The Bridegroom Tarries

“However, no one knows the day or hour when these things will happen, not even the angels in heaven or the Son himself. Only the Father knows." Matthew 24:36  

There has been a copious amount of eschatological banter lately, thanks to Harold Camping and his May 21st Judgment Day prediction. According to Camping, Jesus was going to rapture His church today. As we have all clearly noted, the Rapture didn't occur. We can add this to the long list of ill-predicted second comings, raptures, apocalypses and the like.


Jesus made it clear in Scripture that no man knows when He will return (see Matthew 25), but He also emphasized that we should be ready at all times. While I firmly believe that the increase in false prophecies (like Camping's) is a sign of the end times (see Luke 17:23), I do not believe that God wants on to focus on when Jesus will return, but rather that He will return.

During times like these, we are reminded that there are many who do not know, who have not heard, who are yet blind to the Truth of the Gospel. This rapture brouhaha has caused an overwhelmingly sarcastic and negative reaction among unbelievers, particularly in the way I have seen Christ and Scripture mocked and scoffed at recently. It should break our hearts to see how many people are lost and in desperate need of the Father's love.

Let this be our wake-up call to honor the Great Commission! Our Bridegroom tarries in order that more may come to know Him. 

We are Christ's ambassadors to the world (2 Cor 5:20), so let us therefore implore people to be reconciled to God through Jesus. He is our peace, our hope, our salvation!

This should also serve to remind us to live lives worthy of the calling that we have received (Eph 4:1-2). May we fix our eyes on Jesus. May we hunger and thirst for righteousness. May we imitate Christ and love people as He does. May we abandon ourselves to Lord and His purposes.


I pray that I will go to France with a renewed boldness, declaring that God "wants all men to be saved and to come to a knowledge of the truth." (1 Timothy 2:4) As we obey the Great Commission, lives will be radically transformed in France. Our God is mighty to save!


Please pray that our evangelism will be Spirit-led and Spirit-empowered. Without Jesus, we can do nothing. With Him, ALL things are possible!