I don't like when people take Scripture and apply it to anything they want to, interpreting it however they want, to fit their own ideas. But humor me here ...
Doesn't Isaiah 26 make you think about life around the time of the rapture?
"Open the gates that the righteous may enter, the nation that keeps faith. You will keep in perfect peace him whose mind is steadfast, because he trusts in you." (Like opening the gates of heaven to believers at the rapture, keeping them in peace while the world goes into turmoil during the tribulation.)
"He humbles those who dwell on high, he lays the lofty city low; he levels it to the ground and casts it down into dust." (Like how God will judge and trample His enemies during the tribulation, those who thought they were above Him, who didn't humble themselves before Him.)
"The path of the righteous is level; O upright One, you make the way of the righteous smooth." (The "path" to heaven and the redemption of our bodies.)
"Yes, Lord, walking in the way of your laws, we wait for you ..." (to come and take us from this earth, to raise us up to meet Jesus in the air).
"My soul yearns for you in the night; in the morning my spirit longs for you." (Considering all the hopelessness and chaos on the world right now, many Christians are desperate for the Lord to return very soon.)
"When your judgments come upon the earth, the people of the world learn righteousness." (Those who reject Him now will have to learn righteousness during the tribulation, when He pours out His judgments.)
"O Lord, your hand is lifted high, but they do not see it. Let them see your zeal for your people and be put to shame; let the fire reserved for your enemies consume them." (His hand is lifted high, about to strike His enemies, but they don't see it. And so we pray that He reveals His zeal for His people, by rapturing us out of here, and that it would put those who rejected Him to shame.)
"Lord, you establish peace for us ..." (which we will eternally enter into at the rapture).
"But your dead will live; their bodies will rise. You who dwell in the dust, wake up and shout for joy." (Sounds like the rapture to me!)
"Go, my people, enter your rooms and shut the door behind you; hide yourself for a little while until his wrath has passed by. See, the Lord is coming out of his dwelling to punish the people of the earth for their sins." (This is what made me think of this passage, after I heard about Israel going on lockdown over Rosh Hashanah. Wouldn't that be interesting timing for the dead in Christ to rise, for the Lord to come out of His dwelling to collect His people and to punish the people of the world for their sins, when Israel has shut themselves into their houses during lockdown? Just an interesting thought I wanted to share. You never know! Amen. Come, Lord Jesus!)
Holy (Wedding Day) by The City Harmonic (I can't wait for that day!)
