Post by Les Brewer on Nov 20, 2021 16:22:44 GMT
Rapture Readiness
Now is the time to choose for Jesus Christ, because when we die we simply face the judgment.
Please note there is no reincarnation; one does not live and die and live and die: one simply dies!
(27) And since it is appointed for all mankind once to die, and afterwards the judgement;
(28) so the Christ also, having been once offered in sacrifice in order that He might bear the sins of many, will appear a second time, separated from sin, to those who are eagerly expecting Him, to make their salvation complete. Hebrews 9:27
However the exception to this rule is those taken in the rapture will never die once. Hence they will never see the corruption of their bodies.
(16) For the Lord himself shall descend from heaven with a shout, with the voice of the archangel, and with the trump of God: and the dead in Christ shall rise first:
(17) Then we which are alive and remain shall be caught up together with them in the clouds, to meet the Lord in the air: and so shall we ever be with the Lord.
(18) Wherefore comfort one another with these words. 1 Thessalonians 4:16-18
Caught up in the Greek is: harpazō (har-pad'-zo) to seize (in various applications): - catch (away, up), pluck, pull, take (by force).
So the verb translated caught up here means to seize, or to carry off by force.
This passage of scripture is the basis for the New Testament doctrine of the rapture, hence; the catching away of believers to be with Jesus. The word rapture is not in the ancient Greek text, but comes from the Latin Vulgate, which translates the phrase caught up with rapturus, from which we get our English word rapture.
Jesus taught us that whatever state of being that we fall dead in is the state of being which we shall be judged by. If you are walking in or practicing sin as a lifestyle that’s the way you will be judged; not by your confession but by the fruits of your life. One who is born again does not live in sin but are empowered by the Spirit to overcome and walk in the righteousness of Christ. Please take your salvation seriously and vest it in Christ Jesus who came to set us freedom from the bondage of the flesh so that we could walk in the works we were created to walk in proving that he indeed lives in and through us! Jesus is coming and if we are alive when he comes we shall never see death! Selah
Shalom, Agape, and Amen!
Bishop D. Ray Ritchie (Apostle of the Faith)
Now is the time to choose for Jesus Christ, because when we die we simply face the judgment.
Please note there is no reincarnation; one does not live and die and live and die: one simply dies!
(27) And since it is appointed for all mankind once to die, and afterwards the judgement;
(28) so the Christ also, having been once offered in sacrifice in order that He might bear the sins of many, will appear a second time, separated from sin, to those who are eagerly expecting Him, to make their salvation complete. Hebrews 9:27
However the exception to this rule is those taken in the rapture will never die once. Hence they will never see the corruption of their bodies.
(16) For the Lord himself shall descend from heaven with a shout, with the voice of the archangel, and with the trump of God: and the dead in Christ shall rise first:
(17) Then we which are alive and remain shall be caught up together with them in the clouds, to meet the Lord in the air: and so shall we ever be with the Lord.
(18) Wherefore comfort one another with these words. 1 Thessalonians 4:16-18
Caught up in the Greek is: harpazō (har-pad'-zo) to seize (in various applications): - catch (away, up), pluck, pull, take (by force).
So the verb translated caught up here means to seize, or to carry off by force.
This passage of scripture is the basis for the New Testament doctrine of the rapture, hence; the catching away of believers to be with Jesus. The word rapture is not in the ancient Greek text, but comes from the Latin Vulgate, which translates the phrase caught up with rapturus, from which we get our English word rapture.
Jesus taught us that whatever state of being that we fall dead in is the state of being which we shall be judged by. If you are walking in or practicing sin as a lifestyle that’s the way you will be judged; not by your confession but by the fruits of your life. One who is born again does not live in sin but are empowered by the Spirit to overcome and walk in the righteousness of Christ. Please take your salvation seriously and vest it in Christ Jesus who came to set us freedom from the bondage of the flesh so that we could walk in the works we were created to walk in proving that he indeed lives in and through us! Jesus is coming and if we are alive when he comes we shall never see death! Selah
Shalom, Agape, and Amen!
Bishop D. Ray Ritchie (Apostle of the Faith)
