When are we going up?

My boy, who is but six years of age, asked me the other day while we relaxed in the hot tub “When are we going up?”

He was casually sky gazing so I said “You mean on holiday, in a plane?” I responded. We have been planning a trip, and it will be his first time flying so I  assumed this was the foundation of the question.

“No,” he said “I mean go straight up, like in a helicopter”

I felt I knew what he meant since I had been listening to Perry Stone preach on the rapture, and watching the latest news on Syria. I had a feeling the answer was ‘soon’, but instead I said “why honey?”

His answer astonished me…

“Because we are stuck in the present down here, aren’t we?”

He is 6. Wow. I agreed we were.. and I thought…

“And afterward, I will pour out my Spirit on all people. Your sons and daughters will prophesy, your old men will dream dreams, your young men will see visions.” Joel 2:28