of this world.
* Lord, help me so that I will not live like the unwise virgins or the foolish rich man, in Jesus’ name.

TODAY'S PROPHETIC PRAYER
Rise God of Israel, the warrior of old who never loses a battle, and end my battles, in the name of Jesus.