Full Bank Accounts – And Then The Rapture
“God loves a cheerful giver” (2 Corinthians 9:7).
“But whoever has this world’s goods, and sees his brother in need, and shuts up his heart from him, how does the love of God abide in him?” (1 John 3:17).
“Do not lay up for yourselves treasures on earth, where moth and rust destroy and where thieves break in and steal; but lay up for yourselves treasures in heaven, where neither moth nor rust destroys and where thieves do not break in and steal. For where your treasure is, there your heart will be also” (Matthew 6:19-21).
“But God said to him, ‘Fool! This night your soul will be required of you; then whose will those things be which you have provided?’” (Luke 12:20)
A rich Christian regularly prayed that God would give needy people what they needed. However, he himself rarely opened his wallet.
One day, his young son said to him: “Dad, I wish I had your money!” His father asked in surprise: “Why? What would you do with it?” – “I would use it to answer your prayers!”
God is a giving God. How could it be otherwise than that we, as His children, become more like Him in this respect?
The Lord Jesus once told a parableA parable is a pictorial representation of messages that are not directly stated and require interpretation. God already used parables in the Old Testament to convey messages to his people... More in which a rich man piled up money and then suddenly died. God asked him the humbling question: “But God said to him, ‘Fool! This night your soul will be required of you; then whose will those things be which you have provided?’” (Luke 12:20). All the money that the man had accumulated was now irretrievable in his bank account. We should ask ourselves: when the Lord returns for the raptureThe rapture of the believers is one of the great mysteries that was unknown in the OT and is only described in the NT (1 Cor 15:51). It describes the... More, how much money will remain in the accounts of the believers, in their garages or houses, and burn up eventually? Money that could have been used for the spread of the kingdom of GodEssentially, it refers to the same thing as the kingdom of heaven, whereby it is less about a period and more about the moral characteristics of the kingdom. God is... More, for the conversion of unbelievers, or for the edification of believers. How will we explain this to our Lord at the judgment seat?
