I’m going to write multiple posts on the rapture. However, you will see a lot of the same scriptures being used in the posts. I can’t really nurse them out to make multiple posts and still be able to explain what it is I am trying to get across.
The first post on the rapture I want to do is simply, what is the rapture?
If you’re like me in the beginning, I didn’t have a clue. My wife was giving me a rundown on it about 19 years ago and I looked and stared at her thinking what planet are you from? She was laughing as she was staring at the look on my face.
Guess what? I had been saved for 12 years at that time and never heard one person point out the rapture to me before she did. Yet it was there in black and white, along with everything I hadn’t studied.
The rapture is the snatching away of the believers that are still on earth when Jesus comes to call those up to heaven and those bodies from the grave.
I know, I know, do do do do do do do do – that’s my best Twilight Zone.
I plan to do this post – What is it?
Another on rather I believe the timing is before the tribulation, during, or after?
Why the Rapture? And I’m sure there will be others as I go.
What are the scriptures that best describe the rapture of the church?
1 Corinthians 15:51-53 – 51Listen, I tell you a mystery: We will not all sleep, but we will all be changed— 52in a flash, in the twinkling of an eye, at the last trumpet. For the trumpet will sound, the dead will be raised imperishable, and we will be changed. 53For the perishable must clothe itself with the imperishable, and the mortal with immortality.
1 Thessalonians 4:16-17 – 16For 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. 17After 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.
The word rapture is a description of the snatching away you read in the scriptures above. The word rapture itself is not used in the bible.
Well I can’t tell you everything about the rapture in one post. One it would be too long a read for most. Two I would be getting away from my short daily inspiration theme. Three, “Hey I can’t be writing about something every day and use all the material in one post.” 🙂
So keep checking in for more inspiration and Bible prophecy.