Getting Ready for a Celebrity

This past Friday we had a celebrity come to town.  It was the much anticipated visit of the presidential candidate, Mitt Romney.  I decided this was an event that required my presence.  If he loses nothing is lost except a few hours of my time. However, if he wins I will be able to say I had my first and possibly only close encounter with the president of the United States. Needless to say the crowd was overwhelming.  The lines were long and the weather was warm.  Each person patiently waited as they made their way through the path that led to security and eventually the grandstand where Mr. Romney would speak.  I decided to take my position in the back overlooking the podium in order to get a good camera shot.  Little did I know this was the place security had chosen to usher in the anticipated person of interest.  I along with others stood with cameras in hand waiting for his arrival.  The door would open and you could hear the gasp of people   thinking this was the moment. This exercise was repeated over and over for almost an hour.  By the moment Romney finally appeared the audience was ready.  He entered to the chants of “Mitt, Mitt, Mitt!”  The actions of the crowd needed no interpretation.  Their likely choice for president now stood before them and they were excited.  I thought this must have been the way the people felt the day Jesus entered Jerusalem. His visit had been announced and the people stood all along the streets hoping to get a glimpse of the one they thought would be their king and deliverer. Thunderous shouts and palm leaves came from everywhere paving the way for the grand entrance of Jesus the Messiah.  Although amazing neither of these events can be compared to the next visit of the Lord of Lord’s and King of King’s.  The heavens will be filled with the sound of a trumpet’s blast; then will come a voice unlike any other. The shout of the archangel declaring “the hour has come I now introduce to you the one and only Son of the living God.” While this announcement will be as brief as the “twinkling of an eye,” it will have eternal significance. Immediately all that is physical will be changed for eternity.  From all indication the prophetical tremors are warning us that this visit is imminent and the expressive voice of the Spirit is urging us to get ready for heaven’s Celebrity.