High Alert!

As Rosh Hashanah approaches each year (just two weeks from this Friday) I always get a little excited. "Confidence is high," is the military jargon for it. And it's a "high watch day" according to Bible prophecy experts.

Rosh Hashanah is the Jewish New Year. Also known as The Feast of Trumpets, it marks the day the universe was created and when Adam and Eve were created. It is also called The Day of Judgement or Remembrance. 

A distinctive feature of this high holy day is the blowing of trumpets, or the shofar (a ram's horn).

Why is this particular Jewish holiday of interest to the Christian? Well....

Jesus to the disciples: "Let not your hearts be troubled. My Father’s house has many rooms; if that were not so, would I have told you that I am going there to prepare a place for you? And if I go and prepare a place for you, I will come back and take you to be with me so that where I am you may be also." John 14:2-3

Jesus said that He is coming back to get His disciples. That we may be where He is. Where's that? Heaven. When is He coming?

The Apostle Paul: "Behold, I show you a mystery; We shall not all sleep, but we shall all be changed.

In a moment, in the twinkling of an eye, at the last trump: for the trumpet shall sound, and the dead shall be raised incorruptible, and we shall be changed." - 1 Corinthians 15:51-52

The twinkling of an eye? That's pretty quick! And a trumpet will sound? Yep. And the dead will be raised? Mhmm. And we....we'll be changed?? Uh huh.

"According to the Lord’s word, we tell you that we who are still alive, who are left until the coming of the Lord, will certainly not precede those who have fallen asleep. For the Lord himself will come down from heaven, with a loud command, with the voice of the archangel and with the trumpet call of God, and the dead in Christ will rise first. After that, we who are still alive and are left will be caught up together with them in the clouds to meet the Lord in the air. And so we will be with the Lord forever. Therefore encourage one another with these words." - 1 Thessalonians 4:15-18

As we go through today or tomorrow, or however many days remain until His return, let us be encouraged by Jesus' words.

"I will come back."

And I hope it's soon.