BULLSEYE!
ACCURATE BIBLE
KNOWLEDGE!
“WHERE
IS THE RAPTURE IN THE NEW TESTAMENT?” (Part 1 of 2)
There are two raptures that
are ‘book-ended’ by the two advents
of Christ coming
to earth.
Rapture
#2. The Tribulation saints at the end of the tribulation
There are
at
least twenty-eight references for the
rapture of the Christians off the
earth with five in Philippians,
seven in 1Thessalonians,
and two in 2 Thessalonians, three
in 1Peter and four in the Timothy’s
with mentions in Titus, 1&2
Corinthians,
James and 1John.
THERE ARE FOUR
APPEARANCES OF THE LORD JESUS CHRIST
1st Advent |
Rapture #1 The Lord comes FOR his saints |
Rapture #2 |
2nd Advent The Lord comes WITH his saints |
Christ comes to earth the 1st time |
Rapture of Christians - church age saints before the tribulation |
Rapture of the tribulation saints at the end of 7 yrs |
The Lord Jesus Christ comes to earth 2nd time
at end of the tribulation |
Matt 8:20; 9:6; 20:18 |
1Thess 4:15-18 2Thess 2:1-4,5-8 |
Matt 24:30-31; |
Rev 19:14-16 Matt 26:64 |
Christ as the Son of man |
Jesus comes in the air as the Son of God |
the Son of man |
the Son of man |
Matthew
20:18 Behold, we
go up to Jerusalem; and the Son of man shall be betrayed
unto the chief priests and unto the scribes, and they shall condemn him
to death, |
1 Thess
4:16-17 For the
Lord himself shall descend from heaven with a shout, … and the dead in
Christ shall rise first: Then we which are alive and remain shall
be caught up together with them in the clouds, to meet the Lord in
the air: |
Matthew
24:29-31 And he
shall send his angels with a great sound of a trumpet, and they shall gather
together his elect from the four winds, from one end of heaven to
the other. |
Revelation
19:15-16 … mouth
goeth a sharp sword, … smite the nations: … rule them with a rod of
iron: … wrath of Almighty God. And he hath on his vesture and on his
thigh a name written, KING OF KINGS, AND LORD OF LORDS. |
(1) First There is a
falling away |
(2) Second
Then
Christ comes, the day of Christ |
(3) Third Our
gathering together with him
at the rapture |
(4) Fourth Then he
(the Holy Spirit) which letteth (restrains) is taken out of
the way |
(5) Fifth Then that Wicked,
the anti-christ, the son of perdition, that man of sin, is revealed |
Harley Hitchcock
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Part 2
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