Will Jesus Return Tomorrow? Should We Be Concerned?

No and Yes.

The clouds were amazing today. It was lovely to see the blue again.

On a different day I think I would have laid on the lawn just to watch them.

It made me realize how long our weather has been overcast and gray.

I hear more of that is coming. Bah Humbug.

So a guy named Harold Camping says Jesus is coming back tomorrow and it will be Judgement Day. I find what little I know and have read to be profoundly irritating. Honestly, so what? The man clearly does not believe the Word of God to be true, so why bother to listen? 

1. The Bible teaches that no one will know the day or the hour Christ returns.

(Which leads me to believe that tomorrow is a 'No-Go'.) [Matthew 24:36]

2. It also says that as the time of His return approaches, that the world will be participating in a genocide against Christians that if not stopped by the Lord would have left not one alive on earth. (There are places in the world where believers in Jesus pay for that choice with their lives, but it's not happening on this kind of global scale yet.) [Revelation 6:11]

3. This Camping guy also says those belonging to a church are not saved. So now we are dealing with two really serious problems, the first being God abandoning His promises to His Bride the Church whom He purchased with His blood, and the other that salvation is, according to Camping, now by works (leaving churches) instead of by faith. Major-- did I mention MAJOR?-- problem area.

[Ephesians 2:8,9; Galatians 3:17]

Should we be concerned?

Profoundly.

In the end (which tomorrow is not), it boils down to the ramblings of yet another false teacher, this one with a little more firepower. [Acts 20:28-30]

I am tempted to ignore the whole thing, but the Lord calls me instead to be discerning and sober because we have an enemy that seeks to 'devour' us, and clearly he has used this guy to devour a lot of people, but he can just as easily use our sarcasm and pride to catch us and chew us up. Let's be wise and cautious, and pray instead for those who have been deceived, and for ourselves that we will use the opportunity to dialog about what IS true.

Acts 20:28

"Be on guard for yourselves and for all the flock, among which the Holy Spirit has made you overseers, to shepherd the church of God which He purchased with His own blood."

An exhortation from Phillipians 2:5-16

Have this attitude in yourselves which was also in Christ Jesus, who, although He existed in the form of God, did not regard equality with God a thing to be grasped, but emptied Himself, taking the form of a bond-servant, and being made in the likeness of men. Being found in appearance as a man, He humbled Himself by becoming obedient to the point of death, even death on a cross. For this reason also, God highly exalted Him, and bestowed on Him the name which is above every name, so that at the name of Jesus EVERY KNEE WILL BOW, of those who are in heaven and on earth and under the earth, and that every tongue will confess that Jesus Christ is Lord, to the glory of God the Father. So then, my beloved, just as you have always obeyed, not as in my presence only, but now much more in my absence, work out your salvation with fear and trembling; for it is God who is at work in you, both to will and to work for His good pleasure.

 Do all things without grumbling or disputing; so that you will prove yourselves to be blameless and innocent, children of God above reproach in the midst of a crooked and perverse generation, among whom you appear as lights in the world, holding fast the word of life, so that in the day of Christ I will have reason to glory because I did not run in vain nor toil in vain.