Contributed by Ron Ferguson on Oct 15, 2025
                
                
                
                    [228]. A MESSAGE FROM A POEM - RAPTURED TO THE LORD
The Rapture is the hope of the Church.  The bible calls it this – {{Titus 2:13 “looking for THE BLESSED HOPE and THE APPEARING OF THE GLORY OF OUR GREAT GOD and Saviour, Christ Jesus.”}}   That verse looks at the two future comings, the Rapture
                    
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                    Contributed by Cris Willis on Dec 27, 2007
                
                
                
                    A Contrast of the Rapture and Glorious Appearing of Christ
The Rapture of the Church	The Glorious Appearing or Revelation
1.  Christ comes for believers in the air.	1.  Christ comes with believers to the earth.
2.  All Christians on Earth are translated into new bodies.	2.  There is no translation
                    
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                    Contributed by Bruce Ball on Oct 5, 2010
                
                
                
                    An understanding of the Rapture can be gained from understanding the Jewish Wedding Tradition.
IN THE JEWISH WEDDING TRADITION,
•  As the young man becomes of age to marry,
•  He builds a room onto his father’s house,
•  So there will be a place 
•  For him and his bride to live.
WHEN THE YOUNG
                    
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                    The Rapture: In the Twinkling of an Eye by Tim LaHaye and Jerry Jenkins ranked # 4 on The New York Times Hardcover Fiction Best Seller List for 6/25. This is the 15th of 15 titles in the “Left Behind” series to appear on The Times list and is the 11th in the series to debut in
                    
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                    "Oh, the rapture mingled with reverential, holy fear  for it is a rapturous, yet divinely fearful thing  to be indwelt by the
                    
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                    Contributed by Glynda Lomax on Apr 21, 2023
                
                
                    
            
            
            
            
            
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                    [Pastor Clendennen speaking:]
For many years, in the church I pastored, we had an all-night prayer meeting the last Friday night of every month.  One such Friday night, out of four-hundred members, there were forty-one of us present.  
As I was praying, I heard this Word from the Lord: 
“You are
                    
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                    Contributed by Sermon Central on Mar 17, 2009
                
                
                
                    GOD’S SALVATION CHURCH
In the 1990s, a cult from Taiwan relocated to San Dimas, California, and registered itself as God’s Salvation Church. In 1997, the Chen Tao cult, also known as the Flying Saucer cult, led by Hon-Ming Chen, headed to Garland (mistaken for "God Land"), Texas, where they expect
                    
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                    Contributed by John Putty on Apr 14, 2011
                
                
                
                    SIX THOUSAND YEARS
Early Christian writers held that at the end of 6,000 years of history, Christ would return and reign for 1,000 years (referred to as the Millennium). These included Barnabas (c. A.D. 100), Justin Martyr and Irenaeus (c. A.D. 150), Lactantius (c. A.D. 325), and Methodius, Bishop
                    
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                    Contributed by David Moore on Aug 11, 2010
                
                
                
                    LOOK BUSY
The other day I saw a man wearing a tee shirt which read "Jesus is Coming -- Look Busy" Of course, it was a statement of unbelief. But Jesus is coming, and we must not merely look busy, but be busy. Jesus said "I must work the works of
                    
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                    Contributed by Brian Harvison on Aug 23, 2008
                
                
                
                    After 14 years of studying the Bible, William Miller (1782-1849)--a U.S. revivalist who predicted the second coming and earned a large but temporary following of 50,000-100,000
Became convinced that Christ would return in 1843. 
When Miller announced April 3 as the day, some disciples went to
                    
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                    Contributed by Shawn Rose on Dec 27, 2008
                
                
                
                    1 Corinthians 15:51, 52 “Behold, I shew 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 trump:  for the trumpet shall sound, and the dead shall be raised incorruptible, and we shall be changed.”
A farmer takes his family to
                    
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                    The church is not:  
 * An ark for the saving of a select few. 
 * A ferryboat to take effortless passengers to the shores of heaven. 
 * A life insurance company, with no obligation on policy holders except the payment of a small annual premium. 
 * A social set, welcoming certain people and
                    
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                    Contributed by Jay Mccluskey on Jan 29, 2009
                
                
                    
            
            
            
            
            
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                    IS YOUR CHURCH A CHURCH OF BONES?
In the town of Sedlec in the Czech Republic, there is a famous cemetery that dates back to the 13th century. Some 40,000 people who died from the Black Plague in the 14th century and in the Hussite wars in the beginning of the 15th century were buried there.
                    
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