| Let nothing, dear Christian, come between your heart and the hope of the Lord’s imminent coming. Remember His promise that “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 ye may be also.” Pay no attention to those who say that certain prophetic events must take place before the Lord can come for His saints. We look not for events, but for Him. “Our conversation is in heaven; from whence also we look for the Saviour, the Lord Jesus Christ.” And heed not those who say that the tribulation, or a part of it, must first come. In speaking of that awful coming time of wrath, God’s Word assures us that “God hath not appointed us to wrath, but to obtain salvation by our Lord Jesus Christ.” And refuse the legalistic teaching which says that all believers will not be raptured, but only those who have attained to superior spirituality or who are intently looking for Him, for God’s Word assures us that “we shall all be changed” at His coming. So, “now, little children, abide in Him; that, when He shall appear, we may have confidence, and not be ashamed before Him at His coming.” |
