Is This Is? There's Got To Be Something Better To Come?

Just this weekend I was talking to someone who sincerely believed that all Bible prophecy has been fulfilled, God's kingdom has arrived, and this is as good as it's going to get. Can that possibly be the case? Is this all God has planned? Is the endless cycle of birth, life, sickness, disease, and death all that God has planned? What purpose would that serve? If this is it, what do we have to look forward to? Was my friend who sincerely believes this is all God has planned missing out on something important? What about those passages about the resurrection? What about the radical idea of the rapture? The short little article below might help shed some light on things.

Is This All There Is Or Is There Something Else To Come?

Take a look at the world around you. Do you believe that God's plan is to simply let things continue on and on as they are?

Watch the news and look at history. We see the same cycle continuing on and on. Each and every day for thousands of years people are being born into a world filled with evil, sin, corruption, and death.
There are some who believe that God's kingdom has already come and been established. If that is the case, can we really say that the world is much different after it's arrival? What has changed? The cycle continues. Children are born to face a world of hardship, grief, sorrow, hunger, heartache, sickness, disease, and ultimately death. Since the time of Adam and Eve death has continued to march on.

Some say that the reason the world has not changed is because people are not doing their part. Some say that if we all simply followed the teachings of Christ everything would be different.

Although I believe that the world would be a better place if each man, woman, and child sought to follow Christ and to love one another to the best of our ability... And I believe that we would see beautiful fruit as a result, such as hunger being diminished, and an end to war, we would still have a major problem. That problem is death. As obvious as it seems, I believe many people are missing that fact.

Think about it. Even if we all decided to be as Jesusy as possible in our interaction with one another... Even if we all decided to eat right, exercise, and take our vitamins... Even if we all believed that Christ died for our sins... Guess what? Time would continue to move forward, we would each grow old, our bodies would begin to wear out, we would grow sick, and eventually die.
Something has to change! Something else has to happen.

Just as death entered into creation, it needs to be removed! These mortal bodies that we wear must go through a transformation and that is exactly what the Apostle Paul tells us will one day happen.

"Behold, I tell 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 trumpet. For the trumpet will sound, and the dead will be raised incorruptible, and we shall be changed. For this corruptible must put on incorruption, and this mortal must put on immortality." (1 Corinthians 15:51-53)

Praise God that we can live with the hope that one day there will be no more death, no more sorrow, no more sickness, and no more pain! Praise God that at some point we will all be changed.

James Flanders is a blogger (not a pastor) and musician with a passion for the grace of God and sharing the greatness of what God has accomplished on our behalf through Christ and that Father has great plans for us in the future regardless of the frailty of our current human condition.

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James and his wife Tanya reside in Arizona.

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