WHAT IS THE RAPTURE?

WHEN WOULD IT HAPPEN?

Most everybody has an x or y understanding of the last day’s events that include the Great Tribulation, the Antichrist, the Rapture or the “going to heaven”, the Resurrection of the dead and the Millennial Reign of Christ.

I just want to share what the Lord God Yahwah has showed me regarding this issues, so “He that hath ears to hear, let him hear”. Matt 11:15

We know this issues are factual truths plainly depicted in the Bible but what are they? Let’s take a look at what the Word of God says;

The doctrine of the “rapture” or snatching away up into heaven comes mainly from the following verses;

1Thess 4:17 “Then we which are alive [and] remain shall be caught up [G726] together with them in the clouds, to meet the Lord in the air: and so shall we ever be with the Lord”.

G726 harpazo v.

To seize. [From a derivative of G138]

KJV: catch (away, up), pluck, pull, take (by force)

The word Harpazo means to seize, to take, to catch, and its root is G138 αἱρέομαι haireomai (hai-re'-o-mai) v. to take for oneself, i.e. to prefer.

KJV: choose

To take for oneself or to choose, like the apostles that were chosen or taken by a spiritual force. We don’t have to go to heaven to be chosen, taken, caught or seized.

The idea of going to heaven comes from the interpretation of this portion of the word cloud in the above scripture; “we shall be caught up [G726] together with them in the clouds, to meet the Lord in the air”,

So, we’re going to be lifted up in the physical clouds. We have that idea already established in our minds because we have been taught that we are going to heaven in the “rapture” while the rest of the world suffers the tribulation, but the word clouds, spiritually has been a type of the Holy Spirit or the visible manifestation of the divine presence of God, like Israel had during exodus from Egypt and the wilderness wandering: Exod 13:21 “And the LORD went before them by day in a pillar of a cloud, to lead them the way;”

(Exo 16:10) “… behold, the glory of the LORD appeared in the cloud”.

You might say, yes but it also means clouds like the ones we have above. That’s true, but only if you hold to the “going to heaven” idea you would see that as a physical cloud but if you’re looking for the change from corruption into incorruption then we can meet him in the “change” or cloud, the visible manifestation of God.

1 Cor 15:52 puts it very nicely and clear but let me place the two verses together so we can compare them because they are saying the same thing and one of them sheds light over the other, so we just listen to what the Spirit says to us; 1Cor 15:52 “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. For this corruptible must put on incorruption, and this mortal [must] put on immortality”.

That is what the rapture is, once the trumpet sounds the dead raises and we are change from corruption to immortality, we are taken or caught, it doesn’t say anything about going anywhere.

Now let’s look at;

1Thess 4:16 “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: 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”.

Therefore, being caught up and being change are the same thing, can you see that?

“We which are alive and remain” is the same as “… We shall not all sleep”, but we shall all be changed or caught up.

Both of them talk about the dead in Christ being raised from their sleep and we who are alive shall be CHANGED or shall be caught up. When? At the last trump, which is the voice of God. We would be change from corruptible to immortal.

Now, I summit to you that once we are changed, it doesn’t matter where we go or where we stay, in fact we would be able to go from the physical to the spiritual real or go in and out like Jesus said.