In order to address this worried brother's concerns, I'm going to break his e-mail into smaller segments and respond to them individually as well as I can. I will place my worried brother's words in blue from this point forward.

Fools. What an interesting term to call brothers and sisters in Christ who are longing for the return of their Lord and Savior! Or are we merely fools because we're trying to determine the hour of our Lord's return? If it's the latter, my worried brother needs to read RaptureAlert.com a bit more carefully as no one here has made even one prediction as to the hour of Christ's return.

Mark 13:32 tells us, "But of that day and [that] hour knoweth no man, no, not the angels which are in heaven, neither the Son, but the Father." This we know, accept as truth, and agree with 100%. As such, this is an area of worry this brother can set aside.

How does longing for the coming of the Lord make the life of one who does so worthless? I can only speak for myself, but my life is going just fine. Most days I'm very happy. I am, in fact, fully aware that I'm still alive. I'm also fully aware that I am to be watching for Christ's return!

Jesus told those who would follow Him to watch for His return, as recorded in Matthew 24:42: Watch therefore, for ye know neither the day nor the hour wherein the Son of man cometh.

Not only did Jesus tell those who would follow Him that placing their emphasis on the things of the world could lead to harm, He emphasized that His return is going to catch many by surprise. Why? Because they'll be busy living their worldly lives "to the fullest", giving little thought to eternal things.

1st John 2:15-17: Love not the world, neither the things [that are] in the world. If any man love the world, the love of the Father is not in him. For all that [is] in the world, the lust of the flesh, and the lust of the eyes, and the pride of life, is not of the Father, but is of the world. And the world passeth away, and the lust thereof: but he that doeth the will of God abideth for ever.

Matthew 24:43-44: But know this, that if the goodman of the house had known in what watch the thief would come, he would have watched, and would not have suffered his house to be broken up. Therefore be ye also ready: for in such an hour as ye think not the Son of man cometh.

It is for these scriptural reasons that many Christians today are turning their backs to a world that has clearly forgotten its God and looking upward, awaiting the return of Jesus Christ.

Additionally, I'd be remiss if I didn't bring up the fact that a large part of why some Christians choose to place their emphasis on eternal things as opposed to temporal things is many of us don't feel as though we fit in with the world around us very well. We feel like strangers in a foreign land, rejected in many cases. This we're largely okay with as Christ Himself wasn't exactly popular where the world is concerned. Jesus said, as recorded in John 15:18: "If the world hate you, ye know that it hated me before [it hated] you."

C.S. Lewis once wrote: "If I find in myself a desire which no experience in this world can satisfy, the most probable explanation is that I was made for another world." This the Christian who longs for the coming of the Lord fully understands. While we may live our earthly lives to the utmost of our abilities, we know there is a place being prepared for us where Jesus Christ presently is that is far better than any here - a place where we will have an eternal sense of belonging, acceptance and perfect love. Naturally, we are excited that we will someday be allowed to join Him there!

It's great to hear that a worried brother in Christ loves his fellow brothers and sisters in Christ and is looking forward to the Rapture of the Church, but I am left to wonder why one who states he is looking forward to the Rapture feels compelled to lash out at those who do the same. I could theorize a number of motives but I'm going to resist the urge to do so.

Who has suggested to this worried brother that those who long for the Blessed Hope to occur are just sitting around and waiting for it? Students of Bible prophecy have normal lives they lead just like everyone else. Or does that come as a surprise?

Why would a Christian examine a fellow Christian and liken him to a lunatic for stating that Bible prophecy will be fulfilled precisely as written? If the point being conveyed here is the content of this website is lunacy, I'm thrilled to hear there are people in Central Park joining RaptureAlert.com in spreading the word that Jesus Christ is coming soon as there is abundant evidence to suggest that is precisely the case! It's my prayer that Bible prophecy-believing "lunatics" everywhere will begin behaving similarly.

There's that 'world is going to end when Christ returns' misconception on display again! No one at this website believes or has stated the world is going to end when Christ returns to the earth! The physical, visible, bodily return of Christ to the world isn't going to be the end of the world. It is going to be the end of the world as we presently know it! That, by the way, is a good thing because this world is in a mess! Amen?

Lastly, the book is Revelation, not Revelations, and those who are seeing the prophetic signs in the news of our world today given us by the prophets and Christ Himself as signs of Christ's impending return are not being paranoid for observing them and publicly making mention of them. They're being faithful to the Word of God and Christ Himself!

No one knows when the Rapture is going to take place as demonstrated scripturally earlier, but all of us have been given a "message from God" concerning the conditions that will exist when Christ will return. I refer to this message as Bible prophecy, through which we can examine the world around us and see with our own eyes that we are drawing closer, both conditionally and chronologically, to the return of Jesus Christ taking place, perhaps even today!

False prophets will indeed go to hell, but those who testify that the Word of God is accurate to the last jot and tittle, proclaim Jesus Christ is Lord and He is coming again, and long for His coming will not be sharing in that dreadful fate.

The overall message of my worried brother's e-mail, from my perspective, is we need to enjoy life for what it is! Eat, drink, and be merry because tomorrow we die! If that is the logic behind his e-mail, I would suggest that he spend a bit more time worrying about his own spiritual condition and readiness to meet the Lord face-to-face and less about the condition of those who are obeying Jesus Christ's command to watch for His return. Perhaps my worried brother needs to prayerfully ask himself what the priorities are in his life and, after some introspection, make some adjustments. Doing so may, in fact, lessen his "worry" considerably.

There are a lot of Christians in the world today warming the pews on Sunday morning who couldn't give a hoot if Jesus Christ returns today (or ever in some sad instances). Not only that, there is a world full of lost souls who know little to nothing about Bible prophecy and their desperate need to come to faith in Jesus Christ as their Lord and Savior! Because this is true, I guess it's fair to say I'm a bit of a "worried brother" myself, precisely why I spend a lot of my spare time plinking on my keyboard, sounding the alert that Jesus Christ is coming soon!