The Gathering (The Rapture)

The Rapture Joh: 14:2-3 In my Father's house are many mansions: if it were not so, I would have told you. I go to prepare a place for you. And if I go and prepare a place for you, I will come again, and receive you unto myself; that where I am, there ye may be also.      Our Lord and Savior Jesus will return to collect His church. When I say “Church”, I’m not talking about a building made by man, I am talking about all believers past, present, and future that have called on the name of Jesus, the Body of Christ.  He will take us to that place He has been preparing since the day of the cross. He has told us, "I go to prepare a place for you." You want to know what Jesus is doing right now??? He is preparing our future home. When God initiates His final plan for man, for the unsaved there is a tribulation period to think about but for those who are saved by grace, God has other plans for His Children, where He has gone; He plans to take us there!!  There is an event that has been titled by most true believers called “The Rapture”. The Time of Rapture is unknown, but when the time is appropriate, when the Lord has decided, He will gather all people that have given their trust to His redeeming power, both living and dead. We are told that He is coming back to collect those who belong to His church. No man can claim to know when this will occur, but we must be prepared, it could be today, it could be tomorrow; it could be in 50 years! No man can claim to know the hour or day, but we have hope in our Lord…. Here in Mathew 24 we are given a few details…         Matt 24:36-41But of that day and hour knoweth no man, no, not the angels of heaven, but my Father only. But as the days of Noe were, so shall also the coming of the Son of man be. For as in the days that were before the flood they were eating and drinking, marrying and giving in marriage, until the day that Noe entered into the ark, And knew not until the flood came, and took them all away; so shall also the coming of the Son of man be. Then shall two be in the field; the one shall be taken, and the other left. Two women shall be grinding at the mill; the one shall be taken, and the other left.        If you think back to the times of Noah before God judged man with a flood, the children of God had become horrible in sin. They were doing just about everything sinful imaginable, why do you think God destroyed them???  And it is mentioned here that when man begins behaving like we did in the times of Noah; that is the way the World shall be when the Lord returns. But look at these 2 women in Mathew, “Two women shall be grinding at the mill; the one shall be taken, and the other left.” How would you like to be the one left behind?  All believers will be taken to the prepared place until the 2nd coming of Jesus with the saints.  Jesus said, "I go to prepare a place for you."  So how does this all begin???? No man knows, but scripture tell us this….        1Th: 4:16-17: 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: 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.        Jesus left in the clouds to be in heaven, so it is safe to say that “the place Jesus is preparing” is somewhere up there in the skies, a place we call heaven. The world will not be able to see this, things will seem as usual down here, but if we are alive when the Rapture occurs, we will be going on a wild ride to join our Lord in the Heavens!  Jesus with a shout, a sound that only believers in the living God will hear, He will call us home. Now remember in Genesis, back in the creation, I ask you, how did God create? He Spoke! Gods voice is the voice of Creation! With a Word, the voice of God made the heavens and the earth, my friend, God spoke you into existence!!! The voice of God is at rest, but He will speak again!!! Like the blaring sound of a trumpet, God will transform us into a new body!!!  We will leave this world and join our Lord; to join Him in that place at the right hand of the Father that Jesus has been preparing for US!!! And with His Word, He will transform us into His Saints!!! The Rapture of the Saints will be the end of our existence in these physical bodies that suffer from pain and emotional distress. In a twinkling of an eye, all that are alive when the Father is ready to put His plan into action will receive their eternal body!!! Hallelujah Jesus!!!        1Co:15:50: Now this I say, brethren, that flesh and blood cannot inherit the kingdom of God; neither doth corruption inherit incorruption. Behold, I shew you a mystery; We shall not all sleep, but we shall all be changed, In a moment, in the twinkling of an eye, at the last trump: for the trumpet shall sound, and the dead shall be raised incorruptible, and we shall be changed.         That is why we promote the acceptance of Jesus today. You don’t want to miss this; the rapture is a one time in history event.  And if you are living today, live for Jesus, He is offering you so much just by accepting Him as you Lord and Savior.