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Anticipating the Rapture at last begun – roll on the Millennium!

We sing, study, speak and even specu- Anticipating the Review
late about the Rapture, but imagine, as you
read these words, proceedings in heaven In 2010, on his deathbed, an aged
that have already begun. The Father turns brother spoke these pertinent words to
to the Son, stating, “The time is ready!” me, “Clive, it’s not so much what God is
Angels pause with bated breath and a pin doing with you that counts, but what He’s
drop can be heard among the myriads of doing in you that matters!” Following our
redeemed, all anticipating what they’re rapture from this scene, we shall all ap-
on the threshold of. Somewhere across pear at the Judgment Seat of Christ, where
this world, in a gospel series, oblivious our Christian lives will be reviewed. So,
saints are earnestly singing, “God’s house what does this event have to do with the
is filling fast, yet there is room! Some soul Millennium? Everything! Any reader of
will be the last, yet there is room. Yes, soon the New Testament will observe that the
salvation’s day from you will pass away, Spirit of God is at pains to teach us that
then grace no more will say, yet there is our lives now will matter then. It’s there
room.” Stepping from the throne into the that crowns are given, with position and
very domain of Satan, flanked by mighty responsibility in the millennial kingdom
angelic forces, with the resounding trump bestowed. Those who have been faithful in
of God, our Lord gives the imperious that which was least will be granted to be
shout. Instantaneously across the globe, faithful with much (Luk 16:10; 19:17). O, to
millions of ancient graves are opened as hear the words, “Thou hast been faithful
the bodies of Christians rise to the surface over a few things, I will make thee ruler
of the earth. For those in the grave, this over many things: enter thou into the joy
“corruptible must put on incorruption,” of thy Lord” (Mat 25:21).
and for the living, “this mortal must put Paul anticipated this joy when he told
on immortality” (1Co 15:53). Chains of the Thessalonians that the crown of rejoic-
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death shatter as saints rise with the cry ing was his hope (1Th 2:19). Crowns are on
upon their lips, “O grave, where is thy offer, not only for Paul, “but unto all them
victory?” (v55), and in one great instanta- also that love his appearing” (2Ti 4:8). The
neous twinkling of the eye, all Christians epistles are replete with specific accounts
are changed, simultaneously rising to that bring before us that inescapable occa-
“meet the Lord in the air” (1Th 4:17). None sion. If Philippians 2:10 teaches that every
precedes the other, all are together, and knee in every realm shall bow to Christ,
together forever, death has lost its sting! Romans 14:10-12 educates us that the
In that long-anticipated day, the begin- Church shall be first. The Bema is the place
nings of Christ’s second advent will have where our private lives shall be opened to
the light, “for it is written, As I live, saith
1 Bible quotations in this article are from the the Lord, every knee shall bow to me, and
KJV. every tongue shall confess to God. So then

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