That night was not the first time I had heard of the second coming of the Lord Jesus Christ, but that night for the first time the great truth took possession of my soul: the Lord Jesus Christ is coming back, and He will come in the twinkling of an eye!
These words were true! I felt them to be true! The Holy Spirit of God simply drove them into my very soul, and I began to realize the awfulness of my unconverted, unprepared condition.
As I left the room that night my alarm was intensified. A strange and startling sight met my eyes as I looked up into the heavens. Never before had I seen such a display of the northern lights. Streaks of brilliant light were flashing across the sky, and the awful thought came to me that the Lord Jesus was just about to descend into the air. I clung closely to a Christian by whose side I was walking, as though for greater safety, and said tremblingly, "I don't want to go to hell!"
"No," she replied; "it would be terrible to go there."
By this time the Lord had opened my eyes to see my lost and needy condition and in my distress I cried to Him. Before long I was able to rejoice in Christ as my Savior and Deliverer from the wrath to come.
How is it with you? Are you ready for His coming? Perhaps you have Christian parents and friends as I had. What a terrible thing if the Lord were to come this day and take them to glory but leave you behind! Remember, it will be in the twinkling of an eye.
I, in my ignorance, thought that these flashes of light in the sky were warning signs that the Lord Jesus was coming. No such signs will take place before He comes into the air for His people. It will be in a moment, in the twinkling of an eye.
No time to prepare! If you are not ready, you will be left behind to undergo the awful judgments that will fall upon the earth, and to be punished with everlasting destruction from the presence of the Lord.