READY, SET

When you are in a race, it is helpful to hear the words "Ready, Set, Go." These words indicate that the race has begun, you know that everyone who is in the race has the same starting time, and you also know that you need to keep in running mode if you intend to finish the race ahead of everyone else. The Lord God Almighty wants you to know that the race to the finish line has begun. It is a unique race in which everyone who is in urgent and deliberate running mode can and does finish first. And everyone who finishes first will have a unique role that is in many ways connected to God's millennial kingdom. He also wants you to know that when the seventh trumpet sounds in a matter of weeks, you will have his eternal protection, whether or not you have been raptured. God Almighty reigns.