His Voice 

Our recognition and familiarity with His voice in this scene is a remarkable, present preciousness. It is His voice, the voice of the Good Shepherd who speaks thus: "My sheep hear My voice, and I know them, and they follow Me; and I give unto them life eternal." It set me meditating upon His assembling "shout" when He steps into the air to "receive us unto Himself." It is His voice though archangel-like in character, and is accompanied by "the trump of God." 

We will hear and recognise His well-known, well-loved voice. But, forgive me for simplicity and bear with my childlike musing, will it be in to each in our personal earth-borne language as at Pentecost? Or will it be in the language of heaven, our first experience of celestial tongue? It WILL be in accents tender. I am persuaded that it will be the latter, but it will not be our first lesson in that language, we will be fluent from the moment we are raptured.

O sincerely hope that this does not prove to be a "chasing after the wind, or "vanity of vanities," it is simply the pondering of a feeble saint.

John 10:27,28; John 14:3; 1 Thessalonians 4:16; Ecclesiastes 1:2. 

T.W.