The secret rapture!!! Who actually formulated the secret rapture teachings that has taken us captive. Weve chosen not to consider the stand of the Scriptures on this all-important topic. Could it be because a respected religious guru came up with it? Did God tumble the Bible so as to give room for this widely accepted belief to thrive among believers of our time? The Scriptures teach that His coming will be: Literal==Acts 1:9-11 And when he had spoken these things, while they beheld, he was taken up; and a cloud received him out of their sight. Mark 16:19; Luke 24:51; 10 And while they looked stedfastly toward heaven as he went up, behold, two men stood by them in white apparel; Matt 28:3; 11 Which also said, Ye men of Galilee, why stand ye gazing up into heaven? this same Jesus, which is taken up from you into heaven, shall so come in like manner as ye have seen him go into heaven. Audible==1Thess.4:16, 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: Climactic==Matt.24:27 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. Visible to all==Rev.1:7 Behold, he cometh with clouds; and every eye shall see him, and they also which pierced him: and all kindreds of the earth shall wail because of him. Even so, Amen. Glorious==Matt.24:30,31 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. 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. Cataclysmic==2Pet.3:10, But the day of the Lord will come as a thief in the night; in the which the heavens shall pass away with a great noise, and the elements shall melt with fervent heat, the earth also and the works that are therein shall be burned up. Jer.4:23-26, I beheld the earth, and, lo, it was without form, and void; and the heavens, and they had no light. 24 I beheld the mountains, and, lo, they trembled, and all the hills moved lightly. 25 I beheld, and, lo, there was no man, and all the birds of the heavens were fled. 26 I beheld, and, lo, the fruitful place was a wilderness, and all the cities thereof were broken down at the presence of the LORD, and by his fierce anger. Ps.50:3 Our God shall come, and shall not keep silence: a fire shall devour before him, and it shall be very tempestuous round about him. ...as a thief in the night simply means unpreparedness on the part of the children of the darkness.
Posted on: Tue, 28 Jan 2014 06:44:42 +0000
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