As long as I have been saved I have been told about Jesus
coming for me in what is known as the rapture.
It, (as has been explained) will be at some time in the
future and all Christians will be removed from off the earth.
There has been countless books, movies even video taped
pleas to the unsaved to repent. Hoping they will realize when they see the
truth of the rapture (all Christians disappearing) they would then realize the
truth and repent.
I dont however, subscribe to that belief any more. I
believe God has given me an insight (which obviously seems so simple and
obvious) that I never saw before.
We use the verse: 1Co 15:52 In a moment, in
the twinkling of an eye, at the last trump: for the trumpet shall sound, and
the dead shall be raised incorruptible, and we shall be changed.
We tell each other in a twinkling of an eye those who
are Christians will be raptured. Pilots would disappear and planes will crash
as well as trucks and busses and all forms of transportation.
We say that people all over the world will vanish and
the world will be amazed.
This just cant be true. Lets look at this verse and
those surrounding it again:
1Co 15:48As is the earthy, such are they
also that are earthy: and as is the heavenly, such are they also
that are heavenly.
(In other
words physical bodies for the earth, spiritual for the heavens.)
1Co 15:49And as we
have borne the image of the earthy, we shall also bear the image of the
heavenly.
We now
have an earthly body we will get a heavenly one.
1Co 15:50Now this
I say, brethren, that flesh and blood cannot inherit the kingdom of God;
neither doth corruption inherit incorruption.
Bodies do
not and can not enter the Spiritual realm
1Co 15:51Behold, I
shew you a mystery; We shall not all sleep, but we shall all be changed,
The key
word here is changed
1Co 15:52In a moment, in the twinkling of an eye, at the last trump: for the
trumpet shall sound, and the dead shall be raised incorruptible, and we shall be
changed.
The dead
will be raised (already) incorruptible and WE (the living)
will be CHANGED.
1Co 15:53For this
corruptible must put on incorruption, and this mortal must put on
immortality.
1Co 15:54So when
this corruptible shall have put on incorruption, and this mortal shall have put
on immortality, then shall be brought to pass the saying that is written, Death
is swallowed up in victory.
So it is my observation of the facts that our bodies will
simply fall to the ground as gravity permits and God will in a twinkling,
change us.
So, the pilot will fall over, the truck driver will slump
in his seat, etc
Also, those who will witness all the dead Christians will
probably blame a virus or that God had taken the real evil ones away and the good
people are now left.
Do you have a different opinion? Please email me.
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