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RAPTURE NOW

BY JEFFREY DEAN


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TEXT COPYRIGHT 2015 Jeffrey D. Dean


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INTRODUCTION:

1: REDEFINING SALVATION

2: HOW IT ALL BEGAN3: THE GREAT ESCAPE

4: THE DAY OF SALVATION

5: SALVATION IS RESURRECTION6: THE DEAD IN CHRIST

7: NOT UST FOR THE DEAD

!: TA"EN#: I$LL FLY AWAY OH GLORY

1%: CHRISTLI"E PERFECTION

11: BLASPHE&Y OF THE HOLY SPIRIT12: DESPISING THE& THAT ARE GOOD

13: THE ANTICHRIST REVEALED14: THE &YSTERY OF GODLINESS

15: THE &YSTERY OF INI'UITY16: THE SEVEN DEADLY SINS

17: THE GREAT FALLING AWAY

1!: TRUE FAITH1#: TRUE REPENTANCE

2%: TRUE GRACE

21: THE HOPE OF SALVATION22: THE HOPE OF GLORY

23: WHAT IS THE HOPE OF GLORY(

24: HOPE OF RESURRECTION25: WHAT IS GLORY(26: THE HOPE OF OUR CALLING

27: THE TRUE NEW TESTA&ENT

2!: THE HOPE OF RIGHTEOUSNESS2#: ORIGINAL SIN IS NEITHER

3%: GOD DENOUNCES ORIGINAL SIN

31: THE ADDED WOR"S OF RELIGION32: TRUE POWER IN THE BLOOD

33: THE TRUE RAPTURE

34: THE DAY DEATH DIES

35: REVELATION OF THE &YSTERY36: WIC"ED AND SLOTHFUL SERVANT

37: THE BUDDING OF THE TREE

3!: THE WHEAT AND THE TARES3#: THE BELLY WORSHIPERS

4%: THE SECRET SINNERS

41: FAITH WOR"S NOT LAW WOR"S42: THE WO&AN IN TRAVAIL

43: INCORRUPTIBLE CROWN OF LIFE


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44: THE DEVIL$S OWN

45: TA"E UP YOUR CROSS


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2 Corinthians 6: 2

(For he said, 'I have heard thee in a time accepted, and in the day of salvationhave I succoured you: behold, now isthe accepted time; behold, now isthe dayof salvation!

I!TROD"CTIO!#If you look in your Bible Concordance for the word rapture you will not find it. The

closest you will come to it is the phrase caught up. You will not find that word because it's arelatiely new addition to the Christian ocabulary.

This book may be a disappointment to some. It does not tickle the ears. !on't worry"

though" I'm sure there are still plenty of #fluff# pieces out there to feed the #milk# and proide

ery little #meat# for those who haen't cut their teeth yet. This book is a big fat $uicy porter

house steak. I don't water down the truth.

%hen discussing the sub$ect of The &apture" I hae deliberately focused primarily onthe scriptures that are ignored or neglected by most modern teachers on the sub$ect of the

rapture and the econd Coming because it is the scriptures which hae been neglected that

usually hold the key to understanding.

(or e)ample" I begin speaking of the direct eents of our *ord coming from +atthew ,-rather than going to +atthew , as is usually the case in a book on this sub$ect. It will be a

hard read for many" many people because because I don't pull any punches. I lay the

scriptural truth out mercilessly because it is time for us to put our toys away and grow up.

The time draws nearer and nearer. /ne thing you will notice as you read this book is that Irepeat some of the same scriptures in different chapters.

%hy0

Because some things are simply so important they bear repeating.


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1: REDE$I!I!G %&'(&TIO!

Deuteronomy 18: 20-22

"20 But the prophet, who shall presume to speak a word in my name,which I have not commanded him to speak, or that shall speak in the nameo other !ods, even that prophet shall die

21 #nd in case you are wonderin$ in your hearts% &how shall we know theword which the '()D has not spoken*&

22 +hen a prophet speaks in the name o the '()D, i the thin$ ollownot, nor come to pass, that is the thin$ which the '()D has not spoken, utthe prophet has spoken it presumptuously: you shall have no respect orhim as a prophet./

Caught up in rapture,that sweet divine joy and the peace that passes all understandingfrom which simply comes the knowing or our Lord, our Messiah, our Christ, our Savior and, inthis knowing, we come to intimately know his heavenly Father as well. here can !e nogreater "rapture"than to !e in communion with the unconditionally loving !eing, the divineparent, our most "oly Father who, through the Christ, the Son of #od, has re$created us intohis own image.

%apture is as good a word as any to attempt to descri!e the indescri!a!le. he glory ofoneness with this supernatural !eing. "e who created us, and for no other reason than he isa Father who truly desires to have relationship with his children. &t's hard to fathom much lessdescri!e in one word.

1 orinthians 2:

"#ut as it is written, $ye has not seen, nor ear heard, neither hasentered into the heart of man, the thin%s which &od has prepared for themthat love him

(h, the rapturethat is offered when you first !elieve) *ity that so few have e+perienced it)hey wait for it, with seemingly !aited !reath as if some future event. ragic that it neveroccurs to them that the wait is over and the time is now.

For millions of !elievers the world over, this rapture in these modern times is nowreduced to a fa!le. he fodder for science fiction novels. "ow sad, for, without e+periencingthe joy of faith, through which we o!tain the eternal grace, there can !e no glorious changeinto -the new creature.- here can !e no transformation if you don't !elieve in thetransformation.

Many never reach out and gra! the !rass ring, !elieving it to !e for some future time andgeneration and so, it will forever elude them.

he rapture now is taught like some fantastic fairy tale.For those of you who might !e unfamiliar with the modern teaching of rapture, and &

would !e surprised if there were many in /merica who were completely unfamiliar0, it is ateaching in Christian eschatology which refers to -!eing caught up to meet the Lord in the air-at his second coming.

A Thief in the Night

%aised in a !aptist church, & was very devout from the time & was !apti1ed at 2 years old.Sometime in the early 3456's & went to visit a church that was showing a new movie that had!een released. "A Thief In The Night"produced !y %ussel S. 7oughten. & !elieve it may have


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!een the very first full length feature film drama a!out the rapture.

he movie depicts the plight of *atty 8o Myers, who, although !eing a 9i!le readingChristian, does not !elieve in the pre$tri!ulation rapture. (ne morning she awakens to findthat millions of people on this planet, including her own !eloved hus!and have suddenly andmysteriously vanished.

#radually, *atty reali1es her hus!and's continual and annoying warnings a!out the

rapture have !een reali1ed. She and everyone else left !ehind are entering into the -#reatri!ulation,- the last days of :arth, dominated !y the /ntichrist. / government system called;


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me. & guess he could see & was upset and he misinterpreted my reaction0. & gave him aresounding -no.-

&n reality, it was not the movie that scared me, it was the doctrine that scared me. & wasafraid for my 9aptist !rethren !ecause they were denying eternal security. & didn't !othertrying to e+plain that to him. "e asked, don't you !elieve in the rapture? & guess he wasmore perceptive than & gave him credit for0. & said, flatly, no)

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was she not removed with the rest of the Church? &f she did not have the Spirit and thereforewas left !ehind0 and the "oly Spirit also was removed from the earth at the rapture, she mostcertainly would not have the Spirit afterward and would have merely received the Mark. herewould have !een no movie)

/ true rapturist might answer this wayA

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"oly Spirit is gone from the world and there's no wisdom or understanding from #od to keepthem from accepting it.

So, when %evelation 3DA3E says that everyone who rejects the mark will !e killed, theauthor o!viously was in error, not knowing that there can !e no one on earth rejecting themark, !eing that takes wisdom and understanding and the spirit of truth is no longer in theworld.

/nother pro!lem that arises is the sealing of the servants of #od during the tri!ulationA)evelation ;:

2 #nd I saw another an$el ascendin$ rom the east, havin$ the seal othe livin$ !od: and he cried with a loud voice to the our an$els, to whom itwas $iven to hurt the earth and the sea,

4ayin$, 3urt not the earth, neither the sea, nor the trees, till we havesealed the servants o our !od in their oreheads

#nd I heard the numer o them which were sealed: and there weresealed an hundred and orty and our thousand o all the tries o thechildren o Israel

he author of %evelation made another error according to the rapture teaching that the"oly Spirit is removed from the world0. %evelation says that after the rapture the servants of#od are sealed in their foreheads.

Bithout the "oly Spirit in the world no one can !e sealed with the seal of #od !ecause theseal of #od is the "oly Spirit.


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how shall they elieve in him o whom they have not heard* and how shallthey hear without a preacher*

1> #nd how shall they preach, e5cept they e sent* as it is written, 3oweautiul are the eet o them that preach the $ospel o peace, and rin$$lad tidin$s o $ood thin$s?/

*he 4oly pirit seals the -..,/// If the 4oly pirit is removed in the rapture,

the fact that these -..,/// are sealed and then are martyred durin% thetribulation says that they must be sealed before the rapture 8espite these coldhard facts, people have always o!jected to this line of thinking. hey insist that some peopleconvert and !elieve after the rapture.

"ow is this possi!le? he "oly Spirit is gone out of the world according to the !asicrapture doctrine and a !asic Christianity 363 says that one can only !elieve !y the "oly Spirit.

@atthew 17:

16#nd 4imon 6eter answered and said, you are the hrist, the 4ono the livin$ !od

17#nd 9esus answered and said to him, Blessed are thou, 4imon Bar9ona: or Aesh and lood has not revealed it to you, ut my atherwho is in 3eaven

Bhen you e+amine the pre$tri! rapture teaching in its entirety there's no denying they areteaching you have to !elieve in pre$tri! rapture to !e saved. Christ is going to whisk all thepre$tri! rapture !elievers to "eaven and leave everyone who doesn't !elieve in pre$tri!rapture to die and !e judged and persecuted !y his worst enemy. 8ust like what happened topoor *atty 8o Meyers in / hief &n he


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fire.

&f you perish for rejecting the mark of the 9east, you still are not saved, !ecause first of allif you were saved !efore the rapture you'd have !een raptured. he very fact you are there, inthe great tri!ulation faced with the choice of rejecting or accepting the 9east is all the proofthat you weren't saved when the rapture occurred. /fter the rapture the "oly Spirit is goneand the age of #race is over. here's no way to !elieve without the "oly Spirit and we are

saved !y #race./ll who are left !ehind are simply doomed. hey are lost. /ccording to every doctrine of

these churches who preach it0. =et, they then turn right around and have 3GG,666 8ewsevangeli1ing the world and people getting saved and rejecting the mark. &t !ecomes o!viousthey have forgotten their own !asic teachings on salvation when preaching rapture andgreat tri!ulation.

)evelation 1=:20 7nd the beast was taen and with him the false prophet that wrou%htmiracles before him, with which he deceived them that had received themar of the beast, and them that worshiped his ima%e *hese were all castalive into a lae of 9re burnin% with brimstone

his all happens to everyonewho does not !elieve in pre$tri!ulation rapture according tothe rapturists' own teachings. %efusing to !elieve in pre$tri! rapture, therefore is the onlyunforgiva!le sin, according to the teaching. he modern rapturist is o!viously redefiningsalvation. 9elief in 8esus Christ is no longer enough for salvation in the rapture teaching. So,in actuality salvation shifts from faith in Christ, to faith in a pre$tri!ulation rapture. hedoctrine !ecomes their new idol, their new gospel.

&n every place our Lord talks of those servants who are -rejected- at his second coming hesays -they shall !e cast into outer darkness- or he says -there shall !e wailing and gnashingof teeth,- or he says -they shall !e !ound into !undles to !e !urned.-

@atthew 2:

>0he lord o that servant shall come in a day when he looks not or him,and in an hour that he is not aware o,

>1 #nd shall cut him asunder, and appoint him his portion with thehypocrites: there shall e weepin$ and $nashin$ o teeth

&n light of eternal security and salvation !y #race alone teachings, it would have to !e acomplete fantasy to say that those who are -left !ehind- somehow have a chance to reject themark of the 9east afterward and still !e redeemed. &t would certainly not !e scripturalaccording to these churches' own doctrines of faith. his !ecomes especially true when youfactor in the teaching that the "oly Spirit is removed from the world during the rapture.

& was only 3> years old when & first saw / hief &n he


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faiths and redefined salvation itself)

Suddenly, you weren't a -real- Christian unless you !elieved in the pre$tri!ulation rapture,as it was with *atty 8o Myers0. She read her 9i!le and !elieved, her only real sin is not!elieving her hus!and a!out the rapture doctrine. &ndeed, and now, despite sparse scriptureto support the teaching, you are not considered a Christian in today's economy unless youreceive -the pre$tri!ulation raptureas fact) =ou must conform to their -clu!- of thought on the

rapture or you are immediately an outsider.Talking 'Bout ! "eneration

My generation is o!sessed with pre$tri! rapture. &n 3423, & was going through technicalschool at Shepphard /ir Force 9ase in e+as. here was a large youth group of Christiansactive in the chapel there. & attended once or twice during their worship and 9i!le study. heywere the typical -modern rapturists.- he rapture teaching permeated their entire approachand walk with Christ. (ne of the leaders in that group would spend his time on street cornersplaying his guitar with a large rack containing 8ack Chick tracts and other handouts a!out therapture. Most of his songs were filled with messages a!out the rapture. hey were o!sessedwith the teaching. & found this to !e the case wherever & went among my generation.

nowing the scriptures the way & did, & could simply not fit in with those other young

people. & spent my time in my dorm room studying. (n rare occasion, & would actually step outand go to the -airman's clu!- and have a drink usually one, no more than two0. & then wouldsimply return to my room where & would study or play my guitar and write Christian orientedlyrics and put them to rock music.

hat was my life.

& was not a part of their -rapture- clu!.

(ne day one of the leaders of this youth group sat down ne+t to me in the mess hall and!egan to talk with me. "e @ui11ed me on a few things. & did not want to fight with him so &guarded my answers. My responses were short and to the point. & just sort of stared forwardand answered his @uestions in short succinct statements.

"e finally got frustrated and e+claimed, -yes, !ut why do you insist on living your life indefeat?- & then did look at him. &n shock, & am sure. & could not understand why his impressionof me was that & lived a defeated life. & assumed, at the time, that perhaps they may haveseen me going in and out of the airman's clu!. Later, & reali1ed it was !ecause & wasn't a partof theirclu!.

& also !elieve, if there were rumors of my going to the airman's clu!, & dou!t those rumors,or the judgmentalism & e+perienced as a result of those rumors, would have !een prevalentagainst me if & had also !een a part of theirclu!, attending services, joining in with e+citedconversations a!out -the rapture.-

& have a very strong feeling that if & had joined their little rapture cult after that, if they sawme come out of the airman's clu! they would have said something likeA

(h well, he's pro!a!ly just using the !athroom- or -well, even 8esus drank a little wine, hedoesn't look drunk.-

9ecause & was not a part of their clu!, & was "a defeated Christian" in their eyes. Moreimportantly, & wasn't a part of the "al Lindsey cult, & didn't !elieve in the pre$tri!ulation raptureas taught and that meant & wasn't a "real"Christian.

The #nl! Thing That atter$

Be don't need an e+haustive handling of the rapture teaching as it is. here is !ut oneissue in relation to the event called -the rapture,- as taught that has any real !earing on the


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true !eliever and that is the issue upon which & will focus like a laser.

/side from this, & consider the pre$tri!ulation rapture to !e a -non$issue.- & will make a !oldstatement of what & !elieve to !e true from scripture first then set out to prove it. &n this case, &!elieve that the -raptureas it is taught today will cause the majority of them that !elieve it to!e -left !ehind- as they put it0 when the true event occurs.

=es, & do !elieve there is an event coming which is called -the rapture,- yet it will not !e

what the modern -popular teachers- suppose it to !e. hat this true event has paramountimportance to the !eliever & will also wholeheartedly acknowledge.

he true nature of this event, however, escapes eschatology of today. Mainly !ecausetheir own doctrines prevent them from seeing it for what it is. he truth !e told, as we shallsoon see, the rapture is happening right now. &t !egins for the !eliever upon conversion andcontinues on, growing day !y day until the appointed hour when the "wor" is "finished.")Ph*+*pp*an, 2# 12-

Be are running that "race"at this very moment )1 Cor*nh*an, # 2/ an Here, 12# 1-.Soon, & !elieve, those who sei1e hold of the "!ystery"now revealed in us, )Co+o,,*an, 1#23-4those who press forward "to the higher calling in Christ esus")Ph*+*pp*an, # 1/ an 2Peer # 12-will !e the winners of this race.

(ur race is finished either when we die in right standing or when Christ returns and grantsus eternal life makes us immortal0. his is the true meaning of -he that endures to the end,the same shall !e saved.- :ither you have part in this -regeneration- or you die trying.


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2# HO6 IT &'' 7EG&!

he word -rapture- is derived from Middle French via the Medieval Latin raptura -sei1ure,rape, kidnapping-0, it is pronounced -rapt$choo$ray- and is ultimately derived from the Latinraptus-a carrying off-0. he word is named after the raptor a !ird of prey similar to an eaglethat swoops down and carries off its prey. he oine #reek of 3 hessalonians GA35 uses

the ver! form 89:;?@A:harpagIsometha0, which means "we shall be caught up- or"taen away", with the connotation that this is a sudden event. he dictionary form of this#reek ver! is 89Bharpa1J0 . his use is also seen in such te+ts as /cts 2AD4, >Corinthians 3>A>$G and %evelation 3>AE. he Latin Hulgate translates the #reek89:;?@A:as rapiemur from the ver! rapio meaning "to catch up"or "tae away.#

Bhen we understand it's rudimentary meaning there need only !e one verse we look at tounderstand it's application. 9eing -caught up- with the Lord was something for which Messiah,the Christ, himself prayed for his followers. "e prayed for us to -!e with him where he is.-

9ohn 1;:

2 ather, I will that they also, who you have $iven me, be with me

where I am% that they may ehold my $lory, which you have $iven me: oryou loved me eore the oundation o the world

=et, note this interesting statement in the same prayerA

9ohn 1;:1>

I pray not that you should take them out o the world, ut that youshould keep them rom the evil/

Christ desired for us to !e -with him where he is- and yet remain inthe world)

Be must reali1e that after his resurrection he could have taken all of his followers with himinto "eaven, !ut where would we !e? hose who came to !elieve on him !y their testimony?

Most modern rapturists consider that !eside the point. =et, how can it !e? Christ is

praying concerning the final -#lory- he will share with his followers. "ow it will come to passand in what manner it shall manifest itself. hough the modern vernacular of the word,rapture, is a good descriptive word for the event it pales in comparison to the glory.

he word has two main meanings in modern :nglishA

1 he state o ein$ transported y a loty emotion% ecstasy

2 #n e5pression o ecstatic eelin$ (ten used in the plural

(nce you understand the e+tent of what occurs during the -rapture,- per se0, you will seewhy these two definitions fit well.

=es, there isan event in the 9i!le which can ade@uately !e descri!ed as a rapture of the!elievers. Bhen you understand what scripture says a!out this event it should !ecome clear

that the popular teachers actually have missed the mark !y a mile.A Relativel! Ne% &otrine?

Christianity has a >666 year history, during the !ulk of which the -rapture- teaching wasnon e+istent. he early original Christian church as well as the Catholic Church, :astern(rthodo+ churches, the /nglican Communion and many *rotestant Calvinist denominationshave no tradition of apreli!inaryreturn of Christ and initially rejected the doctrine.

%ightfully so. Scripture makes no direct reference anywhere to a preliminary and secretreturn of Christ.


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he (rthodo+ Church, for e+ample, rejects it !ecause the *rotestant doctrine of therapture depends on a pre$millennial interpretation of prophetic scriptures, rather than anamillennial or post millennial fashion. Some proponents of a preliminary rapture !elieve thedoctrine of amillennialism originated with /le+andrian scholars such as Clement and (rigenand later !ecame Catholic dogma through /ugustine. /ccordingly, the church until then wouldhold to pre$millennial views. Hiews which see an impending apocalypse from which the

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phrases around like they are written in stone.

"istorically, the a!sence of a -doctrinal title- from scripture has never stopped organi1edChristian religion from declaring a teaching as dogma and calling them who reject theteaching -heretics.- here are several other !asic foundational doctrines that are not directlymentioned anywhere in the 9i!le !ut if you reject those teachings you are unanimously calledan -heretic.-

;nder Catholicism and (rthodo+y it was accepted that -7ivine %evelation- supersededthe need for -scriptural proof.- &n other words, Catholics didn't need a scripture to support theirteaching, if their "oly Father said it was so, then it is so.

&t's harder to understand how these same teachings, not necessarily found in scripture,ended up as !asic tenets among protestants, who claim to reject the authority of the Hicarand who claim that their only authority on doctrinal matters should !e scripture. /s you willsee, with protestants it does not take an overwhelming !ody of scriptural evidence !efore theywill place their stamp of approval on a teaching and declare all others -heretics.-

*rotestants and evangelicals only need a single verse in the 9i!le that -appears- to say orcan !e interpreted to say what they are teaching and that is good enough for them. hey'llsimply make a new translation and rewrite more of the scriptures to lean their way. & know this

sounds terri!ly cynical !ut it is a!solutely true. he case of the pre$tri!ulation rapture is onesuch modern e+ample.

So, in religion, whether it !e Catholicism, (rthodo+y, or *rotestantism, evangelicalism,pentecostalism, or non$denominationalism, they all have one thing in common, namely, theirhierarchies determine what is sound doctrine and what is not and then it is disseminated tothe laymen as -word of #od.-


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John Dary)123- !ack to :dward &rving.

:dward &rving )132L1/-more fully developed the teaching !ut never called it -herapture.- &rving directed his attention to the study of prophecy and eventually accepted theone$man /ntichrist idea of Jame, Henhorn To4 %amue+ Roffey Fa*+an4 Roer7e++arm*ne4 an $ran*,o R*era4 yet he went a step further.

&rving !egan to teach the idea of a two$phase return of Christ, the first phase !eing a

secret rapture prior to the rise of the /ntichrist. /ccording to &rvingAT.8 /8 ,.8 @/,.809@>: F08>,? ,. 08>,8+0,> ,. ./8;>,? ,. -0> ;08@09> -.==- ,. L/< -.0,.8>;8 H @,. 9,? ,. /, @/,.8 /,8-/8>

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hough he spring!oards off the earlier work of Lacun1a, his take on it didn't agree entirelywith Lacun1a. :vidently &rving was not familiar with the teachings of Christ on the su!ject!ecause his -order- of events is almost completely !ackwards to what Christ taught. 8esusplaced the order as -first gather the tares in !undles then gather the wheat into the !arn.-

Fahe Henry, in his co!!entary on the whole 0ibleComplete and una!ridged in onevolume. *ea!odyA "endrickson0 he used the term -rapture- in his commentary of 3hessalonians G.

John !e+,on Darywho is considered the father of the modern rapture teaching0populari1ed the pre$tri!ulation rapture in 32>5. his view was accepted among many other*lymouth 9rethren movements in :ngland. 7ar!y and other prominent 9rethren impacted

/merican Christianity, especially with movements and teachings associated with Christianeschatology and fundamentalism, primarily through their writings.

/nother major influence to the spreading of the teaching included the 9i!le ConferenceMovement, starting in 3252 with the


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rapture, hings to ComeA / Study in 9i!lical :schatology, which sold >3E,666 copies.

The Ra,ture E.,lo$ion

7uring the 3456s, !elief in the pre$tri!ulation rapture literally e+ploded !ecause of media.Such as the case of the movie / hief &n he


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# THE GRE&T E%C&PE

he main theme of -the rapture- and especially -pre$tri!ulation rapture- is the concept thatthe Christians are going to escape all the -!ad stuff- that will come upon the world during -thetri!ulation.- &t is a -peace and safety- promise of !eing whisked away out of the world. &t is the!elief that a man antichrist0 will reign for e+actly seven years on the earth., at which time it

will literally !e hell on earth, the days in which #od pours out his wrath upon mankind. hosewho preach this do so !ecause they reason that since Christians are -not appointed to wrath,-3 hessalonians EA 40 the Church cannot !e on the earth for these days.

"1 or rom the least o them even to the $reatest o them every one is$iven to covetousness% and rom the prophet even to the priest every one

deals alsely"1 hey have healed also the hurt o the dau$hter o my people sli$htly,

sayin$, 6eace, peace% when there is no peace

"1> +ere they ashamed when they had committed aomination* nay,they were not at all ashamed, neither could they lush: thereore they shallall amon$ them that all: at the time that I visit them they shall e castdown, says the '()D"


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-28

"2> here is a conspiracy o her prophets in the midst thereo, like aroarin$ lion ravenin$ the prey% they have devoured souls% they have takenthe treasure and precious thin$s% they have made her many widows in themidst thereo

27 3er priests have violated my law, and have proaned mine holythin$s: they have put no dierence etween the holy and proane, neitherhave they showed dierence etween the unclean and the clean, and havehid their eyes rom my 4aaths, and I am proaned amon$ them

2; 3er princes in the midst thereo are like wolves ravenin$ the prey, toshed lood, and to destroy souls, to $et dishonest $ain

28 #nd her prophets have daued them with untempered mortar, seein$vanity, and divinin$ lies to them, sayin$, &thus says the 'ord !(D,& when the'()D has not spoken"

here are many different factions among the rapturists and they employ numerousterminologies, such as -millenialism,- -amillenialism,- -post millenialism,- -dispensationalism,--cessationism,- -pre$tri!ulation,- -mid$tri!ulation,- -post tri!ulation,- and more isms, than youcan count. Be will not concern ourselves with all of these terms. hey're !ackground noise,and non$issues once you understand the true nature of the rapture)

(nce you grasp the -depth and the !readth and the height- of what #od has in store forthe faithful :phesians DA 320 none of these eschatological idioms have any real importance.hat's the !eauty of the scriptural approach to a su!ject, we can cut through the smoke andmirrors.

Many accept the escapism of the modern rapture teachings as a given. eaching thissort of escapism has a slippery slope, however. &t can end up !ecoming, not just an escapefrom !ad times !ut a complete escape from the calling to -walk even as he walked.- 3 8ohn

>A K0 he entire teaching is predicated on the idea that the transformation and the puttingon of immortal !odies will not happen until Christ returns and changes our (riginal Sincursed !odies. hey await #od to change their !odies first, !efore they walk in -Christlikeperfection. Should this changing occur today, they have not truly readied themselves,!elieving there is nothing they can in this present cursed flesh.

hey do not understand that Christ is coming for a 9ride who is already -without spot or!lemish- when he comes. Be, the 9ride, make ourselves ready !y !ecoming -without spot or!lemish.- hey have put the prover!ial -cart !efore the horse- and teach that Christ's comingwill make us without spot or !lemish when it is the other way around. &t is our !ecoming-without spot or !lemish- that precipitates, hastens and triggers the second coming)

&t simply does not matter if there is a seven year tri!ulation !efore or after this glorious

changing of the !elievers. &t doesn't matter if the changing occurs in the middle of somegreat tri!ulation. /ll that matters to us is our pressing forward to the higher calling in Christ8esus and our !eing conformed to the image of the Son of #od. %omans 2A >40.


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/# THE D&Y O$ %&'(&TIO!

Bhenever the rapture is discussed it's spoken of as an -instantaneous event,- or, as itsays in scripture, it happens -in a moment, in the twinkling of an eye.- =et when we e+aminethe governing te+ts we !egin to see the -catching away- is a culmination of a work that !eganin us the moment we !elieved) &t is the -finishing of the work of faith in us.- / work which

!egan in us upon conversion. he final product happens at the -shout- when the Lord returns!ut we are a "wor in progress8"

he putting on of incorruption that raputurists look for to take place in the -rapture-should have already !egun in them) &t !egins when we leave !ehind this world, forsake ourown lives and take up our crosses. &t culminates in the day that the saints, the !elievers, enterthe ingdom physically0)

&t's the day of salvation he that endures to the end shall !e saved0. &t's the day after whichthis "corruptible puts on incorruption"and finishes with "this !ortal puts on i!!ortality."'+Corinthians +9: 9;/./t that time, the 9ride will !e found without spot or wrinkle and we willhave put on the image of the Son of #od. : 1=-21

1= Fow the works o the Aesh are maniest, which are these% #dultery,ornication, uncleanness, lasciviousness,

20 Idolatry, witchcrat, hatred, variance, emulations, wrath, strie,sedition, heresies,

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rom me, you that work iniJuity/

@atthew 1=:17-18

17 #nd, ehold, one came and said to him, !ood @aster, what $oodthin$ shall I do, that I may have eternal lie*

1; #nd he responded with a Juestion o his own: &+hy do you call me$ood* here is none $ood ut one, that is, !od: ut i you will enter into lie,keep the commandments/

18 he man asked, +hich commandments.* 9esus said, you shall dono murder, you shall not commit adultery, you shall not steal, you shall notear alse witness,

1= 3onor your ather and your mother: and, you shall love your nei$horas yoursel/

:- 7

But ornication, and all uncleanness, or covetousness, let it not eonce named amon$ you, as is ecomin$ o saints%

Feither Glthiness, nor oolish talkin$, nor Cestin$, which are notconvenient: ut you should rather e $rateul

> or this you know, that no whore mon$er, nor unclean person, norcovetous man, who is an idolater, has any inheritance in the kin$dom ohrist and o !od

7 'et no man deceive you with vain words: or ecause o these thin$scomes the wrath o !od upon the children o disoedience/

1 or 7:=

Know you not that the unrighteous shall not inheritthe kin$dom o!od*/

here are far far more scriptures & could @uote to support the truth that sinners do notenter the ingdom)

eep in mind that the rapture is the point at which we physically enter the ingdom) hescripture says that at the second coming of Christ the "dead in Christ" are raised and then wewho are still alive will !e "caught up"to meet him in the air and so shall we ever be with the2ord.#his is descri!ing the final day, when our salvation is physically reali1ed.

&f there is sin in you on that day, you shall "in no wise enter."=et, & can hear some of you now askingA

)***D>9$, 0, >/ ,./, /== ./; >099 /9 >.8, ,. @=8 G()(Romans 2: 23)

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)***D>9$, 0, >/ ,./, $0 /9 /9 >/ I ./; 9 >09 . 0> / =0/8 /9 ,. ,8+,. 0> 9, 09 .0()

(John 1:8)

=es, it does say that every person has sinned and that if someone claims to have neversinned they are a liar. hat is !eside the point.


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Many think the scriptures say you can never stop sinning and they are in error) &t says all"have" sinned, not -all must sin..- &t says that if any man says "I have never sinned,")John1#10-that man is a liar, Scripture never says that no one can ever reach a point where theysay, -& don't sin anymore.- =ou won't find that in scripture. &n fact, 8ohn stated in the sameplace,

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is completely illogical. &f you tell them that he who truly !elieves the words of Christ canovercome sin in this life, they will call you a liar,

=et, logic itself dictates that if you love as Christ demonstrated and love as he commandedyou, then you won't sin. here is no sin in love, according to Christ. his is why *aul told theCorinthiansA

MThouh I hae a++ manner of fa*h ha I an moe mouna*n, u hae no

+oe4 I am noh*n.M )1 Cor*nh*an, 1#2-.So much for the misguided teaching that faith alone saves you. *aul states that you

could have all the faith in the world !ut if you don't walk in love you are nothing.

"e who says he cannot stop sinning is saying he cannot stop hating his !rother, for hate ise+actly what sin is and of course he who loves #od does not sin against #od either. "ow isanyone who can't stop hating on people going to !e -raptured- into the ingdom of "eaven?

Seeing that no sinner can enter or inherit the ingdom of "eaven according to thescriptures, those who preach you can't stop sinning are actually preaching that no one isgoing to !e raptured.


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9esus hrist

>8 hereore, my eloved rethren, e you steadast, unmoveale,always aoundin$ in the work o the 'ord, or as much as you know thatyour laor is not in vain in the 'ord/

he popular teachers teach that we can't !e sinless until after the change. hey teach weare waiting for the return of Christ, who will give us new !odies that do not re@uire us to

overcome sin. 9odies that are impervious to sin.*lease take notice of the very important order of events in the a!ove te+t.

he trumpet shall sound at the second coming of Christ0, the dead in Christ shall !eraised -incorrupti!le,- and we shall !e changed to immortal !eings0. he order is not we arechanged then we put on incorruption.

&t's crucial to understand that the dead in Christ rise first. he dead in Christ at this pointmay have died never having attained to incorruption. hose who have died without attainingincorruption don't have to worry !ecause they endured to the end and so all the dead areraised -incorrupti!le.-

=et, we who are alive at the time don't have to die to put on incorruption and we don't

have to shed this current !ody in order to do so. &f we had to shed these !odies to put onincorruption, then why are the dead raised with their former !odies?

*aul says that we, who are alive must first put on incorruption and then, at the soundingof the trumpet, after the dead are raised, our !odies are changed and we put on immortality.

he te+t clearly readsA

)W.9 ,.0> 88+,0./== ./; +, 9 0988+,09 1speaking of himself2/9 ,.0> 8,/=>./== ,.9 ./; +, 9 08,/=0, 1because the corruptible are now incorruptible2,.9

>./== ,. >/09@ /,. 0> >-/==- + 09 ;0,8*

Bhen we !elieve and are converted we enter the phase of salvation known as putting onincorruption. Be work this our entire lives, striving to put on Christ. he &ncorrupti!le0.

)omans 1: #ut put you on the ord esus Christ, and mae not provision for the esh,to ulGll the lusts thereo

&n 3 Corinthians 3EA EE we read that once the corrupti!le have put on incorruption the stingof death is removed) Bhat is the sting of death? Sin is the sting of death according to 3Corinthians 3EA EK. he wages of sin is death.

)omans 7:2 For the wa%es of sin is death; but the %ift of &od is eternal life throu%hesus Christ our ord

(nce we corrupti!le !eings overcome sin and put on incorruption, sin is no longerpresent with us. Bhich is why, at the last trumpet, only they that have put on incorruption

shall put on immortality. he wages of sin is death. =ou can't put on immorality if you are insin corruption0. /ll who sin shall die for the wages of sin is death0 and all who have no sinincorruption0 shall live) Sin !rings death. he only way to !e immortal is to !ecome-incorrupti!le- first. o have no more sin)

Be do know, therefore, that the !elievers reach a point of incorrupti!ility in their walk withthe Lord and we know we don't have to sleep die0 to achieve this. hat is why he concludesthe chapter in verse E2 !y e+horting us to -always a!ound- in the -work- of the Lord thenstates, for you know that your /labor i$ not in vain in the 0ord/Bhat la!or? =our la!or oflove. =our la!or to set aside the sin that once so easily !esets you.


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3erews 12: 1

+hereore seein$ we also are compassed aout with so $reat a cloud owitnesses, let us la" aside every wei$ht, and the sin whih does soeasil" beset us, and let us run with patience the race that is set eore us,

&n 3 Corinthians, and indeed in most of *aul's writings, *aul promises that there comes aday when we corrupti!le human !eings put off the corruption of sin, at which point we shall !e

entitled to immortality and shall !e granted such either after death when we are raised0 or atthe return of Christ.

Salvation occurs in two phases. First, we are converted and !egin to put on Christincorruption, sinlessness0 then, he that endures to the end is granted immortality he thatendures to the end shall !e saved0.


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5# %&'(&TIO! I% NRE%"RRECTIO!

he discussion of the mystery in 3 Corinthians 3E is precluded with the followingstatementsA

1 orinthians 1>: ;->0

; he Grst man is o the earth, earthy% the second man is the 'ord rom3eaven

8 #s is the earthy, such are they also that are earthy: and as is theheavenly, such are they also that are heavenly

= #nd as we have orne the ima$e o the earthy, we shall also ear theima$e o the heavenly

>0 Fow this I say, rethren, that Aesh and lood cannot inherit thekin$dom o !od% neither does corruption inherit incorruption

*eople get confused here when they read verse E6. hey think it is saying that we cannotenter into the ingdom in our current flesh and !lood !odies) hat is !ecause they know 3

Corinthians 3E is actually a!out the resurrection and answers the @uestionA with what !odyare we resurrected?

1 orinthians 1>:

> But some man will ask, &how are the dead raised up* and with whatody do they come*

7 hou ool, that which one sows is not Juickened, e5cept it die:/


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= Behold my hands and my eet, that it is I mysel: handle me, and see%or a spirit has not Aesh and ones, as you see me have&

0 #nd when he had thus spoken, he shewed them his hands and hiseet/


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#uried with him in baptism, wherein also you are risen with him throu%hthe faith of the operation of &od, who has raised him from the dead

LLLLLLLLLLLL

!alatians 2: 20I am cruciGed with hrist: nevertheless I live% yet not I, ut hrist liveth inme: and the lie which I now live in the Aesh I live y the aith o the 4on o

!od, who loved me, and $ave himsel or mehe !elievers in Christ have died to themselves and their own lives and walk in newness

of Spirit. hey die daily.

1 orinthians 1>:1

I protest by your re?oicin% which I have in Christ esus our ord, I diedaily

hat is why *aul tells the %omans that we must mortify the deeds of the !ody throughthe Spirit, in order for our !odies to !e @uickened.

)omans 8:1

For if you live after the esh, you shall die: but if you throu%h the piritdo put to death the deeds of the body, you shall live)


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power of the cross causes us to purge ourselves of sin, which inevita!ly results in eternal lifethis mortal must put on immortality0. Modern rapturists attempt to nullify and circumvent thatmiddle part the purging of sin0 and skip right from faith !elieving0 to eternal life) hey areliterally missing the life !oat.

&f you still aren't convinced that *aul was speaking of overcoming sin and thus !ecomingimmortal in this chapter, just look at this astounding statement in the precursor to *aul's

discussion of the raptureA- Corinthians -@: A .

#e not deceived: evil communications corrupt %ood manners

. 7wae to ri%hteousness, and sin not;for some have not thenowled%e of &od: I spea this to your shame

:vil communications corrupt# good manners) his corruption must put on incorruption0."e clearly says to awake to righteousness and identifies this as, /$in not/Ceasing from sincompletely is something the majority of popular teachers will tell you is impossi!le)

Many who preach rapture these days twist 3 Corinthians chapter 3E horri!ly.

hey make it to sound like our !odies will simply disappear. Hanish away0 hey think that

we are waiting for after Christ's return to !e sinless# and !elieve this sinlessness happens ina moment, in a twinkling of an eye and only after #od takes our sin cursed !odies andchanges them to immaculate !odies.

hat is not what scripture teaches.


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with for death only comes from sin) Christ's !ody had no sin in it, therefore no death. "e wasimmortal already, !efore he was crucified. "e even told them that no man could kill him.

9ohn 10: 18

Fo man takes it rom me, ut I lay it down o mysel I have power to layit down , and I have power to take it a$ain his commandment have Ireceived o my ather/

8esus Christ rose with the e+act same !ody he had in life) here is no concrete scripturewhich states otherwise. Some say that he could walk through walls !ecause he merelyappeared in the upper room. hey surmise this means his !ody was non corporeal. his isnot necessarily true. *hillip was teleported hundreds of miles after !apti1ing the :thiopianeunuch. #od can put a human !ody anywhere he wants it to !e on the earth, instantly. &f hecan't he's not #od.

Christ had his original !ody when he rose, we know from the wounds. &t would make nosense to raise his !ody up, transform it into a spiritual !ody and then leave the wounds.


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# THE DE&D I! CHRI%T

Be -mortify- or kill the deeds of the !ody every day, destroying sin in the flesh and we dothis !y living !y the Spirit. Bithout the Spirit of Christ you are -none of his,- according to *aul.

)omans 8:

= But you are not in the Aesh, ut in the 4pirit, i so e that the 4pirit o!od dwell in you Fow i any man have not the 4pirit o hrist, he is none ohis

he power of the flesh sin0 therefore is destroyed !y living in the Spirit)

=et, only when you a!ide live0 in the Spirit a!iding in Christ0 do you overcome sin. his isour la!or and it is not in vain0 for we do know that an entire generation of living !elieverssucceed. hese shall !e granted immortality and shall !e granted such without ever havingdied physically. Be shall not all sleep !ut we shall all !e changed0.

his changing as descri!ed in 3 Corinthians 3E, is the resurrection and represents thefinish line. he finishing of the mystery. Be don't see the end result of our la!or as yeteternal life of the !ody, mind and soul0. Be !egin our run toward this at moment of

conversion. Scripture depicts the church as a pregnant woman, ready to give !irth. So, the!eginning of our run of faith is likened to the conception of Christ in us and our journey isla!or. 8ust like a woman in la!or to have a child.

&n the Spirit, !y grace through faith we la!or to !ring forth the mystery which is Christ inus) %apture indeed)

olossians 1:2;

*o whom &od would mae nown what is the riches of the %lory of thismystery amon% the &entiles; which is Christ in you, the hope of %lory:

/ woman who gives !irth la!ors and pains and cries and moans in great travail andtri!ulation until the moment the child arrives then her pain and la!or is turned into 8(=, or

rapture) his is e+actly how Christ depicted the la!or of the !eliever.9ohn 17: 21

21 # woman when she is in travail has sorrow, ecause her hour iscome: ut as soon as she is delivered o the child, she rememers no morethe an$uish, or Coy that a man is orn into the world/

he /postles echoed this same allegory concerning our walk in Christ, speaking of us as a-!ride- and not just a !ride, a pregnant !ride who is !ringing forth -Christ.-

)omans 8: 22- 2

22 or we know that the whole creation $roans and travails in painto$ether until now

2 #nd not only they, ut ourselves also, who have the Grst ruits o the4pirit, even we ourselves $roan within ourselves, waitin$ or the adoption,to wit, the redemption o our ody

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!alatians : 1=

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D what *aul identifies as end result of our la!or and ourtravail together) he redemption of our !odies. :

27 he last enemy that shall e destroyed is death

Sin will destroyed in us !efore death can !e destroyed in us. &t is the sin which causesdeath. &t must !e eradicated.

*opular teachers are teaching that we cannot stop sinning and that we are waiting for

Christ to come and to change our !odies from a sinful fleshly nature to a Spiritual nature) hisis not the #ospel as it was taught. hey are going to miss it completely !ecause if they waituntil the trumpet sounds !efore they stop sinning it will !e too late.

*opular teachers today are saying that they can continue in sin until Christ returns, thensin will !e destroyed and with it death) Scripture does not say this, scripture says "they thatdo such things 'sin/ shall not inherit the >ingdo!." &t says "we do now that no !urderer haseternal life in hi!."hey teach they have faith to cast mountains in the sea !ut don't havefaith to cast their sins from their !odies) hey are in mortal peril)

Certainly we don't overcome and destroy sin on our own, yet, nevertheless we do destroysin in the flesh, !y the Spirit, which is love0 so in reality the fact we don't do it on our ownpower !ecomes moot)

)om 8:10I hrist e in you, the ody is dead ecause o sin/

Be put to death our flesh daily !y putting to death the deeds of the flesh. (ur !odiesare dead, the sin in us is -dying.- Be take up our -cross- daily and are crucified with Christ,eventually !ecoming -incorrupti!le.-

herefore Christlike sinless perfection !egins when we receive Christ. Be receive of hisSpirit and then, !y that same Spirit !egin to kill the sinful deeds of the !ody. Be do this everyday until we are perfect. Be don't sit around and wait for the return of Christ and some-rapture.- =ou cannot live !y the flesh and still inherit the ingdom.

he rapture culminates in the day of the redemption of our !odies. his is why it says our

salvation is -nearer than when we first !elieved.-)omans 1: 11-1

11 #nd that, knowin$ the time, now it is hi$h time to awake out osleep: or now our salvation is nearer than when we Grst elieved

12 he ni$ht is ar spent, the day is at hand: let us thereore cast o theworks o darkness, and let us put on the armor o li$ht

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1 But you must put on the 'ord 9esus hrist, and make not provision orthe Aesh, to ulGll the lusts thereo/

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a man sees, why does he yet hope for+

2@ #ut if we hope for that we see not, then do we with patience wait for it

/nother scripture that clearly states that salvation is a hopeA

- *hessalonians @:

> #ut let us, who are of the day, be sober, puttin% on the breastplate of

faith and love; and for an helmet, the hope of salvationBhen Christ said it is finished he is talking a!out his death itself, not salvation. *ure

conte+t dictates this to !e true. "e says it is finished then he dies. he conte+t says the partthat was finished was his crucifi+ion. Lacking any scriptures that supports the notion that hewas talking a!out anything else !ut his death when he said it is finished it !ecomes o!viousthose who teach he's talking a!out the work of salvation are twisting scripture. :speciallywith so many other te+ts which say salvation is not finished until the end.

(ur salvation is not complete yet. Be press toward it. he apostles made this clear.:ven the resurrection itself is something that we strive to attain.

6hilippians :

10 hat I may know him, and the power o his resurrection, and theellowship o his suerin$s, ein$ made conormale unto his death%

11 I y any means I mi$ht attain unto the resurretion o the dead

12 Fot as thou$h I had already attained, either were already perect: utI $ollow a$ter,i that I may apprehend that or which also I amapprehended o hrist 9esus

1 Brethren, I count not mysel to have apprehended: ut this one thin$ Ido, or$ettin$ those thin$s which are ehind, and reachin$ orth unto thosethin$s which are eore,

1 I%ress toward the mar&or the priHe o the hi$h callin$ o !od in

hrist 9esusCertainly Christ made all of this possi!le. he removing of the spots and the !lemishes in

the 9ride is only made possi!le !y Christ when he died. 9y his death he sent the "oly Spirit tothe !elievers and !y the Spirit the !elievers overcome sin in the flesh. Be do not just escapethe penalty of the sin through some rapture or !y having our sins -covered up-0. he power issent from the crucifi+ion and that power /lean$e$ u$ fro2 all unrighteou$ne$$/ 31 -ohn1:

Some say that they are cleansed from all unrighteousness even though they are stillwalking around in sin and unrighteousness. his is a lie straight from the pit of hell and it willcause them to miss the rapture and to !e cast aside on the day of salvation.

here is coming a day when the 9ride of Christ is found without spot or !lemish) hereshall !e no sin in her. She will literally attain perfection.

&n fact, the Lord is actually is waiting for us to repent and walk in his love. Be are notwaiting on the Lord to come change us, as is depicted !y the rapturists.

2 Beter :

" *he ord is not slac concernin% his promise, as some men countslacness; but is lon%suerin% to usAward, not willin% that any should perish,but that all should come to repentance

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the heavens shall pass away with a %reat noise, and the elements shall meltwith fervent heat, the earth also and the wors that are therein shall beburned up

-- eein% then that all these thin%s shall be dissolved, what manner ofpersons ought you to be in all holy conersation and godliness!

-2 ooin% for and hasting to the coming of the day of "od, whereinthe heavens bein% on 9re shall be dissolved, and the elements shall meltwith fervent heat+

"e's waiting for ;S to repent of our sins and -do the first works.- '5evelation =: 9/

=et, he will not wait forever for us to repent and walk sinless even so as he walked0. &f wefail to !ring this miraculous event to fruition in our !odies it would not !e fair for our failure toprevent the resurrection of them that have died and have endured to the end. hat is whythe /postles said that we who are alive shall not -prevent- them that sleep.

1 hessalonians : 1>

For this we say to you by the word of the ord; that we which are aliveand remain until the comin% of the ord shall not prevent them which are

asleep

he Lord is holding !ack his return, giving us an age of grace in which to repent and trulydo his works, !ut he will not wait forever. /t an appointed time a shout and a trumpet will hailthe end of his patience. he dead shall !e raised and those who are pressing toward themark and toward attaining to this perfection will !e changed. /ll others will !e cast out asthe hypocrites that they are.

hat is the danger of teaching we can't stop sinning in this life and that we must waituntil the Lord comes and changes our sinful !odies into sinless !odies. hat is the truedanger of the modern rapture teaching) hose who say we shall not !e sinless in this lifenever shall. Christ would !e waiting forever for them to repent and walk holy) hat is not fair

to the rest of those who died in the hope of salvation.hose who died in Christ never having attained to the Christlike perfection promisedshould not have to wait upon the living !elievers who refuse to repent and do Christ's works)hat would !e completely unfair especially when the they say openly they are never going tostop sinning in this life. he !elieving who have fallen -asleep- would !e waiting forever)

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his is not a concern for the typical popular teachers, however, for they do not !elievethere is any danger of them !eing -left !ehind- as long as they !elieve in the pre$tri!ulationrapture and as long as they !elieve in 8esus.

hey think that if Christ comes and catches them sinning it's no !ig deal !ecause their sinsare covered !y the !lood. So, to the rapturist the only real danger is not !elieving in the pre$tri!ulation rapture, that's the only unforgiva!le sin) /ny other sin they might !e caught in at his

coming was already forgiven.*opular teachers think they can go out and sin right now and if Christ returns while they

are doing it they shall still !e raptured. /gain, unless that sin is not !elieving in the pre$tri!ulation rapture, in which case they weren't -ready-.

&n > *eter 33 we readA /8hat 2anner of ,er$on$ ought !ou to be/

*eter states that we are now /looking for and ha$tening to/ the coming return of Christthe day of #od the day of our Salvation0 when we walk in /hol! onver$ation and"#&0)NESS/

he typical rapturist teaches that #odliness and righteousness are -impossi!le,- and if youpreach those things are re@uired they will call you a legalist. hey teach that we must !eready for the rapture !ut they don't reali1e what that means. Christ made it clearA

@atthew 2:

2 +atch thereore: or you don&t know at what hour your 'ord comes

But know this, that i the $oodman o the house had known in whatwatch the thie would come, he would have watched, and would not havesuered his house to e roken up

hereore you must also e ready: or in such an hour as you thinknot the 4on o man comes/

Bhen you e+amine the rapture teachings of most of these churches they always @uote thea!ove verses and e+hort one another to !e ready for the rapture, however, they aren't clear

what that means. hey rarely @uote the verses that follow afterward which e+plain what Christmeant !y !e ready.

@atthew 1:

> +ho then is a aithul and wise servant, whom his lord has maderuler over his household, to $ive them meat in due season*

7 Blessed is that servant, whom his lord when he comes shall Gnd sodoin$

; Merily I say unto you, hat he shall make him ruler over all his $oods

8 But and i that evil servant shall say in his heart, @y lord delays hiscomin$%

= #nd shall e$in to smite his ellow servants, and to eat and drink withthe drunken%

>0he lord o that servant shall come in a day when he looks not or him,and in an hour that he is not aware o,

>1 #nd shall cut him asunder, and appoint him his portion with thehypocrites: there shall e weepin$ and $nashin$ o teeth/

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when the Lord comes finds him so doing. 9eing ready is all a!out what you are doingwhen the Lord comes and nothing a!out what you are !elieving when he comes. Bhat they!elieve isn't even mentioned.


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hey didn't get it and neither do the popular teachers. Bithin our own power it isimpossi!le to walk sinless and !lameless. hankfully #od did not leave us to our own devices!ut has shed the "oly Spirit a!road through Christ.

&ead To Sin

Many claim they are -ready- for the rapture, they are ready for the Lord to come and takethem away from all of this, when in reality they love their lives and their possessions. Bild

horses couldn't drag them away from here) o !e ready for the rapture means you forsake thislife, you consider yourself -dead,- you -die daily, you take up your cross.-

o !e ready for the rapture is to set aside your sinful flesh and the cares of this life) omake 8esus Lord, over not just your soul !ut your !ody as well) hat is why the rapture isnow)

Bhen we first !elieve we forsake all as Christ commanded the rich man to do. Be turn our!acks on our own lives including the former life of sin0 and we walk away from it, followingChrist instead)

he disciples forsook all to follow himA

@atthew 1=: 2;-0

2; hen answered 6eter said to him, &ehold, we have orsaken all, andollowed thee% what shall we have thereore*&

28 #nd 9esus said to them, &verily I say to you, those o you who haveollowed me, in the re$eneration, when the 4on o man shall sit in thethrone o his $lory, you also shall sit upon twelve thrones, Cud$in$ thetwelve tries o Israel

2= #nd every one who has orsaken houses, or rethren, or sisters, orather, or mother, or wie, or children, or lands, or my name&s sake, shallreceive an hundredold, and shall inherit everlastin$ lie

0 But many that are Grst shall e last% and the last shall e Grst/

First things come first and last things come last. 9efore we can !e made -incorrupti!le- inthe rapture we have to !elieve that such a thing is even possi!le) 9efore we can !ecomeimmortal put on immortality or inherit eternal life0 we must !ecome -incorrupti!le.- he orderin scripture is, first this corruption puts on incorruption then this mortal puts on immortality.

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3# !OT J"%T $OR THE DE&D

here's an old country song with the hookA

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he common !elief is that you can't go to "eaven until you die. 7oes this mean that mostChristians don't !elieve they have eternal life?


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!ody. hey are carnally minded and shall die as a result of it)

)omans 8:

or to e carnally minded is death% ut to e spiritually minded is lieand peace

he scriptures say that sin !rings nothing !ut death, not eternal life) hey who preach weare going to remain in sinful !odies until the second coming have deluded themselves and ifthey don't repent they shall in no wise inherit immortality eternal life0. hey shall !e neitherraptured nor saved.

he scriptures do not say that we are -already saved.- uite the contrary Christ said /hethat endure$ to the EN& the $a2e $hall be $aved/ 3atthe% 59: 1 Salvation is eternallife and it's only for the -incorrupti!le.-

&'m not talking a!out keeping the law here. &'m talking a!out o!eying the Father throughthe "oly Spirit. *aul said that we o!tain righteousness which is of #od !y faith, and that hestrove to attain that resurrection.

6hillipians : =-21

= #nd e ound in him, not havin$ my own righteousness,which is o

the law, ut that which comes throu$h the aith o hrist, therighteousness whih is o$ (od b" $aith:

10 hat I may know him, and the power o his resurrection, and theellowship o his suerin$s, ein$ made on$ormable to his death%

11 I y any means I mi$ht attain to the resurretion o$ the dead

12 Not as though I had alread" attained, either were alreadyperect: ut I ollow ater, i that I may apprehend that or which also I amapprehended o hrist 9esus

1 Brethren, I don)t ount m"sel$ to ha*e a%%rehended+ ut this

one thin$ I do, or$ettin$ those thin$s which are ehind, and reachin$ orthto those thin$s which are eore,

1 I press toward the mark or the priHe o the hi$h callin$ o !od inhrist 9esus

1> 'et us thereore, as man" as be %er$et, be thus minded+ and iin any thin$ you e otherwise minded, !od shall reveal even this to you

17 Fevertheless, to those thin$s we have already attained, let us walk ythe same rule, let us mind the same thin$

1; Brethren, e ollowers to$ether o me, and mark them which walk soas you have us or an e5ample

18 or many walk, o whom I have told you oten, and now tell you evenweepin$, that they are the enemies o the cross o hrist:

1= +hose end is destruction, whose !od is their elly, and whose $lory isin their shame, who mind earthly thin$s.

20 or our on*ersation is in ea*en% rom whence also we look orthe 4aviour, the 'ord 9esus hrist:

21 +ho shall hange our *ile bod", that it may e ashioned like to his


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$lorious ody, accordin$ to the workin$ wherey he is able e*en tosubdue all things to himsel$'

Many !elieve that the a!ove verses are saying that the change is our change fromsinful !odies to sinless !odies. hat is not true. he change from the sinful !ody to thesinless !ody occurs !y putting yourself under the Lordship of Christ. Christ su!dues your!ody and all the works of your !ody unto himself !y the "oly Spirit. hat is what it says...

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he a!ove verses do not imply that we have to wait for the return of the Lord to !ecomesinless. &t says @uite the contrary. &t says we apprehend it, that we strive to attain it. hatit is righteousness that is of #od !y faith rather than !y keeping the law. &t says it'sworking in us


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2 @eekness, temperance: a$ainst such there is no law/

his is not law we are preaching, it's righteousness !y o!edience in the Spirit. herecan !e no corrupt fruit in a good tree. his corruption must put on incorruption0. he popularteachers are treading on very dangerous ground. hey teach that Christ's righteousness is-counted- as theirs even though their !odies retain sin until they die or until the Lord comes.

hey teach that no one can ever stop sinning in this !ody or in this life. Bhich is the same

as teaching one cannot !e righteous. hey teach we are righteous !ecause we !elieve8esus is Lord and they call that righteousness which comes !y faith.

=et 8ohn saidA

/; &on't be deeived he that doe$ righteou$ne$$ i$ righteou$, *aul says that he does not act as though he's already attained therighteousness that is !y faith perfection0. "e said we press forward to it) Be have attainedmuch as we walk and certainly *aul attained more than we all !ut we have not attainedperfection yet. *erfection culminates in eternal life, not just for the soul, not just for the dead,!ut for they who live in these current !odies.

Be apprehend this perfection daily and some of us may die physically never havingattained. &f we do, then shall we !e raised at the last trumpet, having endured to the end.Bhen we are raised we shall !e raised -incorrupti!le and immortal.

=et, not all of us have to see the death of our physical !odies in order to attainincorruption and as a result immortality. /n entire generation will put on -incorruption- &:10 #nd has made us to our !od kin$s and priests: and we shall rei$n onthe earth/

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)evelation 20:

7 Blessed and holy is he that has part in the Grst resurrection: on suchthe second death has no power, ut they shall e priests o !od and ohrist, and shall rei$n with him a thousand years/

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)evelation 22:

> #nd there shall e no ni$ht there% and they need no candle, neitherli$ht o the sun% or the 'ord !od $ives them li$ht: and they shall rei$n orever and ever/

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)evelation :21 o him that overcomes will I $rant to sit with me in my throne, even

as I also overcame, and am set down with my ather in his throne

he a!ove te+ts were only a few of the many which state clearly that at the second comingof Christ, he returns with the risen saints and sets up his kingdom and that all the saints shallreign with him on the earth. :ither we are going to !e with him forever in the clouds or not.9oth cannot !e true.

The U Turn Argu2ent

he rapturists have proposed a ; turn version of the second coming in order to make thecatching away of the saints to literally mean we go up into the clouds, into the air. &n their

theory, the Lord returns in two distinct and separate phases. he second coming is !roken upinto two events which are 5 years apart. &n reality this would !e a second coming for therapture0 and then a third coming to set up his ingdom and rule0. ;nfortunately, there is nomention of a third coming of the Lord in scripture, so, they com!ine two supposed returnevents, chronologically separated !y 5 years, into one event. hey then call !oth events thesecond coming.

Bhere are the scriptures that support their view? hey don't e+ist) he whole theory is!ased on air. hey !elieve it for one reason, it fits what they want to !elieve a!out the rapture.

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the saints of the most "igh appearing with him. &f the living saints are -caught upinto the air,into the -clouds- to meet him at his return and if every eye sees Christ at his return, why dothey say that they disappear from the earth for seven years? Bhere are the scriptures?

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the air with him during the tri!ulation? Be see them, on the earth, just !efore the tri!ulation!eing sealed.

(ne might argueA

Bell, we follow the Lord and he's not here on the earth with us.

hat answer to that should !e o!vious. Be have the "oly Spirit. he rapture teaching saysno "oly Spirit in the world at that time.

)evelation ;:

2 #nd I saw another an$el ascendin$ rom the east, havin$ the seal othe livin$ !od: and he cried with a loud voice to the our an$els, to whom itwas $iven to hurt the earth and the sea,

4ayin$, 3urt not the earth, neither the sea, nor the trees, till we havesealed the servants o our !od in their oreheads

#nd I heard the numer o them which were sealed: and there weresealed an hundred and orty and our thousand o all the tries o thechildren o Israel

Be know that the 3GG,666 who are sealed are still on the earth during the tri!ulation!ecause %evelation says so, several timesA

)evelation =:#nd it was commanded them that they should not hurt the $rass o theearth, neither any $reen thin$, neither any tree% ut only those men whichhave not the seal o !od in their oreheads

(!viously the rapturists simply don't pay close enough attention to what they are readingin %evelation in their eagerness to create the pre$tri!ulation rapture and in order to make the9i!le say what they want it to say.

hey call the 3GG,666 8ewish :vangelists however, this cannot !e, for evangelism is aministry of the "oly Spirit and the Spirit is not in the world during the tri!ulation according to

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2 +herein in time past you walked accordin$ to the course o this world,accordin$ to the%rine o$ the %ower o$ the air, the spirit that now worksin the children o disoedience:/

:phesians calls Satan -the prince of the power of the air.- 7oes that mean that Satan isfloating around up in the air, in the clouds? "e might !e, !ut &'ve flown many times in the /irForce and &'ve never seen him up there0. &n this conte+t *aul is referring to the spiritual realm

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have !een talking a!out the day when Spiritually we are on Christ's level. Caught up to meetthe Lord in the Spirit.-

he "oly Spirit could !e the air spoken of here. he -!reath of life- that issues forth from#od through Christ. &t is the -air- that #od !reathed on man which caused him to -!ecome aliving soul.- 9efore Christ ascended to the Father he !reathed on the apostles and said-receive the "oly Spirit.-

9ohn 20:22 #nd when he had said this, he reathed on them, and says to them,

)eceive you the 3oly 4pirit:/

Bhen it says, -caught up to meet the Lord in the air- can it !e taken literal? /nything ispossi!le, however, in light of the other scriptures on the su!ject, it's not likely. here are farmore scriptures that support the air !eing -spiritual- or sym!olic -air- than the one singleverse that implies literal air, or sky. &n fact, there are really no scriptures to which one canpoint as conclusive proof that -caught up to meet the Lord in the air- is literal.

he rapturists argue that the Saints are seen with Christ when he comes in the -clouds of"eaven- is actually proof that it's literal -air.- (kay, so where is the proof that the saints

disappear for seven years first?he order of events areA

3. he trumpet sounds

>. he dead in Christ are raised

D. Be are changed

G. hen, according to the rapturist, we rise up to meet the Lord.

hat's a nice story, however all the scriptures depict the second coming of Christ -with allthe saints at the sounding of the trumpet. Bhere is the -vanishing- they speak of? Bhy won'tthe world !e a!le to witness this catching up? :specially when it states that when hedescends from "eaven -every eye shall see him.- /t !est, their teaching should !e that oneday the world looks up and sees Christ returning and sees the Christians all floating up into

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the clouds could have much sym!olism. Let's look at one e+ample of how the imagery ispro!a!ly sym!olicA

)evelation 1=:

1> #nd out o his mouth protrudes a sharp sword, with which he shallsmite the nations: and he shall rule them with a rod o iron: and he treadsthe winepress o the Gerceness and wrath o #lmi$hty !od

%evelation says there is a dou!le edged sword protruding from Christ's mouth at hisreturn. his is a sym!olic representation of the Bord of #odA

)evelation : 12

or the word o !od is Juick, and powerul, and sharper than any twoed$ed sword, piercin$ even to the dividin$ asunder o soul and spirit,and o the Coints and marrow, and is a discerner o the thou$hts andintents o the heart

(!viously, Christ does not literally appear with a sword for a tongue, sticking out of hismouth.

&n the same way we can deduce that Christ does not literally float in on a cloud at hissecond coming and neither do we float up there to meet with him and forever remain therefloating in the sky.

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10# CHRI%T'IQE PER$ECTIO!

Bhen we -put on immortality- :ternal Life0, according to the scriptures, death is defeated!ecause the 9ride of Christ has no more sin in her. his is the only way to defeat death$ getrid of sin. Be need not look very far to see this truth in scripture either. &f you go to thelandmark -rapture- verse in 3 hessalonians G and merely !ack up a few verses it is plainly

seen thereA1 hessalonians : 1-7

1 urthermore then we eseech you, rethren, and e5hort you y the'ord 9esus, that as you have received o us how you ou$ht to wal& and to%lease (od, so you would abound moreand more

2 or you know what ommandments we $ave you y the 'ord 9esus

or this is the will o !od, even your sanctiGcation, that you shouldabstain $rom $orniation+

hat every one o you should know how to%ossess his *esselin

sanctiGcation and honor%> Fot in the lust o concupiscence, even as the !entiles which know not

!od:

7 hat no man $o eyond and deraud his rother in any matter:ecause that the 'ord is the aven$er o all such, as we also haveorewarned you and testiGed

; or (od has not alled us to unleanness, but to holiness'-

So, !efore the author tells us of our !eing caught up to meet the Lord in the air he setsthe conte+t, which is our perfection in #odliness. (ur walk. *erfection in this life,sinlessness through sanctification and !y the "oly Spirit walk is the prere@uisite to !eing

raptured.Most not only ignore this !asic prere@uisite they outright deny it, saying that such a thing is

impossi!le in this current flesh and stating that no one can live without sin in this life !ecauseof the -sin nature- of the flesh /damic Curse, (riginal Sin0. &t is the !asic Christian !elief thatonly Christ could live without sin !ecause he was not just a man, he was #od incarnate. heyforever !ar themselves from attaining the very !asic state of e+istence that the scripturesstate is a re@uirement to !e -caught up to meet the Lord in the air.-

Bhile preaching rapture, they thwart it within themselves, stating they will -never livewithout sin in this life.- "ere in 3 hessalonians G he !egins his teaching on the secondcoming !y focusing like a laser on the one sign that precedes it. he church a!staining fromfornication sin0 and possessing his vessel, the 9ody of Christ, their own fleshly !odies0 with

sanctification and honor and not in lust.he writer of 3 hessalonians says that all sin against your !rother shall !e avenged and

warns them that our calling is to holiness first. "oliness is Christ like sinless perfection. Manyoutright deny that we can even !e -holy.- hey @uote the verse that says any man who sayshe has no sin is a liar a clear reference to someone saying they have never sinned and donot need to confess0 3 8ohn 3A20 and make it to say that no man, at any time can ever say -&have no sin.-

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the overcoming of sin completely is !eyond their grasp. "ow can such a person ever !e-raptured?- he answer is they can't !e and they won't !e.

%ecently my son and & attended one such church which preaches pre$tri!ulation rapture,claims to !e -spirit filled,- and claims to !e a -!eacon light- in our community. My son told oneof the elders there, -my dad and & !elieve we can !e like 8esus.- hat man responded, -wellthen, & think you and your 7ad are cra1y)- "ow can someone !e -raptured- if they ver!ally

and so in their heart0 deny the very !asic re@uirement for the rapture? / scriptural principleteaches that whatever you say with your mouth is what is in your heart.

'uke 7> # $ood man out o the $ood treasure o his heart rin$s orth that whichis $ood% and an evil man out o the evil treasure o his heart rin$s orththat which is evil: or o the aundance o the heart his mouth speaks/

/nother scriptural principle states that what you confess with your mouth and what you!elieve in your heart is e+actly what shall !efall you)

)omans 10:

10 or with the heart man elieves to ri$hteousness% and with the mouth

conession is made to salvation

@ark 11:

2 hereore I say unto you, whatever thin$s you desire, when youpray, elieve that you will receive them, and you shall have them

%omans 36A36 says it all. =ou !elieve to righteousness. &f you don't !elieve that you areever going to !e righteous, you won't ever !e and what you !elieve in your heart comes outthrough your mouth. &t's called either a positive or a negative confession. hey make anegative confession of their faith.

hose who say they will never stop sinning and never !e righteous in this life cannot

hope to attain that which they state is unattaina!le. hey !elieve it in their hearts that theywon't attain0 and then state it with their mouths.

hey create incredi!ly detailed doctrines and catechisms that teach this un!elief and theytruly do not !elieve in their hearts that which Christ and all the /postles promised will happeneither in this life or in the life to come resurrection0.

hey shall never see it)

%ight now Christ is -longsuffering- toward them, desiring they repent of this un!elief andwalk holy even as he is holy, !ut there comes a moment in history when they run out of time,when his patience runs out and he descends to reign with or without them

Bhat shall !ecome of them? hey have !een offered true deliverance from their sin !ut

they have settled for a pseudo righteousness where!y they are trapped in a -sin nature- untilChrist comes and transforms their flesh.

=et, Christ has already died and as a result sent the transformation. &t should have already!egun upon conversion and should !e an ongoing process that culminates in complete andtotal victory over sin)

"oliness) his is our -calling- and it is our -hope of Salvation.- hey neglect so great asalvation, !ut then think they shall escape judgment in some rapture.

3erews 2:

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Grst e$an to e spoken y the 'ord, and was conGrmed unto us y themthat heard him%

Bhen they reject Christlike perfection in this life and deem it impossi!le they reject theirown salvation. &nstead, they preach a lie, a gospel in which #od doesn't see their sins.

&nstead he already sees them as holy and perfect, seeing only the righteousness of Christwhen he looks at them. hey teach that the !lood of Christ covers or -hides- their sins from

#od, and #od does not notice, nor does he look at their sins anymore) Bhat peril they are in)Isaiah 2=:

1> +oe unto them that seek deep to hide their counsel rom the 'ord,and their works are in the dark, and they say, +ho sees them* and whoknows them*/

he modern rapturist teaches that, !y the !lood of Christ, through faith and grace we havealready defeated sin, !y pro+y. hey say their sins are -covered up- !y the !lood of the Lam!,the righteousness of Christ is counted to them as their own.

&n other words, they are actually the ones saying they have no sins. 8ust as 8ohn warnedin his letter "if any !an say he has no sin he is a liar and the truth is not in hi!." '+ ohn +:/

&f #od does no longer see their sin, their sin does not e+ist. *lain and simple. hey haveno sin, according to their doctrine. hey are completely free of sin in #od's eyes according tothem0 even if they continually walk around in a sin nature and commit sin regularly. heirteaching counts them as righteous and e@uates sin with righteousness. his is in completecontradiction to what 8ohn saidA

'ittle children let no man deceive you, he who does ri$hteousness isri$hteous, even as he is ri$hteous" 3 8ohn DA50

8ohn also said "he who commits sin is o the devil"3 8ohn DA 20

So, according to them they have already defeated sin and are already pure. &n completecontradiction to 8ohn, who said that this is a hope, and a work in progress.

1 9ohn :2 Beloved, now are we the sons o !od, and it doth not yet appear what

we shall e: ut we know that, when he shall appear, we shall e like him%or we shall see him as he is

#nd every man that has this hope in him puriGes himsel, even as he ispure/

he popular teachers claim to have already defeated sin !ecause Christ did it for them0.So, there is no more sin in them even if they sin all the time0. /ccording to the rapturist, if wewere to go to the throne and ask #od -does he or she have any sin- #od would look downupon them and say -& don't see any.-

he rapturist will even @uote 3 Corinthians 3E which says -flesh and !lood cannot inheritthe ingdom of #od,- and conclude that eternal life is only for the -soul- and not their !odies.Be have already seen this verse is actually saying that you cannot through the flesh inheriteternal life !ut only through the Spirit.

here are clearly some confused people out there)

hey do not understand that salvation is not just of the soul, !ut -mind, !ody, and spirit.-:ternal life is not just for their -ghost- !ut is for their entire !eing, to include their !odies aswell. hat is why it says -the dead in Christ rise first.- he dead in Christ rise !odily from thegraves and the graves are opened. 8ust as Christ's tom! was opened and found empty at his


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resurrection.

9ohn >:28-2=

28 @arvel not at this: or the hour is comin$, in the which all that are inthe $raves shall hear the sound o 3is voice,

2= #nd shall come orth% they that have done $ood, to the resurrection o

lie% and they that have done evil, to the resurrection o damnation/Bhen speaking of salvation, scripture says, -he that endures to the end the same shall !e

saved.-

Be aren't saved until we are fully saved. ;ntil we put on eternal life, !odily.

&n 3 Corinthians 3E *aul states that not everyone who !ecomes immortal must die to dothis. "e says, "we shall not all sleep but we shall all be changed."his chapter states thatthey who have died the -dead in Christ-0 shall rise first then we who are alive and remainshall !e -changed.-

Be shall not lose our !odies at this point in some sort of -vanishing.- (ur !odies will!ecome immortal, !ut as we have seen in numerous scriptures the immortality cannot comeunless sin is eradicated from our !odies) his is our work of faith our -la!or of love,- for only

!y the Spirit of love can we rid ourselves of sin) hat is also why scripture says we cannot doit -!y the flesh.-

Be do not attain to Christlike perfection !y following laws. Following rules a!out personalconduct can never change us to !e sinless, !ecause it's not good enough) (nly a trueconversion and transformation into loving spiritual !eings can accomplish this.

=et, modern teachers state openly that you will always have a -sin cursed !ody- in this lifeand !ecause of that you can not stop sinning) hey are clearly living !y -the flesh- and not !ythe -Spirit.- hey do not comprehend that their !ody of this flesh is dead in Christ through!aptism and they now should !e living -in newness of Spirit.-

Cur,e Ch*+ren

Let's look at what the /postles had to say a!out them who -cannot cease from sinA-2 6eter 2: =-1>

= he 'ord knows how to deliver the $odly out o temptations, and toreserve the unCust to the day o Cud$ment to e punished:

10 But chieAy them that walk ater the Aesh in the lust o uncleanness,and despise $overnment 6resumptuous are they, sel willed, they are notaraid to speak evil o di$nities

11 +hereas an$els, which are $reater in power and mi$ht, rin$ notrailin$ accusation a$ainst them eore the 'ord

12 But these, as natural rute easts, made to e taken and destroyed,speak evil o the thin$s that they understand not% and shall utterly perish intheir own orru%tion#

1 #nd shall receive the reward o unri$hteousness, as they that count itpleasure to riot in the day time 4pots they are and lemishes, sportin$themselves with their own deceptions while they east with you%

1 3avin$ eyes ull o adultery, and that annot ease $rom sin%e$uilin$ unstable souls: an heart they have e5ercised with covetouspractices% cursed children:


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1> +hich have orsaken the ri$ht way, and are $one astray, ollowin$ theway o Balaam the son o Bosor, who loved the wa$es o unri$hteousness%/

ake note first that *eter said -#od knows how to deliver the godly out of temptations.-hey deny this openly, stating that no one can cease from sin. o them, #od did not knowhow to deliver them from the temptation and the sin so he sent his Son to deliver them fromthe punishment only.

hey wrongfully interpret scripture to say that if any man claims he knows how to stopsinning he is "a liar and the truth is not in hi!." hus, just as *eter says in verse 36, they-speak evil of dignities.- here is no greater dignity than to preach righteous !ehavior amongthe #odly and no greater evil than to despise that teaching.

/s we see !y reading the a!ove passages from > *eter, this error is not new. he/postles saw it in their day and spoke out against it. *eter predicted that they who follow thiserror would "utterly perish in their own corruption."&s it a coincidence *eter speaks of sin ascorruption and *aul writes that in order to !e raptured, at the second coming, "thiscorruption !ust put on incorruption@"

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