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God Bless
Till all are one.
You have been shown from the scriptures that
at His coming, the resurrection and rapture take place.
You have already agreed that the resurrection and rapture take place at His coming, then you say you do not agree.
Here are the scriptures that teach this very important foundational truth.
13 But I do not want you to be ignorant, brethren, concerning those who have fallen asleep, lest you sorrow as others who have no hope. 14 For if we believe that Jesus died and rose again, even so God will bring with Him those who sleep in Jesus. 15 For this we say to you by the word of the Lord, that we who are alive and remain until
the coming of the Lord will by no means precede those who are asleep. 16 For the Lord Himself will descend from heaven with a shout, with the voice of an archangel, and with the trumpet of God. And the dead in Christ will rise first. 17 Then we who are alive and remain shall be
caught up together with them in the clouds to meet the Lord in the air. And thus we shall always be with the Lord. 18 Therefore comfort one another with these words.
1 Thessalonians 4:13-18
Key Verses:
For this we say to you by the word of the Lord, that
we who are alive and remain until
the coming of the Lord will by no means precede those who are asleep.
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Then we who are alive and remain
shall be caught up together with them in the clouds to meet the Lord in the air.
These verses teach us the resurrection and rapture occur at
the coming of the Lord, in which those who are resurrected from the dead will rise first, then those who are alive will be caught up together with them, in the clouds to meet the Lord in the air.
Once all of His people are safely off the earth and with Him in the air, He will commence with the destruction of the wicked.
But concerning the times and the seasons, brethren, you have no need that I should write to you. 2 For you yourselves know perfectly that the day of the Lord so comes as a thief in the night. 3 For when they say, “Peace and safety!”
then sudden destruction comes upon them, as labor pains upon a pregnant woman. And they shall not escape. 4 But you, brethren, are not in darkness, so that this Day should overtake you as a thief. 5 You are all sons of light and sons of the day. We are not of the night nor of darkness. 1 Thessalonians 5:1-5
- For you yourselves know perfectly that the day of the Lord so comes as a thief in the night. For when they say, “Peace and safety!” then sudden destruction comes upon them.
Paul continues to expound upon this truth in his second letter to the Thessalonians.
Now, brethren, concerning
the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ and our gathering together to Him, we ask you, 2 not to be soon shaken in mind or troubled, either by spirit or by word or by letter, as if from us, as though the day of Christ had come. 3 Let no one deceive you by any means; for
that Day will not come unless the falling away comes first, and the man of sin is revealed, the son of perdition, 4 who opposes and exalts himself above all that is called God or that is worshiped, so that he sits as God in the temple of God, showing himself that he is God. 5 Do you not remember that when I was still with you I told you these things? 6 And now you know what is restraining, that he may be revealed in his own time. 7 For the mystery of lawlessness is already at work; only He who now restrains
will do so until He is taken out of the way. 8 And then the lawless one will be revealed, whom the Lord will consume with the breath of His mouth and destroy with the brightness of
His coming. 2 Thessalonians 2:1-8
Paul continues to teach the Thessalonian Church, that the coming of the Lord and our gathering to Him, is not past, but that the false messiah must come first, in which at the coming of the Lord we will be gathered to Him, and the false messiah; antichrist, will also be destroyed by the brightness of
His coming.
Key Verses:
- Now, brethren, concerning the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ and our gathering together to Him
- the Lord will consume with the breath of His mouth and destroy with the brightness of His coming.
Here is the plain and simple truth that Paul taught the Church about the coming of the Lord.
Denying this truth will not change it.
JLB