You Got Left Behind, Bummer
If you are reading this the rapture has already taken place and you were left behind! Are you surprised? I’m not, I always wondered if your faith was real. That is why I built a, post this in case of the rapture, feature into my blog. So I am out of here, enjoy the tribulation. I’m sure it won’t be as bad as the prophets made it out to be. After all you will have that handy bar code on your head to make purchases easier. It will be like the Mobil Speed Pass, think of all the time you will save. Bummer, I won’t figure out the ending to Lost. Shoot! Going through the tribulation might have been worth it to figure that out. It is going to bug me the whole time I am in heaven. Will someone please TIVO this season for me and I will watch it when I get back. Also, you guys will have to let me know later did the Antichrist turn out to Obama, Oprah, or Bill Gates?
Here are my won’t see you for another 7 years thoughts for you all. First, I am a little shocked Kirk Cameron was right. I don’t actually believe in the whole rapture thing, but thought I would build this fail safe just in case. Second, be honest now, how surprised are you at who God took and who God left? I mean Jesus kept saying, it will be just like in the days of Noah, two will be working in the fields and one will be taken and one left behind. Glad I wasn’t left behind like you guys, glad I was taken out here just like Noah was. Wait, now that I think about it, in Noah’s days Noah and his family, they were the ones who stuck around and the flood cleared out everyone else. So did I want to be left behind? Am I the one in for the big surprise?
Wait, if all the Christians aren’t disappearing, then what just happened? Where am I? Does this mean I will never get to see the ending of Lost? If you guys are there and I just got yanked out of there I guess maybe I had it backwards the whole time. I guess I really should have recycled and bought that hybrid, you know if we were going to spend eternity on earth and stuff. I guess maybe I shouldn’t have spent so much time with those graphs and charts and prophesy conferences and should have spent more time exploring the Kingdom of God at work in our world. I am so confused, and little bummed out, how am I going to figure this all out?
This Sunday I am finishing up our series on the afterlife with a look at the second coming of Christ. If the above ideas just messed with your mind, sweet! You need to come and join us for worship this Sunday at 10 AM at the warehouse. Check us out at DCC.
Tags: end times, eschatology, left behind, rapture, second coming
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November 18, 2009 at 6:39 pm
I’m not sure what to believe. I saw the “Left Behind” movie from the 1970’s. That really freaked me out as a kid. I still have the theme song mostly memorized.
Life was filled with guns and wars and everyone got trampled on the floor.
I wish we’d all been ready.
Children died, the days grew cold, a piece of bread could by a bag of gold.
I wish we’d all been ready.
There’s no time to change your mind. The Son has come and you’ve been left behind.
Do we stay here for half the tribulation? Do the Christians get pulled out at the beginning? If Christ left the Holy Spirit for Christians, can we be left her without His presence?
I have been in several studies, and I’m still not sure what to believe. Daniel and Revelations and Ezekiel haven’t cleared it up for me. I guess I’m just gonna have to wait and see.
November 19, 2009 at 8:36 am
Great questions Jacqui, I will try to lead some dialog on those questions on Sunday. I think that we ask scripture to do things it was intended to sometimes and it gets us confused.
A Thief in the Night is the best horrible movie ever!
November 18, 2009 at 8:20 pm
My wife repeatedly makes the point (somewhat sarcastically, I think) that this isn’t the earth we are going to have for eternity. There will be a NEW heaven and a NEW earth. This world is passing away so why try to save it? Recycling and reducing CO2 emissions is just delaying the end of this earth (see Omega Code).
November 19, 2009 at 8:38 am
Shay,
I have actually been considering quite a bit this last 6 weeks the relationship between life now and life eternal and what does a new heaven and new earth mean for our future. The one thing that seems to resound in scripture is that what we do now has eternal consequences. I am not sure what that means for the new heaven and the new earth but I have decided that I am going to make that my baseline consideration for everything environmental. What we do now matters, always. I like that lens of looking at my life.
November 20, 2009 at 6:18 am
Yeah, the Church’s job is to make the Kingdom of God visible here on earth now. It is coming. It is here. It is yet to come.
November 20, 2009 at 5:22 pm
Wait. I’m confused. Have you or have you not been raptured? Seriously. I need to know. I thought I was in on that deal.