2Peter 3:10 But the day of the Lord will come as a thief in the night; in the which the heavens shall pass away with a great noise, and the elements shall melt with fervent heat, the earth also and the works that are therein shall be burned up.

Condition Red-Imagine if the Lord returned in one night and in the night he came as a thief. He came looking mad and with anger and with vengeance. And the next morning everything, and I mean everything was gone.

 Now if I left it that way you would say that yes, Jesus does speak often of coming as a thief in the night. But what does that really mean? Doesn’t it mean quietly? And are we not warned to be on guard?

 Here is the question and it is important to this question. Why even talk about coming as a thief? It is true Jesus doesn’t want to kill, steal or destroy. At least not from the majority of you. But suppose this wasn’t meant to be a joke and suppose we ignored it as figurative language. And let us suppose that those who were ready were the ones which would experience this as the thief who comes in to take away.

Now what would Jesus do as a thief? To answer that we have to ask who was most critical in his life in this matter. The answer would be his father. What did Jesus learn from his father? That the treasure of this world are the things men want. And so if men want treasure they can have it. Only those who fight spiritually will have it, spiritual treasure. And those who fight naturally will have natural things.

 So lets say that Jesus is the thief and he is coming as s thief. Lets say he is fighting with God who is coming to fight with  evil. And lets say that they plan to bring this to pass when the Lord comes as a thief also. After all would the father actually follow the father? As in years apart doing the work of the thief? Or would it be that the thief is part of the nature of things which is yet to come?

You see, all these things are part of the things which are yet to arrive. We are in a world which is held by those who have been evil. So they go out and they fight with others and they overcome.

 So lets say each of us is called to pray that Jesus would come as a thief and take away the evil in the midst of their lives. Now you might want to say I have forgiven people of their evil but lets say God has to judge. And so the rapture of the church is to happen but not until after the tribulation. And that means the seven years of tribulation is something that was written to the church by Jesus. He didn’t write it to anyone else. He wrote it to the church. And thus the church is the one method of life which can be counted on to be a determining factor in things to come.

Now I did have a small part in this story but not enough to change God. God wanted men to experience this and it wasn’t because he was cruel. Now I know I had a reason for wondering if this is of the Lord. For why put the church through the tribulation if there was something called a rapture? Now the real reason isn’t because most Christians disbelive it but because the church is meant to experience the word of the Lord in action. We talk about being in the day of Moses and we say “We would do this and this and thus.” And so when we are finally faced with being moved out of Egypt because we are the most hate people on the face of the earth do we cry and weep when God says “Let go?” Or do we try to let go with thanksgiving?

Now I have wondered if this is of the Lord for various reasons. So I am asking God the reason why we would remain beyond seeing it in action? As in how can their be a wedding if all the guests are dying on earth?

 And to answer that is to see the real solution to this problem. For if the wedding is to be filled then those on earth must die. And that is the secret to life. It isn’t as bad as it sounds. Those who will be in the tribulation are to be those who are there by choice. And those of the rapture are of the red. They will have Christ come in and he will carry them to Heaven and to the earth of their desire. For those things are of things yet to come. So to die is to be blessed. And if everyone died that day then everyone will be carried up to a new world where there is no more pain.

Now I write this somewhat confusing but hang on for I’ll clarify it.

First the Lord is coming to take men to hell. There they will be carried to sin and sin will be a lay over while they submit to their nature. When they are freed they will then go up to Heaven. Heaven will give them a new name and a new home. And it will be simple and not too exciting. For most it will be the equivalent of house of the Lord. And that means it will be a house God makes. So in that way it will be exciting.

The next step will be to remove all vestiges of evil from them. And that is to happen soon.

 After they are cleansed of evil and purged of evil the body will undergo a series of changes. These changes will be clarified as time goes on but to put it into perspective they will be subsurface or superficial to the average person. And that means we will appear to be who we are. Inside we will look the same but if there were a spiritual x-ray we would look like men of strength or weakness depending on how we searched for the things of the Lord.

These things will be seen for what they are in Heaven. And so someone of strength could be like a giant. And that would scare almost anyone so God is going to make it seem that way only when they get emotional.

And as for the emotional side Jesus will return at the Red Alert sign and will carry us up just as we hope. He will come as a thief and so will his father. He will come to carry us up and his father will come to destroy the works of vain things. And it will be apparent for it will show up in everything there is. And it will be a good thing.

The next step will be to see men as they are. And that means we will have time to greet each other not just in Heaven but on earth. We will have a way of going back and forth. Whether that is technology or faith will yet be determined by who and what we do for a living. For faith isn’t to be thrown out on unbelievers. And whether we like it or not there are some who are of the faith but don’t have personal faith. And they will have to be trained to use faith.

As for those who have it they will seem to know it. And so the day of the Lord will appear. And we will be with the Lord for all time and in all things if we desire.