The Rapture and End Times
"Men of
Galilee, why do you stand gazing up into heaven?
This same Jesus, who was taken up from you into heaven, will
so come in like manner as you saw Him go into heaven."
Acts 1:11
- What is the Rapture?
"Caught-up" Greek: "harpazo" means: "caught away by force"
The Imminent and Impending Coming of Christ
for His Church
- I Thessalonians 4:13-18
"...For the Lord Himself will descend from
heaven with a shout, with the voice of an archangel, and with
the trumpet of God. And the dead in Christ will rise first...
Then we who are alive and remain shall be caught up together
with them in the clouds to meet the Lord in the air. And thus we
shall always be with the Lord."
- 1 Corinthians 15:51-58
"Behold, I tell you a mystery: We shall not
all sleep, but we shall all be changed, in a moment, in the
twinkling of an eye, at the last trumpet. For the trumpet will
sound, the dead will be raised incorruptible, and we shall be
changed..."
- John 14:1-3 "...in
My Father's house are many mansions; if it were not so, I would
have told you. I go to prepare a place for you... and if I go
and prepare a place for you, I will come again and receive you
to Myself; that where I am, there you may be also."
- When will this
happen?
- Matthew 25:13 "Watch
therefore, for you know neither the day nor the hour in which
the Son of Man is coming."
- 1 Thessalonians 5:1-2
"But concerning the times and the seasons,
brethren, you have no need that I should write to you. For you
yourselves know perfectly that the day of the Lord so comes as a
thief in the night."
- 2 Peter 3:9-10 "The
Lord is not slack concerning His promise... but is longsuffering
toward us, not willing that any should perish but that all
should come to repentance."
- End Times Events
(Eschatology)
- Rapture - I Thessalonians 4:13-17; John
14:1-3; 1 Corinthians 15:51-53
- Tribulation Period - Dan 9:27 & 12:1;
Joel 2:1-11 & 28-32; Zeph. 1:14-18; Zech. 13:8-14:2; Matt.
24:5-28
- 2nd Coming of Christ - Matthew 24:29-31;
2 Thes. 2:1-8; Revelation 19:11-21; Zech. 14:3-5
- Millennium reign on earth - Revelation
20:4-6; Isaiah 65:21-23
- Great White Throne Judgment - Revelation
20:11-15
- Destruction of the earth - 2 Peter
3:12-13
- New Heavens and New Earth! - Revelation
21:1-22:5
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