Thursday, August 15, 2013

Fewer Than We Think...

Luke 17:30 KJV
Even thus shall it be in the day when the Son of man is revealed.

There have been any number of paintings and other sorts of graphics used to depict what it might be like when Jesus raptures the saints to heaven:
  • Planes falling from the sky, their pilots raptured
  • Car wrecks on the freeways, drivers raptured
  • The skies filled with those saints being raptured and resurrected
One song, attempting to describe the rapture should it happen on a Sunday morning, says "In the church near valley station, there's less than half the congregation[1]" implying that more than half were saved. But if Jesus' description is accurate it is very likely that when the rapture happens it will not be millions and millions raptured but a comparative few. There would conceivably be fewer missing church (should the rapture happen on a Sunday) because of the rapture than are generally gone because of a common cold. 

This might account for the almost oblivious attitude of those remaining on the earth after the rapture; they won't be shocked because there is not a shocking amount missing. 

As we draw nearer to the end we tend to make more people feel like they are saved while seeing fewer and fewer who are genuinely converted.
  • More people profess Christianity fewer people possess Christ
  • More people play church while fewer people come out of this world

These are serious times. Who knows all of the reasons people had for not heeding the warnings of Noah, but only eight out of possibly billions of people were saved back then.

What if only eight people in our world right now are really saved?

Are you one of them?




[1] Tracy Dartt, The Last Sunday

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