BOOM!! BOOM!! I had never heard anything that loud in all my life and it literally shook my insides.
I was outside wandering around by myself when the thunderous roar came. I thought at first the sky was falling so I covered my head and ran screaming toward the door. On the way inside, my idea of a falling sky was replaced by the idea that it was the Lord who was returning.
"Mother, Mother !",... I screamed as I flung open the door, " Jesus is coming, Jesus is coming!!"
"That was only a sonic boom, Honey. Didn't you hear the plane fly over?" She took me in her arms and held me until my shaky legs quit shaking.
It was a Sunday and we had just returned from church. Our pastor had been preaching about the second coming of the Lord. He had told us that Jesus would return suddenly out of the east . He said there would be the blasting of a trumpet and He would return with all of His angels.
I looked up at my Mother and said, "Well, that BOOM sure sounded like Jesus' trumpet and I thought He was coming back to take us to Heaven. I sure am glad I'm ready, aren't you?"
Mother smiled down at me and hugged me a little tighter,
"Yes, Honey, I'm glad you're ready, too."
"For the Lord himself shall descend from heaven with a shout, with the voice of the archangel, and with the trump of God: and the dead in Christ shall rise first" 1 Thessalonians 4: 16 KJV
How many of us are too caught up with the cares of this world to think about the Lord's return? A lot of us are like the people who were caught in the flood back in the time of Noah.
"For in the days before the flood, people were eating and drinking, marrying and giving in marriage, up to the day Noah entered the ark; and they knew nothing about what would happen until the flood came and took them all away. That is how it will be at the coming of the Son of Man." Matthew 24:38-29 NIV
One of these days when we least expect it, we may all hear that "sonic boom" and be caught off guard when we look up and see the Lord descending from Heaven.
I was outside wandering around by myself when the thunderous roar came. I thought at first the sky was falling so I covered my head and ran screaming toward the door. On the way inside, my idea of a falling sky was replaced by the idea that it was the Lord who was returning.
"Mother, Mother !",... I screamed as I flung open the door, " Jesus is coming, Jesus is coming!!"
"That was only a sonic boom, Honey. Didn't you hear the plane fly over?" She took me in her arms and held me until my shaky legs quit shaking.
It was a Sunday and we had just returned from church. Our pastor had been preaching about the second coming of the Lord. He had told us that Jesus would return suddenly out of the east . He said there would be the blasting of a trumpet and He would return with all of His angels.
I looked up at my Mother and said, "Well, that BOOM sure sounded like Jesus' trumpet and I thought He was coming back to take us to Heaven. I sure am glad I'm ready, aren't you?"
Mother smiled down at me and hugged me a little tighter,
"Yes, Honey, I'm glad you're ready, too."
"For the Lord himself shall descend from heaven with a shout, with the voice of the archangel, and with the trump of God: and the dead in Christ shall rise first" 1 Thessalonians 4: 16 KJV
How many of us are too caught up with the cares of this world to think about the Lord's return? A lot of us are like the people who were caught in the flood back in the time of Noah.
"For in the days before the flood, people were eating and drinking, marrying and giving in marriage, up to the day Noah entered the ark; and they knew nothing about what would happen until the flood came and took them all away. That is how it will be at the coming of the Son of Man." Matthew 24:38-29 NIV
One of these days when we least expect it, we may all hear that "sonic boom" and be caught off guard when we look up and see the Lord descending from Heaven.
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