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What is the Rapture of the Church?
The Rapture of the Church is one of the next end times events on the Bible prophecy timeline. Did you know that Jesus Christ is returning for His Church before the Second Coming? Are you confused about the rapture and your place in the end times events? Well, don't worry because we've got all the answers to your prophecy and eschatology questions. The Rapture is the imminent end times event where God resurrects all dead Christian believers and all living believers at that time will be "caught up" or "taken up" to meet the Lord Jesus Christ in the air. The Lord Jesus Christ will then transport all Christian believers to Heaven in the twinkling of an eye before the coming seven-year Tribulation period. It is important to distinguish between the Rapture of the Church and the Second Coming of Christ. The Rapture occurs before the seven years of Tribulation, whereas, the Second Coming happens after the Tribulation period.
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The Rapture in the Bible
1 Thessalonians 4:13-18 – "But we do not want you to be uninformed, brethren, about those who are asleep, so that you will not grieve as do the rest who have no hope. For if we believe that Jesus died and rose again, even so God will bring with Him those who have fallen asleep in Jesus. For this we say to you by the word of the Lord, that we who are alive and remain until the coming of the Lord, will not precede those who have fallen asleep. For the Lord Himself will descend from heaven with a shout, with the voice of the archangel and with the trumpet of God, and the dead in Christ will rise first. Then we who are alive and remain will be caught up together with them in the clouds to meet the Lord in the air, and so we shall always be with the Lord. Therefore comfort one another with these words."
1 Corinthians 15:50-54 - "Now this I say, brethren, that flesh and blood cannot inherit the kingdom of God; neither doth corruption inherit incorruption. Behold, I shew 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 trump: for the trumpet shall sound, and the dead shall be raised incorruptible, and we shall be changed. For this corruptible must put on incorruption, and this mortal must put on immortality. So 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."
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