January 30, 2022

Where Will You Be One Second After The Rapture?

Passage: I Cor 15:51-58
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Where will you be one second after the rapture?

 

I Cor. 15:51 Behold, I shew you a mystery; We shall not all sleep, but we shall all be changed,

52 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.

53 For this corruptible must put on incorruption, and this mortal must put on immortality.

54 So when this corruptible shall have put on incorruption, and this mortal shall have put on immortality, then shall be brought to pass the saying that is written, Death is swallowed up in victory.

55 O death, where is thy sting? O grave, where is thy victory?

56 The sting of death is sin; and the strength of sin is the law.

57  But thanks be to God, which giveth us the victory through our Lord Jesus Christ.

58 Therefore, my beloved brethren, be ye stedfast, unmoveable, always abounding in the work of the Lord, forasmuch as ye know that your labour is not in vain in the Lord.

 

Events in Heaven: (for the Christian)

  1. Judgment seat of Christ

II Cor 5:10 For we must all appear before the judgment seat of Christ; that every one may receive the things done in his body, according to that he hath done, whether it be good or bad.

This is not a judgment for sins but rewarded for works done on earth after you were saved

 

Rewards you may receive:

  1. Crown of Rejoicing (for winning souls to Christ)   II Thess 2:19
  2. Crown of Life (you must love the Lord and persevere under trial) James 1:12
  3. Crown of Righteousness (you must finish your course and love His appearing) II Tim 4:6-8

 

  1. A new, resurrection body.

Phil. 3:21 Who shall change our vile body, that it may be fashioned like unto his glorious body, according to the working whereby he is able even to subdue all things unto himself.

 

  1. Marriage of the Lamb

Rev 19:6 And I heard as it were the voice of a great multitude, and as the voice of many waters, and as the voice of mighty thunderings, saying, Alleluia: for the Lord God omnipotent reigneth.

7 Let us be glad and rejoice, and give honour to him: for the marriage of the Lamb is come, and his wife hath made herself ready.

 8 And to her was granted that she should be arrayed in fine linen, clean and white: for the fine linen is the righteousness of saints.

The marriage supper of the Lamb is a symbolic representation of the joyful, intimate, and eternal fellowship that takes place between Jesus Christ (the Lamb of God) and his bride (the Church).

 

Events on earth:

  1. Seven year tribulation
  2. Antichrist comes on the scene (Dan. 9:27)
  3. The seven Seal Judgments are opened (Rev 6)
  4.   144,000 Jewish believers begin their great ministry (Rev. 7)
  5.   Antichrist is killed and raised from the dead (Rev.13:3)
  6. Two witnesses begin their 31/2 year ministry (Rev. 11:2-3)
  7. Mark of the beast in introduced (Rev. 13:16-18)
  8. Armageddon begins (Rev. 16:16)

 

After the Tribulation’:

  1. Antichrist and the false prophets are cast into the Lake of Fire (Rev. 19:20-2
  2. Satan is bound in the abyss (Rev 20:1-3)
  3. Old Testament and Tribulation saints are resurrected (Rev. 20:4)

 

  1. .  1,000 year reign of Christ on Earth (The millennium)(Rev 20:4-6)
  1. Satan’s final revolt and defeat (Rev. 20:7-10)
  2. Great White Throne Judgment of the Lost (Rev 20:11-15)
  1.  The destruction of the present Heavens and Earth  (Rev 21:1)
  1. The creation of the New Heavens and Earth (Rev21:1)
  1. Eternity (Rev 21:9-22:5)

 

Conclusion: Are you saved?

There comes a time in your life if you reject Christ that you cannot be saved, that is at the tribulation

II Thess 2:10  And with all deceivableness of unrighteousness in them that perish; because they received not the love of the truth, that they might be saved.

11 And for this cause God shall send them strong delusion, that they should believe a lie:

12 That they all might be damned who believed not the truth, but had pleasure in unrighteousness.

 

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