I once heard someone say that people excited about the rapture are looking for an escape route to life’s troubles….I just can’t help it-I want to CLARIFY why WE ARE SUPPOSED TO ALL BE WATCHING FOR THE LORD….People watching for the rapture are not doing it because they are looking for an “easy out”….you do it because well FIRST of all-it’s a command and a mandate from GOD to WATCH with multiple scriptures to back this up-SECONDLY, the other reason is CHRIST is the BRIDEGROOM and the church is the “bride”–so what bride is NOT EXCITED for the moment of her coming wedding? If you aren’t standing by the window of life looking for CHRIST then I’m afraid you don’t KNOW HIM–and that is a big problem….the mandate of watching for the LORD is also for people who find themselves facing GOD through unexpected death and terminal illnesses, etc.-so what person watches for their SAVIOR if they are guaranteed martyrdom? Believing martyrdom as the alternative to rapture would make watching mute. When the Bible says the end times would be like the days of Noah, Noah was representing the righteous church while the rest were considered evil–so Noah escaped and the evil did not-if the righteous and evil were together meant to have the same outcome–why was the end times described as the days of Noah who escaped as the righteous of GOD while the evil did not…
Matthew 24:42 (KJV): Watch therefore: for ye know not what hour your Lord doth come.
Matthew 24:43 (KJV): But know this, that if the goodman of the house had known in what watch the thief would come, he would have watched, and would not have suffered his house to be broken up.
Matthew 25:13 (KJV): Watch therefore, for ye know neither the day nor the hour wherein the Son of man cometh.
Mark 13:34 (KJV): For the Son of Man is as a man taking a far journey, who left his house, and gave authority to his servants, and to every man his work, and commanded the porter to watch.
Mark 13:35 (KJV): Watch ye therefore: for ye know not when the master of the house cometh, at even, or at midnight, or at the cockcrowing, or in the morning:
Mark 13:37 (KJV): And what I say unto you I say unto all, Watch.
Luke 12:37 (KJV): Blessed are those servants, whom the lord when he cometh shall find watching: verily I say unto you, that he shall gird himself, and make them to sit down to meat, and will come forth and serve them.
Luke 12:39 (KJV): And this know, that if the goodman of the house had known what hour the thief would come, he would have watched, and not have suffered his house to be broken through.
Luke 21:36 (KJV): 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.
