Early on, it was Disney. Later it became Pixar. Nowadays we lean more towards action, Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles. Avengers, Captain America, maybe the Batman trilogy ( the good ones, with Christian Bale).
Tonight we're watching the new " Left Behind" movie with Nicholas Cage.
On this one, I'm having my doubts...
At bedtime last night, one of my boys shared that he had a nightmare recently, about The Rapture. What made it a nightmare was that in his dream, our whole family, except for him, were taken up to Heaven... He was alone and left behind...
My boy was crying and shaking when he told both his mom and me this, in separate conversations. We tried to reassure him that with his Faith in Jesus and his dedication to God that he would be with all the other believers and Jesus...
I said something to him that later got me thinking...
I said if that ever became true, that I would ask God to leave me here, with him...
Today when I returned from work, i began to research if this was even feasible.
I read The Bible and Googled about the rapture.
Truthfully, this is not my strong suit. I'm just not that good of a scholar...
But what really got my mind a rumbling were some quotes and ideas that popped into my head... Things like Jesus saying that the physician comes for the sick, and not the well man.
The whole idea of The Great Commision, our responsibilities as Christians to predominately Share Christ's Gospel with those who need to hear it.
My mind was filled with the purposes that we were given free will for.
To freely choose to accept Jesus and do the work he left for us; that he prepared for us...
Aside from wanting to comfort my son, what kind of Christian would I be, to desert those people who God created The Great Commision for? The lost and hopeless...
This is probably heretical. This is probably one of those questions we are better off not asking...
But I am asking...
I do that kind of thing.
What if we ask a loving, caring God if we could stay behing and spread his Gospel to those caught in the turmoil and chaos, that had finally arisen, as foretold 2000 years ago? To those who's lack of belief kept them here...
If anyone on earth would need witnesses, it would be these ones, those left behind...
Would we have a choice ?
Would it be a sin to choose staying, if the choice were granted?
This whole deal could be completely mute.
Perhaps there could be no leeway...
I don't know. I really don't know..
My heart leads me one way and my mind is not so sure...
Christ demonstrated going thru much worse than the tribulation has to offer, for us who are his enemy and have hated him. Not only did he do this for our Salvation, but also as an example of the kind of love we should have for one another....
No greater love, than that a man should lay down his life, for his brother...
I found nothing that addressed if we chose to ask, what would He say?
Something to think about....
If anyone one has any irrefutable answers, please let me know...
Not suppositions or interpretations that are not definitive...
A bit of light reading on a Friday night...
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