"Fear God, Love God, Serve God": "ESCAPE!"

"And after that many days were fulfilled, the Jews took

counsel to kill him: But their laying await was known

of Saul. And they watched the gates day and night to

kill him. Then the disciples took him by night, and

let him down by the wall in a basket."

(Acts 9:23-25)

Saul, who was later called the mighty Apostle Paul, went from persecuting and killing Christians to becoming the greatest advocate for the Lord Jesus Christ known to man. He had encounter with Almighty God; he was knocked off his horse and blinded. The Apostle Peter was sent to him to lay hands on him to receive his sight, and then he received the Holy Ghost and was baptized in Jesus' name. After that, there was no more convincing him, he had met the lover of his soul, Jesus Christ, and he spent his life, now, preaching the gospel of Jesus Christ, winning soul after soul, and everywhere he went, he left the people glad, mad, and definitely stirred to the cores of their souls. He spent his life telling everyone about the saving grace of the Lord, and running for his life, "escaping" tike after time, with a lot of beatings, stonings, shipwrecks, prisons, and persecutions in between. He "escaped" a lot to tell the world how to "Escape" a hot burning Hell!

Apostle Paul being stoned

Paul understood, as do Christians today, as do the Church of the living God today, that we must all prepare for eternity, and even sooner than that, the Rapture of the Church. We must prepare the world for the day of ESCAPE! The Lord will return in a moment, in the twinkling of an eye, in 1/44th of a second, and the dead in Christ shall rise first ... then, we who are alive and remain shall be caught up together with Him in the clouds and so shall we ever be with the Lord! (I Thessalonians 4:16-18 and I Corinthians 15:52) It will be an ESCAPE like no one has ever seen before in the history of the world. Afterwards ... cars, planes, trains, trucks, will be crashed with no drivers; dogs will be sitting with leashes and no owners; offices will suddenly see workers and bosses who have disappeared before their very eyes; children will disappear along with a husband here and wife there ... all over the world at the same twinkling of an eye ... people suddenly, abruptly, with no warning or inkling ... disappear! What is it? ESCAPE!

"Watch ye therefore, and pray always, that ye may be accounted

worthy to escape all these things that shall come to pass,

and to stand before the Son of man."

(Luke 21:36)

Why is there going to be a Rapture? God will judge the earth for Sin, for non-repentance, for people who neglected their souls, for immoral illicit ungodly behavior, for evil ... but before that, He will remove His own, the people who have repented of their sins, received His Spirit, were baptized in His name, and lived holy lives before Him ... The Rapture is the ESCAPE for the saved, the redeemed, the godly and righteous before the Lord. The bottom line? "Don't get left behind!"

"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 on you unawares."

(Luke 21:34)

There is only One who holds the world in His hands, only One who can make a way of escape for those who will come to Him and serve Him, only One who knows the day and the hour when it's all over ... His name is Jesus Christ. We must ever be mindful that there is a Lord over all; there is a Creator who will take back His beloved earth; there is a King of Kings and Lord of Lords; there is One who blinks and the heavens roll, who nods and the mountains tremble, who speaks and the rains fall, who moves a finger and the universe responds ... He's the same One who said, "Where were you when I formed the foundation of the world?" He is the soon coming One, Jesus Christ! He looks different now; He's not bloody and beaten ... He 's alive and well; He has hair like wool, feet like brass, and eyes aflame! He reigns in power and glory and the earth is HIS!

"Therefore keep watch, because you do not know

on what day your Lord will come."

(Matthew 24:42)

He will come at a time when we think not, at a time like it was in the days of Noah, when people were eating and drinking, marrying, and giving in marriage ... We must be alert, watching, preparing our hearts and souls ... and our wedding garments. Huh? We are the Bride, the Church, and her wedding garments are the souls she wins, her witness to the world about the saving grace of Jesus Christ our Lord. We must keep our lamps oiled and ready, so that we will be aware when the trumpet sounds for the mighty "ESCAPE!"