Game Changer

      Every now and then a new word pops up that hasn’t been used much but now seems to be on everyone’s lips.  We had “unprecedented” last year and it seems that this year’s new word is “gamechanger.”  I have heard it countless times in the news and even in a Depends underwear advertisement.  One definition states, “The term game-changer refers to an individual or company that significantly alters the way things are done as a whole. ... By mere virtue of their actions, game-changers can make changes that transform the landscape as a whole.”  And so you have our new word for the year, at least one that is being used by a lot of people these days.  Will there ever be a “real” game changer?  You bet there will be and it may be coming sooner than you think.  First Thessalonians 4:16-17 says, “For the Lord himself shall descend from heaven with a shout, with the voice of the archangel, and with the trump of God: and the dead in Christ shall rise first:  Then we which are alive and remain shall be caught up together with them in the clouds, to meet the Lord in the air: and so shall we ever be with the Lord.”  You can’t help but wonder what it is going to be like the day after the rapture.  People will have to come up with an explanation as to where so many people went in so short a time.  “The Russians did it.”  “The Extraterrestrials did it.”  “The government has them all hidden away in a secret labor camp.”  This event will be a real “game changer” for the world to cope with.  I personally don’t agree with the “Left Behind” series that people will have a second chance for salvation after having rejected it while here on earth.  Instead, they will believe a lie.  The average person will be more willing to accept that UFO’s came down and gobbled them up than to believe that the Lord Jesus Christ came to catch up His own church.  John wrote about this event in the words of the Lord Jesus Christ Himself when Christ said in John 14:3 “And if I go and prepare a place for you, I will come again, and receive you unto myself; that where I am, there ye may be also.”  The acclamation of two angels standing on the Mount of Olives at the Ascension also speak to us about this event.  Acts 1:11 states, “Which also said, Ye men of Galilee, why stand ye gazing up into heaven? this same Jesus, which is taken up from you into heaven, shall so come in like manner as ye have seen him go into heaven.”  For the believer, the second coming of Christ is not a game changer but it will be for the rest of the world.  Form fitting paper underwear is not a game changer, but the second coming of Christ certainly is.  Praise God today for the real Game Changer that will soon take place.