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The End of the World: Future Events and You
The Rapture: What Is It?  I Thessalonians 4:13-18

  1. THE RAPTURE IS OUR H______  .  (I Thessalonians 4:13)
    1. We are not to be I__________  .
    2. There are others who have no hope.  Compare Ephesians 2:12.
    3. The believers hope is a C___________  E_____________  !
      1. Job 19:25-27
      2. Proverbs 14:32
      3. I Corinthians 15:19-23
      4. Titus 2:13
      5. Hebrews 6:17-20
  2. THE RAPTURE IS THE COMING OF THE LORD JESUS F_____  U____  .
    1. The “Return of Christ” includes the Rapture: Jesus coming in the air for us…
    2. Later followed by the Revelation: Jesus returning to the earth W______  U____  !
  3. THE RAPTURE IS THE RESURRECTION OF D______  CHRISTIANS.  (I Thessalonians 4:16)
    1. At the Rapture, all church-age believers will be R_____________  with new bodies like the body of the resurrected Jesus.  (Philippians 3:20-21; I John 3:2, etc.)
    2. Notice that Paul is not talking about “soul sleep,” v. 14.  See II Corinthians 5:6-8.
  4. THE RAPTURE IS THE C__________  A______  OF LIVING CHRISTIANS.  (I Thessalonians 4:17)
    1. Compare the same original word in Acts 8:39; II Corinthians 12:2-4; Revelation 12:5
      1. The word indicates the forceful removal from one place to a different place.
      2. This catching away as seen from a different perspective: John 14:1-6
    2. Some deny the Rapture “because the word is not found in the Bible.”