Heaven Changes Everything

 Heaven Changes Everything – Jonathan Brentner - https://www.raptureready.com/category/nearing-midnight/ There’s a contemporary tune by Big Daddy Weave that I love: Heaven Changes Everything. The focus of the song is that our hope of Heaven is something that brings abundant hopein the midst of all our trials, disappointments, and sorrows. When I listen to it on the radio, my thoughts often race ahead to our expectation of Jesus’ appearing, which also enables us to endure living in a world where lawlessness,deception, violence, and wickedness are the likes of which we couldn’t have even imagined just ten years ago. It’s because Heaven Changes Everything that I look forward to bringing you biblical perspectives on current events as well as the substance of our joyous hope. As such, I’m extremely grateful to Terry James for inviting me to write for the Nearing Midnight column. He has become a friend and a mentor during the past couple of years.We have co-written a book, Hereafter – It’s Far Better Than You Can Imagine, which will be available next January. The book emphasizes the amazing over-the-top joy that’s headed our way after we meet Jesus in the air. The passion of my ministry is that of defending the pre-Tribulation Rapture and Jesus’ thousand-year reign on the throne of David. However, I also love connecting the eventsof our time to what God’s Word says about the last days. There’s one particular event that highlights the evil that the Bible tells us would be prominent before Jesus’ return to the earth. The stories that I hear from Lahaina, Hawaii, break my heart. It very much appears as though the fire was intentional because the globalists desired the land. Some suggestthey desire to build one of their 15-minute cities on the area that burned, while others believe the elite want to steal the land in order to profit from selling it to developers. Either way, only the devil could inspire such evil. Some residents of Lahaina say that there are still one thousand children missing, while others say that number is double that total. It’s so very difficult to comprehend the level of evil that exists among the powerbrokers of our day. There’s a pervasive “bubble of normalcy,” especially in the U.S., whichkeeps a great many people, as well as believers, from accepting the murderous intent of those that govern us. In John 8:44, Jesus described the devil as a “murderer,” a “liar,” and the “father of lies.” The Lord also said this about him, “The thief comes only to steal and kill anddestroy” (John 10:10). Although these verses are not what we would normally refer to as prophecy, the depictions of our enemy help us greatly in understanding the forces that govern so many of our nations, including America, in these last days. It should come as no surprise to us that the Luciferian globalists display the murderous and deceptive character of the one who controls their thoughts and actions. As difficultas it is to wrap our minds around the purposeful killing of people in Hawaii, it perfectly aligns with the satanic influence of those who perpetrated it. Should it really surprise us that those who fervently support the killing of innocents in the womb are capable of this? How can we deal with such a willful killing apart from what the Bible tells us about our future, about Heaven? I have no way to cope with such things apart from my hope inJesus’ imminent appearing and His subsequent wrath that will fall on these agents of death and destruction. Whenever I feel anger bubbling up inside of me because of the violence and deception of our day, I run to Psalms 37 and 94. They remind me that God is sovereign and in control.He will justly deal with perpetrators of wickedness and violence after He brings us to the safety of glory in His Father’s house (John 14:1-3; Colossians 3:4). I believe these psalms are also prophetic of the coming Day of the Lord wrath, which will sweep over the world after the Rapture of the Church. Yes, Heaven Changes Everything for both our personal trials and tragic circumstances we endure, as well as for the grief we feel from living in a world moments before theRapture and the start of the Day of the Lord. Where could we go for relief apart from such a wondrous expectation of immortal bodies and the glory of being with our Savior? As the world grows darker, our expectation of Jesus’ imminent appearing glows even brighter as we fix our eyes on it. Maranatha!