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Thursday, December 31, 2015

Hope For The New Year

When you consider the death, diseases, natural disasters, evil, and all the other negative things that fill our world, there’s  not a lot of room for hope in 2016, but believers have hope in the return of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ.

Titus 2:13  Looking for that blessed hope, and the glorious appearing of the great God and our Saviour Jesus Christ;

We have hope of the Rapture—being “Caught Up” to meet Jesus in the clouds.

1 Thessalonians 4:16-17 For the Lord himself shall descend from heaven with a shout, with the voice of the archangel, and with the trump of God: and the dead in Christ shall rise first: Then we which are alive and remain shall be caught up together with them in the clouds, to meet the Lord in the air: and so shall we ever be with the Lord.

Jesus is coming the first time for believers--- those who have been saved by the grace of God. Everyone else will be left behind to face the horrors of the Tribulation Period. His second coming is for the Great White Throne Judgement and to set up His Kingdom on earth.

In 2016 the Redeemed have hope that this will be the year that Jesus comes for His own. This hope is unshakable and profound. It’s eternal and powerful. It gives joy, peace and blessing to our hearts. Thank God for the hope we have in Him!

Happy New Year.