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UNDERSTANDING THE MYSTERY OF GOD REVEALED TO THE CHURCH (PART 2)


Let's re-state an important fact here: The catching away of the believers is not mentioned even once in the entire chapter of 1Corinthians 15! That is not the focus here.

These are NOT 'rapture' verses! The subject here is the resurrection and transformation of the believer. That is our hope: That Christ in us will on that Resurrection Day bring about a transformation in us that now we shall be as He is! That is the end result of God's plan; that is the fulfillment of the mystery! We will have the same immortal body He does!

The phrase 'in a twinkling of an eye' has been hijacked from its context by the pre-trib crowd, and used to promote their ‘POOF! ...now the Church is gone' idea. But that phrase has been deceptively applied to their theory. The Bible says it is the transformation of the believer that takes place in the twinkling of an eye, not the catching away. I believe our ascension will mirror that of the Lord Jesus. Here's why:

For if we have been planted together in the likeness of his death, we shall be also in the likeness of his resurrection: (Romans 6:5)

Our experience is to be in the likeness of (look like) his; why should we think the catching away of the Body would look any different than the catching away of the Head? (see Acts 1:9-11 for a biblical description of ascension.)

The 'catching away' as I prefer to call it, is described clearly in 1Thess. 4:17

where it says after the dead rise the living believers: “shall be caught up together with them in the clouds, to meet the Lord in the air”.

This short trip is relatively minor when compared to the amazing transformation of the Resurrection and the eternal consequences that change will bring our way. Our journey from earth up to the sky is NOT the mystery of the ages; it is Christ in
you the hope of glory, and the fact we shall become as He is by the resurrection of the dead.


PRAISE GOD; MARANATHA