The Sound Of God’s Trumpet

But we do not want you to be uninformed, brothers and sisters, about those who have died, so that you may not grieve as others do who have no hope. For since we believe that Jesus died and rose again, even so, through Jesus, God will bring with him those who have died. For this we declare to you by the word of the Lord, that we who are alive, who are left until the coming of the Lord, will by no means precede those who have died. For the Lord himself, with a cry of command, with the archangel’s call and with the sound of God’s trumpet, will descend from heaven, and the dead in Christ will rise first. Then we who are alive, who are left, will be caught up in the clouds together with them to meet the Lord in the air; and so we will be with the Lord forever.

1 Thessalonians 4:13-17

Whether we have experienced the feeling that we are facing the end is not important. What is important that we be ready. We think of our Lord coming to get us. It may be that we simply take our last breath and go to meet Him. Either way, we will be with Him in heaven, in one short breath.

If we have received Jesus as our Savior, we will find ourselves anticipating with excitement His appearing again.

Christ’s second coming is as certain as His first.

Our Daily Bread – August 12, 2008