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Calling All Rapturists |
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| In IThessalonians 4:16, Paul tells us of the return of the Messiah: "For the L-rd Himself will descend from heaven with a shout, with the voice of the archangel and with the trumpet (shofar) of G-d; and the dead in Messiah will rise first…" When read together with Revelation 11:15-17 we find that this resurrection will Take place on the seventh trumpet blast. (p. 99) If we were to take the "rapture" passages of 1Thes. 4:13-18 & 1Cor. 15:50-55 to be a separate event from the "second coming" passages of Dan. 7:13-14; Mt. 24:29-31; Mk. 13:24-27; Rev. 11:15 and 20:4-6 as the prior-rapturists do then we have some major chronology problems. Such a chronology would have the trumpet blast of Rev. 11:15 & Mt. 24:31 being blown after the "last trumpet" of 1Thes, 4:16 & 1Cor. 15:52). Such a chronology would also have the general resurrection of the just in 1Thes. 4:16 & 1Cor. 15:52 taking place before the "first resurrection" of Rev. 20:4-6). The KH’TAF (rapture) is clearly the event which Mt. 24:29 states occurs "immediately after the tribulation of those days… |
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