"If the Lord comes and takes all of you to heaven, I will become a Jew, and be saved with the remnant." Such was the utterance of an unsaved lad to his mother.
At that time he did not know the joy of sins forgiven. He knew he would be left behind if the Lord came for His waiting saints. He resolved in his mind that his only chance would be when the Lord again takes up the Jews for blessing, after the translation of the Church to heaven. He thought he might have a good chance to be saved during the thousand years of millenial blessing.
According to the Scriptures there is no ground for this lad's hope. Those who have heard the gospel and rejected it will never be partakers of millenial blessedness. Such will be morally blinded like the Jews of old, who, when they had the Light, refused to believe on Him. Therefore they were left in darkness and their minds are blinded, as a people, to this day.
What a solemn reflection for all Christendom! Paul says: "For if God spared not the natural branches, take heed lest He also spare not thee." Rom. 11:2121For if God spared not the natural branches, take heed lest he also spare not thee. (Romans 11:21).
Reader, you are a part of Christendom to whom that warning is most needful. It is meant for you. If you are Christless, be wise and heed it.
Before the millennium is introduced, the Lord Jesus will come into the air for His true Church. Every person who has been born again by the Spirit of God, has the knowledge of sins forgiven, and is indwelt by the Holy Ghost, forms part of the Church, and only such. It is the blessed hope of the Church to wait and watch for her coming Bridegroom. His last message to her is, "Surely I come quickly." Rev. 22:2020He which testifieth these things saith, Surely I come quickly. Amen. Even so, come, Lord Jesus. (Revelation 22:20).
Are you ready?