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*VANISHED WITHOUT A TRACE*
HEADLINES ABOUT PEOPLE WHO VANISH,
RIVET OUR ATTENTION:
*"MAN VANISHES AFTER CONCERT"*
*"SEARCH CONTINUES FOR WOMAN WHO VANISHED;"*
*"POLICE SAY MAN VANISHED WITHOUT A TRACE;"*
WE READ THE HEADLINES AND WONDER WHAT COULD HAVE HAPPENED TO THEM.
ACCORDING TO THE BIBLE, THERE'S GOING TO BE A DAY WHEN A BILLION PEOPLE WILL SUDDENLY VANISH FROM THE FACE OF THE EARTH -- WITHOUT A TRACE.
CHRISTIANS ARE LOOKING FORWARD TO THIS DAY
AND THEY CALL IT THE RAPTURE.
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LET'S CALL IT THE GREAT DISAPPEARANCE*
IN OCTOBER OF 2007, -- 350, 000 CALIFORNIA HOMES WERE EVACUATED,
DISPLACING OVER A MILLION PEOPLE
THE REASON THEY WERE EVACUATED WAS BECAUSE THERE WERE 16 FIRES BURNING IN SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA.
CAN YOU IMAGINE A PERSON WHO MIGHT HAVE MISSED THE CALL TO EVACUATE,
THEY WAKE UP AFTER EVERYONE HAS GONE?
THEN STUMBLING THROUGH THE STREETS, CONFUSED AND AMAZED
THEY WONDER WHAT IN THE WORLD IS GOING ON.
THE BIBLE TELLS US THAT SOME DAY,
MILLIONS OF PEOPLE WILL DISAPPEAR FROM THE FACE OF THE EARTH.
IT'LL HAPPEN IN LESS THAN A MILLISECOND.
THEN
JUMBO JETS WILL PLUMMET TO THE EARTH.
DRIVERLESS BUSES, TRAINS, SUBWAYS AND CARS
WILL CAUSE UNIMAGINABLE DISTRUCTION AND DISASTER.
CLASSROOMS WILL SUDDENLY BE WITHOUT TEACHERS....
DOCTORS AND NURSES WILL SEEM TO HAVE ABANDONED THEIR PATIENTS IN THE MIDDLE OF SURGICAL OPERATIONS.
PATIENTS WILL DISAPPEAR FROM OPERATING TABLES.
CHILDREN WILL DISAPPEAR FROM THEIR BEDS.
PEOPLE WILL RUN THROUGH THE STREETS LOOKING FOR THEIR LOVED ONES.
AND PANIC WILL GRIP EVERY HOUSEHOLD, CITY AND COUNTRY IN THE WORLD.
WITH ALL THIS DEVASTATION, LOSS AND GRIEF, IT MAY SEEM STRANGE TO CALL IT THE RAPTURE.
*THE DEFINITION OF RAPTURE* MEANS AN EXPRESSION OR MANIFESTATION OF ECSTACY OR PASSION.
SO WHY DO CHRISTIANS CALL THIS EVENT "THE RAPTURE"?
THE WORD /RAPTURE/ IS THE LATIN VERSION OF A PHRASE THAT THE BIBLE USES TO DESCRIBE THE CATCHING AWAY OF ALL CHRISTIANS -- BEFORE THE END TIMES.
THE REASON THAT THE WORD RAPTURE IS APPROAPRIATE IS BECAUSE
THE FOCUS IS ON THOSE WHO ARE BEING RAPTURED,
NOT ON THOSE WHO ARE GOING TO BE LEFT BEHIND.
WHEN ALL THE TRUE CHRISTIANS ARE CAUGHT UP FROM THE EARTH TO BE WITH THE LORD,
IT'S GOING TO BE AN AMAZINGLY WONDERFUL TIME FOR THEM.
NOT ONLY ARE THEY GOING TO BE WITH THEIR LORD,
THEY'RE GOING TO MISS ALL THE HORRORS OF THE SEVEN YEAR TRIBULATION.
JESUS SAID IN JOHN 14:1-3 (NIV)
*14* “Do not let your hearts be troubled.
Trust in God; trust also in me. 2 In my Father’s house are many rooms; if it were not so, I would have told you.
I am going there to prepare a place for you. 3 And if I go and prepare a place for you, I will come back and take you to be with me that you also may be where I am.
THE FOLLOWERS OF CHRIST THAT ARE RAPTURED ARE GOING TO BE SPARED THE TRAUMA OF DEATH,
AND THEY WON'T HAVE TO BE A PART OF THE COMING DISASTERS THAT ARE ABOUT TO HAPPEN TO THE EARTH
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IN DAVID JEREMIAH'S BOOK HE TELLS OF A GIRL WHO SAID TO HER MOTHER
"DR.
JEREMIAH KEEPS TALKING ABOUT ALL THE SIGNS THAT ARE DEVELOPING CONCERNING THE LORD'S RETURN.
AND THEN IN THE NEXT BREATH HE SAYS THAT NOTHING NEEDS TO HAPPEN BEFORE JESUS COMES BACK TO TAKE US HOME TO BE WITH HIM.
I DON'T UNDERSTAND."
MOST OF THIS MISUNDERSTANDING COMES FROM CONFUSING TWO EVENTS:
THE RAPTURE -- AND THE SECOND COMING.
WHEN WE TALK ABOUT THE SIGNS THAT SIGNAL THE RETURN OF CHRIST,
WE AREN'T TALKING ABOUT THE RAPTURE.
WE'RE TALKING ABOUT THE LORD'S ULTIMATE RETURN
TO THE EARTH WITH ALL OF HIS SAINTS.
THIS HAPPENS AFTER THE RAPTURE
AND IS DIFFERENT IN AT LEAST TWO WAYS.
FIRST, THE RAPTURE WILL BE A "STEALTH EVENT" THAT WILL BE WITNESSED ONLY BY THE BELIEVERS WHO ARE RAPTURED.
THE SECOND COMING WILL BE A PUBLIC EVENT,THAT'S SEEN BY EVERYONE.
*IN Revelation 1:7 (NIV) WE READ \\ **7** Look, he is coming with the clouds, *
*and every eye will see him, *
*even those who pierced him; *
*and all the peoples of the earth will mourn because of him.
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SECOND, WHEN ALL THE BELIEVERS ARE RAPTURED,
JESUS WILL TAKE THEM BACK TO HEAVEN TO BE WITH HIM.
BUT WHEN HE RETURNS SEVEN YEARS LATER, HE'S GOING TO STAY.
THE SECOND COMING IS SOMETIMES CALLED
"THE SECOND ADVENT"
THIS IS WHEN JESUS IS GOING TO SET UP HIS KINGDOM
ON THE EARTH AND IT'S GOING TO LAST 1000 YEARS.
THERE ARE NO EVENTS THAT MUST TAKE PLACE BEFORE THE RAPTURE OCCURS.
THE TIMING IS IN GOD'S HANDS ALONE.
BUT SINCE THE RAPTURE HAPPENS SEVEN YEARS BEFORE THE SECOND COMING,
THE SIGNS THAT POINT TO THE SECOND ADVENT MAKE US REALIZE THAT THE RAPTURE IS EVEN MORE IMINENT
THAN JESUS CHRIST'S SECOND COMING.
UNRAVELING THE RAPTURE
THE APOSTLE PAUL WAS THE ONE WHO GAVE US DETAILS ABOUT THE RAPTURE.
HE SPOKE ABOUT IT IN HIS LETTERS TO THE CORINTHIANS AND TO THE THESSALONIANS.
JUST LIKE MANY PEOPLE TODAY,
THE CHRISTIANS IN THESSALONICA WERE CONFUSED ABOUT THE EVENTS
THAT WERE GOING TO TAKE PLACE IN THE FUTURE.
THEY ALSO LIKE US, WONDERED,
WHAT IN THE WORLD IS GOING ON.
THEY WERE WORRIED ABOUT THEIR DEAD LOVED ONES AND IF THEY HAD SOMEHOW MISSED OUT ON HEAVEN.
SO PAUL EXPLAINED IN:
*1 Thessalonians 4:13-18 (NIV) \\ **13 **Brothers, we do not want you to be ignorant about those who fall asleep, or to grieve like the rest of men, who have no hope.
14 We believe that Jesus died and rose again and so we believe that God will bring with Jesus those who have fallen asleep in him.
15 According to the Lord’s own word, we tell you that we who are still alive, who are left till the coming of the Lord, will certainly not precede those who have fallen asleep.
16 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.
17 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.
18 Therefore encourage each other with these words.
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LET'S LOOK MORE DEEPLY INTO WHAT PAUL HAS SAID.
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FIRST HE WROTE:
*1 Thessalonians 4:13 (NIV) \\ **13 **Brothers, we do not want you to be ignorant about those who fall asleep, or to grieve like the rest of men, who have no hope.
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