Fine, You?

Rev 8:1 When He opened the seventh seal, there was silence in heaven for about half an hour. 2 And I saw the seven angels who stand before God, and to them were given seven trumpets. 3 Then another angel, having a golden censer, came and stood at the altar. He was given much incense, that he should offer it with the prayers of all the saints upon the golden altar which was before the throne. 4 And the smoke of the incense, with the prayers of the saints, ascended before God from the angel's hand. 5 Then the angel took the censer, filled it with fire from the altar, and threw it to the earth. And there were noises, thunderings, lightnings, and an earthquake. 6 So the seven angels who had the seven trumpets prepared themselves to sound. 7 The first angel sounded: And hail and fire followed, mingled with blood, and they were thrown to the earth. And a third of the trees were burned up, and all green grass was burned up. 8 Then the second angel sounded: And something like a great mountain burning with fire was thrown into the sea, and a third of the sea became blood. 9 And a third of the living creatures in the sea died, and a third of the ships were destroyed. 10 Then the third angel sounded: And a great star fell from heaven, burning like a torch, and it fell on a third of the rivers and on the springs of water. 11 The name of the star is Wormwood. A third of the waters became wormwood, and many men died from the water, because it was made bitter. 12 Then the fourth angel sounded: And a third of the sun was struck, a third of the moon, and a third of the stars, so that a third of them were darkened. A third of the day did not shine, and likewise the night. 13 And I looked, and I heard an angel flying through the midst of heaven, saying with a loud voice, "Woe, woe, woe to the inhabitants of the earth, because of the remaining blasts of the trumpet of the three angels who are about to sound!"

I have a friend in Jackson, Mississippi who had a custom car tag which read, “Fine You.”

Pretty much says it all doesn’t it? “I’m fine, how are you?”

This is a succinct question in these days in which we live, which are just prior to the Rapture of the Church and the Tribulation of the earth.

What makes me, ‘fine?’ Well, I am certain I am going to be raptured when Jesus comes for His church. The reason I am certain is that I have given myself to Jesus Christ according to the Word of God. I am born again by the testimony of the Holy Spirit and the Word working in my life to bring certainty to my heart that I am, ‘fine.’ I am in Christ, and I am a new creation. I am heaven-bound, and spared from all future torment and punishment by God because I have received His free gift of salvation by His grace. There really is nothing like the peace with God which makes me, ‘fine.’

You?

I will keep saying over and over again through our course of study in the Book of the Revelation of Jesus Christ that you do not want to be on earth during the Tribulation – and - if the Tribulation is soon – which it IS according to prophecy – then the Rapture is even sooner than that. You must give your heart to Jesus now, or you will not be, ‘fine’ then.

-Pastor Bill