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Clear searchWhy apantēsis does not settle the timing of the rapture
…azō: to seize, snatch, take forcibly, or carry away. It is used of a wolf catching sheep (John 10:12), an attempt to seize Jesus by force (John 6:15), the Spirit carrying Philip away (Acts 8:39), Paul being caught up to the third heaven (2 Corinthians 12:2), and the male child be…
Read article →The gathering of the elect, one taken and one left, and Paul's revealed mystery
…an mean to take or receive someone alongside oneself. Because Jesus uses the same verb in John 14:3—"I will come again, and receive you unto myself"—some argue that the word must describe favourable reception in Matthew 24. That conclusion gives the lexicon the work of the contex…
Read article →The event is explicit; the real dispute is its timing
…r be burned. A servant may face Christ with confidence or shame (1 Corinthians 3:12-15; 1 John 2:28). None of those differences turns the Tribulation into purgatory for Christians whose sanctification was insufficient. The rapture completes bodily salvation; it is not a prize by…
Read article →The positive argument of the whole series, brought together
…"I will come again, and receive you unto myself; that where I am, there ye may be also." —John 14:3 The destination in this promise follows the direction of its words: Christ comes and receives His people to Himself, taking them to the Father's house He has prepared for them. Pau…
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