In the End

Today’s reading: 1 Thessalonians 4:1-18, 5:1-3

“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. Then we who are alive, who are left, will be caught up together with them in the clouds to meet the Lord in the air, and so we will always be with the Lord. Therefore encourage one another with these words.” - ‭‭1 Thessalonians‬ ‭4:16-18‬ ‭ESV‬‬

Here we see echoes back to Daniel 7:13, 12:2.

I love what Leon Morris says about this passage:

“There are many points on which we should like further information. But when Paul comes to that great fact that makes everything else unimportant, he stops. There is no need (and no more) to add to that.”

Six verses do seem to be quite inadequate to describe the end of time as we know it and a grand reunion with those Christians who have died before us. Yet we have what we need here.

We need to know that we will see our Christian family again. It only gets better from here!