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November 20, 2019
What are the main steps of the Rapture?
(1) Christ will descend with a shout and a blast of a trumpet from the Father’s house in heaven to the air above the earth (Jn. 14:3; 1 Thess. 4:16-17).
(2) The souls of dead church saints will descend from heaven with Christ at this coming (1 Thess. 4:14). When these church saints died, their souls left their bodies and went to be with the Lord in heaven (2 Cor. 5:6-8; Phil. 1:21-23).
(3) The bodies of dead church saints will be raised as immortal, incorruptible bodies and will be reunited with their returning souls (1 Cor. 15:42-44, 52-53; 1 Thess. 4:14-16).
(4) The bodies of church saints who have not died before this coming of Christ will be changed instantly into immortal, incorruptible bodies (1 Cor. 15:51-53).
(5) Both the resurrected and changed church saints will be caught up together to meet Christ in the air (1 Thess. 4:17; John 14:3).
(6) The church saints will return with Christ to His Father’s house in heaven to dwell with Him in indescribable living accommodations He has prepared there for them (Jn. 14:2-3).
MARANATHA!
Source Used
Showers, Renald. Maranatha: Our Lord, Come! A Definitive Study of the Rapture of the Church. Bellmawr, NJ: Friends of Israel, 1995, 11-12.