There is something that has been of great concern for a number of years now, something Christian's state as being a reality, when there is nothing that is ever mentioned relative to it in the word of God - the Rapture of the Church.If one is to read the word of God right through from cover to cover, (as I have numerous times) the word rapture never ever gets a mention.
Then, who can those who believe the Bible teaches a Rapture when it is quite clear to all one and asunder that it does not. I have heard all of the verses that allege a rapture of the church, yet, there is no proof that the suggested verses are symptomatic of anything of the like.
Then there are those who are prudent enough to suggest they are able to identify the timing of this alleged rapture, whether that be pre, mid or post.
Of course, there is a lot of debate and argument over the timing of the rapture, and why would not there be a great deal of argument over something that is not there to begin with. Rather than the rapture of the church, the Bible teaches the Resurrection of the Dead on the Day of the Lord, and this is not to be confused with the Rapture of the Church.
As that is the case, how then is it that those same persons are able to predict the timing for the return of the Lord when there is no one who knows neither the hour nor the day.
The dead in Christ shall precede those who are alive and together we shall meet the Lord in the air AT THE SECOND COMING OF THE LORD - NOT BEFORE....
Believers Who Have Died
13 Brothers and sisters, we do not want you to be uninformed about those who sleep in death, so that you do not grieve like the rest of mankind, who have no hope. 14 For 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 word, we tell you that we who are still alive, who are left until 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 one another with these words.
There are those who believe they are suddenly going to float away up into the clouds and into Heaven sometime before, or mid way through, or at the end of the seven years, relative to the signing of the covenant of Daniel, after which the seventh week of Daniel begins. That is dead set wrong unless that event is associated with the coming of the Lord - but not before.
In other words, there are those who have been brainwashed into believing the Day of the Lord/the Resurrection of the Dead, and the Rapture of the Church are two separate events, when there are one in the same.
