A person asked:
What the Law depicts, with respect to this event, is the need for all men in Israel, and by extention in all the world, to die. The sacrificed animals depict the fact that all Israel deserved to die under the Law, which had been put in place by God to represent the curse that initially was delivered to Adam and Eve as a punishment for disobeying God's command. Since the Law exposes all men as sinners, all must die in accordance with the Law.
And so, the Law was given to foreshadow the hope of Israel to overcome death, which is what Paul meant by reiterating Christ's promise to Return and to have God's angels regather us, both living and dead. The dead will be resurrected, and those still living at this time will probably go through a one second period of leaving the body and ascending into the sky to join Christ in this glorification event.
I think, pretty much, those alive and remaining will go through something like a quick "death," the spirit departing the body just as a person's spirit departs the body at death. Instead of bodies flying into the sky, the bodies will probably be left behind as the angels seize the spirits of surviving Christians across the earth.
This "seizure" is what is commonly called "the Rapture," although it does not take place "at any time," but only at the moment Christ returns to defeat the Antichrist. See 2 Thessalonians 2.
It is a "taking" of our spirits in order to be joined, in the clouds, with new glorified bodies. It is not an escape from a "7 year Tribulation period." The Reign of Antichrist is not called, in the Bible, "the Tribulation Period," nor does his reign last 7 years--it lasts only 3.5 years.
The "Tribulation Period," referred to by Jesus, is actually the "Jewishs Diaspora," which had only begun in the 70 AD destruction of Jerusalem and the Temple. It will end when Christ comes back, delivers Israel, politically, from the nations, and establishes his Kingdom through the reign of the Church on earth.
At that time not just Israel will be restored, but many Christian nations, as well. Those not yet following the Lord fully, including many nominal Christians, will come to know the Lord more fully at this time. Those who had been fully following the Lord will be glorified at Christ's Coming to reign, I believe, over the earth from heaven with Christ.
And no nation on earth will be allowed for a thousand years to disrupt nations of God until a final rebellion from Satan takes place at the end of this thousand year period. Yes, I'm a Premillennialist and a Postribulationist. There are other views, and I would invite any and all to determine for themselves what they believe the Bible actually teaches.
Seeing many people today dispute the doctrine of the rapture, would anyone here therefore like to explain the prophecy of the rapture which is revealed in the law?
I watched yet another movie last night in which the "Rapture" was referred to as the hope of the Church. It is usually depicted when named "the Rapture" as an any-moment, Pretribulation Rapture of the Church.What the Law depicts, with respect to this event, is the need for all men in Israel, and by extention in all the world, to die. The sacrificed animals depict the fact that all Israel deserved to die under the Law, which had been put in place by God to represent the curse that initially was delivered to Adam and Eve as a punishment for disobeying God's command. Since the Law exposes all men as sinners, all must die in accordance with the Law.
And so, the Law was given to foreshadow the hope of Israel to overcome death, which is what Paul meant by reiterating Christ's promise to Return and to have God's angels regather us, both living and dead. The dead will be resurrected, and those still living at this time will probably go through a one second period of leaving the body and ascending into the sky to join Christ in this glorification event.
I think, pretty much, those alive and remaining will go through something like a quick "death," the spirit departing the body just as a person's spirit departs the body at death. Instead of bodies flying into the sky, the bodies will probably be left behind as the angels seize the spirits of surviving Christians across the earth.
This "seizure" is what is commonly called "the Rapture," although it does not take place "at any time," but only at the moment Christ returns to defeat the Antichrist. See 2 Thessalonians 2.
It is a "taking" of our spirits in order to be joined, in the clouds, with new glorified bodies. It is not an escape from a "7 year Tribulation period." The Reign of Antichrist is not called, in the Bible, "the Tribulation Period," nor does his reign last 7 years--it lasts only 3.5 years.
The "Tribulation Period," referred to by Jesus, is actually the "Jewishs Diaspora," which had only begun in the 70 AD destruction of Jerusalem and the Temple. It will end when Christ comes back, delivers Israel, politically, from the nations, and establishes his Kingdom through the reign of the Church on earth.
At that time not just Israel will be restored, but many Christian nations, as well. Those not yet following the Lord fully, including many nominal Christians, will come to know the Lord more fully at this time. Those who had been fully following the Lord will be glorified at Christ's Coming to reign, I believe, over the earth from heaven with Christ.
And no nation on earth will be allowed for a thousand years to disrupt nations of God until a final rebellion from Satan takes place at the end of this thousand year period. Yes, I'm a Premillennialist and a Postribulationist. There are other views, and I would invite any and all to determine for themselves what they believe the Bible actually teaches.
