NO ONE KNOWS

WHY IS IT KEPT SUCH A SECRET

I remember being in the Army for many years and wondering why certain things were kept in such secret. Some things just do not need to be known. If they were known then the plans which are made and designed for us would be worthless. We never know who is listening when we are in a group of people and talking about something we have heard. We may not even know if what we hear is true or not, but we heard something. Sometimes things we hear are really true secrets which have gotten out and now its time to just play those things down like wow those things are impossible.

1 Corinthians 15:51–55 NASB95

51 Behold, I tell you a mystery; we will not all sleep, but we will all be changed, 52 in a moment, in the twinkling of an eye, at the last trumpet; for the trumpet will sound, and the dead will be raised imperishable, and we will be changed. 53 For this perishable must put on the imperishable, and this mortal must put on immortality. 54 But when this perishable will have put on the imperishable, and this mortal will have put on immortality, then will come about the saying that is written, “Death is swallowed up in victory. 55 “O death, where is your victory? O death, where is your sting?”

WOW what a powerful scripture.

Verse 51 and 52

these two verses explain a concept we have come to know as Rapture. Rapture as a word is found no where in the scripture. however there are several references we can carry back to the meaning to be take away, or to be called up. All of these such terms are where we draw the term resurrection from.

I say with out resurrection there is no Messiah, and without no Messiah there can be no Christianity.

Better yet let see what the scripture and the Apostle Paul says about this very subject.

1 Corinthians 15:12–19 NASB95

12 Now if Christ is preached, that He has been raised from the dead, how do some among you say that there is no resurrection of the dead? 13 But if there is no resurrection of the dead, not even Christ has been raised; 14 and if Christ has not been raised, then our preaching is vain, your faith also is vain. 15 Moreover we are even found to be false witnesses of God, because we testified against God that He raised Christ, whom He did not raise, if in fact the dead are not raised. 16 For if the dead are not raised, not even Christ has been raised; 17 and if Christ has not been raised, your faith is worthless; you are still in your sins. 18 Then those also who have fallen asleep in Christ have perished. 19 If we have hoped in Christ in this life only, we are of all men most to be pitied.

The Lexham Bible Dictionary Introduction

The death and resurrection of Jesus Christ is central to the New Testament and foundational for the theology of the Church. These events have been acknowledged as paramount from the early church to the present. For example, Paul argues that if Jesus did not bodily rise from the dead as the firstfruit of believers, biblical faith is fallacious and ineffective, preaching is useless, apostolic witnesses were false, sin remains unforgiven, and believers have died without hope

The Lexham Bible Dictionary Introduction

The death and resurrection of Jesus Christ is central to the New Testament and foundational for the theology of the Church. These events have been acknowledged as paramount from the early church to the present. For example, Paul argues that if Jesus did not bodily rise from the dead as the firstfruit of believers, biblical faith is fallacious and ineffective, preaching is useless, apostolic witnesses were false, sin remains unforgiven, and believers have died without hope

1 Corinthians 15:32 NASB95

32 If from human motives I fought with wild beasts at Ephesus, what does it profit me? If the dead are not raised, let us eat and drink, for tomorrow we die.

The Lexham Bible Dictionary Introduction

He also asserts that Christians are misguided without this distinctive doctrine (1 Cor 15:32).

1 Thessalonians 4:1 NASB95

1 Finally then, brethren, we request and exhort you in the Lord Jesus, that as you received from us instruction as to how you ought to walk and please God (just as you actually do walk), that you excel still more.

No you have to understand this is not the second coming or second Advent of christ. This is only the Rapture, the Rapture is a period before Jesus ever steps foot back on the earth the second time on the mount of olives where the Valley is devided from the East to the West with a Great Valley Leaving land to the North and South of the Valley.

What we must also understand is during the rapture if you are saved and know Christ as your savior this is your time of Judgement or seperation from the sheep and the goats. You will later face a period where you will be held accoutable for your works to receive rewards for your works as a believer and worker within the faith.