Indeed momentous times as we live moment by moment! For the changes man will experience are without precedent! Indeed the Lord God Almighty will be revealed in new and unknown ways! The glories of heavenly life are unimginable as the new Heaven and Earth will also be! TR Every arena of life is being assaulted! Societies are being altered and transformed! Even weather patterns and creation itself is moaning as all is being staged for "tribulation" times! Can't wait to hear, Arise my beloved! The bride will be awoken from the sleep of the familiar! Behold, all things shall be made new! Again we wait upon the perfectly timed and appointed day! That said, "as we see the day approaching", we know He is near! Even so, Summer is also upon us! What was sealed is being revealed! God be glorified, now and forever! The Lord shall not hold back any good thing towards the redeemed! TR I believe what Paul describes in 1 Thessalonians 4:16 "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:" will have the same effects that were described in Exodus 20:18 "And all the people saw the thunderings, and the lightnings, and the noise of the trumpet, and the mountain smoking: and when the people saw it, they removed, and stood afar off. They didn't only hear it, they saw it, I can't say I know exactly what they saw, but I think it was the first ever experience of 3D sound, maybe 4D. Whatever they experienced they were afraid, and they wanted it to stop. At the same time, Moses was eager to move toward the sound. I believe the Church will behave the same way. The Church will be eager to head toward the sound, because in John 10:27 "My sheep hear my voice, and I know them, and they follow me:" Everyone will be aware of the sound. The Lord is Coming! Maranatha! Thanks, I like that! The twelve tribes present with Moses represented God's chosen! As like the bride which is chosen for redemption! Ergo, only those chosen will hear and see the saving power of God! TR As they alone would be wed with the Father! So it is with the age of grace, for those who would be wed to Christ! TR I think the unsaved will see something … because the unsaved Egyptian armies saw the salvation and deliverance of the Israelites that crossed over on dry ground from the Red Sea moment. The Egyptians tried to cross over and they became fish food when the ocean waves came crashing down on them. I still think the unsaved will be eyewitnesses to the rapture event. Some will be in their cars, on the sidewalks, perhaps even talking to a believer and see them suddenly change and fly upward. The unsaved on earth will certainly see Jesus sitting on the Throne in heaven “And the heaven departed as a scroll …. “ And the kings of the earth, and the great men, and the rich men, and the chief captains, and the mighty men, and every bondman, and every free man, hid themselves in the dens and in the rocks of the mountains; And said to the mountains and rocks, Fall on us, and hide us from the face of him that sitteth on the throne, and from the wrath of the Lamb:” I love that!!! So many good posts make me think of songs and the one by Building 429 called "Listen to the sound"....goes perfectly with your post...Here are the lyrics Are you in over your head? [Chorus] I hear you say your alone Amazing grace how sweet the sound Listen to the sound of hope His grace is reaching for us I put very pertinent lyrics in italics....yes I am going to be listening to the sound!! Come Lord, let's hear You shout!! :prayer-hands: :yahoo: 
Are you on water so deep your drowning?
Do you think you've been left
And there is no on to feel your hurting
Well everybody has been there
And everybody's felt lost
If you're in over your head lift it up, lift it up... oh!
Listen to the sound of hope
That's rising up over your old horizon
Listen to the sound, listen to the sound...
And listen to the sound of a new beginning of
This is where the old is ending
Listen to the sound, listen to the sound...
I hear you sayin' that you'll never make it
I've got to tell you, you're wrong
Cuz' I have been down this path you're takin'
You'll never know what faith is
Till' you don't understand
Sometimes it takes the silence
To finally hear his plans...oh!
I once was lost but now I'm found [2x]
That's rising up over your old horizon
Listen to the sound, listen to the sound...
And listen to the sound of a new beginning of
This is where the old is ending
Listen to the sound, listen to the sound...oh!
His grace is reaching out
Listen to the sound, listen to the sound
Wherever you are... [2x]
