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DEVOTION

 THE GOSPEL OF LUKE

LOOK UP

Luke 21:25-28

25 "There will be signs in the sun, moon and stars. On the earth, nations will be in anguish and perplexity at the roaring and tossing of the sea. 26 Men will faint from terror, apprehensive of what is coming on the world, for the heavenly bodies will be shaken. 27 At that time they will see the Son of Man coming in a cloud with power and great glory. 28 When these things begin to take place, stand up and lift up your heads, because your redemption is drawing near."

NIV

Although many men have predicted the end of the world over the course of time, nothing which has or is going to happen on the earth alone is the fullness of signs signifying the day of our redemption, the day Jesus is coming back to call us heavenward. Even this so called blood moon thing that has so many thinking this is it, is not it. When we see something awesome happen to the sun, moon and all the stars, then we should start looking. One or even two tsunamis is not enough to look up. However when all the oceans begin to roar, and tsunamis crash against shores all over the world, at the same time the heaven are shaking, the sun, the moon and the stars start doing something really weird that we have never seen before, then we should stand up, and lift our heads up looking intently because Jesus is coming for us. The whole earth is going to see him. This is going to be an awesome display of his mighty power. No more will he be the humble man in the white robe riding into town on a donkey. He will be the conquering King of kings coming is all his glory for his own, for us. There is not going to be any guessing about when he is coming. It will be a clear and present danger to those who have refused to acknowledge him as their Lord and Savior, but to us it will be the most awesome event in our lives. We can only hope that it will happen while we are still alive, but if not we will still get to see it, for our bodies will be raised from the grave to be reunited with us, however we are, in spirit, and all the glory of God will be on display. We can only hope that our redemption is drawing near. We need not pay any attention to all the nut cases out there who claim to know when it will happen based on prophetic fulfillment. Yes, many of the prophesies have already been fulfilled but nothing like what Jesus is describing here has even come close to happening, especially all at the same time. So we need to keep on keeping on, doing the work of the Lord, what he has called us to do, bringing him glory and honor in our lives, until we see all this happening, then we can we stop and stand up, looking upward to see our Lord coming for us. A day is coming for us to look up.