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Behold, I tell 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 trumpet. For the trumpet will sound, and the dead will be raised incorruptible, and we shall be changed.
I Corinthians 15:51-52
A group of people from all over the world will be taken off the planet at some point in the future, never having died physically. This group will be made up of members of the body of Christ, which is His Church. This is not the second coming. This is the “rapture” of the Church, which is His body, the body of Christ. The rapture was a mystery or secret hidden until revealed to the apostle Paul alone. By the risen and glorified Lord Jesus around 37 AD.
The Rapture is Delineated by the Apostle Paul Alone
The apostle Paul makes it so clear that the grace-age saints will be taken off the planet. Believers who have died physically will go first, second will be those of us who are still alive. We all meet the Lord in the air and be with the Lord forever.
I Thessalonians 4:17
“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.”
“Then we (believers) which are alive and remain shall be caught up together with them (all believers from around the planet) in the clouds (in the atmosphere), to meet the Lord (Where?)… in the air:…” And then we will go back into Heaven with Him to go before the Bema Seat and have the marriage of the Lamb, and then we’ll be ready to come back with Him seven years later, in time, at His Second Coming; as the two angels told the apostles in Acts 1. And in Zechariah 14 we read identical words.
‘who also said, “Men of Galilee, why do you stand gazing up into heaven? This same Jesus, who was taken up from you into heaven, will so come in like manner as you saw Him go into heaven.”’
Acts 1:11
‘And in that day His feet will stand on the Mount of Olives, Which faces Jerusalem on the east. And the Mount of Olives shall be split in two, From east to west, Making a very large valley; Half of the mountain shall move toward the north And half of it toward the south.’
Zechariah 14:4
How to Make Sure You are Caught Up in the Clouds to be with the Lord Forever?
Verse 14 of 1 Thessalonians tells us, where Paul writes.
‘For if we believe that Jesus died and rose again, even so God will bring with Him those who sleep in Jesus.’
I Thessalonians 4:14
Believe the gospel alone by faith alone.
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