Hey friends, if you've read the study of your Bible like I hope you have, like I know I need to do more so, you know the Lord makes many promises in the Scripture. One of the promises that He makes is that He will keep His promise. I serve a promise keeping God. If God has made a promise you can bet everything that the Lord is going to keep that promise. Now one of my favorite promises in the Scripture comes from the Gospel of John. And then the Gospel of John, he told his disciples, let not your heart be troubled. You believe in God, believe also in me and my house are many matches. If it were not so, I would not have told you. And I go and prepare a place for you. And if I go and prepare a place for you, I will come again to receive you unto myself that where I am, there you may be also. No, I don't know about you, but to me that's shouting around. You know that just gets my, my butter running if you will. That makes my eyes start watering if you will. That promise right there lets me know that first of all I don't have to be scared of death. When death comes I can embrace death and knowing that when I close my eyes and death I'm going to open my eyes the next second in the presence of God Almighty. Not only that, but for what I understand in Scripture, the moment that I close my eyes and death, I know that the Lord Himself is going to come and take me by my hand and lead me to the promise land. If I was to die right now before anybody could get to me, before anybody could check my pulse, before anybody could pronounce me dead, I would already be shouting with a street of gold. I would already be in the presence of the Savior. I would already have seen my daddy, my mother, my father, all my loved ones that have gone on before me. I would already have been with them. And by the time the days out I would have been in heaven for a thousand years, because the Bible says a thousand years is the day and the day is a thousand years. That's hard for the mind to grasp, it's hard for my mind to grasp. But y'all bear with me. Anyway, Lord made this promise, but not just at death. The Lord has made a promise that He's going to come back again. But before He comes back to set up His kingdom on earth, He is going to call His people up. He is going to snatch His people, those who have truly put their faith in Him, those who are truly born again, blood washed, children of the living God, He is going to snatch them out of here. It's called the harpazo, I believe it is in Greek. The word we know it best by is rapture. A lot of people say that the term rapture is not in the Bible. Well, the term Bible is not in the Bible either, but I have one at home, and I've got one of this truck right now, so that's not an issue. The Bible says that it will be called up in the moment in the twentieth thing of an eye. An old Jack van, it used to talk years ago, the general electric did a test in the twentieth thing of an eye as 11-100s of a second. So with the trumpet sounds for the Lord to call His people home, in 11-100s of a second, you're going to be in the presence of God. You're going to be here on earth, like I am driving down the road, when the trumpet sounds, 11-100s of a second, I'm out of here. I'm going, and so is every Christian, is ever truly put their faith in the Lord. Now that scripture comes out of 1 Thessalonians chapter 4, when it says for the Lord Himself shall descend from heaven with the shout, the voice of the archangel, the trumpet of God, the dead in Christ shall rise first, and those of us who are alive remain, shall be called up together, to meet the Lord in the air, and so shall we ever be with the Lord. It catch this last part, comfort one another with these words. I believe in a pre-tribulational rapture. I've studied all different forms of the rapture, and I won't get into that right at this moment. I believe the Lord has gone a rapture, His church, out of this old world, before the seven years of tribulation in the book of Revelation, the book of Daniel, all the Old Testament prophets, the Psalms, all the different books and the New Testament talk about before this time of, before this time of judgment, before this time of judgment, before this time of the Lord is going to call His people out. I don't know about you, but I'm looking forward to that. But you know, if you'll think about it, it says the dead in Christ shall rise first. You Christian, how would you love to be? As the Old Testament came to me, someone says, I'd love to be standing at a level on the grave side. When the Lord declares, the time will be the home for. The graves will burst open all the same shall come forth, and there'll be a glass celebration on that shore. But all of them are proud of this. I don't know who's grave I want to be next to when the rapture takes place. But I believe that the Lord, I believe that the rapture is going to happen at any given moment, at any time, the Bible tells us to be ready at all times, because we know not when the Lord is going to return. But I do know that the Lord is going to return soon. Will it be in my lifetime? There's a good chance it will be. It may not be in my lifetime, but it's 2000 years sooner than it was when he first said he was coming back. I'll put it to you that way. And if you think about it, a day with the Lord is a thousand years, and a thousand years is a day, and it's been about 6000 years since the Lord created everything. And if you take that time at 6000 years, that's six days. At least a thousand years left, and if you know Revelation, you know there's a thousand year millennial reign. So basically what I'm trying to say is, like John Hague will say, pray up, pack up, look up, because before long we're going to be going up. If you are a believer, if you have put your faith and your hope in the Lord Jesus Christ, if you have not done this, if you are lost, and not done, you have never accepted Christ as your Savior, you're going to be left behind, and you're going to go through a seven-year period that the Bible calls the tribulation. But the best way I know to put it in a short amount of time is hell itself is going to be rained down on this earth. It's going to be rained down on a gospel rejected, Jesus Christ rejecting, cross-rejecting world. All His believers are going to be gone. It's going to be people who have rejected the Lord. Will there be an opportunity to be saved? Yes, I believe there will be. I believe everybody has the opportunity to be saved at the same time. The Lord says that the added Christ will cause a strong delusion that caused me to be damned. So I'm going to do this way. Make sure that you accept the Christ. You accept Christ on this side of eternity. Don't wait till it's too late, people. Trust in the Lord today. Receive Him as your Savior. I like the old Orthodox prayer where it says, Jesus Christ, Son of God, have mercy on me, a sinner. I think that right there pretty much sums up everything. When it comes to receiving Christ as Savior, you repeat that prayer. You meet it from your heart and God will save you. The Holy Spirit will set up in your heart, and He'll lead God in your act. If you're dying to wreck you, when the rapture takes place, you'll be out here with the rest of us. That's all I have right now. Until next time, may God bless you. My beloved.