{"id":1128,"date":"2011-12-03T11:48:40","date_gmt":"2011-12-03T17:48:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.georgefindley.com\/?p=1128"},"modified":"2014-12-16T11:21:09","modified_gmt":"2014-12-16T17:21:09","slug":"the-unexpected","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.georgefindley.com\/?p=1128","title":{"rendered":"The Unexpected"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Acts 1:9-11, Matthew 24:29-31, Revelation 1:7, and Thessalonians 1 4:16-17<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>Many hours brake upon us with the unexpected sorrow, tribulation, or great joy. The hour will come upon the great masses of the world because they don&#8217;t expect Him. Only 2 really looked for him to appear the 1st time.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>I: Signs of his 2nd coming:<\/strong><br \/>\n1. Times of distress among the nations.<!--more--><br \/>\n2. The love of many shall wax cold.<br \/>\n3. Strange things happening to the world.<br \/>\n4. As in the days of Noah, (Preoccupied).<br \/>\nEating and drinking, marrying and giving in marriage.<\/p>\n<p><strong>II: These Things Shall Happen When He Comes:<\/strong><br \/>\n1. &#8220;This same Jesus will come in the same manner.&#8221; <strong>Acts 1:9-11.<\/strong><br \/>\n2. &#8220;The voice of the archangal, and with the trump of God.&#8221;<strong> Thessalonians 1 4:16.<\/strong><br \/>\na. &#8220;The dead in Christ shall rise 1st.&#8221;<br \/>\nb. &#8220;Then we which are alive.&#8221;<br \/>\n3. &#8220;The Lord will come to settle all accounts and balance all books.&#8221;<strong> Thessalonians 1 1:7-10.<\/strong><br \/>\na. Vengeance upon those that know not God &amp; refuse to obey the gospel.<br \/>\nb. &#8220;Glorified in his saints.&#8221;<br \/>\n4. &#8220;He shall separate the people like a shepherd separates his goats from his sheep.&#8221; <strong>Matthew 25:32.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>III: &#8220;What manner of person ought ye to be?&#8221; Peter 2 3:11.<\/strong><br \/>\n1. Shall we act like the servant that thought the master would never come home?<br \/>\n2. Shall we sleep like the foolish virgins?<br \/>\n3. Do we dare wait for that hour unprepared, (L.A makes plans for H.B)?<br \/>\n4. Will he find our hearts cold and our work undone?<\/p>\n<p><strong>&#8220;Careless soul, oh, heed the warning.&#8221;<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Acts 1:9-11, Matthew 24:29-31, Revelation 1:7, and Thessalonians 1 4:16-17 Many hours brake upon us with the unexpected sorrow, tribulation, or great joy. The hour will come upon the great masses of the world because they don&#8217;t expect Him. Only 2 really looked for him to appear the 1st time. I: Signs of his 2nd [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1128","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sermons"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.georgefindley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1128"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.georgefindley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.georgefindley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.georgefindley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.georgefindley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1128"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.georgefindley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1128\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1389,"href":"https:\/\/www.georgefindley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1128\/revisions\/1389"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.georgefindley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1128"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.georgefindley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1128"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.georgefindley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1128"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}