1 Thessalonians 4:16

The thread that began at Genesis 3:15 — a seed who would crush the serpent's head — has been moving toward this moment across four thousand years of human history. A wounded heel at the cross. A crushed head coming. And here Paul names the mechanism: the Lord himself shall descend. Not a representative. Not an angel acting on his behalf. The Lord himself. The same Jesus who ascended from Olivet while the disciples watched is the one who comes back — personally, audibly, with a shout that splits the sky. Thread 3 is not a theological abstraction. It is a Person coming down. The royal trajectory has a destination. And the destination is not a doctrine. It is a descent.

Open my eyes to see where this thread runs today — in Scripture, in my life, in the world around me.