WHAT DO YOU SEE ?

WHAT DO YOU SEE ?: (1 Thessalonians 4:16-18)." For the Lord himself shall descend from heaven with a shout, with the voice of the archangel, and with the trump of God: and the dead in Christ shall rise first: then we which are all alive and remain shall be caught up together with them in the clouds to meet the Lord in the air: and so shall we ever be with the Lord. Wherefore comfort one another with these words." Isn't that a comfort ? So I'm not looking down; I'm looking up. Christ Jesus is still the Refuge. He's our Refuge from judgment ! Judgment is not common on the church. The Bible said if we would judge ourselves, we would not be judged (1 Corinthians 11:31). That means, if we miss it, we just say, "I missed it Father that's wrong. Forgive me" --- and He forgives us. For He said, "For if we would judge ourselves, we should not be judged." So judgment isn't coming on the Church. I can't understand all these people running around hollering, "The Church is going through the Tribulation." The Tribulation is judgment. It is judgment coming on the Church ? No. He said, "If you'll judge yourself, you'll not be judged." Did the judgment come on Noah, his wife, and their family ? No, the ark saved them from it. It was their refuge. That ark was a type of Christ Jesus. I have found refuge in Jesus Christ. Judgment is not coming up on me. Why would the Church which are persons, and not a building which was constructed by the hands of men be judged and be under the same judgment of God as the rest of the world ? It's utter foolishness to think so. You can believe what you want to about it; that still not going to change it. It's going to be just like the Bible says. Jesus is coming ! I'm looking up and rejoicing. You can look down, complaining, talk unbelief, and tell about how bad things are getting with Kovic 19 --- but I'm telling you about how good things are and how much better they're going to be. No, there will be what you call normal in this life. Again looking at an Old Testament example, when every body had failed Moses, he turned his face to the wall. The children of Israel had turned away from God. They were worshiping the Golden calf. God would have destroyed the nation if Moses had not stood in the breach to turn away God's wrath. Moses simply said, "Now, Lord, if you are going to blot their names out of Your book, just blot my name out along with their." That means he turned his face to the wall. Moses wasn't seeing anything but God. He wasn't seeing the golden calf. He wasn't seeing the failure of the people. He wasn't even seeing how his brother Aaron had failed him. He was seeing nothing but God. The Lord said, "All right, I won't blot any of you out." (Exodus 32:1 through 35)