Tag: Secret Rapture
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“He is Coming with the Clouds, and Every Eye Will See Him”
Is There One, Two, Three, or Even Four Comings of Jesus? Texts: Revelation 1:7; Matthew 24:29-311 • Download this lecture outline (PDF) “Behold, he is coming with the clouds, and every eye will see him, even those who pierced him, and all tribes of the earth will wail on account of him. Even so. Amen 
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I don’t know about you, but my utmost desire is to be… LEFT BEHIND!
The following is excerpted from an article I wrote back on June 22, 2011. § A man and wife asleep in bed, She hears a noise and turns her head he’s gone. I wish we’d all been ready. Two men walking up a hill, One disappears and one’s left standing still. I wish we’d all…
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7 Reasons from 2 Thessalonians 1 Why the Left Behind Movies are Pure Sci-Fi
This is evidence of the righteous judgment of God, that you may be considered worthy of the kingdom of God, for which you are also suffering—6 since indeed God considers it just to repay with affliction those who afflict you, 7 and to grant relief to you who are afflicted as well as to us,…
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Gadaffy the New Antichrist?
Recent events in the Middle East, however, has some of the most popular “prophets” thinking about Libya’s Moamar Gadaffy as the newest candidate. But what proof do they have?
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Vengeance and Glory at the Second Coming of the Lord Jesus
In the new heaven and new earth, believers will get rest from tears, death, mourning, crying and pain. All the curses of nature—earthquakes, tsunamis, typhoons, hailstorms, drought, pestilence—will cease, and the earth will be restored to its fullness, much better than the Paradise of Eden.
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Exhortations and a Prayer for Peace Through Sanctification
You did not choose God out of your own free will. God did not give you a new heart because you decided to have faith and repent of your sin. Your righteousness was given to you by Christ because you were chosen by God from eternity—he is the only perfectly righteous person—and not because you…
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“Since You are Children of the Day, the Second Coming Should not Surprise You Like a Thief in the Night”
As dual citizens—sojourners and exiles in this world, but members of God’s holy nation—you are to be ready, living holy and godly lives, using the weapons of faith, love and hope so you may persevere until he comes. Be assured that Christ will complete the good work he has begun in you because he has…
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“Encourage One Another with These Words About the Resurrection”
At the close of the age, all human beings who ever lived in this world will be resurrected together. Christ will then separate them: one group for eternal heaven, the other group for eternal hell. If the first resurrection happens 1,007 years before the second, the above texts picturing a separation between the two groups…
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New Series: 1 Thessalonians–Faithful Living Before Rapture Part 1
“Then we who are alive, who are left, will be caught up together with them in the clouds to meet the Lord in the air, and so we will always be with the Lord.”—1 Thessalonians 4:17 Paul’s two letters to the church in Thessalonica were meant to encourage them in the wake of the unexpected deaths…