Are you ready?

I trust that you have benefited from this series in (2 Peter), and as I conclude this series it’s encouraging to remind ourselves that although many men follow the way of false teachers and scoffers in our day, there are still those who follow the way of truth. Today, I would like to preach on the subject of the “Rapture of the church.” In (2 Peter 3:4) the Bible tells us that the scoffer will also attack the doctrine of the second coming of Jesus Christ, Saying, "where is the promise of his coming? For since the fathers fell asleep, all things continue as they were from the beginning of the creation.” It’s easy to think that we have a lot of time until the 2^nd return of Jesus Christ, but no one really knows for sure. The world doesn't seem too worried, in fact many people are increasingly becoming even more bold in their sin, but does that change the promise of Jesus to come again? In fact it’s even more proof that our time is very short. Remember, God is not on our time schedule, and “The lord is not slack concerning his promise, as some men count slackness;…But the day of the Lord will come as a thief in the night;..” There will come a day when the Church of God will be taken home to heaven with those who have died before, and both their bodies and ours will be fashioned like the resurrected body of our Lord Jesus Christ (Phil. 3:21). So be ready, for he will return quickly and without warning. The question is, Are you ready?