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THE RAPTURE AT

“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,
AND THE DEAD WILL BE RAISED INCORRUPTIBLE, AND WE SHALL BE CHANGED.” 1Cor. 15:51-53

God invested the greatest revelation of the rapture to the apostle Paul. He wrote three epistles in which
much truth centers upon unfolding the events that lead up to the pre-tribulation, pre-wrath rapture of the
faithful saints. Those three in-depth references are stated in the diagram below. I suggest you take the time
to read carefully through them in your Bible, for I am unable to display them for you in this newsletter due to
the lengthiness of those passages. Also in the diagram below, I have briefly stated a synopsis of the
modern-day widespread confusion and error surrounding what Paul wrote. We considered the first of these
errors in our Sept/Oct. newsletters. Due to a proper lack of emphasis such as Paul placed on “the dead rise
first,” the popular theme of “no man knows the day or the hour” replaced the fact that the rapture cannot take
place until the appointed time of the resurrection of the dead. Five times it is stated that this event takes
place “at the last day” (Jn. 6:39-54, 11:24). You cannot have a rapture prior to the prophesied dispensation in
which the resurrection of the dead takes place. Jesus cannot come “at any moment, at any time.”

In this issue of our newsletter 1Cor. 15:51-53 In our December newsletter, we will
we will deal with the erroneous consider the erroneous modern-day

application of the rapture taking MISAPPLICATION translation of “Apostasia” as
place at “the last (7th) trumpet” OF REVELATION’S “the falling away” of the saints from
found in the book of Revelation. “LAST (7TH) TRUMPET” the faith rather than Paul’s contextual
This error has spawned the theme of “the departure” of the saints

dreadful and hopeless“post- from the earth. You will be surprised

tribulation rapture” theory which to learn where this error first began.

stands in direct opposition to There is NO massive or measurable

Paul’s teaching. The promise of “falling away from the faith” predicted

the rapture is given as “words of as a pre-requisite sign prior to the

comfort” (1Thess. 4:18) to assure rapture! Yes, it is true that Paul

the faithful, wise virgins of the warned of “some” departing from the

church that “God did faith (1Tim.4:1), but “some” is not

not appoint us 1Thess. 4:15 - 5:10 2Thess. 2:1 -12 a measurable sign since
to wrath, such departures from the

but to obtain OMISSION MISTRANSLATION faith have been going
salvation through OF PREREQUISITE: OF “APOSTASIA”: on ever since the
our Lord “THE FALLING AWAY” beginning of
Jesus Christ” “THE DEAD RISE FIRST” the church.

(1Thess. 5:9)

“LET NO ONE DECEIVE YOU WITH EMPTY WORDS…” Eph. 5:6