Summary of Bible references on the Rapture

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16 But blessed are your eyes, for they see; and your ears, for they hear. 17 For verily I say unto you, that many prophets and righteous men desired to see the things which ye see, and saw them not; and to hear the things which ye hear, and heard them not.

Yahoo! It is wonderful to be able to see and hear these words. To be able to perceive what is going on. What is it like? To me I feel like I am playing basketball with the most skillful assist king there is. I don't worry about the ball, I just head for the basket and if I am free somehow the ball will be there right in my hands when I need it. How does He do that? I bet everyone who has ever played this game has wished to have someone like Jesus on their team.

18 Hear then ye the parable of the sower. 19 When any one heareth the word of the kingdom, and understandeth it not, then cometh the evil one, and snatcheth away that which hath been sown in his heart.

Wow did you get that? What is the word saying? Leave the wayside. Get away from those evil birds. What fellowship does light have with darkness? Why do you stay there? I was asking someone this the other day. We know that the NY Times was lying to us, not by accident, but intentionally. So why would you continue to go to them to find out what is going on? The same thing is true of NPR, MSNBC, CNN, etc. If they lie to you once, shame on them. But if they lie to you twice, shame on you.

This is he that was sown by the way side. 20 And he that was sown upon the rocky places, this is he that heareth the word, and straightway with joy receiveth it; 21 yet hath he not root in himself, but endureth for a while; and when tribulation or persecution ariseth because of the word, straightway he stumbleth.

No root in himself. What a great expression. Have you ever been accused on the internet of spreading misinformation, of being a liar? If you have no root in yourself you just wither away. But if you can stand up to adversity then that is because you do have root in yourself. If I repeat what someone else told me and then am accused of being a liar, I have no root in myself with that word. I am ready to abandon it immediately. You need to have root in yourself, to be able to walk into battle and when the punches are being thrown stand your ground.

22 And he that was sown among the thorns, this is he that heareth the word; and the care of the world, and the deceitfulness of riches, choke the word, and he becometh unfruitful.

This is a very different case. The stony ground doesn't really have anything with deep roots growing, but here these thorns might have a very substantial root system. These guys fight back and they have tricks, like thorns, to really harass and bother you. The only way to deal with stony ground is hard, sweaty labor. Dig out those rocks, develop the soil. But thorns are very different, the best way to deal with them is not up close. If you use a machete you will be wrapped up in thorns. The best way to deal with them is fire. Video games are like thorns, TV is like thorns, movies, etc. Easiest and best way to deal with them is throw out the TV, throw out the video game. I am serious, burn it all down, then you can easily dig up the soil, pull out the roots, plant and get a decent harvest. instead of watching college kids pull off a miracle on ice during the olympics, instead of watching movies about miracles, you can be the one on the ice, in the middle of the battle. But you need to be serious and it starts by being serious concerning these thorns.

23 And he that was sown upon the good ground, this is he that heareth the word, and understandeth it; who verily beareth fruit, and bringeth forth, some a hundredfold, some sixty, some thirty.

Don’t think of this as four kinds of people (or even five if you want to include the birds). I know it has been taught this way, but I look at this like a white belt, yellow belt, orange, green, brown and black belt in karate. Every single one of us has had these experiences. In my own experience I wanted to speak the word of God, I wanted the “sword of the Spirit”. But I had to first learn to understand the word, to make sure it can germinate in my heart. Then, I needed to learn how to endure tribulation and persecution. This is all about learning to stand and not being ignorant of your enemy. The Bible says the enemy is like a snake or a scorpion that will strike. I used to hike in areas with poisonous snakes and scorpions but was never worried because I had good boots. If you have boots that go up your shin and are too thick for a snake to bite through there is nothing to worry about. You need to shod your feet with the “gospel of peace”. All these protestors who are marching through the streets need to learn this, they aren’t shod with the “gospel of peace” as a result they are getting stung and snake bit at every turn. After that I took a tour through the deceitfulness of the world and all the ways they choke the word. You can see all these people in the world learning this right now about Youtube choking the word. They are using algorithms to basically choke these Youtube stations. Facebook and Twitter are like evil birds censoring the word, not even allowing it a chance. PBS is like the rocky soil, a little persecution and they buckle, they won’t even touch a controversial topic. But if you can get through all that then you start to bear fruit. Maybe the first year it is thirty but you can keep working at it and get that up to sixty and keep on pressing on till you get to a hundred.

 

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While you slept an enemy came

24 Another parable set he before them, saying, The kingdom of heaven is likened unto a man that sowed good seed in his field: 25 but while men slept, his enemy came and sowed tares also among the wheat, and went away. 26 But when the blade sprang up and brought forth fruit, then appeared the tares also. 27 And the servants of the householder came and said unto him, Sir, didst thou not sow good seed in thy field? whence then hath it tares? 28 And he said unto them, An enemy hath done this.

Yes, this discovery about what has been going on with FreeMasons as well as Moloch and Baal worship is stunning. The gospel of Jesus Christ was out in the open, the seeds were planted in the light. But these Satanists have worked in the night, in the dark, secretly.

And the servants say unto him, Wilt thou then that we go and gather them up? 29 But he saith, Nay; lest haply while ye gather up the tares, ye root up the wheat with them. 30 Let both grow together until the harvest:

Let them both grow together! Think about that. Believers need to grow together with Satanists. It gives a whole new understanding of the apostasy. This was not some slide downhill due to gravity, it was infiltration by those with an evil agenda.

and in the time of the harvest I will say to the reapers, Gather up first the tares, and bind them in bundles to burn them; but gather the wheat into my barn.

Once again, anyone who has truly given themselves to follow the lord has experienced false prophets. They look just like wheat but they are poison. The world uses these as evidence that all of Christians are false, but the truth is this is evidence that there is a spiritual warfare and that the Lord has an enemy. Think about these protests, do rioters and looters mean that all the protests are false? Once again they made a big mistake, they looked at the church and despised it. They were bigger, stronger, and didn’t need that. But now that they need to take a stand for righteousness they don’t know how, they stumble at every turn, they haven’t been trained.

The tribulation is "the time of harvest". This time begins with the offering of the firstfruits to God at Shavuot. You have to offer the firstfruits to God and they need to be acceptable before you can harvest the field.

There is an interesting progression here. In the first parable there are hindrances to the gospel, birds that steal the seeds, stony soil and thorn bushes. For two thousand years it seems the enemy was within us. The enemy was our flesh, our sins, our worldly desires. But then it is as though at the end of the age people wake up to discover wow, Satan is real and has been actively working for these last two thousand years in secret. It is really hard to distinguish the tares from the wheat before they have the seeds but after they bring forth the fruit it is easy.

 

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Who lives there?

31 Another parable set he before them, saying, The kingdom of heaven is like unto a grain of mustard seed, which a man took, and sowed in his field: 32 which indeed is less than all seeds; but when it is grown, it is greater than the herbs, and becometh a tree, so that the birds of the heaven come and lodge in the branches thereof.

"Another parable", another way to look at this age and this time. In the first parable we see we will be judged for how we responded and received the word of God. In the second parable we discover that at night, while we slept, Satan planted Tares and they have grown up alongside of us. We are seeing this right now in the US. After the rapture it will become very obvious. Now in this parable we learn about some genetically modified mustard plant. It is supposed to be a herb but it becomes a giant tree. To make things worse, all those birds that eat the seeds are lodging in the branches of this tree. This is what the apostasy is. The FreeMasons are a massive organization and they use their money to buy their way into large denominations and pervert them. They are transformed from a place that is a humble herb good for food, to a great tree that allows evil birds to lodge in. Of the 12 apostles, one was a traitor, Judas. How would you know who Judas was? He was the one guy who was from Jerusalem, all the others were Galileans. He was the guy who handled the offering bucket and was always talking about how everyone needed to give to the poor, a fund which he controlled. Mustard is not the main dish, it isn’t the “big guy”. It isn’t steak or potatoes. Abnormal growth is an indication of something cancerous, something corrupt. For example the first time I was visiting Mexico I was stunned by the poverty. We drove past houses that people were living in that were being built a few cinder blocks at a time. It was as though with each paycheck the family would add another ten cinder blocks to the house. But then we passed this huge mansion. It had a wall with barbed wire and guards. The person in the van with me told me that in that mansion they had an indoor tennis court and a swimming pool. I asked “who lives there”? He said “the police chief”.

 

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33 Another parable spake he unto them; The kingdom of heaven is like unto leaven, which a woman took, and hid in three measures of meal, till it was all leavened.

This term "another parable" is the context. On the day that Jesus went out of the house and sat by the sea all these things were the case. The gospel had been preached throughout the world and that word had been received in various stages of effect. If you lived by the wayside, or if your soil was rocky soil, or if you were consumed with thorns and of course if you were good farmland. It was also at this time we discovered that Satan had also planted poisonous plants, tares, about the same time that Jesus sowed Himself as a grain of wheat. We can see this monstrosity of the Catholic church, the universal church, that houses all kinds of evil birds. But not only so we also discover that the three measures of meal have been completely leavened. This is the apostasy. In the apostasy if you receive the word of God as the truth then you are misogynistic, sexist, and homophobic. No, they are more "broad minded" than the Bible. They don''t go around condemning sin, no, it is about encouraging every person to be themselves. You do not talk about the rapture, that is a no no, and many of the stories in the Bible are simply flowery language. They will tell you that Noah's flood was not anything like they describe in the Bible but rather just a regional flood, and there is a long list of things where "the Bible says this, but the real truth is something else". That is leaven, man's tradition is king and the word of God is completely leavened. As a result no one can read the Bible because they can't know what it means until they are told what the appropriate interpretation is, what is the approved narrative. What do we see? The attack was on the gospel, the attack was on the church, and now the attack is on the word of God.

This is probably the most difficult parable to interpret. Everyone loves leavened bread. The best french restaurants have wonderful bread. I once had to live on thirty dollars for thirty days. I slept in the fields and I would buy one loaf of bread each day (this was in England where they had wonderful bread as well). We are talking about the best bread, not the worst. Second, I used to make bread. Making unleavened bread is simple, a ten year old could do it without any difficulty. But making leavened bread, that is where the art and skill and training comes in. So why is it that you or anyone else is afraid to share the word? How did people get intimidated to not speak? Hollywood and the media brings in the most skillful story tellers and by comparison we just can’t stand up to them. No one can, everyone has to start at the white belt stage and work their way up to black belt. The church is supposed to be a safe place where we can learn to speak the word of God. We all begin with unleavened bread. The world mocks us, but as a result we have millions that can share the word and speak their testimony.

This is a major effect of this three measures of meal being fully leavened. Read the Bible and you see all kinds of people walking by faith, speaking the word. But the impact of this leavening is that you need a degree they give you where they have spent years making sure you understand the approved narrative and what you can and cannot say before you are allowed to speak.

 

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34 All these things spake Jesus in parables unto the multitudes; and without a parable spake he nothing unto them: 35 that it might be fulfilled which was spoken through the prophet, saying, I will open my mouth in parables; I will utter things hidden from the foundation of the world.

It is amazing to me how much is hidden in these parables. They applied to us at the beginning of the age and they apply to us here at the end of the age. Think about it, why would the church be likened to a mustard plant? The believers are wheat, the church is a wineskin to hold the new wine. Mustard is a spice. The church should be an animal skin, perhaps from a lamb, or sheep, or ram. So yes, this plant is weird but it seems to have originated from Cain, not Able. Yes it may refer to the Catholic church but probably refers to human government. Human government grows into a monstrosity with evil birds lodging in their branches, trying to censor the word of God.

36 Then he left the multitudes, and went into the house:

This looks like the rapture.

and his disciples came unto him, saying, Explain unto us the parable of the tares of the field.

Yes, that was the biggest surprise this last year, the Nephilim, the Moloch and Baal worshippers, the FreeMasons, the plandemic and a vaccine designed to manipulate your DNA. You want to know about them? Well after the rapture, once the "restrainer" is removed, you will be able to get a full view of them.

37 And he answered and said, He that soweth the good seed is the Son of man; 38 and the field is the world; and the good seed, these are the sons of the kingdom; and the tares are the sons of the evil one; 39 and the enemy that sowed them is the devil: and the harvest is the end of the world; and the reapers are angels. 40 As therefore the tares are gathered up and burned with fire; so shall it be in the end of the world. 41 The Son of man shall send forth his angels, and they shall gather out of his kingdom all things that cause stumbling, and them that do iniquity, 42 and shall cast them into the furnace of fire: there shall be the weeping and the gnashing of teeth. 43 Then shall the righteous shine forth as the sun in the kingdom of their Father. He that hath ears, let him hear.

So there is not just the rapture of the saints to the hidden chamber, the harvest of the wheat, there is also the gathering of the tares to fires. What are we seeing right now? We are seeing a scandal that involves Hunter Biden and Joe Biden. But not only so, it involves Facebook and Twitter who actively censored the story, admitted they were wrong, but continue to censor it. But not only so, we have ABC, CBS, NBC, MSNBC, NY Times, Washington Post and PBS all refusing to carry the story. Why? It has been verified by the FBI, DOJ, and DNI. A little persecution and they have completely withered (if you are not aware the internet has completely destroyed these news agencies and they survive by the good grace of Facebook). Then there are other news sources, the conservative right, that are on Youtube but are being actively choked by Youtube. But Jesus is Lord, and in His sovereignty the tares will be exposed, gathered and cast into the furnace. It now appears that the story goes beyond Joe Biden and includes John Kerry and Hillary Clinton. In addition to these three there are other very prominent government officials mentioned as contacts as well. We need to pray and ask the Lord “Jesus, you have come out of the House, this is the Day of the Lord, not the day of the Tares, we expect you to honor your word and God’s word. We expect you to send for the angels to gather your faithful ones to the hidden chamber and we also expect you to send forth your angels to gather the tares to the furnace of fire.”

 

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I also was at a big family gathering, everyone was dressed up in very nice clothes, it looked like they were about to have a wedding, but I was walking around in shorts like a runner. No one was bothered that I wasn't dressed yet.

 

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The Gospel of accommodation

Preachers become appeasers. Created in hell. Spoon fed through skits -- seeker friendly. Formula -- where you can build a mega church in a city.

1. Why don't you attend church?

2. What was offensive about it?

3. What do you need to return?

Then design a program that appeases the backsliders.

 

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Fire Sale!

44 The kingdom of heaven is like unto a treasure hidden in the field; which a man found, and hid; and in his joy he goeth and selleth all that he hath, and buyeth that field.

If our heart is the ground, whether stony, or overgrown with thorns or the good ground, then what is this treasure that is hidden in our heart? Paul said that "we have this treasure in earthen vessels". Think how fitting this is, the enemy came at night, secretly hiding tares among the wheat in the field to hurt the farmer. Then the enemy has done some Frankenstein genetic manipulation to change a mustard herb into a huge tree that houses evil birds, an army to control what you tweet. Not only so but a woman has hidden leaven into the three measures of meal to corrupt or change what you eat. OK, well guess what, the Lord has also come in secretly and hidden a treasure, He also is doing His transforming work to change us into the sons of God, and try as they might He has made sure that the pure Bible, the pure word of God is available to those who will eat it.

45 Again, the kingdom of heaven is like unto a man that is a merchant seeking goodly pearls: 46 and having found one pearl of great price, he went and sold all that he had, and bought it.

Again? Not "another parable" but "again". This is a scary word here. Many of us wonder will we get raptured? How do we measure up? Jesus is saying He will be like an expert at valuing pearls and when He sees one of great worth then He sells all! That is what is happening in the tribulation and Great tribulation. It is a fire sale! All must Go!. When the Lord came the first time He was the burnt offering, when He comes again everything else will become the burnt offering, the fire sale, to get that goodly pearl. Sure, you might be saved, that is to be a pearl. You might be in the NBA, that doesn't mean you are a champion. If you are in the NBA you are a basketball player, legit, no doubt about it. But are you the pearl of great price? Have you sold all?

Jesus sold all that He had to buy the church. Therefore, it isn’t asking too much that He expects the same of us. The New Testament is a contract in which we inherit Jesus Christ as our good land, in exchange we need to sell all that we have. A pearl indicates the transformation that takes place when we have grace in our tribulation. A grain of sand gets into an oyster which then coats the grain which is persecuting the oyster with nacre (the pearl substance). If you want to be transformed so that you have the “sword of the Spirit” to buy that sword you need to sell all that you have.

 

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44 The kingdom of heaven is like...

45 Again, the kingdom of heaven is like

The Kingdom of Heaven is like

This chapter tells us what the kingdom of heaven is like. It isn't telling us what Satan is like, or what the apostasy is like, or what the enemy is like, or what Jezebel is like. All of these things, the enemy, Jezebel, this genetically modified mustard plant, these are all things used by God and under God's sovereignty to prepare a bride for His son.

This is the goal here, a bride that will match Jesus Christ, Lord of Lords and King of Kings.

I am reminded of a scene in the movie Miracle on Ice about how the coach will pay any price to get that gold medal. God the Father gave His only begotten Son, He has already shown us He will pay any price to get what He wants.

We get upset, oh He is a God of love, you won't let 2 billion people die. When a baby is born what happens to the placenta? When you refine silver what happens to the dross?

God knows exactly what He wants, He has hidden the treasure, He knows He has a pearl of great worth. He has been merciful, He has been long suffering. He has sown His word worldwide. He has given everyone a chance, if you are not part of the bride of Christ that was your choice. He gave you an open door, He paid the full price of your sin, so don't blame Him. You have a free will and you had the choice and what you ultimately get will be what you chose.

 

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It is already far too late

 

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I am going to share something that very few if any Christians have heard

Ephesians 1:20 Which he wrought in Christ, when he raised him from the dead, and set him at his own right hand in the heavenly places, 21 Far above all principality, and power, and might, and dominion, and every name that is named, not only in this world, but also in that which is to come: 22 And hath put all things under his feet, and gave him to be the head over all things to the church, 23 Which is his body, the fulness of him that filleth all in all.

When did God give Jesus to be the head over all things to the church? When He set him far above all at His right hand in the heavenlies. That was when Jesus ascended.

If Jesus was given to the church as Head over all doesn't that mean the church has already been born? Yes.

Ephesians 4:8 Wherefore he saith, When he ascended up on high, he led captivity captive, and gave gifts unto men. 9 (Now that he ascended, what is it but that he also descended first into the lower parts of the earth? 10 He that descended is the same also that ascended up far above all heavens, that he might fill all things.) 11 And he gave some, apostles; and some, prophets; and some, evangelists; and some, pastors and teachers; 12 For the perfecting of the saints, for the work of the ministry, for the edifying of the body of Christ:

When did Jesus lead captivity captive -- when He ascended.

When did Jesus give some apostles, prophets, evangelists, pastors and teachers -- when he ascended.

So then, when were all these gifts "birthed"? When Jesus ascended.

But hold everything, we don't see the gifts manifested until the day of Pentecost which is very clearly after the ascension. OK, I watched a video of Mike Tyson's first pro fight (it was very short). This was when he was first manifested. Do you think his skill as a boxer was born that day? Of course not, he had trained for that fight. The gifts are given at the time of the ascension, but they need the perfecting, the maturing, the training before they are ready to be manifested and put on display.

Look at the description of the Lord's ascension -- He ascended up, then the same guy who ascended descended which is the same guy who ascended far above all. This sounds exactly like the description of Shavuot.

But the Bible says that Jesus ascended 40 days after the resurrection and Shavuot is at least 50 days after the resurrection.

No, the Bible does not say that. What the Bible does say is that Jesus walked with the disciples 40 times after the resurrection prior to the ascension. Read the descriptions, he walks with the disciples on the road to Emmaus, they didn't recognize Him, then when He broke the bread He was manifested to them but then disappeared. That is one time. Another time He appears in the upper room when they are all gathered there. A third time Peter says he is going fishing, spends the whole night catching nothing and then Jesus appears in the morning. There is no hint that it was 40 days non stop. Rather the picture is that 40 times the Lord appeared to the disciples to teach them about the kingdom. So the Bible does not say that the period of time from the resurrection to the ascension was 40 days. What it does say is that Jesus walked with the disciples, ate with the disciples, fished with the disciples 40 times prior to the ascension and each time was a lesson on the kingdom.

The number 40 is very significant, it indicates a full and complete testing and trial. Jesus fasted for 40 days in the wilderness. It also signifies the church age which is 40 jubilees, or 2,000 years. That reminds us of how you count the time to Shavuot. You count seven complete sabbaths. You do not count 50 days. Seven complete sabbaths tells us we need to go through the complete church age of 7 golden lampstands, seven churches.

So then the church age is 40 jubilees, each jubilee is 50 years indicating the completion of God's grace. In these trials, in these tests we have God's grace just like the 40 lessons that Jesus gave to the disciples when He walked with them.

We have been told that the church was born on Pentecost, that is not Biblical, it is an interpretation, because just like Mike Tyson was manifested in his first fight this was the church's first manifestation. However, we know, and we can all agree that these gifts including Peter's apostleship were given at the ascension, not at Pentecost. Ephesians is crystal clear on this. We are told that the church had to be in existence at the ascension because that is when God gave Jesus to be head over all to the church.

If Pentecost is not Shavuot then what is it and why isn't it in the Old Testament?

Pentecost is the feast of new wine, this is alluded to in Acts. Jesus in the gospels said that you cannot put new wine into old wine skins. The Old Covenant was an old wine skin, the Spirit that was poured out on Pentecost was new wine. What you saw on Pentecost was new wine in new wine skins.

Pentecost is not a rapture scenario, Shavuot is, the day of ascension is, but Pentecost is not. 50 days after Shavuot, signifying a full measure of grace, 50 days after the Lord's ascension, 50 days after the rapture of the church we will see the Spirit poured out and we'll see an amazing revival all over the world. All those luke warm Christians who were left behind will have 50 days to repent, confess, dive into the word and catch on fire for the Lord. When they do speak they will be speaking with tongues of fire.

 

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Revelation 4 tells us the rapture will be on the Lord's day

 

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The Lord contends for those that are known of the Lord and He will set us apart for Him. He is the firstfruits from the dead, the king of kings and Lord of Lords, the one at the right hand of the Father.

 

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we put bits into the mouths of horses to make them obey us

James 3:3 When we put bits into the mouths of horses to make them obey us, we can turn the whole animal.

When Facebook or Twitter censors and fact checks posts they are "putting a bit" into your mouth to make you obey them. You can go this way and not that. You can promote the use of masks but you cannot ask about the origin of the pandemic. You can promote the vaccine but not question it.

4 Or take ships as an example. Although they are so large and are driven by strong winds, they are steered by a very small rudder wherever the pilot wants to go.

Individually we are like horses, collectively the US is like a great ship. Fauci was at the helm steering the ship and ran it onto the rocks. Fauci was a "very small rudder" but be assured there was a pilot pulling the strings. How do we know? Fauci had no control over all the press fawning over him.

5 Likewise, the tongue is a small part of the body, but it makes great boasts. Consider what a great forest is set on fire by a small spark. 6 The tongue also is a fire, a world of evil among the parts of the body. It corrupts the whole body, sets the whole course of one’s life on fire, and is itself set on fire by hell.

This pandemic is like a great forest fire. It is itself set no fire by hell. Still we should understand that it was the tongue of people like Fauci and the WHO that set the world on fire.

 

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Ephesians 1:20 Which he wrought in Christ, when he raised him from the dead, and set him at his own right hand in the heavenly places,

Consider the similarity between this verse concerning Jesus resurrection and ascension with Paul's teaching that the dead in Christ will rise first and then we who remain will be caught up with them. 16 For if the dead are not raised, neither hath Christ been raised: Isn't the converse also true? If you deny that the dead in Christ will rise then you are saying that Jesus also wasn't raised. OK, but doesn't that mean that these two are one and same thing? Jesus ascended to heaven, we also are caught up to heaven. The two shall become one flesh.

21 Far above all principality, and power, and might, and dominion, and every name that is named, not only in this world, but also in that which is to come: 22 And hath put all things under his feet, and gave him to be the head over all things to the church,

OK, it is easy to say that verse 21 doesn't apply to us until we get to verse 22. When a woman marries a man she gets him as "head over all things". This is what happened on Shavuot, they agree to marry God and at the same time they get all that He is. Verse 20 compares the Lord's ascension to our rapture and Verses 21-22 compare Shavuot with our being married to the Lord.

23 Which is his body, the fulness of him that filleth all in all.

It is one thing to say that Jesus is Lord of all, but show me what that means. Well, the church is the body of that. All those people redeemed, saved from sin, transformed into the image of God. The church is the crowning achievement of the Lord.