A Rapture, Not a Rupture
Shared by Patricia Backora, author of the book Tough Love in Christ’s Millennium
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Romans 13:11; I Thessalonians 5:9, II Timothy 4:8; Titus 2:13;
Hebrews 9:28
Millions of believers have been wrongly taught that I am only coming for an especially spiritual elite corps of Christians who outshine all others, and that the rest of My Body must be left behind to be purified by the judgments of the Tribulation. This has caused needless fear and torment to a people whom I have called into the rest of faith in the sufficiency of My completed work on Calvary.
Oh, My people, that teaching undercuts the magnitude of My grace toward My Chosen. The purpose of the Tribulation is to punish the world, not My beloved Bride. The Bridal company includes all my dear ones who have kept faith with me with a submissive, repentant heart. Though they might slip and fall because of human infirmity, those who pursue after the things which please Me Will always call upon Me to lift them back up so they can continue running the race to win the prize of the high calling.
My Appearing and My Second Coming are two separate events occurring at two different times in history. At the Rapture I shall appear to take My loved ones home to heaven to celebrate the nuptials of the Marriage Supper of the Lamb, when I shall be spiritually united with My then-perfected Body the Church. At the Second Coming I return with them to rule over this globe and restore My law and order to it, to the praise of My Holy Father.
When I appear to take My own from this evil world, our separation shall at last be ended, and you shall be with Me forever. I shall then be physically present with the entirety of My Body the Church, even as I have always been with them in Spirit to guide and sustain them through the dark vale of this evil world.
Does this idea seem way too lenient to be credible? A thousand times, no. Those who are looking for My appearing will love the things of My Word. They will seek a closer walk with Me, in happy anticipation of that holy hour when My Beloved, once exiled from Me on earth, shall at last experience complete spiritual union with the Beloved.
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Those who are looking for My appearing will love the things of My Word.
So true. Without holiness no one will see the Lord. He's coming back for His willing and obediant ones.
