F.M. Riley (19 Jan 2020)
"Tidbits"


I am still having problems with this Window 10 program [Satanic attack], 
but I refuse to stop sending out the great truths of God's Word.  So the 
Lord laid on my heart to use email to get out small bits of His Word, 
rather than longer studies.  Please share these truths with others, as the Lord leads, and pray for me.  I sure need the prayers of God's people, and the help of the Lord. God bless you all! 
TIDBITS.......
     The Lord Jesus Himself said, "And as it was in the days of Noah, so shall
it be in the days of the Son of man," Luke 17:26.
      God's inspired Word does not tell us what the population of the earth was 
preceding the flood.,  Because mankind before the flood  lived hundreds 
of years, the pre-flood population could have been several thousand 
people, or it could have been millions of people.  We are not told in the
Word.  However, 
     The population of the earth today is approaching NINE BILLION PEOPLE.  
Now how many of these people really know the Lord and are truly saved?
In fact, how many of them even want to hear the Word of God, and
the way of salvation?  How many of them LEFT BEHIND when the rapture occurs, are going to be saved?  
     The wages of sin is still DEATH, Romans 6:23.  Now read Jeremiah 
25:33 and Isaiah 24:5-6.
   ANOTHER TIDBIT.....
     The Lord Jesus explicitly said that His coming  at the rapture will 
be like a flash of lightning, Matthew 24:27-28.  Compare this  passage 
with the similar passage in Luke 17:34-37.  Both passages are speaking 
about the same event; the rapture of God's people. 
     Lightning flashes across the sky in an instant of time.  Now what was 
the Apostle Paul inspired to say in 1 Corinthians 15:52-53, when speaking 
about the rapture?  
     From the Lord's statement, it appears that His coming at the time of the
rapture will be instantaneous. He will appear in the heavens above the 
earth somewhere in the eaat, then like a flash of lightning will travel to the west, completely encircleing the earth in a matter of seconds.   Everyone on the 
earth will likely see the FLASH, and hear the sound, even if they are not
looking directly at the sky,. As the Lord passes around the earth, every 
true believer will be instantly "caught up" to Him.  Just as the Scripture 
describes, true believers will instantly  disappear right before the eyes of
unbelievers LEFT BEHIND.  
     Every reader knows that a bolt of lightning makes a SOUND.  In this 
case as the Lord travels completely around the earth in seconds, the 
SOUND being made will be like that of a Trumpet, calling God's 
people home.  Glory to God!
     Are our readers READY for the Lord's coming as a bolt of lightning 
circumventing the entire earth?  Think about it!  

                   Pastor F. M. Riley