Description of the Rapture:
•
1 Thessalonians 4:16-18
For the Lord himself shall descend from heaven with a shout, with the voice of the archangel, and with the trump of God: and the dead in Christ shall rise first: Then we which are alive and remain shall be caught up together with them in the clouds, to meet the Lord in the air: and so shall we ever be with the Lord. Wherefore comfort one another with these words.
•
1 Corinthians 15:51-53
Behold, I shew you a mystery; We shall not all sleep, but we shall all be changed, In a moment, in the twinkling of an eye, at the last trump: for the trumpet shall sound, and the dead shall be raised incorruptible, and we shall be changed. For this corruptible must put on incorruption, and this mortal must put on immortality.
Clues Concerning the Rapture:
•
John 14:3
And if I go and prepare a place for you, I will come again, and receive you unto myself; that where I am, there ye may be also.
•
Matthew 25:10
And while they went to buy, the bridegroom came; and they that were ready went in with him to the marriage: and the door was shut.
We are taught to look for that blessed hope and appearing of our Lord Jesus Christ:
•
Titus 2:13
"Looking for that blessed hope, and the glorious appearing of the great God and our Saviour Jesus Christ;"
Promise of the Rapture:
(A Deliverance of the Wrath to Come):
•
1 Thessalonians 1:10
"And to wait for his Son from heaven, whom he raised from the dead, even Jesus, which delivered us from the wrath to come."
•
1 Thessalonians 5:9
"For God hath not appointed us to wrath, but to obtain salvation by our Lord Jesus Christ,"
The Rapture is a New Mystery Revealed:
•
1 Corinthians 15:51
"Behold, I shew you a mystery; We shall not all sleep, but we shall all be changed,"
Admonishes about being ready for the Rapture:
(In order to miss out on the 7 Year Tribulation):
• Matthew 25:13
"Watch therefore, for ye know neither the day nor the hour wherein the Son of man cometh."
We are told to pray so that we may escape all these things mentioned within the Tribulation:
• Luke 21:36
"Watch ye therefore, and pray always, that ye may be accounted worthy to escape all these things that shall come to pass, and to stand before the Son of man."
What things shall we escape if we pray?
• Luke 21:10
"Nation shall rise against nation, and kingdom against kingdom"
• Revelation 6:4
"...and
power was given to him that sat thereon to take peace from the earth, and that they should kill one another..."
• Luke 21:11
"And great earthquakes..."
• Revelation 6:12
"...and, lo, there was a great earthquake;"
• Luke 21:11
"...and famines..."
• Revelation 6:5-6
"And when he had opened the third seal, I heard the third beast say, Come and see. And I beheld, and lo a black horse; and he that sat on him had a pair of balances in his hand. And I heard a voice in the midst of the four beasts say, A measure of wheat for a penny, and three measures of barley for a penny; and
see thou hurt not the oil and the wine."