This week I want to share something from Joseph Prince's "Grace Inspirations" devotional!
A BRAND NEW BODY AT THE BLAST OF A TRUMPET!
1 Thessalonians 4:16 For the Lord Himself will descend from
heaven with a shout, with the voice of an archangel, and with the trumpet of
God. And the dead in Christ will rise first.
All over the world, Jews celebrate Rosh Hashanah, the Jewish
New Year. Occurring usually in the month of September, this feast is celebrated
with the blowing of trumpets—the shofar or ram’s horn. That is why it is also
called the Feast of Trumpets.
The Jews observe seven feasts: The Passover, Unleavened
Bread, Firstfruits, Pentecost, Trumpets, Atonement and Tabernacles. The first
four have been fulfilled literally by Jesus. He was the Passover Lamb (see 1
Corinthians 5:7), the bread of life (see John 6:35) and the firstfruits of
those who have fallen asleep (see 1 Corinthians 15:20). And when Pentecost had
fully come after His ascension, He sent us the Holy Spirit (see Acts 2:1–4).
So the next feast that we are waiting for Jesus to fulfill
literally is the Feast of Trumpets. Why is this feast significant to us?
Because when Jesus fulfills it, it means that we are going up to meet Him in
the clouds!
I am talking about the rapture of the church. When the
trumpet sounds, “in the twinkling of an eye,” we who are alive will be changed.
We will put on new bodies that will be like Jesus’! Those who are dead in
Christ will rise and also receive new bodies. They will go up first followed by
us who are alive, and we will all meet the Lord in the air (see 1 Corinthians
15:51–55).
This means that there is a possibility that you might not
see death! The Bible says, “Then we who are alive and remain shall be
caught up together with them in the clouds to meet the Lord in the air” (1
Thessalonians 4:17). It is one thing to happen to be alive, but quite another
to remain alive.
I believe that there is a generation of Christians who know
the resurrection power of the Lord. They know how to walk in their inheritance
and put off sickness and death until the coming of the Lord. My friend, may you
be counted as one of them as you take the Lord Jesus and His finished work as your
victory over sickness and death!
I LOVE this! We DO know how to stand on the Word of God to walk in health, but also to slow down the aging process of the body! Many older people have proven that you can still do amazing things by keeping your body healthy and moving, well into the older years. I have seen 70 year old body building women who look amazing and are very fit and active! And WE, who do know our God and His Word, have the added advantage of the supernatural power of God working on our behalf. But, as with any other promise in the Word of God, it will take a determined purpose, discipline, diligence and faith to accomplish it! I do believe that JESUS is appearing for the catching away of the Church sooner than we think, but I do NOT intend to go earlier! I plan on finishing my race WELL and completeing the course that HE has given me! Part of the plan for accomplishing this is to stay young at heart, so I am sharing "Wake" by Hillsong Young and Free for the song today!Love and Shalom from the Swoveys!
