The witness of the Old Testament actually confirms the New Testament’s timing and characteristics of the rapture and of the Coming of Christ.  Some people are surprised to learn that the concept of the resurrection and the gathering of believers to the Lord can be found in the ancient writings of the Old Testament.  Long […]

When Jesus spoke of the rapture as the harvest of the earth, he mentioned the fact that there would be two distinct groups of people gathered together in that day.  One group, he said, will be delivered from God’s wrath and experience the resurrection of life into new bodies (or be instantly transformed if still […]

In the previous section, we learned that Christ’s return for his people will be associated with the sounding of the last trumpet (see In the Twinkling of an Eye).  To categorize a trumpet sounding as the last one, there must have been other trumpets that come before it.  Of all the prophecies concerning the end […]

When Christ began to teach his disciples about the end of the age and his return, he did so in a series of parables or symbolic stories.  Several of these from the Gospel of Matthew can be seen to directly relate to some of the main characteristics of the rapture.  They provide evidence from the […]

The return of Christ along with the rapture will herald one of the greatest transformations of life and society human beings will ever experience. The doom and gloom of the vast nuclear holocaust of World War III will suddenly give way to the brightness of a new age of prosperity and peace that will be […]