Sometimes, people need a little "nudging". Everyone has a "breaking point", and God might have to "throw something at them" to wake them up. Jonah didn't want to preach in Nineveh. So God grew a gourd overnight, and when it wilted Jonah longed for its presence. So God explained the point being shown, that if he felt this way about a gourd that sprung up overnight, how much more thousands of people. Next example, a blindness has come upon Israel {the Jews} until the time is right for it to be lifted. But when the Antichrist comes, although at first he'll make a deal with Israel and they'll follow him, when God opens their eyes through certain things, the veil is lifted and they "wake up."
Now, for my personal case---I admit, although most Christians were excited talking about the Rapture, I admit, at first, I had some reservations. For one, none of my loved ones were saved, and so I thought of having to say goodbye forever to them, and I was sad thinking about it. So for that reason, I wasn't rushing the Rapture. Second, in the natural, getting whisked into the air and turned into a spirit hundreds of feet above the ground kind of creeped me out. {It's not an every day experience} BUT, like God changed Jonah and the Jews, my change was to come--I've never had great "luck", but at least there seemed always a "cover" around me to protect me from the worst of things. But lately, the bottom has fallen out and things have REALLY been, consistently, bad for me. So the "punch line"-- now I've went the other extreme about the Rapture, I'm impatient that it's taking its time to happen. So again, I guess God knows everyone's "breaking points"--Jonah, the Jews--and ME!! I don't think any of this is by coincidence. Eh?
Now, for my personal case---I admit, although most Christians were excited talking about the Rapture, I admit, at first, I had some reservations. For one, none of my loved ones were saved, and so I thought of having to say goodbye forever to them, and I was sad thinking about it. So for that reason, I wasn't rushing the Rapture. Second, in the natural, getting whisked into the air and turned into a spirit hundreds of feet above the ground kind of creeped me out. {It's not an every day experience} BUT, like God changed Jonah and the Jews, my change was to come--I've never had great "luck", but at least there seemed always a "cover" around me to protect me from the worst of things. But lately, the bottom has fallen out and things have REALLY been, consistently, bad for me. So the "punch line"-- now I've went the other extreme about the Rapture, I'm impatient that it's taking its time to happen. So again, I guess God knows everyone's "breaking points"--Jonah, the Jews--and ME!! I don't think any of this is by coincidence. Eh?
