Tag: rapture
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Taken Up in Walking – Genesis 5:22-24
Genesis 5:22-24 And Enoch walked with God after he begat Methuselah three hundred years, and begat sons and daughters: And all the days of Enoch were three hundred sixty and five years: And Enoch walked with God: and he was not; for God took him. There is something very tender here. Enoch began to walk…
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Not the Trump of God – Revelation 11:13-15
Revelation 11:13-15 And the remnant were affrighted, and gave glory to the God of heaven. The second woe is past; and, behold, the third woe cometh quickly. And the seventh angel sounded… When we come to this seventh trumpet, it is important that we read carefully. This is not the trump of God that calls…
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Come Up Here – Revelation 4:1
Revelation 4:1 After this I looked, and, behold, a door was opened in heaven: and the first voice which I heard was as it were of a trumpet talking with me which said, Come up hither, and I will shew thee things which must be hereafter. When we come to chapter 4, we enter the…
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Hold Fast Because He Could Come Today – Revelation 3:11
Revelation 3:11 Behold, I come quickly: hold that fast which thou hast, that no man take thy crown. This verse carries a real sense of urgency. Jesus says, “Behold, I come quickly.” The word gives the idea not merely of soon in the sense of a date on a calendar, but suddenly. In other words,…
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Kept Out of the Hour – Revelation 3:10
Revelation 3:10 Because thou hast kept the word of my patience, I also will keep thee from the hour of temptation, which shall come upon all the world, to try them that dwell upon the earth. This is one of the great prophecy verses in all of Revelation. Jesus says to the church at Philadelphia,…
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The Restraint Before the Release – 2 Thessalonians 2:6–7
2 Thessalonians 2:6–7 And now ye know what withholdeth that he might be revealed in his time.For the mystery of iniquity doth already work: only he who now letteth will let, until he be taken out of the way. Paul says something fascinating here. “You know what is holding him back.” The Thessalonians knew. Paul…
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The Departure Before the Darkness – 2 Thessalonians 2:3
2 Thessalonians 2:3 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; Paul opens with a warning, but he quickly anchors it in order. There is a sequence. Something happens first. The…
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Do Not Be Shaken – 2 Thessalonians 2:1–2
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,That ye be not soon shaken in mind, or be troubled, neither by spirit, nor by word, nor by letter as from us, as that the day of Christ is at hand. Paul…
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The Shout and the Trump – 1 Thessalonians 4:15–16
1 Thessalonians 4:15–16 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.For the Lord himself shall descend from heaven with a shout, with the voice of the archangel, and with the trump…
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Not Ignorant, Not Hopeless – 1 Thessalonians 4:13
1 Thessalonians 4:13 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. Paul shifts the tone here. He has talked about how they lived. Now he talks about how they grieve. “But I would not have you to be…