Sunday, November 6, 2011

The day of the Lord

True enough!  And He will!
Is this a terrifying thing, or a comforting thing?


Do you look forward to the day the Lord comes in judgement?

We read in the book of Amos:
Woe to you who desire the day of the Lord!
Why would you have the day of the Lord?
...Is not the day of the Lord darkness, and not light,
and gloom with no brightness in it?
...I hate, I despise your feasts,
and I take no delight in your solemn assemblies...

(Read the full OT text here: Amos 5:18-24)
But we also read the words of Paul:
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 them.(Read the entire epistle here: 1 Thess 4:13-18)


Are we supposed to be afraid?  Or hopeful?
To find out, listen to the full sermon here.

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