Start a Revolution....

I have been reading Revelation. I don't know why I started there, I guess God just placed it upon my heart to do so. I think I wanted to read more about these "end times" that I hear so much about. I wanted to know more about this impending Apocalypse. Right now I am on Chapter nine. So I know the colors of the four horses: white, red, yellow, pale. I know what happens when each seal opens. I know that Jesus is the Alpha and the Omega. But like a great mystery, I don't know what happens at the end. Except I do. It's a story I've heard before.
One of my favorite books is Left Behind. I enjoyed the book before I ever begin seriously persuing a relationship with the Lord. I've never seen the movie, but I imagine Kirk Cameron did a bang up job as Buck. I just love how all of the main characters wind up rallying together and I think the authors did a bang up job with Nicolae Carpathia and the whole Isreal thing, what with the professor who developed the seed that will grow in sand and all that the book entails. I have probably read the book at least twenty times. But I have never read any of the rest of the series. Why? I think it's because I was afraid of what I would find out.
I know that Left Behind is a work of fiction, but I feel like it has prepared me to read the non-fiction version, Revelation. What a trip! Revelation is both horrific and beautiful. It's terrifying to think that so many people will have to go through the Tribulation, but how awesome is it to think about being part of the Rapture? After all Philippians 3:21 promises us "Who shall change our vile body, that it may be fashioned like unto his glorious body, according to the working whereby he is able even to subdue all things unto himself."
So many people today are convinced that end is coming: 12/21/12, the end of the Mayan calender. But what if the Mayans just ran out of stone to carve their calender on? After all, weren't we all convinced that Y2K was the second coming? God will take his time. you can't rush Him. After all, this is all His: His to destroy and create as we see fit. I feel no need to live in fear now. I have never feared death, but I am especially comfortable with the thought now because I am confident that I will be with my Maker. I have cried out to Him. I have confessed my sins. I have consented to let Him do His work in my life. I feel as though I have nothing but joy to look forward to.
So what is this revolution I am talking about? I have, like I have said before, always strived to be rebellious. I like to do what is uncool. And it is very uncool to be openly vocal about loving the Lord, which makes it extremely cool to me. Especially since I am a Democrat. I like Democrats, I just also like the death penalty and don't believe in abortion. Why is it that religion and politics are the two most taboo subjects in our culture and yet our country was founded on a belief of freedom in both? We should proclaim our beliefs out loud! People look at you weird if you pray before you eat when you're out at a restaurant. Let them, I say. Let them look at me weird.
I'm revolutionary that way and proud of it!