thief in the night

"But the day of the Lord will come like a thief. The heavens will disappear with a roar; the elements will be destroyed by fire and the earth and everything in it will be laid bare." 2 Peter 3:10

I remembered what my pastor said a couple of weeks ago that some scholars think that Jesus would come back in the next generation. It spurred me on to read more about the rapture and to read the book of revelations. It's been exciting and also sometimes puzzling so far. But one thing i am sure of. Time is really short. I dont know how people consider time but a couple of decades to spread the Word of God to the remain populations of the earth and to tell people about the saving grace of Jesus Christ seems kinda short.

However the most saddening question is that when rapture comes, will my family and friends come to know Christ by then? As i was reading Luke 17:34, "I tell you, on that night two people will be in one bed; one will be taken and the other left. Two women will be grinding grain together; one will be taken and the other left." Here is my vision of this, a family is eating dinner together, the child was taken up, the parents left behind. In a blink of the eye, gone. What would they feel? Probably just like those parents who lost all the children in a accident all of a sudden. But what is this? This isnt some accident or tragedy. The children entered the Kingdom of Heaven and the parents left to go thru the Great Tribulation. It even seems like the tables are turned. The parents are in the tragedy not the children. What would the child think or feel? He'd probably think that if only he could've shared the gospel more eagerly with his parents before that happens. If only...

I guess we're really in the last hours of the last days now. God, spur me on, to see my family saved and enter Your kingdom of Heaven...