In That Great Gittin’ Up Morning
May 9, 2011 Leave a Comment
When I started the series of posts on spirituals for Lent, I didn’t expect to find more than I needed to fill the Lenten schedule. There’s one more that I want to share. It celebrates the Second Coming of Christ.
Visit this blog to get background, lyrics, and performance..
The scriptural reference for this song, according to the ACADisc website, is “For the great day of their wrath has come, and who can stand?” Revelation 6:17.
I probably would have chosen this passage (1 Thessalonians 4:13-18):
“Brothers, we do not want you to be ignorant about those who fall asleep, or to grieve like the rest of men, who have no hope. We believe that Jesus died and rose again and so we believe that God will bring with Jesus those who have fallen asleep in him. According to the Lord’s own word, we tell you that we who are still alive, who are left till the coming of the Lord, will certainly not precede those who have fallen asleep. For the Lord himself will come down from heaven, with a loud command, with the voice of the archangel and with the trumpet call of God, and the dead in Christ will rise first. After that, we who are still alive and are left will be caught up together with them in the clouds to meet the Lord in the air. And so we will be with the Lord forever. Therefore encourage each other with these words” (NIV).
Listen to these two other great arrangements:
University of Illinois’s Varsity Men’s Glee Club
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