What should we remember when we see the signs of the Second Coming approaching?
When observing the world’s signs preparing for the Second Coming, remember the rapture is not prophetically announced and its timing is unknown. Believers will leave at least seven years ahead of that final scenario, so the responsibility is to be ready ahead of time.
Les explains that the rapture is not prophetically announced; we do not know when it will happen, and nothing indicates it is tomorrow or next year. The only certainty is that as the world scene is fulfilled for the final seven years and the Second Coming, believers have to be ready at least seven years ahead. So when you see all the signs of the world getting ready for the Second Coming, remind yourself that we are going to leave seven years ahead of that, so we had better be ready. The surrounding passage then continues in I Corinthians 15:54 with Paul dealing with the corruptible putting on incorruption and the mortal putting on immortality, when death is swallowed up in victory.