Re: Lively Stone @ gracecentered.com forums
Why this unnecessary repartition? Obviously those who are "alive" are "left". It must be because some had gone on before at the first rapture to come "before the throne" (Rev. 7.9) before the first trumpet of the Tribulation (8.7) commences. They were ready to be received up as the firstfruits (14.1-5). Whereas those who are raptured with those who are asleep in 1 Thess. 4.14-18 are to meet the Lord in the air. Two different places. The first rapture, therefore, is according to readiness as we see many conditional statements for first rapture (Matt. 24.40-42, Luke 21.36, Rev. 3.10), and the rapture and resurrection that takes place at the start of the 7th trumpet (11.15, 15.2-4) before the 7 bowls of wrath are poured is according to completion (14.14-16). Amen.Originally Posted by Lively Stone
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