~ THE NIGHT BEFORE CHRISTMAS~
Twas the night before Christmas and it seemed such a shame,
not a soul
mentioned our dear Savior by name.
They talked about Santa and the reindeer and elves
as their dust covered
Bibles just lay on the shelf.
The children were watching their late night TV
full of cursing and
garbage that; well, they never should see.
With maw in her nightgown and I in PJ's
we thought the story was
funny and what could it hurt anyway
.
When out on the lawn the dogs started howling,
I figured it must be a
burglar prowling.
I grabbed up my gun and ammo and mortar
and away in a flash I was
opening the door.
Off in the distance the moon shown so
bright,
but out in the east the clouds were a fright.
When what to my questioning ears should I hear
but the sound of a
trumpet so loud and so clear.
The clouds started thrashing and "they started to roll
and it looked
just like smoke or an unfolding scroll.
Then came a voice majestic and strong
that I started to tremble cause I
knew I'd been wrong.
Come Joseph, come Matthew, come Luke and John.
Rise Mary, now Martha,
Peter and Tom.
Then the earth started shaking with a great roaring sound
and I saw
these souls rising up from the ground.
Then my heart began pounding
and I couldn't believe the sight I was
seeing, oh it just couldn't be so.
I shook my head twice and I looked back again
and I still saw them
flying up to the sky to meet him.
Then in a twinkling the dead ceased to rise
so I thought it was over but
to my surprise
a neighbor came screaming from his house down the street.
His wife had
just vanished as she lay there asleep.
Now the street was in havoc and our neighborhood too,
everyone had lost
someone and didn't know what to do.
The sirens were screaming as mothers all cried
and I looked up and saw a
plane fall from the sky.
Then I looked at my wife and she looked back at
me
and we both remembered our newborn baby.
As we ran through the house we both half screamed,
Lord, don't let this
happen, oh please let it be a dream.
When we came to the nursery we
looked through the
crib
and we searched over the floor,
and though we searched high and low
our darling baby was not in sight.
Now we knew that the rapture had
happened this night.
As we walked through the house we knew what we'd
see,
no longer were our children sitting watching TV.
The reporter was telling us strange things that had happened all over
the world.
And in such great confusion I sat there and pondered
how
could God make mistakes; it was all I could wonder.
I went to church Sundays and I gave of my tithes.
I never stole things
and I never told lies.
Oh, it was then that it happened and it made me
realize
it isn't through goodness and it isn't through tithes,
it isn't
through works or things that we felt
that could cause a poor soul to be
doomed to hell.
Yes, salvation is one thing that is not really complicated.
Just like
the 16th verse of John stated,
"that the Father so loved us that he gave
us his son
and
whosoever believeth, to him the victory is won."
So if you're here today as a prisoner of sin,
remember Jesus is knocking
so please, please let him in
. Yes, the rapture is coming
and it may not
be long.
What a shame to be left here when our loved ones are gone.
The author is unknown
  
  
  
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