“Looking for that blessed hope, and the glorious appearing of the great God and our Saviour Jesus Christ” (Titus 2:13).

Christ could return to catch away the Church, the Body of Christ, at the Rapture anytime, day or night. We are to be “looking” for Him always. We may somehow imagine that the Lord is going to come at noonday to catch us away to heaven. It may or may not be daytime in the United States when this great event takes place. It is going to be nighttime in a lot of places around the globe when the Lord returns. Thus, it may be in the evening, at midnight, or three o’clock in the morning in the United States when He comes.

As we are faithfully “looking for that blessed hope” and are always ready, we should remember when we go to bed that the Rapture could happen in the middle of the night when we are sound asleep. But what a great way to be awakened with “a shout, with the voice of the archangel, and with the trump of God” (1 Thes. 4:16)!

To the Reader:

Some of our Two Minutes articles were written many years ago by Pastor C. R. Stam for publication in newspapers. When many of these articles were later compiled in book form, Pastor Stam wrote this word of explanation in the Preface:

"It should be borne in mind that the newspaper column, Two Minutes With the Bible, has now been published for many years, so that local, national and international events are discussed as if they occurred only recently. Rather than rewrite or date such articles, we have left them just as they were when first published. This, we felt, would add to the interest, especially since our readers understand that they first appeared as newspaper articles."

To this we would add that the same is true for the articles written by others that we continue to add, on a regular basis, to the Two Minutes library. We hope that you'll agree that while some of the references in these articles are dated, the spiritual truths taught therein are timeless.

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