Crosby, Stills, and Nash: "Wooden Ships"

This is a song about a post-nuclear-war world and what the survivors of it did. In few words and using dialogue, this group painted a picture of how people scrounged a living in that post-apocalyptic landscape. Listen to the song here.

The world isn't as fearful about a nuclear holocaust today but people are still worried. Even so, we Christians are blessed to know the future which God has in store for this planet.

We read the Lord's plan in 1 Corinthians 15:51 and 52 (Bible in Basic English). "See, I am giving you the revelation of a secret: we will not all come to the sleep of death, but we will all be changed. In a second, in the shutting of an eye, at the sound of the last horn: for at that sound the dead will come again, free for ever from the power of death, and we will be changed"

For us, it will be a wonderful time but not for sinners. Revelation 6:15-17 (BBE) shows us their panic on that day. "And the kings of the earth, and the rulers, and the chief captains, and the men of wealth, and the strong, and every servant and free man, took cover in the holes and the rocks of the mountains; And they say to the mountains and to the rocks, 'Come down on us, covering us from the face of him who is seated on the high seat, and from the wrath of the Lamb: For the great day of their wrath is come, and who may keep his place?'"

We also know that Christ will return from what Acts 1:10 and 11 (BBE) promises. "And while they were looking up to heaven with great attention, two men came to them, in white clothing, And said, 'O men of Galilee, why are you looking up into heaven? This Jesus, who was taken from you into heaven, will come again, in the same way as you saw him go into heaven.'"

Our Lord will also reward us for our faithfulness and punish the wicked, as 1 Peter 4:5 and 6 (BBE) says. "But they will have to give an account of themselves to him who is ready to be the judge of the living and the dead. For this was the reason why the good news of Jesus was given even to the dead, so that they might be judged as men in the flesh, but might be living before God in the spirit."

If Christ hasn't arrived by Thursday, I hope to post about a soldier who fights for all countries.