The Rapture is reality. I am surprised how there are those hate what is going to happen...
Who's side are they on?
Can they be filled with the Holy Spirit and stand opposed as some do?
Rapture (of the Church) The resurrection
of all Church Age believers from the earth to
forever be with the Lord (1 Thess. 4:13–17). The
Rapture marks the end of the Church Age and
the beginning of the Tribulation. Synonyms: exit
resurrection; resurrection of the Church.
The theological title “Rapture” derives from the
Latin rapio, used in the Latin Vulgate to translate
the Greek harpazo (1 Thess. 4:17). Both of these
terms indicate being caught up and taken away,
carried off suddenly, to meet the Lord. When the
Rapture takes place, all Church Age believers,
alive and dead, will rendezvous with the Lord
somewhere above the earth. At the sound of
the trumpet, “in the twinkling of an eye . . . we
will be changed” from a body of corruption to
a body of incorruption (1 Cor. 15:51–53; cf. Phil.
3:20–21). First Thessalonians 4:15–17 gives the
order of events: “The Lord Himself will descend
from heaven with a shout, with the voice of the
archangel . . . and the dead in Christ [departed
Church Age believers] will rise first” with their
eternal resurrection bodies (verse 16). “Then we
who are alive and remain [Church Age believers
still on earth] will be caught up [harpazo] together
with them in the clouds to meet the Lord in the
air” and receive resurrection bodies (verse 17a).
The Rapture will be followed by a period of
fantastic happiness and celebration, a ‘reunion’
of the entire royal family, assembled for the
first time in spontaneous mass recognition of
the Lord Jesus Christ (Rom. 14:11
BIBLE DOCTRINE DICTIONARY
R. B. THIEME, JR.
R. B. THIEME, JR., BIBLE MINISTRIES
HOUSTON, TEXAS
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