“Even so, come quickly!”

 

“Look, he is coming with the clouds, and every eye will see him…”

—Revelation 1:7a

On stormy nights like this, I always remember a darkening, storm-threatening night back in 1959 at about 8:45 in the evening. I was playing a pick-up game of baseball. I stood in right field—they always put me there so I could do as little damage as possible.

Suddenly the dark clouds parted very quickly and a brilliant, very focused ray of sunshine struck the ground twenty feet away. I ran off the field, hopped on my bicycle, and rode home as fast as I could. I was certain Jesus was coming back.

The verse from Revelation 1:7 kept repeating itself in my mind as I pedaled home:

Look, he is coming with the clouds, and every eye will see him, even those who pierced him; and all peoples on earth will mourn because of him. So shall it be! Amen.

Obviously, I was wrong. Fifty-five years later I still await Jesus’ return. All the more, in these troubled times, I echo the words of the Apostle John from Revelation 22:20b:

Even so, come quickly!

 

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