Preparation for the tribulation.
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Paul, when he used that word "departure [G359 - analysis ]" (2Tim4:6), he was referring to his death (per context).
However, "rapture [G726 - harpagēsometha ]" (1Thess4:17), when the entire corporate "Church WHICH IS HIS BODY" will be "SNATCHed-up/-away]" at once (in ONE "snatch-action"), that is NOT equivalent (in any way) to the word or idea of [our] "death" (nor the idea of "sleep through Jesus" speaking of our "death").
(It will also involve our bodies, although they will be "changed in a moment" i.e. to "glorified" bodies; Phil3:21 "that it might be fashioned like unto His glorious body..." [i.e. what 2Cor5:4's "clothed-upon" speaks to also... that is, when we get our "glorified bodies"--"changed in a moment"])
However, "rapture [G726 - harpagēsometha ]" (1Thess4:17), when the entire corporate "Church WHICH IS HIS BODY" will be "SNATCHed-up/-away]" at once (in ONE "snatch-action"), that is NOT equivalent (in any way) to the word or idea of [our] "death" (nor the idea of "sleep through Jesus" speaking of our "death").
(It will also involve our bodies, although they will be "changed in a moment" i.e. to "glorified" bodies; Phil3:21 "that it might be fashioned like unto His glorious body..." [i.e. what 2Cor5:4's "clothed-upon" speaks to also... that is, when we get our "glorified bodies"--"changed in a moment"])
You gonna have to 'splain that one Wilbur. 
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You are welcome! Hopefully @Cameron143 will come along and answer your other questions for you...
Yup. i was born again in '63.
Absolutely!!! if you're not Born again of the Holy SPirit then ETERNAL HELL awaits
Unimportant. Christians will be removed before things get bad. Dying as a born again Christian is a good thing in the absolute, and NOBODY has any real idea about the events of the final days. "Eschatology" is just a "Religious word" for "Rank Speculation" - AND of course, I've got "Biblical proof" that the rapture of the CHURCH will occur during the "Feast of Trumpets" in 1988. I can hardly wait!!!!
Absolutely!!! if you're not Born again of the Holy SPirit then ETERNAL HELL awaits
Unimportant. Christians will be removed before things get bad. Dying as a born again Christian is a good thing in the absolute, and NOBODY has any real idea about the events of the final days. "Eschatology" is just a "Religious word" for "Rank Speculation" - AND of course, I've got "Biblical proof" that the rapture of the CHURCH will occur during the "Feast of Trumpets" in 1988. I can hardly wait!!!!
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REVELATION 20:4 "And I saw thrones, and they sat upon them, and judgment was given unto them: and I saw the souls of them that were beheaded for the witness of Jesus, and for the word of God, and which had not worshipped the beast, neither his image, neither had received his mark upon their foreheads, or in their hands