THE NIGHT THE WORLD CHANGED FOREVER PART 2
Bruce and Loretta were startled to see the headlights of a car pulling into the church parking lot. "Who could this be? Who else could have been left behind?" asked Bruce. He got to the door and saw Donny and Sandy Moore coming up the front walk. Donny stopped stunned when he saw Bruce and Loretta standing in the doorway.
"You're both still here? I was sure Sandy and I were the only ones left." "We were thinking the same thing" said Bruce. "As far as I know, at this point, the rest of the staff is gone. I couldn't call everybody in the congregation, of course, but nobody that I did call answered."
"What about your wife and children?" asked Donny. "All four of them are gone. Loretta's entire family is gone too. Is your son gone?" "Yes. Sandy left him for a few minutes to go get his bottle from the refrigerator and when she came back only his pajamas were left in his crib."
He put his head down and cried. "Here I'm supposed to have this genius IQ and yet I was so spiritually blind. I've been coming to this church for years and I still managed to miss the whole message of the Gospel."
"How do you think I feel?" asked Bruce. "I've gone through bible college. I've been preaching the Gospel message for years. But I never received Jesus for myself. Every week I'd watch Pastor Billings give an invitation and see people come forward to receive Christ. I don't know why I didn't think that I needed to do that myself".
"What happens now?" asked Donny. "Have we missed our last chance to go to heaven?" "I don't know"answered Bruce. "I've heard some preachers say that if you heard the Gospel before the Rapture and rejected it, you won't get a second chance afterwards. Some even say that nobody at all will get a second chance after the Rapture."
"What about Pastor Billings' videotape?" asked Donny. "You know the one featuring his favorite sermon on the Rapture. He put it in the church vault and said to take it out if everyone else had disappeared. I guess he knew that some of us were just playing church, just pretending to be Christians."
"I completely forgot about that tape!" exclaimed Bruce. "That should tell us if there's any hope for those of us who missed the Rapture. I'll go get it and be right back."
Minutes later the four of them were sitting in Pastor Billings office, their eyes glued to the screen as the pastor explained what would happen in the seven years left until the return of Jesus Christ and that those left behind still had hope of salvation. Finally all four came to faith in the Lord Jesus Christ. Now they could have true hope for the first time in their lives and hope for the seven tumultuous years that lay ahead.
The End.