August 2021

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The Grand Finale

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by Gina Hooker

his past July 4th, I went to a firework show

Our Father in Heaven has promised that this world

in my hometown. One beautiful display of

of decay and the battles we fight in our flesh will one

color after another lit up the night sky. Then

day come to an end. I can assure you He will not leave

there was silence and darkness which seemed to last

us expecting more, just as the person who funded

forever. I heard someone say, “You mean that’s it…

the grand firework extravaganza did indeed provide

no grand finale?” I said to that person, “There is

a grand finale. But the real grand finale comes when

always a grand finale…just wait for it, it will come.”

Christ appears in the clouds. Though that day seems to

I knew the organization that had provided this grand

tarry, “just wait for it…it will come.”

illumination for our pleasure would not leave us expecting more! Then I had to ask myself, “Am I looking to the skies for the grandest finale of all time or am I living as though that day will never come?” Sadly, many Christians have a lack of excitement for the coming of the Lord and have become complacent. Just as the parable how to boil a frog describes, “You cannot place a frog in a pan of boiling water, it will jump out, but you can place a frog in a pan of cool water, and little by little increase the temperature. The frog then becomes relaxed and complacent in the

“Immediately after the tribulation of those days,

warm steam bath. Once the water begins to boil and

the sun will be darkened and the moon will not

the frog realizes he’s in danger it is too late!”

give its light; the stars will fall from heaven, and the

We are instructed in the manner in which we

powers of the heavens will be shaken. Then the sign

ought to live in 1 Thessalonians 5:5-8. The return of

of the Son of Man will appear in heaven, and then all

Christ is near and may we all become more vigilant

the tribes of the earth will mourn, and they will see

as The Day approaches. May we live with a renewed

the Son of Man coming on the clouds of heaven with

sense of urgency in our relationships with both God

power and great glory” (Matthew 24:29-30).

so that the day of the Lord will not come upon them as a thief in the night.

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About The Author

and man. May we be a witness to those who are lost, Gina Hooker RN, Clinical Discipler. President and founder of Eternal Life Support Group.


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