RAPTURE
MYSTERY
1 Corinthians 15:51 (KJV) Behold, I shew you a mystery; We shall not
all sleep, but we shall all be changed,
1 Thessalonians 4:13 (KJV) But I would not have you to be ignorant,
brethren, concerning them which are asleep, that ye sorrow not, even
as others which have no hope.
SECRET TO ALL
REMOVAL OF BELIEVERS
1 Thessalonians 4:14 (KJV) For if we believe that Jesus died and rose
again, even so them also which sleep in Jesus will God bring with him.
15 For this we say unto you by the word of the Lord, that we which are
alive and remain unto the coming of the Lord shall not prevent them
which are asleep.
THE LORD HIMSELF
1 Thessalonians 4:16 (KJV) 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:
WITH SOUND
1 Thessalonians 4:16 (KJV) 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:
MEET THE LORD IN THE AIR
1 Thessalonians 4:17 (KJV) Then we which are alive and remain shall be Revelation 19:14 (KJV) And the armies which were in heaven followed
caught up together with them in the clouds, to meet the Lord in the air: him upon white horses, clothed in fine linen, white and clean.
and so shall we ever be with the Lord.
CAUGHT UP
1 Thessalonians 4:17 (KJV) 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.
AN ACT OF DELIVERANCE
1 Thessalonians 4:18 (KJV) Wherefore comfort one another with these
words.
1 Thessalonians 5:9 (KJV) For God hath not appointed us to wrath, but
to obtain salvation by our Lord Jesus Christ,
SECOND COMING
PROPHECY
SEEN BY ALL
Revelation 1:7 (KJV) Behold, he cometh with clouds; and every eye
shall see him, and they also which pierced him: and all kindreds of the
earth shall wail because of him. Even so, Amen.
REMOVAL OF UNBELIEVERS
Matthew 24:40 (KJV) Then shall two be in the field; the one shall be
taken, and the other left.
41 Two women shall be grinding at the mill; the one shall be taken, and
the other left.
SEND HIS ANGELS
Matthew 24:31 (KJV) And he shall send his angels with a great sound of
a trumpet, and they shall gather together his elect from the four winds,
from one end of heaven to the other.
WITH SIGNS
Matthew 24:30 (KJV) And then shall appear the sign of the Son of man
in heaven: and then shall all the tribes of the earth mourn, and they
shall see the Son of man coming in the clouds of heaven with power
and great glory.
Luke 21:25 (KJV) And there shall be signs in the sun, and in the moon,
and in the stars; and upon the earth distress of nations, with perplexity;
the sea and the waves roaring;
26 Men's hearts failing them for fear, and for looking after those things
which are coming on the earth: for the powers of heaven shall be
shaken.
27 And then shall they see the Son of man coming in a cloud with
power and great glory.
28 And when these things begin to come to pass, then look up, and lift
up your heads; for your redemption draweth nigh.
RETURN WITH THE LORD TO THE EARTH
TAKEN UP
Acts 1:9 (KJV) And when he had spoken these things, while they
beheld, he was taken up; and a cloud received him out of their sight.
10 And while they looked stedfastly toward heaven as he went up,
behold, two men stood by them in white apparel;
11 Which also said, Ye men of Galilee, why stand ye gazing up into
heaven? this same Jesus, which is taken up from you into heaven, shall
so come in like manner as ye have seen him go into heaven.
AN ACT OF JUDGMENT
Matthew 25:31 (KJV) When the Son of man shall come in his glory, and
all the holy angels with him, then shall he sit upon the throne of his
glory:
32 And before him shall be gathered all nations: and he shall separate
them one from another, as a shepherd divideth his sheep from the
goats:
Revelation 6:16 (KJV) And said to the mountains and rocks, Fall on us,
and hide us from the face of him that sitteth on the throne, and from
the wrath of the Lamb:

BEFORE THE TRIBULATION
1 Thessalonians 1:10 (KJV) And to wait for his Son from heaven, whom
he raised from the dead, even Jesus, which delivered us from the wrath
to come.
ANY MOMENT
1 Corinthians 15:52 (KJV) 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.
Titus 2:13 (KJV) Looking for that blessed hope, and the glorious
appearing of the great God and our Saviour Jesus Christ;
ANYWHERE
Romans 10:8 (KJV) But what saith it? The word is nigh thee, even in thy
mouth, and in thy heart: that is, the word of faith, which we preach;
9 That if thou shalt confess with thy mouth the Lord Jesus, and shalt
believe in thine heart that God hath raised him from the dead, thou
shalt be saved.
10 For with the heart man believeth unto righteousness; and with the
mouth confession is made unto salvation.
11 For the scripture saith, Whosoever believeth on him shall not be
ashamed.
12 For there is no difference between the Jew and the Greek: for the
same Lord over all is rich unto all that call upon him.
13 For whosoever shall call upon the name of the Lord shall be saved.
BY GRACE
Titus 2:11 (KJV) For the grace of God that bringeth salvation hath
appeared to all men,
13 Looking for that blessed hope, and the glorious appearing of the
great God and our Saviour Jesus Christ;
Ephesians 2:8 (KJV) For by grace are ye saved through faith; and that
not of yourselves: it is the gift of God:
9 Not of works, lest any man should boast.
Philippians 1:6 (KJV) Being confident of this very thing, that he which
hath begun a good work in you will perform it until the day of Jesus
Christ:
1 Corinthians 1:8 (KJV) Who shall also confirm you unto the end, that
ye may be blameless in the day of our Lord Jesus Christ.
17 For the great day of his wrath is come; and who shall be able to
stand?
AFTER THE TRIBULATION
Mark 13:24 (KJV) But in those days, after that tribulation, the sun shall
be darkened, and the moon shall not give her light,
25 And the stars of heaven shall fall, and the powers that are in heaven
shall be shaken.
26 And then shall they see the Son of man coming in the clouds with
great power and glory.
AFTER CERTAIN EVENTS
2 Thessalonians 2:1 (KJV) Now we beseech you, brethren, by the
coming of our Lord Jesus Christ, and by our gathering together unto
him,
2 That ye be not soon shaken in mind, or be troubled, neither by spirit,
nor by word, nor by letter as from us, as that the day of Christ is at
hand.
3 Let no man deceive you by any means: for that day shall not come,
except there come a falling away first, and that man of sin be revealed,
the son of perdition;
2 Thessalonians 2:4 (KJV) Who opposeth and exalteth himself above all
that is called God, or that is worshipped; so that he as God sitteth in
the temple of God, shewing himself that he is God.
IN JERUSALEM
Acts 2:19 (KJV) And I will shew wonders in heaven above, and signs in
the earth beneath; blood, and fire, and vapour of smoke:
20 The sun shall be turned into darkness, and the moon into blood,
before that great and notable day of the Lord come:
21 And it shall come to pass, that whosoever shall call on the name of
the Lord shall be saved.
Joel 2:30 (KJV) And I will shew wonders in the heavens and in the
earth, blood, and fire, and pillars of smoke.
31 The sun shall be turned into darkness, and the moon into blood,
before the great and the terrible day of the LORD come.
32 And it shall come to pass, that whosoever shall call on the name of
the LORD shall be delivered: for in mount Zion and in Jerusalem shall
be deliverance, as the LORD hath said, and in the remnant whom the
LORD shall call.
BY ENDURING
Matthew 24:13 (KJV) But he that shall endure unto the end, the same
shall be saved.
1 Peter 1:9 (KJV) Receiving the end of your faith, even the salvation of
your souls.
10 Of which salvation the prophets have inquired and searched
diligently, who prophesied of the grace that should come unto you:
1 Peter 1:13 (KJV) Wherefore gird up the loins of your mind, be sober,
and hope to the end for the grace that is to be brought unto you at the
revelation of Jesus Christ;
Hebrews 10:25 (KJV) Not forsaking the assembling of ourselves
together, as the manner of some is; but exhorting one another: and so
much the more, as ye see the day approaching.