There may be a staged 'rapture' event.
It would be a big event similar to the moon landing and
9/11, all 'live' on television...
staged in an
effort to cause many Christians to feel as if they have been 'left-behind'.
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The Bible does not describe a mysterious 'rapture'.
The Bible clearly prophesies about resurrections: Ezekiel 37:1-14, Acts 24:15, Philippians
Christ demonstrated that the prophecy will take place, by
dying and rising again.
And Paul let us know that alive
people would also rise to glory among those resurrected.
No television will be needed to see the true event,
everyone will see; it is the great return of the captives to
"I will.. cause you to come
up out of your graves, and bring you into the
"
"David their king, whom I will raise up unto
them" Jeremiah 30:9 {Jeremiah 22:3-4}
"Many of them that sleep in the dust of the earth
shall awake.." Daniel 12:2
"we who are alive will not
precede them that are dead" 1 Thessalonians 4:15
"Come from the four winds, Oh breath of life,
and breath upon these slain that they may live" Ezekiel 37:9
"all the tribes of the earth
shall mourn, and they shall see the Son of man coming in the clouds.."
"And He shall send forth His angels with the great
sound of a trumpet,
and they shall gather
together His chosen ones from the four winds, {dead people; Ezekiel
37:9}
(and) from one end of heaven to
the other. {alive people; 1 Thess.
"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 shall rise first" 1
Thessalonians
{Psalms 15:1-5, 16:9-10, 40:8 (Jeremiah 31:31-33) David is
in Christ, is he not?}
{Isaiah
"Then we who are alive and remain shall be caught up
together with them in the clouds, to meet the Lord in the air"
Not to be taken up into heaven, or to disappear, but to
watch the vengeance unfold, [Psalms 58:10 !]
to be part of the army
spoken of in Ezekiel, and Jude and Revelation, coming down to reign with Christ
!
"..and they stood upon their
feet, an exceeding great army [of resurrected people]" Ezekiel 37:10
"Behold the Lord comes with ten thousands of His
saints to do doom against all flesh" Jude
"The marriage of the lamb has come, and His bride has
made herself ready.."
"I saw an angel, standing in the sun, and he cried
with a loud voice saying to all the birds that fly in the midst of the sky;
come
and gather yourselves unto the supper of the great God" Revelation 19:7,17
"..the armies of the earth
were gathered to fight Him that sat on the horse, and His army..
and the beast and false
prophet were captured and thrown alive into a lake of fire..
and the rest were slain
with the sword of Him that sat upon the horse,
which
sword proceeded from His mouth; and all the birds were filled with their
flesh" Revelation 19:19-21
"wherever the body is, there
will the vultures be gathered together" Matthew 24:28, Luke
"unto you that fear my name
shall the Son of Righteousness arise..
For the wicked shall
be as ashes under your feet in the day that the Lord does this" Malachi 4:2-3
!
"The righteous shall rejoice when they see the vengeance,
they shall wash their feet in the blood of the wicked." Psalms
58:10 !
"The Lord said, I will bring again from Ba-shan, I will bring my people from the depths of the sea,
That thy foot may be dipped in the blood of thine enemies" Psalm 68:22-23 !