Demystify this!

HOW MYSTERIOUS IS THIS?

1Cor 15: 51-58.

Behold I show you a mystery;  we shall not all sleep, but we shall be CHANGED.

What a way for the Almighty to make an eternal emphasis. What a show of authority in the matchless exuberance of supremacy and declaration.... we shall be changed! I shall be changed,  you shall be changed. What a mystery?  Sweet mystery indeed. A mystery that the world may never understand no matter how hard it tries. Halleluia!

ITS A MYSTERY THAT:

1.Nullifies the natural order

... "We shall not all sleep"....

This means that some people will not be held down by the power of death. In the natural scheme of things, its sheer pride and common selfishness and foolishness that one will escape death. Death is the natural pathway of leaving this earth. It has been proved over time that until one dies, escape or extinction from nature is not possible. This is the only doorway according to science. But the Almighty intervenes in the natural courses of events and declares we shall not all sleep.
Oh! That we see the arrogance of death when it faces its captive. At such moments, medical sciences are defied, the learned and highly educated becomes helpless, the dying feels life ebbing out of it with such force without any form of resistance hoping he can be let off and giving another opportunity to re-write the wrongs of life, pity party only weeps and mourns to only give succor to loved ones but with no provision of recovery.
But I hear the voice of one that created all things even death itself saying.we shall not all sleep.

2. Confounds the sciences of man

... "but we shall all be changed, in a MOMENT, in the TWINKLING OF AN EYE....

The word CHANGE is a conflict word here. But actually its not the word itself but the manner of occurrence. Change can happen instantaneously. The science of man believes and prefers the use of the word...metamorphosis. From the Oxford Advanced Learners Dictionary, the word metamorphosis means to change or make something or somebody change into something completely different, especially over a period of time.  God has no business with time here in dealing with the subject of change. The sciences of man believes in a change that takes place over a period of time but the Almighty speaks of a change that will happen in a moment and to make it more clearer in the twinkling of an eye. Yes we know that in the science of man, babies develop over a period of time to become matured but not our GOD. Our change will be suddenly because our maker is much eager to bring us home.

Beloved, what a joy!. Let science believe what it may, our change beloved, will be instant. I hear the Almighty saying .... "in a moment, in the twinkling of an eye." Halleluiah!

3. Defies the power of corruption

for this corruptible MUST put on incorruption, and this mortal MUST put on IMMORTALITY. 

Slavery was the word used more often in times of colonialists, slave traders, apartheid regimes, and communist era. But though times and modernization has partly changed all these, Man still remains a slave of himself. Bound by actions that are contrary to his will. Internal forces which he neither sees nor can identify holds more sway on things he does and says. He has ever wondered if any of his decisions have been justified by reason. There has always been a CONFLICT between what his mind is saying and what his body really does. He has always fought these hidden images and ghosts of his own making at every corner of decision and vows. He has always seen himself a complete stranger to his person. HELD in bondage by every thought that comes his way foreign or domestic, crying to be delivered by this body of death. Oh! How he cries daily to be free.
But alas comes the voice of the Almighty again declaring with the total conviction and certainty....corruption MUST put on incorruption. Now I know that I can be forever free from this body of sin. That I can be free from pulls of the worldly seductions, that I can live in glory and live with the one whose eyes cannot behold iniquity, whose eyes are like flames of fire, who dwelleth in an inapproachable light, full of grace and truth. I am changed into that which no stain can touch free from the evils that enslaves men. I am forever free. HALLELUIA!

Beloved, YES its a mystery. I may not understand it all but I know we shall be changed. The last trump will reveal my hidden person created after Gods image. Though we be inside a taxi or on the beach or sitting by loved ones or preaching the gospel of our Lord Jesus Christ or in the office or giving a lecture or eating or sleeping, AT THE LAST TRUMP.we shall be CHANGED to meet with the Lord and his saints in the air (1thes4.15-17) and so shall we ever be with the Lord.

Believe it or not, it will happen very soon.
So Beloved, what is our part to play to ensure that we participate and not be spectators on that day.

Vs58:
Therefore, my beloved brethren, be ye STEADFAST, UNMOVEABLE, always ABOUNDING in the work of the Lord, forasmuch as ye know that your LABOUR IS NOT IN VAIN IN THE LORD.

You can turn this verse into prayers cos our salvation is nearer than when we first believed.

Are you ready for rapture?

Come quickly Lord Jesus. AMEN