Don't Fall for the Rapture!

1 Thessalonian 4:15-18

For this we declare to you by a word from the Lord, that we who are alive, who are left until the coming of the Lord, will not precede those who have fallen asleep.
16 For the Lord himself will descend from heaven with a cry of command, with the voice of an archangel, and with the sound of the trumpet of God. And the dead in Christ will rise first.
17 Then we who are alive, who are left, will be caught up together with them in the clouds to meet the Lord in the air, and so we will always be with the Lord.
4:18 Therefore encourage one another with these words.

These Scriptures do not support the false notion of a rapture, although some try and twist them to traditional ideas that are in error. These verses reveal that the dead are dead and buried (not in Heaven or limbo) awaiting the first resurrection at the return of Christ when both the living and the dead are then transformed and not a second before. We meet the returning Christ in the air and RETURN TO EARTH - to the Mount of Olives - and reign with but under Him, composing the Kingdom of God: just like the Bible clearly says once we remove traditional blinders.

The only time the dead are resurrected and join with the living to meet Christ is at His return - AT THE LAST TRUMP:

1 Corinthians 15:45-57

45So it is written: "The first man Adam became a living being" [flesh]; the last Adam, a life-giving SPIRIT...

47The first man was of the dust of the earth [flesh], the second man from Heaven [SPIRIT].

48As was the earthly man, so are those who are of the earth [that which is born of flesh is flesh]; and as is the man from heaven [Spirit], so also are those who are of [not in] heaven [that which is born of SPIRIT IS SPIRIT].

49And just as we have borne the likeness of the earthly man [flesh], so SHALL we bear the likeness of the man from heaven [SPIRIT].

50I declare to you, brothers, that flesh and blood cannot inherit the kingdom of God [just like Yeshua clearly stated that unless you're born again, a SPIRIT BEING, you can see or enter the Kingdom-Family of God], nor does the perishable inherit the imperishable [yet those who bleat they're already born again say they can - let God be true and every man a liar].

51Listen, I tell you a mystery [remains a mystery to most]: We will not all sleep [not go to "Heaven or Hell" at death], but we will all be changed-

52in a flash, in the twinkling of an eye, AT THE LAST TRUMP (not in this life or at death). For the trumpet will sound, the dead will be raised imperishable, and we will be changed [born again].

53For the perishable must clothe itself with the imperishable, and the mortal with immortality [YE MUST BE BORN AGAIN].

54When the perishable has been clothed [with our heavenly bodies - not bodies in heaven] with the imperishable, and the mortal with immortality, then the saying that is written will come true: "Death has been swallowed up in victory."

55"Where, O death, is your victory? Where, O death, is your sting?"

56The sting of death is sin, and the power of sin is the law. 57But thanks be to God! He gives us the victory through our Lord Jesus Christ.

The rapture is a religious lie, a vain tradition of men. God has always protected those He chose to protect throughout history on Earth. God is faithful and consistent.

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