RAPTURE

geeboy (56)in #christianity • 8 years ago

Rapture is the greatest event of all ages that the church is waiting for. It is the taking away of the true believers in Christ to meet with the lord (1 Thessalonians 4: 16 - 17 ) just as christ was taken up at the end of his first advent.

The rapture is not the same as the second coming of Jesus christ, it is the first phase of he second advent. Christ will appear in the air but will not be visible to the air but will not be visible to the inhabitants of the earth. His mission is to come and resurrect all dead saints, who along with the living believers, who put on immortality and shall be caught up to be with the lord.

the second advent will not take place until after the great tribulation. The time of rapture is unknown, even to the angels (Matthew 24: 36). The rapture will be heralded by the voice of arch angels and blowing of trumpets signalling the end of the church age (1 Thessalonians 4:13 - 18).

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8 years ago in #christianity by geeboy (56)

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stan (71) 8 years ago (edited)

The rapture will not be a secret - it will occur with a lot of commotion including a shout and a trumpet and the voice of the archangel. As lightning flashes in the east is seen in the west. The first verse in the following passage from Matthew 24 shows it's visible and the last verse is the rapture itself:

27 For as the lightning cometh out of the east, and shineth even unto the west; so shall also the coming of the Son of man be.
28 For wheresoever the carcase is, there will the eagles be gathered together.
29 Immediately after the tribulation of those days shall the sun be darkened, and the moon shall not give her light, and the stars shall fall from heaven, and the powers of the heavens shall be shaken:
30 And then shall appear the sign of the Son of man in heaven: and then shall all the tribes of the earth mourn, and they shall see the Son of man coming in the clouds of heaven with power and great glory.
31 And he shall send his angels with a great sound of a trumpet, and they shall gather together his elect from the four winds, from one end of heaven to the other.

All occurs "immediately after the tribulation"

"from the four winds" come those of us who are still alive at the time.
"From one end of heaven to the other" come the dead in Christ who rise first.

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garthfreeman (56) 8 years ago

The rapture is the second advent.

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