8/25/2013. I don t really know what I m waiting on. Someday I will. It was the most ordinary day. So George arose as usual. He had a paper route.

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1 The Day Christ Came Again I don t really know what I m waiting on. Someday I will. Rev 20: Credit source: David Roper It was the most ordinary day. So George arose as usual. He had a paper route. It was a beautiful day. But the preacher s sermon kept coming back to him. Mt 24:36 But concerning that day and hour no one knows, not even the angels of heaven, nor the Son, but the Father only. Marge was a Christian. And she wanted George to become a Christian so very much! They had had a long discussion about it just a few days ago. As he smelled breakfast cooking Mt 24:38 They were eating and drinking 1

2 He passed a church building and noticed rice scattered around - evidence of a wedding the night before Mt 24:38 marrying and giving in marriage He saw a group of farm workers going to work. Lk 17:36 Two... shall be in the field; the one shall be taken and the other left. He passed a home with a sign on the front door: Night workers. Please do not Disturb. Lk 17:34 There shall be two... in one bed; the one shall be taken, and the other shall be left. I m strong and healthy and good for a long time yet! 1 Th 5:3 While people are saying, There is peace and security, then sudden destruction will come upon them as labor pains come upon a pregnant woman, and they will not escape. He passed a bakery. Lk 17:35 Two... shall be grinding together; the one shall be taken, and the other left. As usual In China Ukraine Australia Georgia A woman a preacher They needn t have bothered. 2

3 8/25/2013 Then it happened. George was near a cemetery. 1 Th 5:2 For you yourselves are fully aware that the day of the Lord will come like a thief in the night. 3 While people are saying, There is peace and security, then sudden destruction will come upon them as labor pains come upon a pregnant woman, and they will not escape. Then it happened. Mt 24:27 For as the lightning comes from the east and shines as far as the west, so will be the coming of the Son of Man. Then it happened. 1 Th 4:16 For the Lord himself will descend from heaven with a cry of command, with the voice of an archangel, and with the sound of the trumpet of God. And the dead in Christ will rise first. Re 1:7 Behold, he is coming with the clouds, and every eye will see him, even those who pierced him, and all tribes of the earth will wail on account of him. Even so. Amen. 2 Th 1:7 when the Lord Jesus is revealed from heaven with his mighty angels 8 in flaming fire, inflicting vengeance on those who do not know God and on those who do not obey the gospel of our Lord Jesus. 3

4 Jn 5:28 an hour is coming when all who are in the tombs will hear his voice 29 and come out, those who have done good to the resurrection of life, and those who have done evil to the resurrection of judgment. Re 6:12 and behold, there was a great earthquake, and the sun became black as sackcloth, the full moon became like blood, 13 and the stars of the sky fell to the earth as the fig tree sheds its winter fruit when shaken by a gale. 14 The sky vanished like a scroll that is being rolled up, and every mountain and island was removed from its place. 1 Co 15:51 we shall all be changed, 52 in a moment, in the twinkling of an eye, at the last trumpet. For the trumpet will sound, and the dead will be raised imperishable, and we shall be changed. Re 6:15 Then the kings of the earth and the great ones and the generals and the rich and the powerful, and everyone, slave and free, hid themselves in the caves and among the rocks of the mountains, 16 calling to the mountains and rocks, Fall on us and hide us from the face of him who is seated on the throne, and from the wrath of the Lamb, 17 for the great day of their wrath has come, and who can stand? George was now running. He ran home. 2 Pe 3:10 But the day of the Lord will come like a thief, and then the heavens will pass away with a roar, and the heavenly bodies will be burned up and dissolved, and the earth and the works that are done on it will be exposed. 4

5 2 Co 5:10 For we must all appear before the judgment seat of Christ, so that each one may receive what is due for what he has done in the body, whether good or evil. Mt 25:41 Then he will say to those on his left, Depart from me, you cursed, into the eternal fire prepared for the devil and his angels. Mt 25:46 And these will go away into eternal punishment, but the righteous into eternal life. George heard a name being called. It was his own. 2 Co 5:11 Therefore, knowing the fear of the Lord, we persuade others Mt 25:31 When the Son of Man comes in his glory, and all the angels with him, then he will sit on his glorious throne. 32 Before him will be gathered all the nations, and he will separate people one from another as a shepherd separates the sheep from the goats. 33 And he will place the sheep on his right, but the goats on the left. 34 Then the King will say to those on his right, Come, you who are blessed by my Father, inherit the kingdom prepared for you from the foundation of the world. Ac 17:30 The times of ignorance God overlooked, but now he commands all people everywhere to repent, 31 because he has fixed a day on which he will judge the world in righteousness by a man whom he has appointed; and of this he has given assurance to all by raising him from the dead. 5

6 Some things were guessed at in this lesson, but these things we know: Christ is coming. Christ could come before this day is done. When Christ comes, everyone will know it. When Christ comes, everyone will also know where they stand. Your status on that day could change because of what you do today. Are you ready for the day the Lord comes? 6