The Rapture What is the church ? Most bible scholars agree that the church is by definition, " the called out ones." The church is not a belief, nor is it a building made of wood or stone. It is not a religious denomination. The church is quite simply a group of people who are called out of the world to manifest the love and the will of GOD to all creation.The church is where Holy Ghost lives. The church is the tabernacle of GOD. The church is not a spirit thing,but it is a spirit filled thing. The church is the body of Christ.( Ephesians 1:23 ) Now, the ones who are called out are you and I, who are nothing more that human flesh. We are flesh of his flesh and bone of his bone. (Ephesians 5:30 )Jesus is the head of the church. (Collosians 1:18) The church is the literal, physcial body of Christ. Jesus lives in the church. How does he rule the church? By his spirit! 1 Corinthians 12:27 says that we are the body of Christ and members in particular. We are the only body that he has today. We are the building fitly framed togather that groweth up into a habitation of GOD tjrough the spirit. He lives in us. St. John 4:24 says that GOD is a spirit. We are the buildings of GOD not made with hands that God lives in. St. John 14:2," In my fathers house are many mansions,....". Most people think that they are going to die and go up there somewhere to live in a mansion. The mansions are not where you are going to go and live. The mansion is where he is going to live. The mansion has many places to dwell in. Oh we will be able to live in a place called love, joy, peace,etc. At one time Jesus said that foxes has holes, birds has nests, but the son of Man has nowhere to lay his head. Praise GOD he has one now. I pray that this message will really open your eyes to see all the false teaching that is in the world today, and to recognize the truth. Only GOD called men and women who are not menpleasers will dare to stand and proclaim the truth of the Rapture today. This truth is as real to me as it was 30 years ago wgen GOD opened my eyes to the truth. The older I get the more this all means to me. Jesus don't have to come back to get me for he has had me for 36 years. If you believe that he has to come and get you , then you must know that he don't have you. He is the bridegroom and we are the bride. He has woo'ed us and taken us into the secret chambers to make love to us, and now we are beginning to produce his seed which is his offspring. The wedding has taken place and the marriage supper has ended. He is the root and the offspring of David and we are the offspring of Christ, bone of his bone and flesh of his flesh. MAY GOD RICHLY BLESS AS YOU REACH OUT TO HIM. Is the Rapture fact or fiction? So much controversy has been made over the fact that a revelation has been preached naming the saints as the clouds of heaven. I see no need for such critism. The Word of GOD names the saints as the church, the mountains of the Lord,Trees,vines, branches, sheep,fish,lights,gods,brides, and many more.If you can accept the other names, why can't you accept the fact that we are elso the clouds? Our minds has been conditioned to believe that we must believe the standard teaching of the church crowd, or you were lost. Most of the teaching today comes from the Catholic church. The Godhead, water baptism in the name of the Father, Son, and the Holy Ghost,Easter, and Christmas all got their start from the councils cf the Catholic church. These are but a few of the examples.Many of the doctrines were started to try to deceive the very elect if possible. The Pope knows this and for this reason the lay members of the Catholic chuch are not allowed to have a view on the scriptures. It is the Pope that decides if something is to be allowed, for he alone is the interpter of the scriptures. Martin Luther was kicked out of their church because he disagreed with the church at Rome. Perhaps you should read Foxes book of Martyr's, or the book of Josepheus. Also many has been so gullible over the years that we have accepted every doctrine taught by those who were supposedly " religious authorities" of our day. We never even checked to see if there was any truth to it or not. The bible plainly teaches you to "study to show thyself approved as a workman who needed not to be ashamed, rightly dividing the the word of truth". (2 Tim. 2:15) A lot of your pastors won't let you study and teach unless it conforms to their own teaching. They are afraid that if you study to much it will open your eyes to the fact their church teaching is not scriptural. If their message, or ours, is in error, we need to be corrected. 2 Tim. 3:16. "All scripture is given by the inspiration of GOD,for reproof; for correction;for instruction in righteousness". There are many ministers who are afraid of losing their position as overseer, deacon, or whatever if a certain doctrine is allowed to invade their prisons with stained glass windows they call the church. Their security is threatened. They can build bigger barns if they allow the teaching of the religious crowd to continue. Fables become more the word of God that the Word itself. Look at those today that are teaching that God is dead. Look at those today that teaches you must be "one" to win "one". You don't need to be one to win one, you need to have the spirit of God to win one.They are denying the power of God to move for if it did they would have to clean themselve up. I don't believe in the old rotten polluted messages. They don't have a revelation but are intent on destroying the power of God. My revelation is so strong that they can't understand it and they are mad over it. _____________________________________________________________________ $500.00 REWARD I will pay anyone $500.00 if they can show me in the King James Version Bible the word RAPTURE. If you can come and show me. If you can't show it to me, then you should not be preaching it. If you do you are adding to the Word of God. Woe be unto you if you do! ________________________________________________________ The carnal mind thought it was so smart. It has taken every GOD given message that came along and copied it. It copied holiness, the tongues, but it can't copy our revelation. Our revelation is sealed by the Lord himself and it cannot be taught by man.This message must be revealed by the Spirit. 1 Corinthians 2:7-16," but we speak the wisdom in a mystery, even the hidden wisdom,which God ordained before the world unto our glory; which none of the princes of the world knew;for had they known it they would not have crucified the Lord of glory. But as it is written eye hath not seen,nor hath the ear heard, neither have entered into the heart of man the things God hath prepared for them that love him.But God hath reveled them to us by his spirit;for the Spirit searcheth all things, yea,the deep things of God. For what man knoweth the things of a man save the the spirit of man which is in him? Even so the things of God knoweth no man, but the spirit of God. Now we have received, not the spirit of the world but the Spirit of God, that we might know the things that are freely given of God; which things we also speak, not in the words which man's wisdom teacheth, but which the Holy Ghost teacheth; comparing spiritual things with spiritual. But the natural man receiveth not the things of the God for they are foolishness unto him: neither can he know them, because they are spiritually discerned. But he that is spiritual judgeth all things, yet he himself is judged of no man. For who hath known the mind of the Lord, that he may instruct him, but we have the mind of Christ." Rev. 10:7." and when the seven thunders uttered their voices, I was about to write: and I heard a voice from heaven saying unto me, seal up those things which the seven thunders uttered and write them not". Rev.10:4," but in the days of the voice of the seventh angel, when the mystery of God should be finished as he hath revealed unto his servents the prophets". 2 Cor. 12:4,"How that He was caught up into paradise, and heard words that was unlawful for man to utter". Let us consider some facts here that the church leaders claim to be the gospel. The word rapture means to be caught up, or away. Yet the church world teaches that the church will be Raptured. The word rapture is not found in the Bible. If it isn't in the Bible you should not teach people that the Bible says rapture. Consider this!! The scripture that those who teaches the rapture uses most is 1 Thess. 4: 16-17 " for the Lord himself shall descend from heaven with a shout, with the voiec 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 to meet the Lord in the air; so shall we ever be with the Lord". The first thing is a shout. The Bible teaches us the the Lord will descend from heaven. Heaven is not a natural place, it is a supernatural place. There is also more that one heaven, for Paul was caught up into the third heaven. Heaven is in the Spirit, or in God. There is not one natural thing in heaven.There is nothing in heaven that will defile. No gold or silver to fight over. Sonce heaven is a spiritual place, or in the Spirit, and if the Lord descends from heaven, he nust be moving from the Spirit realm of the earthly in order to warn us( shout)of something that is coming. Secondly, with the trump of God. This does not mean that he was going to blow a trump as he appeared, especially a natural one . Remenber ,we were told to blow the trumpet in Zion. If you believe this is a natural thing then you should go to the music store and buy some trumpets and start blowing them in your church services.What this really means is that there is a message coming forth to the elect. Jesus said at one time only his sheep would know his voice. If this is true, then the message that he is to bring forth here is not to the world, but to his seed. It is not for everyone. God will always send a warning before he makes a move. Then he will bring forth his message and the archangel will sound. Rev. 14:6 says that there is an angel flying through the midst of heaven( spirit) having the everlasting gospel tp preace to them that dwells on the earth. This ministering angel will be the messenger of God that will preach the last message of God that is to bring forth the perfected church. Next, there are those who are dead in Christ. Those who are already gone are not in the ground, but they are in Christ. The message of the third day, which is the last day, wil be to bring forth a resurrected body to complete the body of Christ that will walk this earth. The dead in Christ has gone first, but they without us cannot be made perfect for they cannot be until the fullness of time. They have risen first, then we which remain here on this earth will be perfected by the coming of the Lord. Read Rev. 20: 5-7. First; a shout Second; the trump of God. Third; the voice of the archangel. Now to be caught up to meet him in the air. There is no air up there. This meeting is to take place in the air. I will tell you this much. When you breathe, there is air in you. And if he has taken up his abode in you, then he is in the air. With him in me and I am walking in him, we are one togather in the air. Next let us go into a little history of the rapture theory.Where did the theory of the rapture come from? You'll be suprised to find out who some of the most influential leaders were. The following came from the Encyclopedia Brittannica, volume 12, 1966 edition, pages 648-649. In 1833, a preacher by the name of Edward Irving was excommunciated from the the London presberty and was disposed and candemned from the church of Scotland because of his teachings concerning Christ andm the " sinfulness of Christ's humanity". He had also began to teach that the church was to be raptured. This doctrine had never been taught before. Irving receiveed this theory from a lady called Margaret Mcdonald, who received her her idea from a so called vision while in a trance. This vision took place in the year 1830. Here are some more facts! 1. Prior to the expulsion of Rev. Irving from the church, and prior to the vision of Margaret Mcdonald, the church clear back to the Apostles had preached the church would go through the tribulation victoriously. They never taught there was a rapture.Don't you believe that the very ones that walked with Jesus and was taught by him would have taught the rapture if it had been taught to them? They didn't teach it because it was not the truth. This message was started by a woman who went into a trance and had a vision. If I had my choice, and I do, I will believe the disciples. 2. Mrs J.B.Cardale joined this movement of Irvings. In 1831, she uttered a personal vision in a home prayer meeting along the same lines of Mrs. McDonald's vision. 3. A man named John Darby attended these meetings of Rev. Irving's. There was two other men who attended these meetings whose writings has greatly influenced the teaching of the rapture theory. One was C.H.MacIntosh, and the other one was none other that C.I. Scholfield. As you may know, Rev. Scholfield was the one who wrote the Scholfield Bible and filled it's margins full of his interpertations of the scriptures, especially the ones that dealt with the rapture. His information can be found in Norton's Book on the Catholic Apostolic Church, page 15. Darby, Scholdfield, and Clarence Larkin, who drew a lot of diagrams,were all into the rapture doctrine. It wasn't till the early 1900's that the rapture theory reached it's popularity. Another item that I'd like to bring to your attention here. William Branham was proclaimed by many to be the prophet to the seventh church age. I happen to agree that Bro. Branham, now deceased, was a prophet to the age of his day.Now, notice what Bro. Branham said in his book, or sermon, entitled" An Exposition of the Seven Church Ages". On Page 36, Bro. Branham said while under the anointing," He is coming in clouds, clouds of glory. This is not the rapture, but the final move to take over".Then in another mesage preached in Chicago, Ill., Janurary 1, 1958 entitled " Will The Church Go Through Tribulation", Bro. Branham said," The Lord is Here, Already here in Mercy, And he shall come again in judgement". Jesus was surely revealing to the prophet of God that great message of the endtime. There was to be no rapture but the Lord was here in us already, and that judgement was going to take place for it was given to the saints to judge the world. Go with me to the book of Saint Matthew and look at some verses that are used to advance or prove the rapture theory. Their teaching here does not even imply the meaning they try to give to it. In these verses there is not one mention of a rapture and it does not mention it in any shape, fashion or form. As a matter of fact it means just the opposite. But you be the judge to that as you read it. Saint Matthew 24:16-20," then let them which be in Judea flee into the mountains;Let him which is on the housetop not come down to take a thing out of his house.neither let him which is in the field return back to take his clothes; and woe unto them that are with child, and to them that give suck in those days; bit pray that your flight be not in the winter, neither on the Sabbath day."There is no mention of the rapture here. All this has to do with the coming of the son of God and of the end of the world. (St.Matt. 24:3). Verses 16 and 17 is telling us that when this event he is referring to takes place you are not to go back to the old way. When he has brought you up and out of the earthly realm you are not to return to that which he has brought you out of. All of these verses tells me that it is going to be a rough time outside God. During this time frame, there are going to be wars,nation against nation, famines, pestilences,earthquakes. There are to be afflictions, you shall be hated,offences and betrayals,false prophets arising, and the love of maby shall wax cold. Even in the midst of these things he told us not to be troubled, for these things must come before the end.This says the end ,not the rapture. And then he tells us that the gospel of the kingdom shall be preached to all the world, and then the end. This end is not the rapture but it is the end of flesh rule on the earth. Rev. 11:15." And the seventh angel sounded; and there were great voices in heaven, saying," the kingdoms of this world are become the kingdoms of our Lord and his Christ".What is taking place couldn't be much plainer. There will be false prophets. These are the ones who are preaching the doctrine that pleases the carnal man. During all these events is when the power of the kingdoms will be transferred to us. Those who are in control will really be angry and they will try to kill us thinking they are doing God a favor. They are already trying to brand you and I as a cult and will do anything to try to stop our message. It may get so bad that you may have to leave your home so quick that you will not be able to get your personal belongings. Also the Lord can call you out of this world realm and you will never return back to the things that you once destroyed,\. You can climb no higher that your housetop for there is nothing there to climb on. When God takes you to your highest realm in him, why would you even want to return to it? If you are sitting in heavenly places with him, would you really want to return back to the carnal realm? Also in the days of Noah the righteous were not destroyed, but saved. In Lot's day he was told not to look back. Jesus said that a man who put his hand on the plow and then looks back is not fit for the kingdom of God. So you should see that these verses has nothing to do with the rapture. It is telling us what the condiditions will be in the day of the coming of the Son of man. I do believe Jesus is still coming, but not like the church world teaches it. He is coming in a body and we are that body. Saint Luke 17:26, " And as it was in the days of Noe, so shall it be in the days of the son of man. ( St. Matt. 24:37 says the coming of the son of man). Here again in speaking of the coming, it says nothing about the rapture. It was only saying that the things that were taking place in the days of Noe was to be taking place in our day. Also you shoul;d pay close attention to the word day. The teaching of the rapture is that the rapture will take place in a moment and in the twinkling of an eye. But we just read where it says the coming of the Son of Man was to take place in one day!!! In Noe's day it rained 40 days and nights, not in a moment and in the twinkling of an eye. The number 40 represents the tribulation, os testing and this was what Noe went through. Jesus himself went into the wilderness to be tempted of the devil. (St Matt.4:1 ) This shows that there was a trying time in all cases. When the testing of God's Word was over,( Jesus was the Word made flesh.) the prince of the world came and found nothing in him. After 40 days and nights, Noe came through victorious. After the coming of the son of man in his clouds, we shall be victorious and shall rule and reign with him forever and forever. St. luke 17:27, " They did eat and drink, they married wives, they were given in marriage until the day that Noe entered into the ark, and the flood came and destroyed them all". In Matthew 24:38-39,'" For as it was in the days that were before the flood they were eating and drinking, marrying and given in marriage,until the day that Noe entered into the ark, and knew not till the flood came and took them all away; so shall also the coming of the son of man be." Friends, eating and drinking is not a sign that Jesus is going to come back and rapture the church. In the book of Genesis God commanded man to eat of the trees of the garden.If God turned around and destroyed man for eating and drinking then he destroyed them for doing what he had commanded them to do . Do you think God would tell them to eat and then destroy them for obeying him? No! No! He was talking about something else. What he was referring to was that their hearts was on the natural man and their every day lifes and not on him. Jesus stated that some of the people worshipped him with their lips but their hearts were far from him. Genesis 6:2-3 ," the sons of God,( not the sons of men) saw the daughters of men, ( not of God) that they were fair, and they took them wives of all that they chose. And the Lord said," My Spirit shall not always strive with man, for that he also is flesh; yet his days shall be an hundred and twenty years." This is why God passed judgement on them! It was not just because they got married, but because the sons of God chose to take to thenselves the daughters of men. This is when the seed of God began to mix with the seed of the flesh. This is the same reason God kicked Adam and Eve out of thr garden of Eden. They became lovers of pleasure more that lovers of God.God then decided to pass judgement upon all flesh, except Noe, for he found grace in the eyes of God.God used Noe to do a work that had never been done. He gave Noe a message that the world did not know for they were not concerned about God. It was the same thing that took place in the days of Lot.St. Luke 17:28-29," Likewise also as it was in the days of Lot; they did eat and they planted, they bought, they sold, they builded; but the same day that Lot went out of Sodom it rained fire and brimstone from heaven and destroyed them all. See? They were so interested in material things that they didn't have time for God. Just lovers of their own flesh more than a lover of the things of the Spirit. I don't want to stray off the subject matter but I feel like pointing out something here. When God sent two angels into Sodom and Gomerrah to speak to Lot and to bring him out of the city, they were in a spot. Genesis 13:13,"But the men of Sodom were wicked and sinners before the Lord exceedingly. They were so wicked that they wanted to take the two angels out of Lot's house and do things that were not Godly. Lot offered them his daughters and was going to let them do as they wished with them. The men of the city was not content with defiling the women, they wanted the messengers of God. We are to realize that the carnal mind is not so obsessed with the women, ( churches), but they want to defile the angels. ( the messengers of God.) Here is the reason that God was so angry in both Noe's and Lot's day.God sent a messenger to bring out his elect and they refused to heed them. If you will notice here you will see that it was not the righteous that was removed from yhe earth, it was the wicked! St. luke 17:30," Even thue shall it be in the day when the son of man is revealed.Again, over and over you will see that these verses don't say a thing about the rapture. This last verse is saying that he is going to be revealed. This is something that he is trying to show us. St John 12:38 and Isaiah 53:1, That the saying of Esaias the prophet might be fullfilled saying," Lord ,who hath believed our report? And to whom hath the arm of the Lord be revealed? Romans 1:17 talks about the righteousness of the God being revealed. In 1 Cor. 2:10 it says that " God hath revealed them unto us by his Spirit". This is not referring to a coming of the Lord but it says that there is something hidden which is being opensd up unto you. I Cor. 3:13." Every man's work shall be made manifest; for the day shall declare it, because it shall be revealed by Fire. In Lot's day it was the wicked that was removed. The religious leaders try to use this verse to prove that the world is going to be destroyed by Fire. All that is going to be destroyed by fire is the carnal mind. Not really destroyed, for fire don't destroy, it changes things. It is not talking about the Lord taking man out of the world, but is referring to the works of man being done away with, yet that man will be saved. Everything that is not of God will be removed, and all flesh will not be destroyed, only the works of the flesh. This is not the coming of the Lord in the sky, but it is God showing you a truth. The man of sin is being revealed in the book of 2 Thess. 2:3 is just another nail in the coffin of the rapture theory. Paul stated that the day of the anti-Christ, or the man of sin, or the son of peridition. When Paul talks about thr man of sin being revealed is he is not He is talking about a spirit that sits in the temple of God, not a temple in heaven, but us, for we are the temple of God. This nature is trying to oppose all that is of God and will deceive the very elect if possible. This revealing isn't taking place in heaven, but here on the earth. I think I have given you enough scriptures to prove to you that the revealing of Jesus is not of him coming in the clouds in the sky, but rather it is the Lord showing the world where he is. He is not appearing in the clouds of heaven to remove the Christan, but is appearing in the clouds of heaven to remove the wickrd from us. So if it is to be in our day as it was in the day of Noe, then the wicked will be taken from us. St. Matthew 24:40-41, " Then shall two men be in the field; the one shall be taken, and the other left. two women shall be in the field grinding at the mill; one will be taken , and the other left." Look at these two verses real close. This is one of the most important scriptures that they use to prove there is a rapture, and that the righteous will be taken out to go to heaven. ______________________________________________________________________ I CHALLENGE ANY MAN OR WOMAN , PROFESSER OF RELIGION, BIBLE SCHOLAR,BISHOP, SUNDAY SCHOOL TEACHER, ANGEL FROM HEAVEN,DEVIL, OR ANYONE FROM ANY CHURCH IN THE WORLD TO SHOW ME IN THESE TWO VERSES WHERE IT SAID THAT JESUS WAS TO APPEAR AND TAKE THE RIGHTOUS BACK TO HEAVEN WITH HIM. ______________________________________________________________________ The coming of Jesus that they refer to has to be like it was in the day of Noe to fulfill what was said about his coming. In St. Luke again, we read something that is very strange in relation to the doctrine of the rapture. They preach that the Lord will come in the daytime, in the clouds of heaven. In verse 34 it says that in that night there would be two men in the bed, one shall be taken and the other left. Here it don't say that the righteous would be taken. Did you notice when this event took place? It wasn't on a bright day withm clouds in the sky, but in the night. Why do I make such an issue out of this verse? Because the rapture preachers like to slap me with the verse that says he will come in like manner as they saw him go away. ( Acts 1:11) They say he will come back just as he went away, and he went away in the daytime and into a cloud. If this statement is true, and it is, then explain to me how jesus is going to rapture one of two men out of bed in the middle of the night when they plainly tell me that he will return like he went away.Jesus cannot tell a lie, can he? Friend, the truth has to be in the middle of this somewhere. Do you want the truth? Back to St. Matt.24 where we read that there was two men in the field, one which was taken, and the other left. Where does it say the rightous is going to be taken away? In the days of Noe it was the wicked that was removed. God gave Noe a message that no one else had. If the world was to believe, they had to believe the message of the hour. It was more than Noe's message, it was the pure word of God. God told Noe that he was to build an ark for the saving of the souls of those that believed. The message was to tell the people that God was going to send rain out of the sky and it would cause a flood that would cover the whole earth. The people did not believe the message that Noe preached. One reason was that it had never rained from the sky before. This crazy preacher called Noe was telling them that it would rain from the sky, and to top it off he blamed it on God.And if that wasn't enough, he was building a boat on the top of the mountain. Gen. 2:6 says that a mist went up from the earth, and watered the whole earth. The water had always came uo from the earth and it never came down from the sky. This could have been one of the reasons why the people did not believe Noe. They kept right on begetting violence and living wicked and were turning away from God thet created them.And as a result, God was doing something in their midst that they did not know about. A move of God was under way, right under their noses and they could not see it. Noe kept on building until the day that God placed him in the ark with all that God commanded. Then God shut the door, and then gues what? The very thing they couldn't believe would happen. Yep! The rains came. The ark that Noe built was a manifestation of the Word of God. Noe had to enter into that which he preached and was to become a part of it. He truly entered into the Word of God.The message that he preached brought him to safety in the hour of tribulation.Noe rode out the storm, and the same waters that destroyed the wicked brought safety to Noe. Is this not what we read that was going to happen earlier in this message? ( St. Matthew 24:4- ???? ). And so shall it be in the days of the coming of the son of man. The wicked will be removed and the righteous shall remain to rule the earth as kings and priests of the Lord. God made a covenant after the flood not to destroy flesh anymore.( Genesis 8:21 ). It did not say by the waters, but it said that he would not curse the ground anymore, and that he never again smite every living thing anymore. In our day, the day of the Lord, the son of man is surely coming in his kingdom. in power and in great glory. The wicked was removed in Noe's day by a new message, and the "new lighters" were left to prevail upon the earth. In this, our day, we "new lighters', as some call us, are doing almost the same thing. We are preaching that the Lord is not coming from the sky, but is returning in the earth. This is the same as he did with the birth of the virgin Mary. He was in the world, and the world was made by him, and the world knew him not. He will water the earth as he did in the beginning. The water came forth from the earth to water all that needed it.Out of our innermost being shall flow rivers of living waters. ( St. John 7:38).Christ in us, the hope of glory. ( Col. 1:27) God in his body, which is flesh of his flesh and bone of his bone. He is using us to usher in a new message and the world don't see and hear it.They think we are crazy, just like Noe, preachng a message that every body knows is not like they have always heard. The church world says he is coming back in the clouds of the sky to rapture them out. The prophets are saying he is coming in the clouds of witnesses to remove the wicked from them. Not wanting to dwell on this dynamic point too long for fear of losing out to the other verses that deals with the rapture. So let us go on! St. Matthew 5:4 says that " blessed are the meek; for they shall inherit the earth." Why would God want to take you away from a promise that he gave you? Jesus is being revealed to the entire world. In 2 Cor. 2:12 we read where the Apostle Paul was caught up into the third heaven. He said that whether in the body or out of the body he could not tell. This man was Paul himself. Here is my point! If the word rapture means to be caught up, and it does, notice here that Paul was caught up into paradise, heard words unlawful for man to utter, and then he returned to the earth to preach and write many of the books of the new testament. He was caught away, but he didn't stay away. This is true too about John on the isle of Patmos. The next issue I will show you about the rapture is this. To spiritualize means to take a natural thing and to make a spiritual thing out of it. Over the years I have been accused of spiritualizing the Word of God concerning the rapture. Many of those preachers do not even realize that when they teach the rapture theory they are spiritualizing it themselves for they are adding something in that is not there. When you read of someone in the bible being caught away, they never stay away. If you and I have a mansion up there in heaven where we will live forever, will you come back again to live upon the earth? In St. Matthew 26:62-64 , = and the high priest arose and said unto him," answerest thou nothing? What is it which these witness against thee"? But Jesus held his peace, and the high priest answered and said unto him," I adjure thee by the living God, that thou tell us whether thou be the Christ, the Son of God"> Jesus saith unto him,"thou hast said; nevertheless I say unto you; hereafter shall ye see the son of man sitting on the right hand of power, and coming in the clouds of heaven". Look at this fact closely. Jesus told the high priest that there was some that was standing there that would not taste of death until they saw him coming in the clouds of heaven. That statement was made by Christ some 2,000 years ago. Surely you don't believe that these people he was talking to are still alive on the earth, do you? We all know better that that. Since Jesus cannot lie, and he told them they would see him coming in the clouds of heaven, they had to see him do so before they died.If the rapture is the coming of the Lord in the clouds, and the men are dead and in their graves, they will not see him, hence Jesus lied to them. The fact remains that Jesus did return in the clouds of heaven and the high priest saw him before he died. When? On the day of Pentecost. This would be the only time that the high priest would be able to see him. Some says that the priest will see him at the white throne judgement, but they are wrong. The white throne judgement is not the rapture. If the church is to be raptured first, then there is to be a resurrection of the wicked of which the high priest is one, and they are to be judged according to the deeds done in their body. If this is the scene that is to be played out, then the high priest won't see him coming in the clouds of heaven. He would be in the grave until after the rapture of the church. Another thought is this. The dead in Christ will rise first. Did you know that when a man dies his spirit goes back into God from where it came? If this is the case those who dies a natural death will rise first. If I die tomorrow and you don't, then I went to God first. If you do not believe this, then where will my spirit be while I wait on you to join me? In purgatory? This is the doctrine of the Catholic Church. Is this what you believe?Those who are alive ( in Christ) and remain ( we who are alive and living on the earth to walk into his fullnes of God ) unto the coming of the Lord( we are the clouds of heaven)( Jude) will be caught up to meet him in the air. We will be in the spirit continously never to return to the earth realm again, and will be his glorified body here on the earth. ( Where is air?) I pray that you can see that to be caught up is to be carried from the realm of the carnal mind unto the realm of the spiritual mind and in turn be carried to the place that Jesus went to prepare for us that we could be just like him. If the realm of the spirit is higher than the carnal realm, then it stands to reason that the writers of the bible always speaks of being caught up.I pray that you can leave this old carnal,fleshly,earthly,sinful realm of man and be caught up into the realm of peace,joy, meekness,life,forever to be with the Lord. MAY GOD BLESS YOU AS YOU CONTINUE TO LOOK INTO HIS DEEPNESS FOR THE WILL OF THE FATHER. There may be a mistake or two in here. If you find it, please forgive me Jackie Ray Turner