Many people in the church believe they have to prepare the earth before Jesus comes back. Is that biblical? Isn’t that saying that they are bringing the millennium for Christ, instead of Christ taking control and doing so?
Here’s what I read:
1 Thessalonians 4:16-18 – 16 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. 17 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. 18 Therefore encourage one another with these words.
I have a date with the Lord in the air.
As a pre-trib rapture Christian, I believe the Lord comes for His bride and it’s off to the honeymoon. So if there is a group trying to lay the foundation for the Lord so he can lead them on this utopian earth they are trying to make, who are they going to see? The antichrist.
Don’t get me wrong, we are to be witnesses for our Lord. We are to be spreading the Good News. However, our citizenship is in Heaven and not being a dweller on this earth.
Our Savior is coming to call us in the air. It’s a blessed hope. The antichrist is coming to try and run his kingdom on the earth through the most troubling and horrific time. Christ comes back at the end of that time with His bride, which is at Armageddon. Then rules and reigns in the millennium and allows His own to help rule with Him.
Don’t love this earth, love Heaven. Don’t be looking for antichrist, but Jesus Christ.