“I Come Quickly”

 •  2 min. read  •  grade level: 5
 
What a short and strange announcement-I COME QUICKLY! Imagine these words posted in large letters all over the billboards of your town. What effect would it have on everyone?
As they awake one morning, and begin to move around the town, they see everywhere around them the words, "I COME QUICKLY." What do they mean? Everyone is talking about them. The children on their way to school, people riding to work, all are puzzled as they see at every turn the startling sentence: "I COME QUICKLY."
If you will turn to the last chapter of your Bible, you will see in Rev. 22 the very sentence, "I come quickly" repeated three times over.
"Behold, I come quickly." Verse 7.
"Behold, I come quickly." Verse 12.
"SURELY I COME QUICKLY." Verse 20.
There will be quite a few, no doubt, as the message begins to dawn on them, who will treat this with scorn and indifference. Fulfilling Scripture, scoffers will say: "Where is the promise of His coming? for since the fathers fell asleep, all things continue as they were from the beginning of the creation." 2 Peter 3:4.
Be warned, something is going to happen; an event is going to take place very soon. If you are not saved, if you are not sheltered under the precious blood of Christ, when He comes it will be too late for YOU!
Scoffers who mock God's warnings will be left behind for judgment. If they will not have Christ as their Savior now, they will meet Him later as their judge.
The Lord Jesus Christ, a real living person, is the one who has promised, "Surely I come quickly."
"For 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 [believers who have died] 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.
"I come quickly," says the Lord Jesus. What is your response, then, to this great fact? Before this day is over Jesus Himself may come. Do not delay. For, "if ye believe not that I am He, ye shall die in your sins." John 8:24.