Gone!!
Vanished!!!!!!
The young techie yawned slightly as he entered the familiar lobby of his office building at the start of another business day. He scarcely acknowledged the presence of the elevator dispatcher, who gestured at an open elevator and said, "Going up."
He certainly didn't expect that the dispatcher's familiar call... "Going up", was prophetic and would be answered at once !!!!
Somewhere around the 6Th floor, he heard an earsplitting SHOUT and the unmistakable sound of a TRUMPET blast overhead, and then ... he really began to go up!
Before he could blink his eyes, or wonder if the others in the elevator had heard the strange sounds, the techie was shooting up the elevator shaft. He seemed to be taking off like a rocket! Going right through the top of the building! Careening upward through the bright morning sun and enjoying a completely euphoric feeling of well-being.
All around him he saw people shooting up through the air... they were glowing! They shined like silver against the blue sky. He suddenly realised that he too was shining in this peculiar way, and that his body had somehow changed.
Before his mind could process all this, he looked up and saw what was drawing all of them like a huge gigantic magnet..... The Lord Jesus Christ Himself!!!!
He stood resplendent in the air as the people rose to meet Him. He was more glorious, more beautiful, more brilliant than the man had ever imagined he would be... yet there He stood in plain view.
The man suddenly understood that he was in the Rapture. He and the other believers had suddenly become "like Jesus", seeing Him face-to-face and possessing their new resurrection bodies.
It was true! The promise was real.... it was being fulfilled!
He knew well enough what the Rapture was ever since he had believed in Jesus. He had believed in this remarkable event implicitly... as he believed all of what the Scriptures taught. But he had been puzzled. Was it going to happen the way the Bible said it would? Would he really rise into the air and meet Jesus on the clouds? Would he be alive and conscious of what was happening?
Now he had his answers. Today was the day, and he was alive and well. And there was the Lord, just as He said He would be. he promised to return and receive His own and there He was, keeping His promise.
The joyful company of believers assembled around the Lord... high above the earth. The Master greeted them and they were overwhelmed by the warmth of the enveloping love. Then Jesus turned away from planet earth and led His church away to the place that He had prepared for them.
Back in the elevator, a few people were rather surprised. Not everyone had noticed the strange turn of events, they were mostly looking down at their shoes... like most people in elevators do! But some had clearly seen the young man get into the elevator, but not get out... Yet he was gone!
Oh well, another day, another dollar. They all got off at their floors and went about the days work. Those who thought they were seeing things called their therapists or took some tablets...
They failed to appreciate that the time of Gods wrath upon the earth was about to begin...
If any of them survived the next 7 years... it would truly be a miracle.
I've always been fascinated with the Rapture... This was originally from one of my grandfathers books and I've elaborated on it and made it story-like.
