This picture says to me: Something IS COMING. I am unsure as to what it is, but it IS SIGNIFICANT. And it evokes more of a feeling than anything else. There is a great deal going on in the world today and very little of it is good. We live in very dangerous times, with evil progressing from bad to worse and recently morphing into the realm of unbelievable. For only the second time in my life, I can realistically envision the possibility of thermonuclear war. I was about twelve during the Cuban missile crisis and I still remember the reaction of my fellow passengers on the school bus when the transistor radio announcement was made that there might be a nuclear exchange. And the word for that was… PANIC. Now, all the kids on the bus knew that there could be a war because we had been practiced protecting ourselves from a nuclear blast by hiding underneath our school desks, but when that announcement came, some kids screamed and kept on screaming. Like I said… PANIC.
Sixty some years later, here we go again, with a mad-man governing Russia and committing atrocities in Ukraine that rival Adolph Hitler’s inhumanity during the second world war. Putin may really be considering the use of nuclear weapons in Ukraine, or it may just be political drama, misinformation or something else, but something dramatic is going to happen there and soon. How do I know? Instinct, that gut feeling you get when you just know something and you really don’t know how or why.
Having said all this, I feel that before ( or perhaps during ) a nuclear holocaust, Christ will come and make his power and glory manifest to the world. Again, how do I know? Same answer as before- a gut feeling.
The Bible says…
1 Thessalonians 4 ( World English Bible )
13 But we don’t want you to be ignorant, brothers, concerning those who have fallen asleep, so that you don’t grieve like the rest, who have no hope.
14 For if we believe that Jesus died and rose again, even so God will bring with him those who have fallen asleep in Jesus.
15 For this we tell you by the word of the Lord, that we who are alive, who are left to the coming of the Lord, will in no way precede those who have fallen asleep.
16 For the Lord himself will descend from heaven with a shout, with the voice of the archangel, and with God’s trumpet. The dead in Christ will rise first,
17 then we who are alive, who are left, will be caught up together with them in the clouds, to meet the Lord in the air. So we will be with the Lord forever.
18 Therefore comfort one another with these words.
If you are a Christian, you have hope and the comfort that whatever happens, Jesus will be there for you. So, let come what may, Jesus of Nazareth, the KING OF KINGS AND LORD OF LORDS will overcome all evil and rule forever! BELIEVE THIS, FOR IT IS TRUE!!
Maranatha
( come, O LORD ) used in 1 Corinthians 16:22