So today in sunday school we discussed the passage where Jesus explains to the disciples that the day and time the Lord comes back is set by and exclusively know by the father. Insomuch that he could come like a thief in the night, the moment everyone would least expect him.
Then the thought occurred to me that fortunately for myself, family, anyone who may be reading this presently, the Lord has decided to put off his second coming long enough for us all to be born and given the decision to accept him as our Lord and Savior.
That if his second coming would have been before we were born, that we would not have existed. Well....what is it like to not exist? ( I appreciate life so much more at the mere thought of this) Yet, what about all the lives that will not be born because of his second coming? Once we reach a new earth will He just create the new people that would have been born and not give them the choice to sin? Will he continue to introduce new lives among us at all?
As much as I want Christ to come back, I, along with the rest of the inhabitants of earth are lucky to be alive, let alone be able to make the decision to accept Christ as my savior. Some people who are babies when Christ comes won't even be old enough to make the decision for themselves.
The further he delays, the more lives can be born which would result in the possibility of more lives coming to know Him and accepting Him as their savior. Will/will not His second coming be the cutoff point? I kinda feel bad for the lives that won't exist, be born. Yet, perhaps it's just me thinking in the wrong way insomuch that it's not necessarily the people that don't get to be born and experience life, so much that it's just the end of time and outside of time nothing really is meant to exist or maybe he'll start the whole creation thing somewhere else in the universe after our time has passed and we're all gone to the spiritual realm.
Perhaps I'm getting into the mystery of things that the word warns us against. Whatever he wants us to know, he tells us.
Then the thought occurred to me that fortunately for myself, family, anyone who may be reading this presently, the Lord has decided to put off his second coming long enough for us all to be born and given the decision to accept him as our Lord and Savior.
That if his second coming would have been before we were born, that we would not have existed. Well....what is it like to not exist? ( I appreciate life so much more at the mere thought of this) Yet, what about all the lives that will not be born because of his second coming? Once we reach a new earth will He just create the new people that would have been born and not give them the choice to sin? Will he continue to introduce new lives among us at all?
As much as I want Christ to come back, I, along with the rest of the inhabitants of earth are lucky to be alive, let alone be able to make the decision to accept Christ as my savior. Some people who are babies when Christ comes won't even be old enough to make the decision for themselves.
The further he delays, the more lives can be born which would result in the possibility of more lives coming to know Him and accepting Him as their savior. Will/will not His second coming be the cutoff point? I kinda feel bad for the lives that won't exist, be born. Yet, perhaps it's just me thinking in the wrong way insomuch that it's not necessarily the people that don't get to be born and experience life, so much that it's just the end of time and outside of time nothing really is meant to exist or maybe he'll start the whole creation thing somewhere else in the universe after our time has passed and we're all gone to the spiritual realm.
Perhaps I'm getting into the mystery of things that the word warns us against. Whatever he wants us to know, he tells us.