Yesterday morning started off with my lovely wife, Amy, waking me up for a "noise check". This is one of those things where she hears a noise and being the man of the house I must investigate possible issues. Of course, I'm not sure what I would do if I walked into the hall to find "Brutus" making squeaky sounds with the floor board, but I digress...
So, I get up to do my husbandly duty and begin checking rooms (half asleep). The problem was...something was not right. I turn on a couple lights and notice that the door to David's room is open and his fan is not on (this is not normal). I poke my head in his room and see his bed empty with only a sheet filling the space where he should be. Of course, at this moment I am bit concerned. Next, I run to the girls room and check there bed...and they too are empty.
At this point I begin freaking out. I am thinking that either someone has stolen my children (not good) or the rapture has occurred (REALLY not good). So, I run into my room panicking and say to Amy:
"Honey! Are the kids with you!"
To which she calmly replies,
"The kids are with your parents."
I the midst of my groggy stumbling I had forgotten that we had taken the kids to my parents the day before for some fun time with Mimi & Papa. To say the least, I was both relieved and embarrassed.
So as Amy lays back down (wondering what in the world compelled her to marry such an odd man) I begin thinking about that moment in time where I indeed thought that I was "left behind." What a fearful and dreadful thought. In that moment of time I heard every little sound. I took in the smallest detail around me and began replaying my life in rich detail. On top of that my mind begins scrolling through scripture about the Lord's return.
This brings me to 2 Thessalonians 2:1-4
"1 Now, brethren, concerning the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ and our gathering together to Him, we ask you, 2 not to be soon shaken in mind or troubled, either by spirit or by word or by letter, as if from us, as though the day of Christ had come.3 Let no one deceive you by any means; for that Day will not come unless the falling away comes first, and the man of sin is revealed, the son of perdition, 4 who opposes and exalts himself above all that is called God or that is worshiped, so that he sits as God in the temple of God, showing himself that he is God."
Like myself, the church in Thessalonica had thought that Christ had come back and they missed His second coming. In fact, Paul tells them that whether it's by Spirit, word or even a letter that appears to be from Paul do not believe it. Paul then gives a time line of what must happen first and he begins by mentioning the "falling away" and the "man of lawlessness" also known as the anti-christ.
We will talk more about this passage, the falling away and the man of lawlessness tomorrow. Till then...I'll try to remember where my kids are at.
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