It's thundering. I'm not sure where it's coming from because when I look out the office window to the southeast, it is partly cloudy with lots of sunshine. However, there is a "shadow" in the sunlight, like maybe a big thunderhead is beginning to spread it's wings across the sun. We'll see. The rumbling does not seem to get closer or louder - yet. {updated: Map of Icelandic volcano ash movement. How funny - the 'dulling' of the sunlight may have been/be from volcanic ash!}
I just finished reading another report on what did not happen last Saturday - the Rapture. As I read it, I became sadder and sadder. Not because the Rapture did not happen, but because of the tone of the article. Laughter at the idea of a Rapture. Mocking people who truly believe Christ will one day return. I cannot help it, I am reminded of The Days of Noah.
"Now the earth was corrupt in God’s sight and was full of violence. God saw how corrupt the earth had become, for all the people on earth had corrupted their ways."
“No one knows about that day or hour, not even the angels in heaven, nor the Son, but only the Father. As it was in the days of Noah, so it will be at the coming of the Son of Man. For in the days before the flood, people were eating and drinking, marrying and giving in marriage, up to the day Noah entered the ark; and they knew nothing about what would happen until the flood came and took them all away. That is how it will be at the coming of the Son of Man. Two men will be in the field; one will be taken and the other left. Two women will be grinding with a hand mill; one will be taken and the other left.
“Therefore keep watch, because you do not know on what day your Lord will come. But understand this: If the owner of the house had known at what time of night the thief was coming, he would have kept watch and would not have let his house be broken into. So you also must be ready, because the Son of Man will come at an hour when you do not expect him.
So, people are laughing, and having parties, and making fun of those who believed that on May 21 Christ would return.
Did I believer He would return on that date? NO! I did not believe it at all! Christ could return at any moment, but as Mel pointed out, it was very unlikely that Christ would return on that date simply because some man said He would.
So, what upsets me about all of this?
It is the fact that people are trampling the Name of the Lord our God in the mud. They are mocking Him. Laughing at Him. Denying that He even exists, much less is coming again.
And in some ways it makes me shudder in fear. Fear for their very souls. Fear for the wrath that will some fall upon them. It is a fearful thing, the judgement that will soon fall upon this earth and upon those who hate God.
Reminds me of that old sermon by Jonathan Edwards, Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God.
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