Rapture (SERMON)

Our church membership classes be next week, for start those on Saturday, Gary Numan cars at in the Elder, girl. But last week, the last week, we talked about the generations.

Carl. 1948 Ford Edge big year. So it today I'm going to talk about the very next event was only one. So we went through for Jade was in the church or the time of the Gentiles has lasted two thousand years and got shifted his Focus from Israel. That was his that's been his whole Focus almost from the dawn of time. But as you know, Israel rejected the Messiah and the focus of that then went to the Gentiles and we're in a time is called the age or the time of the Gentiles and that time will will continue until God's word, says that time is fulfilled. And then when that time has fulfilled, God's focus is going straight back to Israel. In fact, all the final scriptures are all about Israel about Jerusalem, and we know that when Jesus left, he left from the Mount of all of the disciples washing to send into the heavenlies. And then he says enlightened are the way that you saw him leave.

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Those are the rules. This will be and unfortunately, this is the way this is going to be exposed to go out in ain't so y'all can look me. I don't like this place at the scriptures up there. So today is the mystery. We're going to talk about what a mystery is and what a secret is in the Bible. So and also the blessing is talking about the mystery of the church. Real talk about the difference between a mystery and a secret.

I'm going to be using two devices gas if I get behind and this ain't catching up y'all. Let me know. What a mystery is something that is not hidden. But it is transform from Shadow to substance. It is something that we have seen, but we do not comprehend or understand it until God reveals that in light of new revelation. See that the Prophecies of God will deliver a prophecy people. I don't see it. But then as it starts to unfold and it's like, it's almost like you knew it, you understood, but you didn't totally understand and God revealed that mystery in time. So it's a little bit different than a secret. A secret of something that is totally hidden from Mankind and then we cannot see, nor do we even feel. And then when, when God Reveals His secret, that's something we've never heard of. So, it's a difference between the mystery. I'm going to tell you why that's a big deal, because

Mysteries in the Old Testament, is found a 33 times. The word mixture to the entire Bible in the Old Testament, is in the Book of Daniel in that book. And in that book and these are going to be full. We find that in Daniel that it was a visually saw by God. If you've read the Prophecies of Daniel was given a vision a dream and he calls all of his religious people and his prognosticators and none of them could solve it and then they were like, I remember this guy Daniel that was in prison and you solve a riddle and it was a Riddle That Nebuchadnezzar had given some dreams that he had fun. And again, Nebuchadnezzar was given a vision given a vision of a statue and he remembers Daniel. And all of his holy got the could not figure out the vision. Will Daniel comes in and of course God reveals the true meaning of the dream to Daniel. Daniel passes it on to Nebuchadnezzar. And the Mystery was about things, that existed. Remember that that mystery was about a statue, in the Statue, had multiple kingdoms the Nebuchadnezzar to see, but he didn't know what they were and Daniel interpreted that. So even though some of it had to come to pass. It wasn't a secret, was a mystery that God revealed to Daniel, Daniel passed that on to Nebuchadnezzar.

So in the New Testament, we see mystery mentioned several times. So I'm Romans chapter 11. There's a mystery about Israel and their role in the future.

In Colossians 2 chapter 2. It says to reach all the riches of full strength of understanding and the knowledge of God's mystery, which is in Jesus Christ. And one of these Mysteries that we're going to see is the minute the mystery that literally started in Genesis when God put Adam and Eve in the garden and he says that those two would become one flesh. The mystery was number 1, how to humans to become one flesh later. He uses the same idea of a husband and a wife to talk about the relationship of God to Israel. And then later, he uses that same mystery to describe Christ, and his church. And that's where we are today. Is the mystery of the relationship that Christ has with us. That's why he's called the bridegroom, and the body of Christ is called the bride.

We're going to show a few more places that the idea of a mystery as mentioned in the Bible, in the Book of Romans 1st Corinthians Ephesians. Kalajian 2nd Thessalonians, 1st Timothy in Revelation. Only 33 times in the entire Bible is a mystery mentioned, in the word, in Ephesians 5:31 to 32. This is therefore a man shall leave his father and his mother and hold fast to his wife and the two shall become one flesh. This mystery is profound and I am saying that it refers to Christ and the church. So, the mystery that started back in Genesis. Was given to the Old Testament for God, the father and the Old Testament Saints is now given to Christ and the church.

It is a mystery hasn't left. Make sure that would stay married. This long. It is hard. Right? And God. Does that got to do that? It would be Jeremiah.

He says, I remember the devotion of your youth, your love is a bride. How you followed me in the wilderness in a landing Zone. Israel was holy to the Lord. The first fruits of the Harvest. Eighth of it. Incurred. Gill disaster Came Upon them. They close the Lord.

I did it first Corinthians 15:51. He says, behold I tell you a mystery. We shall not all sleep, but we shall all be changed. And this is the mystery that I'm talking about day. This is the idea of the rapture. So you member in Ephesians 3 6 in the closet 126. We see another mystery of how the G. The Gentiles would be The Heirs of a kingdom prior to that. The focus was on Israel. It was all about Israel's people. They were the elect. They were the chosen. They were the ones that were pulled out of Egypt that became the promise of Abraham of Isaac of Jacob. They were his people But then when we get to Ephesians 3 6 and Colossians 1:26, we see that that mystery is that God brought in the Gentiles. Jesus brought in the Gentile. It's a mystery at the time that no one could understand before, but but in light of the New Testament. A mystery that even Israel itself couldn't see. You see it now. That mystery that was that was Tottenham in Ezekiel that was taught in Isaiah. As Jesus came up on the world scene and began sending that message to the Samaritans begin sending the idea of the rejection of his people and the inclusion of a new people. Even the disciples began to understand that. Hey, this is not for us only. It's for the juice first. Absolutely, but the, his disciples begin to see that this message. This Kingdom, that Jesus was bringing, was not going to be just for the dejou. Not just for the people of Israel, not just for their spiritual standpoint, but that was going to go to the Gentiles.

And to be honest with you, if you go back to Genesis you realize that at that time, there are no Jews. There's no such thing as a Jew. Overtime. God chose a people to show his love, the idea of his Mercy. The idea of the relationship that he wanted with his people but eventually God brought it back to what he intended that those that followed Jesus, those to fall in. Love God. They would be Heirs of a kingdom. Granted always, people would reject the idea of the idea of Jesus. Some will never come and understand his Mercy has Grey's his love. Cut the Rope that beginning in Genesis. He always wanted a people. The relationship that he started with an app with Adam and Eve. The first is that is the love that he now has its shares with a shirt.

2nd Thessalonians 2 verse 7. It says for the mystery. And we're still tracking the idea of mysteries in the Bible. Thankfully got them not going through all 33, just going through to you. So you'll see what a mystery is. The mystery only, he who now restrained, it will do so until he is out of the way.

This particular verse is, a is an understanding of the, of the spirit of antichrist. The restrainer is the church. And the Holy Spirit that is Wells. The Believers, the body of Christ. That is what restrains? It is. The one thing that keeps the whole world from becoming truly wicked and evil. Is this restrainer, but when is restrainer is taken out of the way? No, it'll, it'll rain Supreme. There will be nothing to hold him back. Not just the idea of the spirit but also of Satan that involved that Spirit it will come out. Does anybody think things in the world are better today than they were a decade ago?

Something for a little bit younger, but especially that you guys are they better than 20 years ago? Hello, people always like to talk about the good old days,, right? Are these The Good Old Days Inn?

I love all people. Are you guys live longer than we have? You seen a few more things? And but the thing is, that's true from the dawn of from the Dom from Genesis, for when the time is sin entered into to the Garden, Inn in a man in a woman's decision. It's not gotten better. It's only it's only going to get worse.

So, what I want to study today is the mystery that we read in 1st Corinthians, 15:51, 252.

Behold, he says, this is Paul speaking to the Church of Corinth behold. I tell you a mystery. We shall not all sleep. And sleep in. The Bible means die. We shall not all. But we shall all be changed in a moment in the twinkling of an eye. Don't know how fast that is, but it's fast in a twinkling of an eye at the last trumpet for the trumpet will sound and the dead. Those that have fallen asleep. And I'm talking about the church age, but those Christian Saint from Jesus, Ford from his crucifixion. Resurrection till today, the dead of the church. It says we'll be raising perishable. And we shall be changed.

So, we see that this mystery.

And this hope that God's giving to us is not just for those that are a lot. It's not just a hole for the living Believers. It's a hold that was given to even the Saints. The past says the dead in Christ will rise. First.

Here, it says, that the Bible that Believers just fall asleep.

Saint death. Is we fall asleep and we wake up and guess what? We're somewhere else. It's almost no different than Ethan and Jordi when you when McRae finally crashes and burns. Maybe it's in the floor. Maybe it's on the couch. You got scooped him up taking, put him in his bed. So when he goes to sleep, he's the one place. But when he wakes up, please and another and that's exactly what happens with this. The Bible says that to be absent from the body is to be present with the Lord. Play fall asleep in one room and next thing, you know their family wake up their Jesus.

1st Thessalonians, 4:16 says, and the dead in Christ will rise first. The Old Testament and the New Testament Church sayings to die. They are the first to go with those of us that are alive. Don't foresee them day. Go first.

He speaks of a sudden event, on the other hand. He speaks of a process of the second coming of Christ is very different from the Rapture, the Rapture sudden it's fat. I wanted to give you guys this two words that mentioned. The idea of rapture is not a word that came from anywhere else, came from our scripture. So I'm going to let you guys repeat that for me cuz I want you guys to leave with two words. One of the Greek. Harpazo. Do you say opossum?

Atlanta rap Toro. 911. And, you know, Greek wrap Toro is the word, obviously, that makes the word rapture where it comes from going to say, I'm going to say that because if y'all missed anything, I want you to know to two words, one in Greek and Latin. And I want you to understand the difference between the Rapture and the second coming is very different. I was going to play this little movie clip and Gary my associate pastor said, no movie clips when I do the movie clip.

Let me get past that real quick.

I do want to say this even up cuz I actually tied it into. I got it into the idea that video clip. So when the rapture we vanish, it says in a twinkling of an eye. It's not an event like the second coming were all eyes will see him come back as a twinkling of an eye. It says that we will be caught up to meet him in the air. It's so quick and so fast. That the world won't hardly even know for a second that we're even gone. It just know we're gone. We stopped that begins the beginning of the tribulation and we'll talk about a war, is being waged in the heavenlies that simultaneous events happened with us being taken out in Christ, sending a war to Earth. So we'll be gone instantly the last trumpet. So if the last trumpet, is what causes to heaven. The process of that is already taking place. There had to be a first trumpet. A second trumpet. I don't have any trumpet for sure. May 14th of 1948 allowed sounding of the trumpet because of country. They hadn't existed in 2000 years, was back on the scene, none of Revelation or pieces of Ezekiel, or parts of Jeremiah. None of those could have ever been fulfilled without a nation of Israel.

Just like there's parts of Revelation that can't be fulfilled until a third temple built. Anna, I told Gary an interesting story. I've got a friend who has a kosher home in in Amarillo, and there's a rabbi that comes from Israel. And his whole job is to travel across the country and he raises funds to rebuild at their Temple. And he stays at the house because it's kosher, like done leaving bread, but he's house is set up for him. And now that was over a decade and a half ago that I'm met this rabba, but my understanding today is they have it all. It's just a matter of setting that thing up all the way down to the red, perfect, heifer, that they need their geneticist and Israel, have made sure that they have that unblemished, heifer unblemish land. So they worked on it. It's just a matter of getting that thing setup. So, I believe that a trumpet, a trumpet was founded in 1948. I believe it was sounded again in 1967 in the Six-Day War of Israel where they retook Jerusalem.

There's a final trumpet. That will be sounded so times and season. At the last, we're going to be changed. We may not know the hour of the day. Remember that last week. I said, if anybody sets a date, if they tell you, I got 88 reasons why Jesus is coming back in 1988. Don't believe it, but nobody know. Jesus himself at before his Ascension told his. I don't even know. Only the father knows. But what he did say was is we're not children of the night so that this day would overtake us but we are. So God is slowly, but surely, he's rebuilding things to us. One through the Holy Spirit, one through the scriptures. But he's telling us, I'm coming back guy. I'm coming back to this place. I promise, two thousand years ago. I'm coming back to this place. And through the Holy Spirit, I believe it is our duty. To dig into his word to understand the times and the seasons one because I believe it motivates the church. It motivates us to share that with people that we care about that. We love Part of the motivation for starting. This was because Uptown Auto after doing Church feet two weekends out of the year and will call ask him. Like I can't sit around and do nothing forever. I want to be busy when he comes back. I want to be doing something. I want to be working for him.

So we know that no one knows the hours a day. So this church will not be riding 2021 reasons. Why Jesus is coming back in 2021 if we don't know. What we do know is that the generation that saw Israel fig tree shoot for this branches. We do know that that's significant. That is a toy.

Call is wearing that clock 1940s. Big deal. Not just an elder. Collier the timekeeper.

And it just like I told you last week, we don't know how long it generation is, but I promise you when we look at the world. Nobody thinks it's better. It's groaning for the return of Christ.

1st Thessalonians 4:17. It says then we were not talking about the dead anymore. We're talking about those that are still alive. Then we who are the dead in Christ. Have already beat us up. There. They got they got

Says, we will be caught up together. With them in the clouds to meet the Lord wear. In the air. You seen the second coming of Christ comes down. He comes all the way down. He sets his foot on the Mount of olive. This event is different from that second coming. It says he's taking us up in the twinkling of an eye. It says, caught up and caught up in caught up in the Greek.

Whatever our puzzle. Ed in Latin. Raptor. Oh, okay. I told you before we leave, we're getting her. I want to talk to you about Pappadeaux. This whole church is full and I'll tell you if you promise, you got the for this service is over. You're going to have those work cuz I'm going to talk about. That was ever mentioned in the in the Latin are not just used to talk about the church going to meet Jesus in the cloud. It's also found in Acts 8:39.

Says, now, when I came up out of the water, now, this story is Philip, is in a chariot. He's with an Ethiopian eunuch, and he start sharing the gospel. Me, tell you these things about about Jesus and he starts giving him, the, the gospel. And then finally, that eunuch is, is there any reason why I can't be baptized?

Some Philip gets out. He takes him to the water. He baptizes him in the name of Jesus and then it says here, as they came up out of the water, the spirit of the lord caught, guess. What word? That is Trudy.

Why do when the Latin he was caught up in the Rapture of the church? Because we go from Earth to Heaven. Philippine go from one location over here and food. It said he was snatched up from one place to another and the reason being is The gospel. God was given the gospel Wings. He was moving. That's funny about this story is the eunuch.

That's your word, bro, and I am going to use. He gone a lot.

The unit song No More and he went on his way rejoicing. You be giving the gospel is baptized, and he does think nothing of it.

So, he was puzzled.

So after they came out of the water, it said that Philip Philip