Not for Camping

Wouldn't it be a little sad if we DO go home tomorrow and Harold Camping and his sect are left here?
I'd trully be so overwhelmed with joy at the presence of my King, that it's unclear how I'll feel about Mr Camping.

But Lord, speak to him tonight. Open his eyes that he may see You and may respond to Your Grace and Love. ...before his Judgement Day comes.

The Magic Roundabout

I was talking about this Civil Engineering wonder recently with friends.  Today I was  "Friday afternooning" and come across these pictures at CyberSalt.org
Enjoy!

 

"End of bus lane" - the least of your problems!

You can't believe it either?  There's more info at Wikipedia: Magic Roundabout (Swindon)

May 21

So what IS going to happen on Saturday?
We don't know. We cannot know.

We can do some clever maths, we can build in some stunning assumptions, we can create a hypothesis, but we cannot know.

Or can we?

When Jesus himself said that NO-ONE knows the day or the hour, but the Father alone, did he mean no-one at that time? Or did he mean no-one ever.

Because, when we start down the road of "well that is no longer true", where do we stop?
Those who are telling us that we are going Home on Saturday have already crossed the heresy line by saying that "the Church Age" is finished. Leaving aside the nonsense that is pedalled as "Dispensationalism", any idea that the Church is ever over is directly contrary to what Jesus taught. "The gates of Hades shall not prevail against it".
Ever.
Period.

These folk (who Jesus loves enough to have died for, by the way - just before we deride them unnecessarily), they also tell us that we have in recent years been living in the Great Tribulation.
Really?

True, there have been more Christians martyred for their faith in the last hundred years than in the previous 19 centuries together. But can we really say that things are so bad that, were He not to cut the time short, none of us would survive?
No, we can't. Not yet.

And has there been persecution on a greater scale than we can imagine?
Happily not.

Sorry, Brother Camping. The Great Tribulation is coming, and probably soon. But, with mixed emotions, it is not yet.

Bottom line, we cannot, and will not know the day or the hour of Jesus' return, our departure or "Judgement Day".
But that does not mean it won't be on Saturday. And if it is, there are a good number of Christians who will find their joy mixed with a little embarassment when they are raptured.
"No, it's not May 21. It's... Er, um, Hello Lord, I wasn't expecting you just yet".
He told us to be ready, precisely because we do not know the day or the hour.

And as I contemplate if it is on Saturday, or tonight, what a wonderful excitement I feel. Tinged with pain, yes. I have so many good friends who I don't honestly believe are yet ready.

But I know that He is still Sovereign.
He is still in control.
He will set the timing perfectly.

And I know in whom I have believed and am persuaded that He is able to keep that which I've committed unto Him against that day.

Collective Blogging

And now for something completely different!

It was Thandi's idea. "Why not start a story blog where a whole bunch of people write the story, each writing the next section, and see where it goes?"

So we are seeing where it goes!

The blog is The Amazing Story

Thandi started, I've continued, and the story in my head is amazing.
Probably nothing like where we end up, however. That's the joy of it. That's the risk.

Come along. Take a read.
Better yet - join in!