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[IshiandIshah]

I was 8 years old when I first learned that Jesus is coming back for us. The woman that bore me read to me and my older sibling from the book of Revelation. She nearly read the whole thing to us, but she let us know that she skipped some parts for her own reasons.

When I learned the Words in the book my heart raced with joy. Heaven was a place I had always heard about and I knew that Jesus lived there; but I did not know that Jesus was going to make a grand entrance and cause us to fly away from earth, having no more tears.

No more tears. I was the one they called “cry-baby”. They gave their best diligence to prove to me that they did not care about my tears. To do this, they would crush my Heart even more, while I was already broken up. They laughed at me because matters that they thought were small matters would hurt my feelings. At 8 years old I Understood with all my Heart that no more tears in Heaven means no more broken heart.

After I learned that Jesus will return, I was taught about the Rapture. Then I began to spread the news to all that would hear me. This conversation topic has always seemed quite easy to engage someone in every decade since then.

Because of my upbringing and conversations that I’ve had with just about every person that I have crossed paths with, I have always thought that if the Rapture or anything near it were to present itself in my lifetime and someone (whether I knew them or not but especially if I even knew the person) came to tell me that they want me to review evidence that Jesus has spoken to them and that I should keep asking them whatever questions I need to ask them to help me be certain of the Truth, but we need to discuss this immediately because the Rapture is happening NOW- I have always thought that I would listen with all my Heart and pray and ask Jesus what I should do about what I am hearing.

Many of us have heard the saying “Nothing shocks me”. Well, I am absolutely shocked that when I sincerely tell someone that Jesus has spoken to me and has given me a Message, that not one single Heart that I come in to contact with will give a Message from Jesus a justified and considerate analysis. Everyone has something better to do.

People, this is about the Rapture. Does anybody even want to go? Jesus sent a Message designed to show you exactly how to take flight. Here I am with the Message. Hello?

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[David]

Yes! I do and look forward to it.

The rapture of the church is the event in which God “snatches away” all believers from the earth in order to make way for His righteous judgment to be poured out on the earth during the tribulation period. The rapture is described primarily in 1 Thessalonians 4:13–18 and 1 Corinthians 15:50–54. God will resurrect all believers who have died, give them glorified bodies, and take them from the earth, along with all living believers, who will also be given glorified bodies at that time. “For the Lord Himself will come down from heaven, with a loud command, with the voice of the archangel and with the trumpet call of God, and the dead in Christ will rise first. After that, we who are still alive and are left will be caught up together with them in the clouds to meet the Lord in the air. And so we will be with the Lord forever” (1 Thessalonians 4:16–17).

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[Betty]

Amen

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[Wildb]

2 Timothy 2:15 Study to shew thyself approved unto God, a workman that needeth not to be ashamed, rightly dividing the word of truth.

The Apostle Paul Taught it.

Q Why was Paul the only apostle who clearly taught the pre-trib rapture?

A Paul was the only Apostle taught by Jesus after the Resurrection. All the others were taught during His earthly ministry, while the offer of the Kingdom was still open to Israel. Since the Lord didn’t teach about the Rapture during His time on Earth, it’s understandable that His disciples didn’t teach it either.

In Galatians 1:10-24 where Paul explains how he gained his knowledge, he hints that Jesus taught him personally during the 3 years he spent at Mt. Sinai in Arabia after his conversion. Later, he also visited God’s Throne (2 Cor 12:2) and learned things there he wasn’t allowed to fully disclose.

God had clear strategic reasons for not revealing the rapture to anyone before the cross. In 1 Cor 2:6-10 Paul wrote that if Satan had known what the Lord had in store for the Church, he’d have done everything in his power to prevent the crucifixion. Paul called it part of God’s secret wisdom there and in Ephesians 3:10. In addition, although God knew in advance that Israel would reject the Kingdom, He couldn’t disclose His plans for the Church until Israel made their rejection official. It was not until 51AD that God finally allowed Paul to reveal the doctrine of the pre-tribulation rapture in his first letter to the Thessalonians (1 Thes 1:10, 1 Thes 4:16-17, 1 Thes. 5:9).

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[St.Robert]

When a person of stature like a governor came to a town, the people would normally go out to greet them and then escort them back into the town. We do the same thing when people come over for dinner. We greet them at the door and escort them inside. This is what rapture is, the visible body of Christ on earth join the Lord in the air to then return to the earth that has been made new, a new heaven and new earth joined together, renewed. Eden broken becomes Eden restored.

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