Ready or Not, Here He Comes
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Introduction
Introduction
“Rapture” is a church word.
“Rapture” is a church word.
I. You can live with Hope.
I. You can live with Hope.
“rapture” is a church word.
“rapture” is a church word.
“rapture” is a church word.
Paul wanted to ease the mind of those in Thessalonica
Paul wanted to ease the mind of those in Thessalonica
3 Times Jesus comes back.
first time: jesus came—incarnation
God raised him from the dead—Jesus ascended by to the heavily father
—ascended back to the father
2nd time: he’ll come to gather those who remain that are his children
third time: after the 7 years of tribulation. 1000 years of his reign (the millennial reign)
This series about “the second coming of Jesus Christ
I. You can live with Hope.
I. You can live with Hope.
v. 13— others do not have hope… like we do
v. 13— others do not have hope… like we do
You can live with Hope.
— others do not have hope… like we do
v. 13— others do not have hope… like we do
But we do not want you to be uninformed, brothers, about those who are asleep, that you may not grieve as others do who have no hope.
*When you have Jesus:
you can have hope.
you can have peace.
you can live with unquenchable joy.
You get to be part of an eternal reunion.
You get to be part of an eternal reunion.
*You get to be part of an eternal reunion.
“caught up together with them”
Then we who are alive, who are left, will be caught up together with them in the clouds to meet the Lord in the air, and so we will always be with the Lord.
v.17 “caught up together with them”
when Jesus comes back, it will be a miraculous event.
When physical death occurs, the soul is separated from the body.
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When spiritual death occurs, the soul is separated from God.
—to be absent from the body is to be present with the Lord
Yes, we are of good courage, and we would rather be away from the body and at home with the Lord.
When Jesus comes again, the soul and the body will meet again.
—we shall be like him
See what kind of love the Father has given to us, that we should be called children of God; and so we are. The reason why the world does not know us is that it did not know him. Beloved, we are God’s children now, and what we will be has not yet appeared; but we know that when he appears we shall be like him, because we shall see him as he is. And everyone who thus hopes in him purifies himself as he is pure.
they will get a new body.
graves will open up; we are going to get to fly
For those still living, you get to see Jesus Christ for the first time.
John exiled on the island of Patmos.
Then I saw heaven opened, and behold, a white horse! The one sitting on it is called Faithful and True, and in righteousness he judges and makes war.
There will be a shout.
The voice of the archangel will be heard.
The trumpet of God will be blown.