We believe there is only one true, eternal, living God, and He is sovereign over all things. God can be known through the many absolute and relative attributes revealed in the scriptures

(Deuteronomy 6:4, Exodus 3:14, Colossians 1:15-17, Romans 1:19 & 20).

God is the source and sustainer of all life. He, according to the council of His own will, decreed whatsoever comes to pass.

(Isaiah 14:24,26,27; Ephesians 1).

We believe, although there is only one true God, God consists of three distinct Persons, each of whom is co-eternal and co-equal.

We believe the Father is God, and the Son (Jesus, the Christ-Messiah) is God, and that the Holy Spirit is God.

(Deuteronomy 6:4, John 1:1,14; John 5:23, John 6:27, John 10:30, Acts 5:3,4).

We believe the Lord Jesus to be absolute deity, the eternal Son of God, who became man without ceasing to be God. In the incarnation, He was conceived by the Holy Spirit and born of the virgin Mary.

(Matthew 1:18-25, John 3:16, Hebrews 1:8, Isaiah 9:6 & 7).

We believe Jesus Christ was both fully God and fully man at the same time.

(Philippians 2:5-11).

We believe that He was totally holy by virtue of His miraculous birth and sinless life.

(Hebrews 4:15, 2 Corinthians 5:21).

We believe Jesus Christ voluntarily laid down His life, the Just dying for the unjust, making it possible for man to be saved.

(John 10:17, Hebrews 9:14&28, 1 Peter 3:18).

We believe He rose bodily from the dead on the third day after death, and He ascended into Heaven to the right hand of the Father.

(John 2:19-22, Acts 1:9-11, Hebrews 1:3).

We believe that, presently, He is our intercessor and Advocate, the only true Mediator between God and man.

(Hebrews 7:25, Hebrews 4:14, 1 John 2:1, 1 Timothy 2:5).

We believe the Holy Spirit is deity, a divine person of the Godhead. He is not an impersonal “active force” but is truly a person and is equal with the Father and the Son.

(Acts 5:3,4, Matthew 28:19).

We believe the Holy Spirit gives spiritual gifts to every believer at the moment he is regenerated, and that these gifts are to be used for the edification and perfecting of the believers in the church.

(Hebrews 8:13, Acts 1:5-8, 1 Corinthians 13:9 & 10).

We believe the Holy Spirit is with you to convict of sin, in you when you believe and upon you when you ask and fills you when you submit to His will.

(John 14:17, Luke 11:13, Ephesians 5:18, Acts 1:8). 

We believe God created man directly and instantaneously from the dust of the ground. Man was created in the image of God and was able to have intimate fellowship with God.

(Genesis 1:26&27, 2:7).

We believe all of humanity fell away from God when Adam first sinned and that the fall resulted in both physical and spiritual death for man. In this fallen condition, man was left totally depraved and unable to remedy his own situation.

(Genesis 3:6-13, Romans 5:12-21, 1 Corinthians 15:21&22, Ephesians 2).

We believe that sin is the breaking of the commandments of God or anything that does not conform to the character and nature of God.

(1 John 3:4).

We believe all of mankind sinned in Adam, the head of the human race, and that each human being has a sin nature and also has committed personal sin.

(Romans 5:12, 1:18, 3:20, 1 John 1:8-10).

We believe salvation is the act of God whereby man is brought into a proper relationship with God. It is that act where spiritually dead man is made spiritually alive.

(Psalms 3:8, John 3:16-18, Ephesians 2:1,2).

We believe this is accomplished by the grace of God through man’s faith in the death (shed blood), burial and bodily resurrection of the Lord Jesus Christ.

(Ephesians 2:8-10, 1 Corinthians 15:1-4, 1 Timothy 3:16).

We believe salvation involves three things for the believer: deliverance from the penalty of sin at the moment of regeneration, victory over the power of sin during the Christian life, and deliverance from the presence of sin at glorification.

We believe that salvation positionally sanctifies the believer, but that the believer needs to experience, in his daily life, progressive sanctification.

(2 Corinthians 5:21, Romans 6:14, Philippians 3:20, 21).

We believe in the existence of the person of Satan. He was created by God as the greatest of angels, but later rebelled against God. After he fell, he organized his own kingdom which consists of both evil angels and also unregenerate man. He is currently the ruler-god of this age. Satan’s ultimate goal is to overthrow God. He seeks to keep ‘the unsaved from becoming saved. He seeks to hinder and destroy the Christian’s testimony and ministry for God.

We believe both Satan and his evil angels will be consigned to the eternal Lake of Fire after the Millennium.

(Matthew 25:41, John 8:44, Isaiah 14:12-17, Ezekiel 28:11-19, Revelation 20:7-10).

We believe the true church is a living organism and it is the “body of Christ,” who is Himself the head of this body. The church is made up of regenerate, redeemed believers only.

(Ephesians 1:22&23, 5:23, Colossians 1:18, 1 Corinthians 12:13).

We believe the Church began on the day of Pentecost, that every believer was baptized by the Holy Spirit into the one body of Christ which is the church.

(Acts 2:1-4, 1:4-5, John 14:16-17, 1 Corinthians 12:13).

We believe the scriptures teach there are to be local churches. These churches are to be the visible representation of the “body of Christ” in the local community. Local churches are to observe the ordinances of Christ and to seek to do the will of God.

(Acts 20:28, 1 Corinthians 1:2, Matthew 28:19,20, 1 Corinthians 1:23-28).

We believe the local church should be totally committed to the edifying (developing to maturity) of the believers and also should have an active outreach in evangelism.

(Ephesians 4:11-16, 1 Corinthians 14).

We believe all who believe in Jesus must repent and be baptized. (Acts 2:38). However, we believe one is saved by the cleansing blood of Christ alone.

(Colossians 2:11&12, Romans 2:28&29).

We believe the law is a schoolmaster to drive one to Christ. We are not justified by the law, but we are proven guilty and in need of the savior.

(Gal. 2:16, 3:24).

We believe in the Pre-Tribulation Rapture of the Church through which all believers will be caught up to meet the Lord in the air, and be taken out of the world prior to the Tribulation that will then come upon the earth. We believe therefore that the Church will be spared His wrath. However, we do not believe this issue should cause division or quarrels among believers nor prevent fellowship together.

(Isaiah 26:20; Matthew 24:29-31; Luke 21:36; Romans 1:18, 5:9; 1 Thessalonians 1:10, 4:13-16 and 5:9; 2 Peter 2:7-9; Revelation 3:10, 5:7-10 and 7:13-14).

 

 

22 REASONS WHY THE RAPTURE AND THE SECOND COMING ARE NOT THE SAME

 

1.

Rapture of the Church

Who Goes and Who Stays?

The Rapture removes all believers from the earth

1 Thessalonians 4:13-18

¹³ But I would not have you to be ignorant, brethren, concerning them which are asleep, that ye sorrow not, even as others which have no hope.

¹⁴ For if we believe that Jesus died and rose again, even so them also which sleep in Jesus will God bring with him.

¹⁵ For this we say unto you by the word of the Lord, that we which are alive and remain unto the coming of the Lord shall not prevent them which are asleep.

¹⁶ 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:

1 Corinthians 15:50-54

⁵⁰ Now this I say, brethren, that flesh and blood cannot inherit the kingdom of God; neither doth corruption inherit incorruption.

⁵¹ Behold, I shew you a mystery; We shall not all sleep, but we shall all be changed,

⁵² 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.

⁵³ For this corruptible must put on incorruption, and this mortal must put on immortality.

⁵⁴ 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.

Second Coming of Jesus Christ

Who Goes and Who Stays?

The 2^nd Coming Will result in removal of all unbelievers from the earth

Matthew 24:37-41

³⁷ But as the days of Noah were, so shall also the coming of the Son of man be.

³⁸ For as in the days that were before the flood they were eating and drinking, marrying and giving in marriage, until the day that Noe entered into the ark,

³⁹ And knew not until the flood came, and took them all away; so shall also the coming of the Son of man be.

⁴⁰ Then shall two be in the field; the one shall be taken, and the other left.

⁴¹ Two women shall be grinding at the mill; the one shall be taken, and the other left.

 

2.

Rapture of the Church

Who Comes and Who GOES?

Christ comes for His Own!

John 14:3

³ And if I go and prepare a place for you, I will come again, and receive you unto myself; that where I am, there ye may be also.

1 Thessalonians 4:14

¹⁴ For if we believe that Jesus died and rose again, even so them also which sleep in Jesus will God bring with him.

2 Thessalonians 2:1

2 Now we beseech you, brethren, by the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ, and by our gathering together unto him,

Second Coming of Jesus Christ

Comes with His own

1 Thessalonians 3:13

¹³ To the end he may stablish your hearts unblameable in holiness before God, even our Father, at the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ with all his saints.

Jude 1:14

¹⁴ And Enoch also, the seventh from Adam, prophesied of these, saying, Behold, the Lord cometh with ten thousands of his saints,

Revelation 19:14-16 

¹⁴ And the armies which were in heaven followed him upon white horses, clothed in fine linen, white and clean.

¹⁵ And out of his mouth goeth a sharp sword, that with it he should smite the nations: and he shall rule them with a rod of iron: and he treadeth the winepress of the fierceness and wrath of Almighty God.

¹⁶ And he hath on his vesture and on his thigh a name written, King Of Kings, And Lord Of Lords.

 

3.

Rapture of the Church

In Other Words!

Comes to Collect His bride from the earth

1 Thessalonians 4:16-17

¹⁶ 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:

¹⁷ 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.

Second Coming of Jesus Christ

Comes with His bride back to the earth

Rev 19:14-16

¹⁴ And the armies which were in heaven followed him upon white horses, clothed in fine linen, white and clean.

¹⁵ And out of his mouth goeth a sharp sword, that with it he should smite the nations: and he shall rule them with a rod of iron: and he treadeth the winepress of the fierceness and wrath of Almighty God.

¹⁶ And he hath on his vesture and on his thigh a name written, King Of Kings, And Lord Of Lords.

 

4.

Rapture of the Church

THE FATHERS HOUSE

Those that belong to Christ will be taken to the Fathers House

1 Thessalonians 4:16-17

¹⁶ 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:

¹⁷ 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

Second Coming of Jesus Christ

THE FATHERS HOUSE

Those Saved out of the Tribulation will NOt SEE the Fathers House

Revelation 20:4-5

⁴ And I saw thrones, and they sat upon them, and judgment was given unto them: and I saw the souls of them that were beheaded for the witness of Jesus, and for the word of God, and which had not worshipped the beast, neither his image, neither had received his mark upon their foreheads, or in their hands; and they lived and reigned with Christ a thousand years.

⁵ But the rest of the dead lived not again until the thousand years were finished. This is the first resurrection.

 

5.

Rapture of the Church

Who is it all about?

The focus and object of attention is THE LORDS CHURCH

1 Thessalonians 4:15-17

¹⁵ For this we say unto you by the word of the Lord, that we which are alive and remain unto the coming of the Lord shall not prevent them which are asleep.

¹⁶ 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:

¹⁷ 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.

Second Coming of Jesus Christ

Who is it all about?

The focus and object of attention IS ISRAEL AND THE KINGDOM

MATTHEW 24:14

¹⁴ And this gospel of the kingdom shall be preached in all the world for a witness unto all nations; and then shall the end come.

 

6.

Rapture of the Church

What is the Location of Christs Coming?

Christ comes in the Clouds and Believers meet Jesus in the air.

1 Thessalonians 4:17

¹⁷ 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.

Second Coming of Jesus Christ

What is the Location of Christs Coming?

Christ comes to the earth and sets his feet on solid ground.

Zechariah 14: 4

⁴ And his feet shall stand in that day upon the mount of Olives, which is before Jerusalem on the east, and the mount of Olives shall cleave in the midst thereof toward the east and toward the west, and there shall be a very great valley; and half of the mountain shall remove toward the north, and half of it toward the south.

Act 1:11

¹¹ Which also said, Ye men of Galilee, why stand ye gazing up into heaven? this same Jesus, which is taken up from you into heaven, shall so come in like manner as ye have seen him go into heaven.

 

7.

Rapture of the Church

What Happens Next?

The next prophetic event is the Great Tribulation.

2 Thessalonians 1:6-9

⁶ Seeing it is a righteous thing with God to recompense tribulation to them that trouble you;

⁷ And to you who are troubled rest with us, when the Lord Jesus shall be revealed from heaven with his mighty angels,

⁸ In flaming fire taking vengeance on them that know not God, and that obey not the gospel of our Lord Jesus Christ:

⁹ Who shall be punished with everlasting destruction from the presence of the Lord, and from the glory of his power;

Second Coming of Jesus Christ

What Happens Next?

Establishment of the millennial Kingdom herr on the earth.

Revelation 20:7-8

⁷ And when the thousand years are expired, Satan shall be loosed out of his prison,

⁸ And shall go out to deceive the nations which are in the four quarters of the earth, Gog, and Magog, to gather them together to battle: the number of whom is as the sand of the sea.

 

8.

Rapture of the Church

Signs or No Signs?

No signs precede the Rapture of the Church

Second Coming of Jesus Christ 

Signs or No Signs?

Many signs precede the 2^nd Coming of Jesus Christ.

Luke 21:11-15

¹¹ And great earthquakes shall be in divers places, and famines, and pestilences; and fearful sights and great signs shall there be from heaven.

¹² But before all these, they shall lay their hands on you, and persecute you, delivering you up to the synagogues, and into prisons, being brought before kings and rulers for my name's sake.

¹³ And it shall turn to you for a testimony.

¹⁴ Settle it therefore in your hearts, not to meditate before what ye shall answer:

¹⁵ For I will give you a mouth and wisdom, which all your adversaries shall not be able to gainsay nor resist.

 

9.

Rapture of the Church

What Happens After Jesus Comes?

Jesus will gather his bride to himself for the preparation of the Marriage Super of the Lamb

Revelation 19:6-9

⁶ And I heard as it were the voice of a great multitude, and as the voice of many waters, and as the voice of mighty thunderings, saying, Alleluia: for the Lord God omnipotent reigneth.

⁷ Let us be glad and rejoice, and give honour to him: for the marriage of the Lamb is come, and his wife hath made herself ready.

⁸ And to her was granted that she should be arrayed in fine linen, clean and white: for the fine linen is the righteousness of saints.

⁹ And he saith unto me, Write, Blessed are they which are called unto the marriage supper of the Lamb. And he saith unto me, These are the true sayings of God.

Second Coming of Jesus Christ

What Happens After Jesus Comes?

Jesus will execute judgment on the earth and establish His Kingdom

Zechariah 14:3-4

³ Then shall the Lord go forth, and fight against those nations, as when he fought in the day of battle.

⁴ And his feet shall stand in that day upon the mount of Olives, which is before Jerusalem on the east, and the mount of Olives shall cleave in the midst thereof toward the east and toward the west, and there shall be a very great valley; and half of the mountain shall remove toward the north, and half of it toward the south.

Jude 1: 14-15

¹⁴ And Enoch also, the seventh from Adam, prophesied of these, saying, Behold, the Lord cometh with ten thousands of his saints,

¹⁵ To execute judgment upon all, and to convince all that are ungodly among them of all their ungodly deeds which they have ungodly committed, and of all their hard speeches which ungodly sinners have spoken against him.

Revelation 19:11-21

¹¹ And I saw heaven opened, and behold a white horse; and he that sat upon him was called Faithful and True, and in righteousness he doth judge and make war.

¹² His eyes were as a flame of fire, and on his head were many crowns; and he had a name written, that no man knew, but he himself.

¹³ And he was clothed with a vesture dipped in blood: and his name is called The Word of God.

¹⁴ And the armies which were in heaven followed him upon white horses, clothed in fine linen, white and clean.

¹⁵ And out of his mouth goeth a sharp sword, that with it he should smite the nations: and he shall rule them with a rod of iron: and he treadeth the winepress of the fierceness and wrath of Almighty God.

¹⁶ And he hath on his vesture and on his thigh a name written, King Of Kings, And Lord Of Lords.

¹⁷ And I saw an angel standing in the sun; and he cried with a loud voice, saying to all the fowls that fly in the midst of heaven, Come and gather yourselves together unto the supper of the great God;

¹⁸ That ye may eat the flesh of kings, and the flesh of captains, and the flesh of mighty men, and the flesh of horses, and of them that sit on them, and the flesh of all men, both free and bond, both small and great.

¹⁹ And I saw the beast, and the kings of the earth, and their armies, gathered together to make war against him that sat on the horse, and against his army.

²⁰ And the beast was taken, and with him the false prophet that wrought miracles before him, with which he deceived them that had received the mark of the beast, and them that worshipped his image. These both were cast alive into a lake of fire burning with brimstone.

²¹ And the remnant were slain with the sword of him that sat upon the horse, which sword proceeded out of his mouth: and all the fowls were filled with their flesh.

 

10.

Rapture of the Church

How Quickly Does Jesus Come?

Jesus comes In the twinkling of an eye!  Only the believers will see the Lord and only after they have been glorified!

1 Corinthians 15:52

⁵² 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.

Second Coming of Jesus Christ

How Quickly Does Jesus Come?

Everyone will see Jesus coming with great power and authority.  It does not happen in one instant of time.

Zechariah 12:10

¹⁰ And I will pour upon the house of David, and upon the inhabitants of Jerusalem, the spirit of grace and of supplications: and they shall look upon me whom they have pierced, and they shall mourn for him, as one mourneth for his only son, and shall be in bitterness for him, as one that is in bitterness for his firstborn.

Matthew 24:30

³⁰ And then shall appear the sign of the Son of man in heaven: and then shall all the tribes of the earth mourn, and they shall see the Son of man coming in the clouds of heaven with power and great glory.

Revelation 1:7

⁷ Behold, he cometh with clouds; and every eye shall see him, and they also which pierced him: and all kindreds of the earth shall wail because of him. Even so, Amen.

 

11.

Rapture of the Church

What about the Resurrection of the dead?

Includes the glorious resurrection of the dead IN CHRIST along with the translation of the living!

1 Thessalonians 4:13-18

¹³ But I would not have you to be ignorant, brethren, concerning them which are asleep, that ye sorrow not, even as others which have no hope.

¹⁴ For if we believe that Jesus died and rose again, even so them also which sleep in Jesus will God bring with him.

¹⁵ For this we say unto you by the word of the Lord, that we which are alive and remain unto the coming of the Lord shall not prevent them which are asleep.

¹⁶ 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:

¹⁷ 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.

¹⁸ Wherefore comfort one another with these words.

1 Corinthians 15:51-54

⁵¹ Behold, I shew you a mystery; We shall not all sleep, but we shall all be changed,

⁵² 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.

⁵³ For this corruptible must put on incorruption, and this mortal must put on immortality.

⁵⁴ 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.

Second Coming of Jesus Christ

What about the Resurrection of the dead?

There will be a Resurrection of the those who have died in the tribulation.  Those who were beheaded for not taking the mark of the beast.

Revelation 20:4

⁴ And I saw thrones, and they sat upon them, and judgment was given unto them: and I saw the souls of them that were beheaded for the witness of Jesus, and for the word of God, and which had not worshipped the beast, neither his image, neither had received his mark upon their foreheads, or in their hands; and they lived and reigned with Christ a thousand years.

 

12.

Rapture of the Church

What about the Angels?

Angels DO NO come to gather the Church!

Matthew 24: 31

³¹ And he shall send his angels with a great sound of a trumpet, and they shall gather together his elect from the four winds, from one end of heaven to the other.

2 Thessalonians 1:7-10

⁷ And to you who are troubled rest with us, when the Lord Jesus shall be revealed from heaven with his mighty angels,

⁸ In flaming fire taking vengeance on them that know not God, and that obey not the gospel of our Lord Jesus Christ:

⁹ Who shall be punished with everlasting destruction from the presence of the Lord, and from the glory of his power;

¹⁰ When he shall come to be glorified in his saints, and to be admired in all them that believe (because our testimony among you was believed) in that day.

Second Coming of Jesus Christ

What about the Angels?

Angels come to gather the Jews from the four corners of the earth in order to transport them to ISRAEL!

Matthew 13:39 & 41 & 49  

³⁹ The enemy that sowed them is the devil; the harvest is the end of the world; and the reapers are the angels.

⁴¹ The Son of man shall send forth his angels, and they shall gather out of his kingdom all things that offend, and them which do iniquity;

⁴⁹ So shall it be at the end of the world: the angels shall come forth, and sever the wicked from among the just,

Matthew 24:31

³¹ And he shall send his angels with a great sound of a trumpet, and they shall gather together his elect from the four winds, from one end of heaven to the other.

 

13.

Rapture of the Church

What about Glorified Resurrection Bodies?

Those who have died IN CHRIST will return with Jesus with their Spirit bodies in order to receive their Glorified Resurrection BODIES.

1 Thessalonians 4:17

¹⁷ 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.

Second Coming of Jesus Christ

What about Glorified Resurrection Bodies?

Christians will return to the earth 7 years later with Christ having already been given a Glorified Resurrection body and riding on a White Horses.

Revelation 19:11

¹¹ And I saw heaven opened, and behold a white horse; and he that sat upon him was called Faithful and True, and in righteousness he doth judge and make war.

 

14.

Rapture of the Church

Where is the WHITE Horse?

Jesus returns in the clouds, and He is NOT riding a White Horse!

Second Coming of Jesus Christ

Where is the WHITE Horse?

Jesus will returns riding a White Horse!

Revelation 19:11

¹¹ And I saw heaven opened, and behold a white horse; and he that sat upon him was called Faithful and True, and in righteousness he doth judge and make war.

 

15.

Rapture of the Church

Good News or Bad News?  Which is it?

Jesus comes with a message of HOPE and COMFORT!

1 Thessalonians 4:18

¹⁸ Wherefore comfort one another with these words.

Titus 2:13

¹³ Looking for that blessed hope, and the glorious appearing of the great God and our Saviour Jesus Christ;

1 John 3:3

² Beloved, now are we the sons of God, and it doth not yet appear what we shall be: but we know that, when he shall appear, we shall be like him; for we shall see him as he is.

Second Coming of Jesus Christ

Good News or Bad News?  Which is it?

Jesus come to Judge the world!

Joel 3:12-16

¹² Let the heathen be wakened, and come up to the valley of Jehoshaphat: for there will I sit to judge all the heathen round about.

¹³ Put ye in the sickle, for the harvest is ripe: come, get you down; for the press is full, the fats overflow; for their wickedness is great.

¹⁴ Multitudes, multitudes in the valley of decision: for the day of the Lord is near in the valley of decision.

¹⁵ The sun and the moon shall be darkened, and the stars shall withdraw their shining.

¹⁶ The Lord also shall roar out of Zion, and utter his voice from Jerusalem; and the heavens and the earth shall shake: but the Lord will be the hope of his people, and the strength of the children of Israel.

Malachi 4:5

⁵ Behold, I will send you Elijah the prophet before the coming of the great and dreadful day of the Lord:

Revelation 20:1-2

20 And I saw an angel come down from heaven, having the key of the bottomless pit and a great chain in his hand.

² And he laid hold on the dragon, that old serpent, which is the Devil, and Satan, and bound him a thousand years,

 

16.

Rapture of the Church

What About Satan?

The world is found in a state of Satanic Deception.

2 Thessalonians 2:3-12

³ Let no man deceive you by any means: for that day shall not come, except there come a falling away first, and that man of sin be revealed, the son of perdition;

⁴ Who opposeth and exalteth himself above all that is called God, or that is worshipped; so that he as God sitteth in the temple of God, shewing himself that he is God.

⁵ Remember ye not, that, when I was yet with you, I told you these things?

⁶ And now ye know what withholdeth that he might be revealed in his time.

⁷ For the mystery of iniquity doth already work: only he who now letteth will let, until he be taken out of the way.

⁸ And then shall that Wicked be revealed, whom the Lord shall consume with the spirit of his mouth, and shall destroy with the brightness of his coming:

⁹ Even him, whose coming is after the working of Satan with all power and signs and lying wonders,

¹⁰ And with all deceivableness of unrighteousness in them that perish; because they received not the love of the truth, that they might be saved.

¹¹ And for this cause God shall send them strong delusion, that they should believe a lie:

¹² That they all might be damned who believed not the truth, but had pleasure in unrighteousness.

Second Coming of Jesus Christ

What About Satan?

Satan is bound at Christs 2^nd Coming by an Angel and thrown into the abyss.

Revelation 20:1-2

20 And I saw an angel come down from heaven, having the key of the bottomless pit and a great chain in his hand.

² And he laid hold on the dragon, that old serpent, which is the Devil, and Satan, and bound him a thousand years,

 

17.

Rapture of the Church

WHO sees Jesus the Christ?  And who doesn’t see Jesus the Christ?

Only believers alive on the earth will see Jesus coming.  

¹⁷ 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.

Second Coming of Jesus Christ

WHO SEES Jesus the Christ?  And who doesn’t see Jesus the Christ?

Every Eye will see Jesus Descent bodily and visibly!

Acts 1:9-11

⁹ And when he had spoken these things, while they beheld, he was taken up; and a cloud received him out of their sight.

¹⁰ And while they looked stedfastly toward heaven as he went up, behold, two men stood by them in white apparel;

¹¹ Which also said, Ye men of Galilee, why stand ye gazing up into heaven? this same Jesus, which is taken up from you into heaven, shall so come in like manner as ye have seen him go into heaven.

Matthew 24: 30

³⁰ And then shall appear the sign of the Son of man in heaven: and then shall all the tribes of the earth mourn, and they shall see the Son of man coming in the clouds of heaven with power and great glory.

 

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What about the Judgments?

Bema Seat Rewards Judgment Seat of CHRIST!

2 Corinthians 5:9-11

⁹ Wherefore we labour, that, whether present or absent, we may be accepted of him.

¹⁰ For we must all appear before the judgment seat of Christ; that every one may receive the things done in his body, according to that he hath done, whether it be good or bad.

¹¹ Knowing therefore the terror of the Lord, we persuade men; but we are made manifest unto God; and I trust also are made manifest in your consciences.

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What about the judgments?

Will be followed by the Judgment of the Nations. also known as the Sheep and Goat Judgment.

Matthew 25:31-45

³¹ When the Son of man shall come in his glory, and all the holy angels with him, then shall he sit upon the throne of his glory:

³² And before him shall be gathered all nations: and he shall separate them one from another, as a shepherd divideth his sheep from the goats:

³³ And he shall set the sheep on his right hand, but the goats on the left.

³⁴ Then shall the King say unto them on his right hand, Come, ye blessed of my Father, inherit the kingdom prepared for you from the foundation of the world:

³⁵ For I was an hungred, and ye gave me meat: I was thirsty, and ye gave me drink: I was a stranger, and ye took me in:

³⁶ Naked, and ye clothed me: I was sick, and ye visited me: I was in prison, and ye came unto me.

³⁷ Then shall the righteous answer him, saying, Lord, when saw we thee an hungred, and fed thee? or thirsty, and gave thee drink?

³⁸ When saw we thee a stranger, and took thee in? or naked, and clothed thee?

³⁹ Or when saw we thee sick, or in prison, and came unto thee?

⁴⁰ And the King shall answer and say unto them, Verily I say unto you, Inasmuch as ye have done it unto one of the least of these my brethren, ye have done it unto me.

⁴¹ Then shall he say also unto them on the left hand, Depart from me, ye cursed, into everlasting fire, prepared for the devil and his angels:

⁴² For I was an hungred, and ye gave me no meat: I was thirsty, and ye gave me no drink:

⁴³ I was a stranger, and ye took me not in: naked, and ye clothed me not: sick, and in prison, and ye visited me not.

⁴⁴ Then shall they also answer him, saying, Lord, when saw we thee an hungred, or athirst, or a stranger, or naked, or sick, or in prison, and did not minister unto thee?

⁴⁵ Then shall he answer them, saying, Verily I say unto you, Inasmuch as ye did it not to one of the least of these, ye did it not to me.

 

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What kind of Bodies will we have?

The Christian Saint will receive a NEW IMMORTAL GLORIFIED BODY that is like the BODY that Jesus has now.

Phillipians 3: 21

²¹ Who shall change our vile body, that it may be fashioned like unto his glorious body, according to the working whereby he is able even to subdue all things unto himself.

1 Corintihains 15:51-54

⁵¹ Behold, I shew you a mystery; We shall not all sleep, but we shall all be changed,

⁵² 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.

⁵³ For this corruptible must put on incorruption, and this mortal must put on immortality.

⁵⁴ 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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What kind of Bodies will we have?

The Tribulation Saints will enter the Millennium with their an Earthly body that is like the body of the first Adam.

Isaiah 65:20

²⁰ There shall be no more thence an infant of days, nor an old man that hath not filled his days: for the child shall die an hundred years old; but the sinner being an hundred years old shall be accursed.

Revelation 20: 4

⁴ And I saw thrones, and they sat upon them, and judgment was given unto them: and I saw the souls of them that were beheaded for the witness of Jesus, and for the word of God, and which had not worshipped the beast, neither his image, neither had received his mark upon their foreheads, or in their hands; and they lived and reigned with Christ a thousand years.

 

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What about the Anti-Christ (the Beast)?

The Anti-Christ will be revealed and give a short period of time to deceive the entire world.

2 Thessalonians 2:8

⁸ And then shall that Wicked be revealed, whom the Lord shall consume with the spirit of his mouth, and shall destroy with the brightness of his coming:

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What about the Anti-Christ (the Beast)?

The Anti-Christ is defeated along with the False Prophet and cast into the Lake of Fire

Revelation 19:20

²⁰ And the beast was taken, and with him the false prophet that wrought miracles before him, with which he deceived them that had received the mark of the beast, and them that worshipped his image. These both were cast alive into a lake of fire burning with brimstone.

 

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What about ISRAEL?

After the Rapture Israel is persecuted with two thirds of the Jews perishing during the Time of Jacobs Trouble.  One third are refined by fire by the Lord and are saved in order to enter into the Millennial Kingdom

Zechariah 13:8-9

⁸ And it shall come to pass, that in all the land, saith the Lord, two parts therein shall be cut off and die; but the third shall be left therein.

⁹ And I will bring the third part through the fire, and will refine them as silver is refined, and will try them as gold is tried: they shall call on my name, and I will hear them: I will say, It is my people: and they shall say, The Lord is my God.

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What about ISRAEL?

Israel is gathered and establishes as the head of the Nations with Jerusalem as the Capital ruled by Yeshua with a rod of Iron.

Jeremiah 23:5-8

⁵ Behold, the days come, saith the Lord, that I will raise unto David a righteous Branch, and a King shall reign and prosper, and shall execute judgment and justice in the earth.

⁶ In his days Judah shall be saved, and Israel shall dwell safely: and this is his name whereby he shall be called, The Lord Our Righteousness.

⁷ Therefore, behold, the days come, saith the Lord, that they shall no more say, The Lord liveth, which brought up the children of Israel out of the land of Egypt;

⁸ But, The Lord liveth, which brought up and which led the seed of the house of Israel out of the north country, and from all countries whither I had driven them; and they shall dwell in their own land

 

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What about the New World Order?

After the Rapture the New World Order is the dominant World Government .  The world will be plagued by famine, pestilence and war as they experience God Wrath.

Revelation 13:15

¹⁵ And he had power to give life unto the image of the beast, that the image of the beast should both speak, and cause that as many as would not worship the image of the beast should be killed.

Matthew 24:6-10

⁶ And ye shall hear of wars and rumours of wars: see that ye be not troubled: for all these things must come to pass, but the end is not yet.

⁷ For nation shall rise against nation, and kingdom against kingdom: and there shall be famines, and pestilences, and earthquakes, in divers places.

⁸ All these are the beginning of sorrows.

⁹ Then shall they deliver you up to be afflicted, and shall kill you: and ye shall be hated of all nations for my name's sake.

¹⁰ And then shall many be offended, and shall betray one another, and shall hate one another.

Luke 17:31

³¹ In that day, he which shall be upon the housetop, and his stuff in the house, let him not come down to take it away: and he that is in the field, let him likewise not return back.

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What about the New World Order?

After the 2^nd Coming the Kingdom of Jesus is established with Headquarters in Jerusalem where he reigns with a rod of iron for 1000 years bring in Peace and Security.

Isaiah 11:6

⁶ The wolf also shall dwell with the lamb, and the leopard shall lie down with the kid; and the calf and the young lion and the fatling together; and a little child shall lead them.

Daniel 2:34-35

³⁴ Thou sawest till that a stone was cut out without hands, which smote the image upon his feet that were of iron and clay, and brake them to pieces.

³⁵ Then was the iron, the clay, the brass, the silver, and the gold, broken to pieces together, and became like the chaff of the summer threshingfloors; and the wind carried them away, that no place was found for them: and the stone that smote the image became a great mountain, and filled the whole earth.