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The Rapture

The Rapture It isn’t exactly a secret that these times are known as the end times. I’m not necessarily saying that everyone believes that but I do believe that these are the times that are making the way for the Rapture. Which is when Jesus comes back again and takes away His children from the Earth and brings them to be with Him in Heaven. The world of Noah was barely different from the world around us today. Men and women were pursuing their “diverse” interests, business was exploding, sex was a common pastime, and the world of spirits was mixing with the ways of man. Every trend of our day was visible in Noah’s day. Jesus Christ was careful to draw a comparison of these two generations. He stated, "But as the days of Noah were, so shall also the coming of the Son of man be. For as in the days that were before the flood they were eating and drinking, marrying and giving in marriage, until the day that Noah entered into the ark, And knew not until the flood came, and took them all away; so shall also the coming of the Son of man be. Then shall two be in the field; the one shall be taken, and the other left. Two women shall be grinding at the mill; the one shall be taken, and the other left. Watch therefore: for ye know not what hour your Lord doth come." (Matthew 24:37-42). When you view the entire Scripture reference to the ark that God commanded Noah to build, it becomes a powerful prophetic example of the Person of Jesus Christ and the protection and hope which we are invited to enjoy in Him. The ark is a beautiful picture of the Son of God as Redeemer and Deliverer to every generation. Its final fulfillment is the Rapture of the Bride of Jesus Christ just before the Tribulation. To me the ark is a symbol of the Rapture of the saved and the flood is a symbol of the Tribulation that the unsaved must enter. This can only be an example for someone who believes in Pre-Tribulation, which is believing that the Rapture of the Saints occurs before the Tribulation. This what I believe. He addresses believers: "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." (Acts 1:11) "For they show us what manner of entering in we had unto you, and how ye turned to God from idols to serve the living and true God; 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 Thess 1:10) Paul provides further insight on the rapture in 1 Corinthians 15:51-55, "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. So when this corruptible shall have put on incorruption, and this mortal shall have put on immortality, then shall be brought to pass the saying that is written, Death is swallowed up in victory. O death, where is thy sting? O grave, where is thy victory?" This verse shows me that when the saved are Raptured into Heaven we are no longer in our corrupted, mortal body, but we will be put into a body that is incorruptible and immortal. "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. 8 I am Alpha and Omega, the beginning and the ending, sayeth the Lord, which is, and which was, and which is to come, the Almighty." (Rev 1:7,8) God created us all and in the end, He has the complete authority to how everything will end. The Rapture is coming and “Blessed is he that readeth, and they that hear the words of this prophecy, and keep those things, which are written therein: for the time is at hand. (Revelation 1:3). Bibliography:

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