There is a Mystery that the Lord has Paul tell us about and also a Mystery that John the Revelator repeats and they both deal with the event that will see human bodies changed AFTER the dead in Christ have risen.

I know the pre-tribulation Rapture people point to this being the rapture and they are right but their timing is wrong. Since the words, "The Dead in Christ" are used here, they will say, "That is us, the Gentile Church." We are the only ones that believe in Christ. Hold it! You are so far off in that thinking.

God doesn't need you if you think you are exclusively a Gentile Church. He planned to save the Gentiles through the 10 Lost Tribes of Israel.

In fact, the ecclesia didn't begin on Pentecost. That was the Outpouring of the Holy Spirit, the Helper being given to those that had witnessed the death and resurrection of Jesus Christ to be a witness to the world of the Gospel message.

It is quite arrogant of the present believers to believe that they are a Gentile ecclesia and the Israelites need them to get saved. Remember, you are merely grafted into the Root of Christ of which Israel is the natural branch.

Do you really believe that Christ only showed up in the New Testament? Christ is the visible God whom appeared over and over and over again to those that were called out, the Chosen.

The Saints of the OT were part of the ecclesia, Assembly long before the prophecy of the coming Messiah ever happened. They were men and women of Faith that believed God's Word that He would take upon himself the body of flesh and redeem mankind from Lucifer's planting his seed into Eve that resulted in the Unrighteous Seed, the off-spring of Cain.

Christ came to redeem the Righteous Seed who were of the Seed of Adam.

That is what this whole Redemption Plan is about; the Righteous and Unrighteous Seed.

Anyone that understands the history of the Children of Israel know that the 12 tribes divided into two kingdoms. They also know that Jesus came unto the Lost Sheep of the House of Israel, not the House of Judah. And who are these 10 tribes? They are the ones that make up the ecclesia, which is both natural Israel and gentiles that aligned themselves to the early apostolic ecclesia.

There is a very solid promise given to everyone that awaits for the Day of the Lord's return, "For the Lord himself shall descend from heaven with a shout, with the voice of the Archangel, and with the trump of God: and the dead in Christ shall rise first. Then we which are alive and remain shall be caught up together with them in the clouds, to meet the Lord in the air: and so shall we ever be with the Lord." I Thess. 4:16-17

What happens first? The Lord descends
What happens second? With the Shout of the Archangel (which was reckoned with as sounding like a loud trumpet by those in the Wilderness when the people asked Moses that God not do this again.)
What happens third? The Dead arise

Now, comes the good part, if you are still alive. You won't see death but will be transformed in the twinkling of an eye to join them in the air. Doesn't that sound like the Rapture to you? It should because that is what it is....the Resurrection of the Dead and the Rapture of the living .

"And the seventh angel sounded; and there were great voices in heaven, saying, The kingdoms of this world are become the kingdoms of our Lord, and of his Christ; and he shall reign for ever and ever.' Revelation 10:7

If the Rapture should take place in some period 7 years prior to all of the events of Revelation and the 7th trump has already sounded, how do you explain the other six trumps that must be blown first? Or are the trumpets blown backwards?

And No, you cannot say that this is a different trump because scripture has already told us that this Trump is the one that calls up the Dead and then the Living. You are being hood-winked into believing this story of a different trump. That isn't even following the time-line laid out by Jesus Christ Himself.

Beginning in chapter 6, we are given a chronological record of things that will happen in the last days. There is a series of seven seals, then a series of seven trumpets, then a series of seven bowls of wrath.

You can be very sure when these seven bowls of God's Wrath begin, it is not the wrath of A/C and his system but the Lord's Wrath upon those that are left to recieve all of the recompense promised unto them.

The Dead have been removed, the living have been removed and the Lord will pour His Burning Wrath upon the earth to cleanse it of all of it's filth.


Rev. 10:7
"But in the days of the voice of the seventh angel, when he shall begin to sound, the mystery of God should be finished, as he hath declared to his servants the prophets."

What mystery is it that mankind doesn't seem to understand? It is the mystery of the Resurrection of the Dead and the changing of the living into incoruptible bodies. Our Lord became the First Fruit so that those that are a part of His body could also have our bodies changed into His kind of Body.

The Apostle Paul explained this mystery in I Corin. 15:50-52

"Now this I say, brethren, that flesh and blood cannot inherit the kingdom of God; neither doth corruption inherit incorruption. Behold, I show 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.

(Matthew 24: 42-44).
“Therefore keep watch, because you do not know on what day your Lord will come. But understand this: If the owner of the house had known at what time of night the thief was coming, he would have kept watch and would not have let his house be broken into. So you also must be ready, because the Son of Man will come at an hour when you do not expect him”

The question was "when" would He return. This is an answer regarding the "physical" return of the Lord. Those that want to prove that the Rapture happens in a secret kind of way use this "Thief in the night" reference made here to prove their case. It is a pretty lame reason to assume that it is a Secret Snatching away of Believers 7 years or even 3 1/2 years prior to the Last Trump.

The whole message is to the Believer to always be ready for that day. Each generation has been told the same thing; to live their lives as if He will return in their life-time.

“Be dressed ready for service and keep your lamps burning, like servants waiting for their master to return from a wedding banquet, so that when he comes and knocks they can immediately open the door for him. It will be good for those servants whose master finds them watching when he comes” (Luke 12:35-37).

Now, if the whole of Christ's Body has been taken out years in advance of His physical return, then who is left to have their bodies changed after the Dead Arise? The Unrighteous are NOT going to be given that honor; they will face the Wrath of God .

No, don't tell me these are a bunch of people that got converted after the Rapture. They couldn't even put their faith in Christ before the persecution of the A/C and we are to believe that they will change their Yellow Coat of Indifference into a Coat of Righteousness during horrible persecution? Anyone that believes this has really bit into the Left Behind Series put out by the Illuminati Infiltrators of the Churches is Biblically Illiterate.

Sorry, But this Last Generation will follow the plan set down by Christ; the Dead first and then the Living. Meanwhile, they are to be about the Lord's business and being a witness to His Redemption Power.

gerlinda

Amen Sis!

Michael

It is a mystery that can be understood

Everybody loves a Mystery and here is the greatest of them all.