Are you ready for the day that is coming?

Do you wait for Jesus Christ?

Coco has already tried to turn your thoughts to four people who met Jesus. For three of them it was a life changing experience. The Bible tells us that a day is coming when all men will meet him. Rev 1:7 – Behold he is coming with clouds and every eye will see him, they also who pierced him. Coco has more to say about that day another time, but for now, let us think about the fact of his coming.

Peter tells us that even in his day men scoffed at the idea that Jesus Christ would return to this world and bring it to an end. 2 Peter 3:3-4. We have plenty of men around today who scorn this whole idea, and prefer to believe in the fables of what pretends to be science, but is really just old fashioned atheism wearing different colours.

But do you know God has left us plenty of evidence that Jesus will return, quite apart from what is written in the Bible where we have for example, in his own words:

The Son of man is coming at an hour you do not expect him. Matthew 24:44

And the testimony of the angels after went into heaven: This Jesus who was taken up into heaven from you will come in a similar way as you saw him go into heaven. Acts 1:11

In the same place that Peter reminds us about the scoffers he goes on to remind his readers about Noah’s flood. The great flood that covered the whole of this planet about five thousand years ago. Only a little while ago we heard about and saw the results of a tidal wave spreading out across the Indian Ocean and Bay of Bengal. The flood that caused brought devastation and disaster to millions of people. But that was a small flood compared with this one. You may also have heard recently – Coco doesn’t know how widely it has been published – about a meteorite of immense proportions which crashed into the gulf of Mexico thousands of years ago. Some scientists have been able to identify the effects of this strike, before which the recent one in SEA becomes insignificant. Quite how they do this amazes Coco! Huge amounts of water were thrown out of the Gulf onto the adjacent land as well as sending tsunami out. The water dragged fossil bearing rock off the land and into the sea and left behind mud deposits now solidified as much as 15 feet thick. But again that was little compared with the great global flood which destroyed life on this planet and left mud deposits all over the world thousands of feet thick. They are what we call the sedimentary rocks.

But Peter tells us: Men wilfully forget this, that the heavens and earth were made of old by the Word of God, and that that world perished being flooded with water.

Every – well so far as Coco is aware – culture has a record of this flood. They differ in the details which is to be expected having been embellished or corrupted as they were passed down. It is good for us that we have had a written record of it preserved. The Bablyonians have a record. The people of South America have a record. The ancient Greeks had a memory of Atlantis, the lost city that perished in the sea.