Bill Wyler

Vanished

What do I mean by “vanish”? The term’s meaning is to “disappear suddenly and completely.” Most of us have said or heard the phrase like “vanished into thin air”. But why write about it? Doesn’t vanishing bring to mind scary thoughts and for some folks tragic circumstances? Of course, it does for some.

But the day that I’m referring to will occur sometime very soon across the face of the earth. Family members, friends, neighbors, co-workers will be there one moment and gone in the next. Do not be surprised or deceived by false explanations of alien spacecrafts taking problem-makers away or out-right denials that the vanishings even happened. If this event occurs before your eyes or you hear about it briefly on the national news, that event is known as The Rapture of the Church.

The Rapture (this snatching away) will occur without any advanced notice to the general population. Believers in the Christ will be looking for it to occur, but will not know when. Christ comes to remove His Church from the earth to be at home with Him in heaven. This change will happen in the “twinkling of an eye” or as someone has estimated as eleven one-hundredths of a second (0.11 second). In that moment, the dead in Christ will rise first being transformed perishable (being dead) to imperishable. The body’s condition doesn’t matter whether buried six feet under, or buried at sea, or cremated, or never found. I have parents and grandparents who are waiting in death for this trumpet call of Christ as well as my wife’s parents and grandparents whose lives were wonderful examples of faithfulness in their lives and relationships with others.

No true believer in Christ will miss out on this event; not even the Christian who is in sin – though they may miss out on some of the rewards that follow. Then we who are alive will be caught up with them and changed from mortal to immortal. May I refer you to I Thessalonians 4:13-17 in the Bible.

Bill Wyler – 03/31/2019

March 31, 2019 Posted by Bill Wyler | Last Days | GOD | Leave a comment

Love or Hate

In John 15:18-19, notice what will happen if you are a child of God. The world will hate you. I believe that a Christian’s popularity can be an indication of how he is representing Christ to the world. I do not believe a Christian can be popular in the world. No Christian has any right to be more popular than Jesus was. Beware of a compromising position in order to be popular. The world will not love a real child of God. The world will love you if you are of the world. You don’t have to act oddly or be super pious. The world will hate you if you are a child of God. This is difficult, especially for young people who want so much to be popular. Let’s tell our young people what the Lord says. They are not going to be popular with the world if they are the children of God.

Unfortunately, there are folk in the church today who are not honestly born–again, and they will also hate you if you are a child of God. They will hate the preacher if he is true to the Word of God. May I say again, beware of the Christian who is popular with the world. Comments by J. Vernon McGee

John 15.18-19

April 25, 2018 Posted by Bill Wyler | Religion | Leave a comment

Compassion

This morning in Nashville, TN; I had an opportunity to attend a Creative Mornings monthly meeting. The speaker was Nick Laparra, who shared his conviction on leaving a legacy through compassion for those less fortunate. He challenged the attenders to consider if each of us have too much going on and lives too full of good things that we overlook those around us that need a little help, assistance, and compassion.

It is our own default mechanism to focus on ourselves and our own needs. We keep busy achieving goals, paying the debt for things; some necessary and some just personal; while those around us that have so little or struggle everyday. We become blind to their existence and don’t slow down long enough to consider if we need to help our communities where we can and as we can.

Follow Creative Mornings at @creativemorning and Nick Laparra at @nicklaparra.

September 16, 2017 Posted by Bill Wyler | Culture, Life | Leave a comment

Men of Christ

Men of Christ stop your dreaming!
Can’t you see their weapons gleaming?
See their warrior pennants streaming
To this battlefield!

Men of Christ stand you steady.
It cannot ever be said of you
For the battle, you were not ready.
Christians never yield!

From the hills rebounding
Let this war cry sounding
Summon all at Gospel’s call
The mighty force surrounding.

Men of Christ on to glory
This will ever be your story.
Keep these fighting words before you
Christians will not yield!

The original lyrics were “Men of Harlech” or “The March of the Men of Harlech” probably written and used as early as 1461 in Britain. It is important for Welsh national culture and gained international recognition when it was featured in the 1941 movie How Green Was My Valley and the 1964 film Zulu. You can go to any search engine and find the audio to this song. Here I’m using it to promote the idea that we are in spiritual warfare and need to pay attention to the times we are living in.

August 31, 2017 Posted by Bill Wyler | Poem, Religion | Leave a comment

Death is the saints’ gateway to Heaven

Death should be viewed as the time for going home. It is the gateway to having our full union with Christ. At that moment, we join a host of elected souls, ordained to forever experience a joy without bounds. The destiny of our dearly departed Christian brothers and sisters, family and friends, is so high that we have no words and no language to fully describe it.

So hold your friends and family lovingly but be ready to yield them to Jesus. Don’t hold them back from the One to whom they belong. When they are sick, fast and pray for their recovery. But when they depart and cross over to Jesus, do as David did, who washed his face and ate and drank. You will go to them one day; they cannot return to you. Comfort one another with the thought of their joy in Christ and Christ’s joy in them and the Father’s joy in Christ and in them.

Let no gloom surround and take hold of you. Dying is but going home. For there is no dying for the saints. Soon, we shall know more about Heaven than all the Christian scholars can tell us! Heaven is the place of great union with Christ and reunion with redeemed loved ones.

Let us remember what the apostle Paul said in Philippians 3:13-14; “One thing I do: Forgetting what is behind and straining toward what is ahead, I press on toward the goal to win the prize for which God has called me heavenward in Christ Jesus.”

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