The End of the World: Future Events and You
The Rapture: What Is It? I Thessalonians 4:13-18
- THE RAPTURE IS OUR H______ . (I Thessalonians 4:13)
- We are not to be I__________ .
- There are others who have no hope. Compare Ephesians 2:12.
- The believer’s hope is a C___________ E_____________ !
- Job 19:25-27
- Proverbs 14:32
- I Corinthians 15:19-23
- Titus 2:13
- Hebrews 6:17-20
- THE RAPTURE IS THE COMING OF THE LORD JESUS F_____ U____ .
- The “Return of Christ” includes the Rapture: Jesus coming in the air for us…
- Later followed by the Revelation: Jesus returning to the earth W______ U____ !
- THE RAPTURE IS THE RESURRECTION OF D______ CHRISTIANS. (I Thessalonians 4:16)
- 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.)
- Notice that Paul is not talking about “soul sleep,” v. 14. See II Corinthians 5:6-8.
- THE RAPTURE IS THE C__________ A______ OF LIVING CHRISTIANS. (I Thessalonians 4:17)
- Compare the same original word in Acts 8:39; II Corinthians 12:2-4; Revelation 12:5
- The word indicates the forceful removal from one place to a different place.
- This catching away as seen from a different perspective: John 14:1-6
- Some deny the Rapture “because the word is not found in the Bible.”