The return of Jesus to Planet Earth was a common theme in the Jesus Music (Jesus Rock/Contemporary Christian Music) of the Seventies, and Side One/Song Three of Larry Norman's In Another Land had an interesting take on the subject.
He's an unidentified flying object
You will see Him in the air
He's an unidentified flying object
You will drop your hands and stare
You will be afraid to tell your neighbors
They might think that it's not true
But when you open up the morning papers
You will know they've seen it, too
He will come back like he promised with the price already paid
He will gather up His followers and take them all away
He's an unidentified flying object
he will sweep down from the sky
He's an unidentified flying object
Some will sleep but will not die
He's an unidentified flying object
Coming back to take you home
He's an unidentified flying object
He will roll away your stone
And if there's life on other planets, then I'm sure that He must know
And He's been there once already and has died to save their souls
He's an unidentified flying object
You will see Him in the air
He's an unidentified flying object
You will drop your hands and stare
He's an unidentified flying object
Coming back to take you home
He's an unidentified flying object
He will roll away your stone
©1973 Glenwood Music Corp.
Strawbed Music
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Truth is...the pervasive idea in the Seventies of what the end of time and the return of Jesus was going to be like is something that I don't really buy into. I lean more toward "and Christ's great kingdom shall come to Earth" than "I'll fly away, oh glory" (but because intelligent, sincere lovers of God have differing opinions on it all, I won't belabor the point in a blog titled Truth is...). The bottom line is that life as we know it will one day be interrupted by the return of Jesus, and the time to let that truth affect how I live that life is now.
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