IN THE TWINKLING OF AN EYE JESUS WILL APPEAR
THE TWINKLE OF AN EYE IS 1/1100 (ONE-ELEVEN HUNDRETH) OF A SECOND AND THAT IS THE SUDDENESS OF THE RAPTURE. The Doctrine of Imminence is one of the New Testament’s most profound subjects. The idea plainly warns us of the necessity of living every moment with our heart set on His return. We must never just believe in the Rapture but we must live on the edge of this world with one foot a few inches above the ground. That’s spiritually speaking of the great hunger to see Jesus and to leave for our “Homeland” at any twinkle.
The Son of God filled His messages with the warning and hope of His return. He trained His Disciples to be so in love with Him as the Son of God that they would never love this world. The early church showed great evidence that they expected Him in their lifetime. Apostle Paul had to teach the Christians not to despair over those that died because the Lord would come for both the dead and the living. He stated, “But I would not have you to be ignorant, brethren, concerning them which are asleep, that ye sorrow not, even as others which have no hope. For if we believe that Jesus died and rose again, even so them also which sleep in Jesus will God bring with him.” (I Thessalonians 4:13-14) The sainted millions have watched for Him ever since He arose to ascend into the clouds!
Our Savior and Redeemer wanted us to understand how absolutely glorious His return would be. He also was very plain about being ready and having on the wedding garment. Luke recorded His powerful warning, “Verily I say unto you, This generation shall not pass away, till all be fulfilled. Heaven and earth shall pass away: but my words shall not pass away. And take heed to yourselves, lest at any time your hearts be overcharged with surfeiting, and drunkenness, and cares of this life, and so that day come upon you unawares. For as a snare shall it come on all them that dwell on the face of the whole earth.” (Luke 21:32-35) He spoke of the ‘Fig Tree Parable’ and stated that this was a mystery to announce the generation to witness His return to snatch out the Bride.
We live in a very privileged generation with powerful evidence that this is the time for His sudden appearance. When you couple the events in Israel with worldwide signs it takes utter spiritual blindness to miss the picture. No possibility of a One World Government has ever existed before. The world leaders are totally bent on uniting the world economy and government. America has been the last holdout to “One Worldism.” That is being ripped out of our control by the current powers in Washington.
Jesus warns us that this coming period of darkness would be like a snare. “For as a snare shall it come on all them that dwell on the face of the whole earth.” (Luke 21:35) He also spoke of the sleeping church that would have to be aroused to meet Him and the great number that would be without oil and light. “While the bridegroom tarried, they all slumbered and slept. And at midnight there was a cry made, Behold, the bridegroom cometh; go ye out to meet him.” (Matthew 25:5-6) The church world refuses to believe that much of their membership is totally unprepared to go. It will only be after the trumpet that the multitudes will wake up to their drunkenness. The sorrow of that is too much to think about. The “cheap grace” preachers will be the most hated crowd left.
Please consider the necessity of total surrender to Jesus Christ. Listen to the Holy Ghost speaking by Apostle Paul. “But the day of the Lord will come as a thief in the night; in the which the heavens shall pass away with a great noise, and the elements shall melt with fervent heat, the earth also and the works that are therein shall be burned up. Seeing then that all these things shall be dissolved, what manner of persons ought ye to be in all holy conversation and godliness, Looking for and hasting unto the coming of the day of God, wherein the heavens being on fire shall be dissolved, and the elements shall melt with fervent heat? Nevertheless we, according to his promise, look for new heavens and a new earth, wherein dwelleth righteousness. Wherefore, beloved, seeing that ye look for such things, be diligent that ye may be found of him in peace, without spot, and blameless.” (II Peter 3:10-14) “Without spot and blameless” sounds very plain to me. Why should a believer dare to believe anything else?
The twinkling of an eye is a beautiful thought. It was Apostle Paul that used those words. “Behold, I shew you a mystery; We shall not all sleep, but we shall all be changed, In a moment, in the twinkling of an eye, at the last trump: for the trumpet shall sound, and the dead shall be raised incorruptible, and we shall be changed.” (I Corinthians 15:51-52) There will be no announcement. This event will be so sudden as to be startling. The moment it occurs will finish the selection. It’s either I’m watching and ready to go, or I or you will be left.
Sandra Hendricks
“…We must never just believe in the Rapture but we must live on the edge of this world with one foot a few inches above the ground…”
Hallelujah, Brother Chambers!!! What a beautiful picture of an anticipating Child of God!!!
Bill Scudder
Praise the Lord, He will be back to claim His bride. All true born again Chistians will be with Him for all eternity. You said “be diligent that ye may be found of him in peace, without spot, and blameless.” All those that have been truley saved and born again will go in the rapture with Christ because all these believers are without spot and blameless, not because we are worthy but because Christ is worth and God see’s us without Spot or wrinle because of Christ.
F. C. Hughes
When Jesus Christ returns in the clouds of the first heaven, He comes in Great Power, everyone on earth will know Jesus Christ is returning, it will not be in a split second He is here and gone.
Christ returns on the Feast of Trumpets, one of God’s Holy Days not man’s holidays.
Read Revelation 1:7, every eye shall see Him. Acts 1:11 says He is coming in the same way He left,
in the clouds.
Read Matthew 24:30 Again, with power and great glory and all nations of the earth will mourn!!!
and He is coming on the clouds of the sky. Why would the earth mourn if He turned around and went back????
Gods Holy Days are foreshadowing His plan, each one is a great event in His plan. The Feast of Trumpets is the Return of Christ and the First Resurrection and when Christ comes in the Clouds, meeting the resurrected Saints in the clouds, THEY all then come to The Mount of Olives — from where Christ left–
Read Zechariah 14:3-5. The First Resurrection are the First Fruits, the first of billions. If there is a FIRST, it then demands at least a second, but to clear it up there are 3 resurrections. The number of finality.
The King of King is returning soon, make sure you are teaching TRUTH. Read Ezekiel 5 and 6,
before the Fifth seal begins, the great tribulation, the United States will lose one third to starvation and disease and one third to war and the remaining third will be taken as slaves and scattered through out the world.
The saved do not go to heaven, no one does, have you not read “The Meek shall inherit the EARTH”
A meek person is one that has surrendered his will completely to God the Father’s WILL, just like Jesus Christ did to set an example for us.
Sorry, all of the false teachings that are everywhere, break my heart.
I am just a man, nothing more, but striving to allow my Father to build me into a meek son. I have a way to go.
Keith Black
BEING IN THE RAPTURE NOT OF WORKS LEST ANYONE SHOULD BOAST
Dear Joe Chambers,
When the Rapture comes the Lord Jesus will take every last Church Age saint of his up in the rapture. Both the strong and the weak will be taken. Not one single BLOOD-BOUGHT CHRISTIAN WILL BE LEFT BEHIND. All the saints, even the WEAKEST ONES will go up in the Rapture. In your article you say that WE NEED TO BE WATCHING EVERY SECOND TO BE INCLUDED IN THE RAPTURE. But if it is that way, no one can make it into the rapture. It is IMPOSSIBLE FO US TO WATCH EVERY SECOND 24 HOURS A DAY. WE ALL HAVE OUR MOMENTS OF WEAKNESSES. None of us watches 24 hours a day. It is impossible for us to do so. The Lord knows that, and he is reasonable. On the night before his Crucifixion he tried to get all his disciples to stay awake, but they all fell asleep. IN the parable of 10 virgins al10 of them fell asleep. Those that had OIL (THE SAVED ONES HAD HOLY SPIRIT IN THEIR BODIES) were ready, while those that did not have OIL (UNSAVED CHRISTIANS IN NAME ONLY) were left behind. Either you are saved or you are lost. The only thin that decides whether you go up in Rapture or not: DO YOU HAVE THE BLOOD OF JESUS ON YOU? If you do, you go up in Rapture. If you do not have the Blood of Jesus, you will be left behind. To say that Christians will be left out of Rapture because of WEAKNESS, and that only strong CHRISTIANS will go up in Rapture is putting it on SALVATION BY WORKS. If you must work to keep salvation, then it is by WORKS. If people could be saved by works, Jesus would have never gone to the CROSS. But the BIBLE SAYS THAT SALVATION IS NOT BY WORKS LEST ANY MAN SHOULD BOAST. ALSO THE RAPTURE IS NOT OF WORKS LEST ANY MAN SHOULD BOAST. There will be no PARTIAL RAPTURE. It will be a TOTAL RAPTURE FOR ALL SAINTS. The reason Jesus wants us to be WATCHFUL, is to make sure we don’t lose any REWARDS AT THE BEAMA SEAT OF CHRIST. The weak un – watchful Christians will still be taken up (just like Lot a weak saint woas dragged out of Sodom) at the Rapture, but they will be very embarrassed When they SUDDENLY FIND THEMSELVES STANDING IN FRONT OF JESUS, and they will lose rewards. The strongest get the CROWNS, while the weak one lose the crowns. So just who is left behind? THE UNSAVED CHURCH OF LAODICEA WHERE THE PROSPERITY PORK-BARREL IS PREACHED. They were NEVER SAVED IN THE FIRST PLACE. THE SAME LOOT-WARM CHURCH OF LAODICEA THAT VOTED FOR OBAMA. Their pastors never tel them about the Jesus of the Bible. The Jesus of the LIBERAL CHURCHES is not the Jesus of the BIBLE, but is nothing but KARL MARX WITH A ROBE ON. They do not get saved, because their FEEL-GOOD PORK-BARREL PREACHERS do not tell them how to get saved. So they never get saved. Only the BLOOD OR JESUS DECIDES WHTHER YOU WIL BE IN THE RAPTURE. IF YOU HAVE IT, YOU WILL BE TAKEN UP.
Sincerely,
Keith Black
Jimmy Lishman
Yes brother Joseph – the time is now! we who blow the trumpet on the walls to warn must blow ever harder for Maranatha time is upon the sleeping world
Bill Andrews
I sure wish The Lord would hurry up. The daily news is so depressing it could drive a person to total dispair.
I’ve been waiting so long I may go into shock when it happens.
Thanks Pastor Chambers !
Ed Wood
“But if our gospel be hid, it is hid to them that are lost: in whom the god of this world hath blindedthe minds of them which believe not, lest the glorious gospel of Christ, who is the image of God, should shine unto them.” 2 Corinthians 4:4-4
From the beginning of the new century, there has been a marked upward trend in natural disasters of all kinds. The world’s economy is growing increasingly more and more unstable. The forces of Islam are getting bolder as they acquire the technology and often even the support of the masses as they strive toward their goal to one day rule the world. In America and Europe we have seen the acceptance of all manner of immorality that only a decade or two ago would have put people either in jail or an asylum.
But even in the light of these realities, people just “don’t get it!” I am amazed at the complete spiritual blindness which prevents most of humanity from seeing the signs that time is running out and acts as if this world will go on forever.
Even those few who may have a sense that something ominous may be near will more likely flock to the vague prophecies of Nostradamus, Edgar Cayce, and Jean Dixon rather than those clear and unmistakable ones of Jesus from Mount Olivet – and the church is particularly guilty of fostering such ignorance.
When Jesus does come for his own, most of those left behind will be just as clueless as they are today.
Travis
Great Article brother chambers! will listen to sermon in a bit.
Brother Keith,
you are correct in many points however, you must remember (as chambers pointed out in luke 21) thatJesus is talking to the believers that we notget caught in the cares of this world that so thatthe rapture come unawares. Parable of 10 virgins – 5 had oil and were ready – 5 had RAN OUT of oil….Just because you claimed the Blood of Jesus and was born again at a time in life doesnt necessarily mean you will be ready if the Lord tarries, for the christian must always take up his/her cross and look for theblessed hope. Even the christian can get caught in the cares of this world and defile their garment to not be ready for the rapture. The devil isnt a roaring lion to stop the infidels from going in the rapture but he is looking to devour the christian so that they may fall prey and backslide so much so that to not go in the rapture.
So Christ was once offered to bear the sins of many; and unto them that look for him shall he appear the second time without sin unto salvation. Hebrews 9 28
God Bless!