Today, I was going through my collection of DVDs and VCDs when I found a set of VCDs which I have not seen for quite some time. So instead of lazying around doing nothing, I decided to take out this set and watched it again.
In the first story of Apocalypse, it talked about how people, Christians, were suddenly disappeared. The anti-Christ then appeared and claimed that the aliens had gotten hold of them. Then there was a promise of peace. During this period of time, people began to look without their spiritual eyes. They began an attitude of seeing is believing. Until one lady, Hannah, a journalist, remembered what her grandmother used to tell her about Christ. In her grandmother's processions, she found 2 video tapes and began to read about them. They were tapes of people asking about the rupture and what this meant. Hannah managed to kneel before God and accepted Him as her Lord. But there are her beloved ones who still have not loved God. One of them is her husband. She tried hard to explain to him but he could not believe. Until one night, he decided to go to his father's grave and began to ask him what made him believe God till the end. There was light shining on his father's grave tomb. There was a bible verse written there: 1 Thessalonians 4:15-16. He went back to the car and flipped the bible to this verse. Then he decided to dig his father's grave to see whether what the bible said about those who were dead would be ruptured first. What he found was only his father's clothes, ring and bible. Not even his father's bones were inside the coffin. That's when he believed. Then came many accusations from the anti-Christ and began to prosecute those who believed in God. Finally, there was evidence to prove that the anti-Christ was a deceiver.
In Revelation and Tribulation, it talked about different people having different experiences and came to know God. In Tribulation, there was also the beast code being introduced. Many people did not believe God even when there was transmission on TV to show that God indeed existed and Jesus came to die for our sins and that the anti-Christ was a deceiver. However, there was also many who believed.
As I saw these movies, I began to wonder: will I be one of them who will rupture? God says in His Word that those who believe in Him will be ruptured. However, there will also be some who will be left behind. There was one scene which showed that those who ruptured have their clothes that they were wearing nicely folded. I wonder whether it will really be so.
Are we already prepared for God's return? Like the movie, Storm of the Century, these movies showed that satan could use our family members to threaten us. Can we stand up for Jesus? Or do we fall into satan's trap by renouncing God? As I saw the gallow equipment in the movie, I was reminded of the actual one which I saw when I was in Vietnam. I remembered going to one of the war museum. There was a real cell with writings on the wall and the gallow machine, rusty and tall. When I reached the room where the gallow machine was, I saw many people walking away without entering or looking. I plucked my courage to go in. As I did that, my legs were trembling. The gallow machine was tall, just like the many movies I saw regarding the end times. Somehow, there was a prompting whether I was prepared to lay there for Jesus' sake or to see my family members there. I have not stopped asking myself this.
Lord, will I stand for You till the end? I pray that I will. Grant me strength to carry on even when the environment tells me otherwise. I also pray for my family members that they too will be protected by You. It's not by might, nor by power, but by My Spirit, says the Lord of Hosts. Open the eyes of Your people to see You as the true God. Cut off all ungodly ties we, the Tan family has. I pray that You will break every curses and bondages. In Jesus' name I pray, Amen.
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