Be Ready

Just before He was crucified, Jesus ate the Passover meal with His disciples.  We call it the Last Supper, at which He taught us how to take Communion.  His disciples were upset because He told them He was going away, and He spoke many words of comfort to them, including:

Let not your heart be troubled; you believe in God, believe also in Me.

In My Father’s house are many mansions;

if it were not so, I would have told you.

I go to prepare a place for you.

And if I go and prepare a place for you,

I will come again and receive you to Myself;

that where I am, there you may be also.

(John 14:1-3 NKJV) *

Bible prophesy tells us what things will be like when Jesus comes to gather His believers out of the earth to be with him in the air (2Thessalonians 2:3-12), and what the Rapture will be like (1Thessalonians 4:13-17).  The Last Days will be troubled times, which Jesus described in Matthew, Chapter 24.  However, the saved, born again Christian does not need to be afraid when Jesus appears.  Paul tells us that we should find comfort in the promise of His return. (1Thessalonians 4:18) *

Jesus cautioned us to be ready ... repeatedly.  He warned us that those who were not ready when He comes will be left behind:

“Then the kingdom of heaven shall be likened to ten virgins

who took their lamps and went out to meet the bridegroom.

Now five of them were wise, and five were foolish.

Those who were foolish took their lamps and took no oil with them,

but the wise took oil in their vessels with their lamps.

But while the bridegroom was delayed, they all slumbered and slept.

“And at midnight a cry was heard:

‘Behold, the bridegroom is coming; go out to meet him!’

Then all those virgins arose and trimmed their lamps.

And the foolish said to the wise,

‘Give us some of your oil, for our lamps are going out.’

But the wise answered, saying,

‘No, lest there should not be enough for us and you;

but go rather to those who sell, and buy for yourselves.’

And while they went to buy, the bridegroom came,

and those who were ready went in with him to the wedding;

and the door was shut.

 “Afterward the other virgins came also, saying, ‘Lord, Lord, open to us!’

But he answered and said,

‘Assuredly, I say to you, I do not know you.’

“Watch therefore,

for you know neither the day nor the hour in which the Son of Man is coming.

(Matthew 25:1-13 NKJV) *

Look around you.  Does what you see resemble the descriptions of the Last Days in the Holy Bible?  Jesus will come again, just as He promised.  If you are a saved, born again Christian, you do not need to be afraid that you will be left behind when Jesus takes us to be with Him where He is.  He has prepared a home for us in heaven.  He has filled our lamps with the oil of His righteousness.  All we must do to receive salvation it is to believe and accept it.  If you are not saved, accept Jesus Christ as your Savior and make Him the ruler of your life today.  Then you will be ready.

* https://biblehub.com/