Chariots of Fire

I think the African-American slave who wrote the spiritual “Swing Low Sweet Chariot Coming for to Carry Me Home ” had a special insight into how God is going to carry us to our heavenly home. We know that God took Elijah home in a fiery chariot with angel charioteers.

According to second Kings chapter six, we know that God has a vast army of flaming chariots and angel charioteers. When the beggar Lazarus died angels carried him to Abraham’s bosom. We read in Matthew chapter twenty-four that He is going to send his angels to gather his elect from the four winds of the earth.

When one of God’s saints dies are they transported to heaven by angel charioteers in fiery chariots? Is this how the rapture will be? I cannot answer this question, but it is a happy thought.