"Raise your hand, whoever considers to be ready to go with the Lord", was the challenge given one Sunday by a pastor to a church of 500 people in Caracas, Venezuela; he waited five minutes, and only an old woman, who had a fast food stand near the meeting place, was the only one who expressed her confidence to go to meet Jesus.

During the course of that same week, a truck accidentally ran over the small business and with it, the devout Christian woman, to die almost instantly. If you were asked the same question right now, what would your answer be?

2 Timothy 4:7-8 NKJV

7 I have fought the good fight, I have finished the race, I have kept the faith. 8 Finally, there is laid up for me the crown of righteousness, which the Lord, the righteous Judge, will give to me on that Day, and not to me only but also to all who have loved His appearing.

2 Timothy 1:7 NKJV

7 For God has not given us a spirit of fear, but of power and of love and of a sound mind.

Matthew 24:11-13 NKJV

11 Then many false prophets will rise up and deceive many. 12 And because lawlessness will abound, the love of many will grow cold. 13 But he who endures to the end shall be saved.