READ: MATTHEW 25:15-22
The ten virgins heard a
cry announcing the arrival of their long-awaited bridegroom and they woke up
(Matthew 25:6-7). But the question is, were they happy to hear the announcement
of the bridegroom? The virgins were probably afraid and jittery because they
were caught napping. Anyone who looks forward to the day of rapture with
tremendous happiness may not be well informed. When the virgins heard the cry,
they knew that the moment of truth had come at last. The day of reckoning had come.
It is on that day the world will know those who are serving God and those who
are not. Any pastor or Christian can pretend to serve God up until that day but
not beyond it.
Are you playing church? Are you pretending to serve God while in secret you serve something else? Are you publicly preaching the undiluted word of God but secretly living in fornication, lies, and unforgiveness?
On that day, your secret will be exposed to the whole world. After the saints have been raptured, the hypocrites that are left will suffer greatly. Even before the suffering of the Great Tribulation, which will be general, believers who are left behind will suffer shame and disgrace they never imagined. Everyone that knows you as a Christian or man of God will come looking for you. When they see you, they will say, ‘So upon all the preaching, you did not go with your colleague?’ So you were faking your faith in Christ all along? But you must be a big fool, you know. How could you refuse joining us to take brides, womanize, booze, embezzle government funds, marry as many wives as possible, etc. only to end up being left behind with chronic sinners like us? In any case, what did you do to your Jesus that made Him leave you behind?’
As a minister or pastor, how can you stand to talk to members of your congregation who were also left behind? They will blame you for their inability to make the rapture. They will say it was because you were living in secret sin that they, too, fell into sin. By the time the wrath of God will be poured on the inhabitants of the earth, the Antichrist will stir up people to look for those who call themselves Christians and ask them to be killed because their Jesus is raining judgement from Heaven. Christian left behind will then be used to settle scores. You can prevent this by ensuring that you make the rapture.
Are you playing church? Are you pretending to serve God while in secret you serve something else? Are you publicly preaching the undiluted word of God but secretly living in fornication, lies, and unforgiveness?
On that day, your secret will be exposed to the whole world. After the saints have been raptured, the hypocrites that are left will suffer greatly. Even before the suffering of the Great Tribulation, which will be general, believers who are left behind will suffer shame and disgrace they never imagined. Everyone that knows you as a Christian or man of God will come looking for you. When they see you, they will say, ‘So upon all the preaching, you did not go with your colleague?’ So you were faking your faith in Christ all along? But you must be a big fool, you know. How could you refuse joining us to take brides, womanize, booze, embezzle government funds, marry as many wives as possible, etc. only to end up being left behind with chronic sinners like us? In any case, what did you do to your Jesus that made Him leave you behind?’
As a minister or pastor, how can you stand to talk to members of your congregation who were also left behind? They will blame you for their inability to make the rapture. They will say it was because you were living in secret sin that they, too, fell into sin. By the time the wrath of God will be poured on the inhabitants of the earth, the Antichrist will stir up people to look for those who call themselves Christians and ask them to be killed because their Jesus is raining judgement from Heaven. Christian left behind will then be used to settle scores. You can prevent this by ensuring that you make the rapture.
MEMORIZE: 1
THESSALONIANS 5:3 –For when they shall say peace and safety; then sudden destruction
comes upon them, as travail upon a woman with child; and they shall not escape.
