Frank posted a segment of his Blog today on the Rapture and the scripture predicting it. I thought it was very good so here it is…
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Here is another thing to consider. What do you think would happen to the world’s economic system if Jesus came today to take out all of His Children? The world would be tossed into instant chaos like never seen in the history of mankind.Think about it. Millions upon millions of people from all over the world suddenly gone. World leaders gone, military men and woman gone, government works, gone, farmers, school teachers, business men and woman gone, people from all walks of life suddenly gone! Someone is going to have to step up to the plate and bring order to the world again and who do you think that person is going to be? You better know right now who it will be because if you miss the Lord’s rapture you will see this person for yourself. It will be the man Jesus warned you about in Rev. 13: 16-17.
Look I am a realist, I know many of you will keep saying I am crazy to even suggest millions of people someday will suddenly vanish, but God’s Word has never failed, and it is going to take place just as it is written in His Word. 1 Corinthians 15: 51-52 “Behold, I shew you a mystery; We shall not all sleep, but we shall all be changed, 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.”
For those of you who will write me about the last trump and tell me this is the trump in the Book of Revelation let me point out the one in 1 Corinthians is not the same one in Revelation.
Those who teach that the Church must go through the Great Tribulation and face the wrath of God which is coming upon the earth try to identify the last trump of 1Corinthians 15 with the seventh trumpet in the Book of Rev. I see great difficulties in paralleling these two trumpets.
First of all, the trumpet that sounds at the time of the Rapture of the Church in 1 Thessalonians 4:16 is call the “trump of God.” In Rev. the seventh trumpet is the trumpet of the seventh angel. The trump of 1 Corinthians 15 is used to proclaim an event that happens in a moment, in a twinkling of an eye. Paul said, “I’ll show you a mystery. We’ll not all sleep, but we’ll be changed in a moment, in a twinkling of an eye, at the last trump.” On the other hand, the seventh trump of the Book of Revelation will cover a period of days (plural) of the voice of the seventh angel, when he shall begin to sound, the mystery of God should be finished, as He hath declared to His servants the prophets.”
The last trump of 1 Corinthians 15 and 1 Thessalonians 4 will be a trumpet of glory. We shall be changed and made into His image and caught up to meet the Lord in the air. However, the seventh trumpet of the Book of Revelation is continually referred to as a woe. There is no way the trump in Revelation is the same as the one in 1 Corinthians.
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Link to full Blog entry at Frank DiMora’s Blog site
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