the tunnel or mankind somehow stumbling into love and peace.Vague hope is OK as a few lines on a greeting card. But what about when death comes close and you’reface to face with eternity? Vague hope doesn’t do much for us then. We need something more thanhunches. We need something specific to cling to.And God HAS laid out His end-time plan for our world in the Scriptures. He’s specific and eager to tellus what’s coming, what we can hope for. Much of God’s wonderful picture is in the Book of Revelation.Revelation pictures the Event that brings human history to a climax in various dramatic ways:Revelation 14:14. John writes: “I looked, and behold, a white cloud and on the cloud sat One likethe Son of Man, having on His head a golden crown and in His hand a sharp sickle.” This pictures Jesuscoming in glory, coming to a world ripe for the harvest.Revelation 19:11-14: “Then I saw heaven opened, and behold, a white horse. And He who sat onhim was called Faithful and True. . . . And the armies in heaven, clothed in fine linen, white and clean,followed Him on white horses.” This is Jesus Christ riding down like a triumphant general, leading the hostsof heaven, coming to rescue His people from a doomed planet.1 Corinthians 15:51-53 tells us what will happen to believers: “Listen, I tell you a mystery: We willnot all sleep, but we will all be changed—in a flash, in the twinkling of an eye, at the last trumpet. For thetrumpet will sound, the dead will be raised imperishable, and we will be changed. For the perishable mustclothe itself with the imperishable, and the mortal with immortality.” This is not some mystic speculatingabout the future. This is the God of the Universe telling us about His end-time plan! He will re-create us asimperishable beings. When? At the last trumpet. 1 Thessalonians 4: 16-17 says Christ will descend withthe trumpet call of God, and the dead will r...
