12) The Rapture of the worldwide Church, followed by the second coming of the Lord Jesus/Jewish Messiah.
We believe in the pre-millennial second Advent of the Lord Jesus Christ. Jesus will physically return to the Mount of Olives East of Jerusalem to begin His 1000 year Reign on this Earth, as the King of Kings and Lord of Lords. Jesus Ruling over everything in Creation. The Day of the Lord. 2 Peter 3 vs 8-13. Rev 20 vs 1-4. When Jesus comes again, 1 Thes 3 vs 13 “at the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ with all His saints”. Zech 14 vs 5. Saints are saved sinners, who have been credited righteous by God, by their faith in God and His eternal Word. Gen15 vs 6. Rom 1 vs 16-17. Today there are many different Christian denominations, not everybody within them are actual Christians. Christ is from a Greek word Christos, it means the same as the Jewish word Messiah, it means anointed. A Christian is by name, an anointed one, who is a follower of Jesus the Christ. A person can not be a Christian unless they are born again of the Holy Spirit. John 3 vs 1-7. Those of us who are born again of the Holy Spirit, collectively make up the body of Christ. We Christians are Jesus saints. There are saints in Heaven, and there are us saints alive here on earth. As we Christians here on the earth are Jesus saints, we are to “Go make disciples”. Matt 28 vs 18-20. Mark 16 vs 15-16. We Christians, Jew and non Jew are waiting for Jesus and His rapture of the world wide Church.
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A) If your born again, you are a saint in God’s sight. Under the New Covenant of Jesus Christ, a saint is a sinner who has been made pure by having their sins washed away by the sinless blood of Jesus. Considered blameless by God, due to their faith in Jesus. Accredited righteous and Holy by Father God due to their faith, and their faith alone in the Lord Jesus Christ. Now sanctified by the sinless blood of Jesus, and being perfected by the grace of God, though the sanctifying work of the now indwelt Holy Spirit. Letters were written to the saints as in Col 1 vs 2 “To the saints and faithful brethren in Christ who are in Colosse”. Phil 1 vs 1/Eph 1 vs 1/1 Cor 1 vs 2. Romans 1 vs 7. Sanctified come from a Greek word pronounced hag-ee-ad’-zo. It means to make Holy, to purify, to consecrate, to sanctify. It comes from the Greek word pronounced hag’ee-os, meaning saint. Jesus is coming again with all His saints. 1 John 3 vs 1-3. Now that’s exciting !
Question 59. Do you agree with the whole of the above section A ?
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B) For Jesus to come back to earth with all His saints, Jesus must first collect all His saints. This is known as the rapture of the Church. The word rapture is from the Latin translation of the Greek word pronounced har-pad’-zo, it means to to seize hastily. The word for rapture is translated in the English, “caught up”. We can find this in 1 Thess 4 vs 17. There are Seven Trumpets. Rev 8 vs 6.
The 7th and Last Trumpet. Rev 11 vs 15 is the same Last Trumpet as 1 Cor 15 vs 52/1 Cor 15 vs 50-58/Matt 24 vs 31/Rev 11 vs 15.
The first resurrection is the resurrection of the saints. This takes place during Jesus return at the last trumpet, as Jesus returns with all us saints. 1 Cor 15 vs 20-23.
1 Thess 4 vs 13-18 is the rapture. Vs 16 with the Trumpet of God”. The language is very similar to 1 Cor 15 vs 50-58. Causing a firm belief that this is the Last Trumpet, the resurrection of the saints as Jesus returns. But Rev 9 vs 1-12/Rev 7 vs 1-17 indicates that the rapture would have taken place at the 5th Trumpet or before as the 144000 are believing Jews, not the Church.
Any uncertainty concerning the exact time of the rapture is to keep us watchful.
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C) Its imperative that us Christians are ready and waiting looking forward to the return of our Lord. Jesus said to His disciples in
Mark 13 vs 32-37 take heed watch and pray; Watch. Hebrews 9 vs 28 says. To those who eagerly wait for Him He will appear a second time , apart from sin,for salvation. When Jesus comes for His Church He is coming back for those waiting for Him namely the bride of Christ. Those who are not prayerfully watchful also are not waiting for Him, they are in danger of being cut off and left behind due to unbelief. Romans 11 vs 22 warns about how Christians who don't continue in God's goodness are cut off. Cut out of the Cultivated Olive Tree. This ultimately means cut out the body of Christ. We Christians can see by Romans 11 vs 20 that we stand by faith. We can understand from this that a Christian is Holy as they are part of the Body of Christ, and that there is only one kind of Christian, and that is by God's Grace a Holy one, saved part of the Bride of Christ ready for Jesus return. Christian backsliders who are still by their faith part of the Body of Christ are still seen by God as Holy due to their faith and their faith alone in Jesus. They will along with all the saints go up in  the rapture.

We are all warned that Christians who don't continue in God's goodness are cut off of the Cultivated Olive Tree through their unbelief. There unrepentant unholy works are seen by God as their unbelief. Having been cut off, they are no longer part of the Body of Christ, therefore they are no longer made Holy, they are no longer Christians, and as unholy unbelievers they will be left behind in the rapture. If your a little backslide then repent before things get worse for you. God has given you His Holy Spirit to keep in step so make no excuse.

Now the wonderful news is that the one who has been cut off, if they do not continue in their unbelief can be grafted back in again and therefore become again part of the Body of Christ,  made Holy again, saved, sanctified, washed in the blood ready for the rapture, to go up with Jesus to meet Him in the air. GLORY TO GOD for His Mercy and Grace in all of our lives. James 2 vs 17 backs up the teaching, that faith by itself, if it does not have works, is dead. In other words our faith or unbelief is seen by our works. Galatians 5 vs 19-21 gives warnings to the Body of Christ about us not fulfilling the lusts of the flesh. :I tell you beforehand just as I also told you in times past, that those who practice such things will not inherit the Kingdom of God'.

Within all these warnings there are 2 that stand out to me. The first is selfish ambition, the second is heresies. Now all God's warnings equally effect me and you but these are two warnings that are easy to slip into. I believe that our Lord Jesus has shown me that one of Satan's attacks on the Body of Christ is to get Christians to not believe in the warnings of God to the Body of Christ, concerning the practice of unrepentant unholy living. Once Satan deceives otherwise godly leaders to reinterpret the plain warnings to the Body of Christ, saying O these warnings are not to believers. Then some of these men of great influence write commentaries promoting their heretical ideas and not God's warning to the Body of Christ. Christian's than who put to much trust in those Commentaries begin to believe that it doesn't really matter much, what a person believes or how a person lives as long as they say they believe in Jesus Christ. 

This has opened up the way for most of the protestant churches all over the world to have become ecumenical with the Roman Catholic Church. After all, so what if our Catholic friends believe and teach a lot of heresy, they still confess Christ as their Savior. They are as saved as us. Lets Join up and esteem the Pope as a great Christian leader. Satan wants Christians cut off through their eventual unbelief and he wants the unsaved to remain unsaved. Once the Body of Christ wakes up to the warnings of God, to Christ's Body. Namely us. Then we will want to see our Roman Catholic friends saved and out of Rome so that they can grow up in the truth.
Its because of the warnings of God to Christ's Body that you and I have such a passion to see people grow up in God's truth so that they continue in the faith and inherit all of God's promises. If you don't have this passion then ask yourself are you truly born again of the Spirit. If your not or your not sure then turn to Jesus right now in repentance, cry out for forgiveness, and give up your whole life to Jesus.

Christians who are looking for quick answer to the question. CAN A CHRISTIAN LOSE THEIR SALVAION ?
Only have to ask themselves one question concerning Revelation 22 vs 19. The question is. Who has a part in the the Book of Life, in the Holy City. ?

The evidence of all this is clearly found in Scripture. This ought to give us Christians an eagerness to remain in the faith and to be therefore seen as people with faith in Christ. To remain part of the Body of Christ guarantees us getting caught up with Christ in the clouds, to be counted in the rapture, to meet with our Lord. Remember God is pouring out His wrath upon the unrepentant world, during the rise of the Anti Christ, in the final 7 years of Tribulation, the last three and half of those years are the Great Tribulation, leading to Jesus Return. 1 Thess 5 vs 1-11 “For God did not appoint believers to wrath. Those who turn to Christ after the Rapture of the worldwide Church will be saved from the wrath of God, but not the wrath of satan as seen in Revelation 12 vs 12. God’s people will be divinely protected from God’s wrath because of the blood of Jesus. Colossians 1 vs 20 and Rev 1 vs 5-6 and 1 John 2 vs 1-2 all reveal the protection the believer has in Christ from the wrath of God.

2 Thess 2 vs 1-17. New born again believers after the rapture will endure terrible times during the rise of the Anti Christ. God Himself is their provider and their redeemer during this time. When speaking to our pastor Jackie Boyd about this subject, concerning those believers who live on the earth after the rapture, he said "the only understanding I have of this time, is that the Jews will be protected through this time, at least the 144000, and that most others will be beheaded for their faith".
Rev 13 vs 11-18. Rev 14 vs 9-13. Vs 12 says this calls for the patient endurance on the part of the saints. Read Rev 13 vs 1-10. Pay close attention to verse 7. Hebrews 9 vs 27-28. Christians are to stand firm in the power Christ and await His imminent return. Today we are reminded again of Jesus commanded to keep watch.
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D) Jesus the King of Kings will be seen coming on the clouds and every eye will see Him. 2 Peter 3 vs 1-9.
Rev 1 vs 7-8. Matt 24 vs 1-33. At Jesus return, He treads the wine press of the fury of the wrath of Almighty God, and strikes down all the nations who will be fighting against and overcoming the Jews in Jerusalem. Zach 14 vs 1-21/Rev 19 vs 11-21. That day Jesus feet will stand victorious on the mount of Olives facing Jerusalem. The armies of God and all us saints will be following Him. The millennial Reign of Christ upon this earth will have begun. Rev 20 vs 1-6. 2 Peter 3 vs 1-18. The day of the Lord is a thousand years leading to Judgment day. Rev 20 vs 7-15. Leading to the New Heavens and New Earth. Rev 21 and 22.
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E) We are not meant to know the exact time of the rapture and the second coming of Jesus, we are meant to keeping watch. Matt 24 vs 36-51/Matt 24 vs 35. Jesus will return soon, the rapture will be soon. Rev 22 vs 20. Read Matt 24 vs 1-51.
In vs 34. Jesus said to His disciples “Assuredly, I say to you, this generation will by no means pass away till all these things take place”. In Jesus saying this, Jesus intended His disciples to live as if, He may return in their own life time. The Greek word for pass away is pronounced par-er’-khom-ahee, it means perish. Jesus said Matt 25 vs 36 “Of that day and hour no one knows, not even the angels of heaven, but My Father only”. The time of Jesus return was the only thing not shown to Him by His Father. Luke 21 vs 18 shows Jesus using the word perish in an eternal sense. Jesus had spoken the words in Matt 24 vs 34. “Assuredly, I say to you, this generation will by no means pass away/perish (in the eternal sense) till all these things take place”. Ultimately only unbelievers perish, and ultimately, not until the lake of fire, eternal punishment. We are to keep watch while preparing each day to serve Jesus while we Christians await his coming.
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F) The Bible teaches that the resurrection of the saints will take place at the Last Trumpet when Jesus returns to the Earth. The sound of the Last Trumpet will have a beginning and by the time it ends, the world would have seen Jesus return. The Church will be raptured at some point during the last 7 years Tribulation. We are wise and obedient to Christ if we are watching and waiting now.
In 2006 most Christians are Pre Tribulation, believing the rapture will take place 7 years before Jesus returns. I am happiest believing that the Church will be raptured 7 years before Jesus returns. Others are Mid Tribulation. Others are Post Tribulation.
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G) Standing united in the following.
“ watching every day, and ready to meet Jesus at any moment. Heb 9 vs 27-28”. While we all study the Holy Scriptures let us not lose sight of Eph 4 vs 1-13/Matt 24 vs 9-14. The Lord is preparing His Church for hard times, times of great persecution, but also times of great blessing in Christ our Lord. We each need to be prepared for service and prepared to lose everything for our the sake of our Lord Jesus Christ and the gospel, as in Rev 13 vs 1-18/Rev 14 vs 9-20. Be strong and courageous in the Lord led and empowered by His Holy Spirit.
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