Is the End Near?     

   What if Jesus returns before a big game...or a certain wedding...or a dream vacation...or an inheritance...or before you've read the last page of a mystery? 

   Paul, the last true apostle, and early NT believers expected Jesus would and could return in their lifetime. 

   We've been thinking...if a certain party gains full power in January, and its radical element demands its say, the U.S. government will become authoritarian. American influence for human rights in this dark world, however limited, will cease. 

   Faith will be persecuted. So, why would Jesus wait any longer? Just thinking.

   In the last words of Revelation, Jesus repeated to the apostle, Yes, I am coming soon. John responded, Amen. Come, Lord Jesus. 

   It's been 2,000 years...a couple days to God. He is coming for the church, and we've been praying that He comes...soon...today if He wishes. 

   Of course, we don't want people left behind. But we don't question his timing, do we? 

   We read in 1 Corinthians 15 that Christ could come at any time. Paul expected all believers to share that hope. Nothing has changed.

In a flash. In the twinkling of an eye. At the last trumpet.  

       Jimmy