Rapture Anticipation not rapture anxiety!

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GISMYS_7

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Rapture Anticipation not rapture anxiety!! Return quickly Lord Jesus!!

Are you ready to meet Jesus be caught up and receive a new immortal body

1 THESS. 4:13-18But we do not want you to be uninformed, brethren, about those who are asleep, so that you will not grieve as do the rest who have no hope.
14 For if we believe that Jesus died and rose again, even so God will bring with Him those who have fallen asleep in Jesus.
15 For this we say to you by the word of the Lord, that we who are alive [nd remain until the coming of the Lord, will not precede those who have fallen asleep.
16 For the Lord Himself will descend from heaven with a shout, with the voice of the archangel and with the trumpet of God, and the dead in Christ will rise first.
17 Then we who are alive [n]and remain will be caught up together with them in the clouds to meet the Lord in the air, and so we shall always be with the Lord.
18 Therefore comfort one another with these words.

1 Corinthians 15:51-58
Behold, I tell you a mystery; we will not all sleep, but we will all be changed, 52in a moment, in the twinkling of an eye, at the last trumpet; for the trumpet will sound, and the dead will be raised imperishable, and we will be changed. 53For this perishable must put on the imperishable, and this mortal must put on immortality. 54But when this perishable will have put on the imperishable, and this mortal will have put on immortality, then will come about the saying that is written,“DEATH IS SWALLOWED UP in victory. 55“O DEATH, WHERE IS YOUR VICTORY? O DEATH, WHERE IS YOUR STING?” 56The sting of death is sin, and the power of sin is the law; 57but thanks be to God, who gives us the victory through our Lord Jesus Christ.

58Therefore, my beloved brethren, be steadfast, immovable, always abounding in the work of the Lord, knowing that your toil is not in vain in the Lord.
 

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been wondering where to put my little story on The Thief in the Night, and i guess this is it. We are provided a quite different reflection of a thief also, that one might build up their strength to overcome, right, but see that the Thief in the Night is not of this variety; he cannot be overcome by strength at all, because one does not even know he was there and robbed them until they wake up, see.
Beware the Thief in the Night!
 
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58Therefore, my beloved brethren, be steadfast, immovable, always abounding in the work of the Lord, knowing that your toil is not in vain in the Lord.
someone contemplating Rapture would obv be pretty "movable" i guess right. Abound in grace (forgiveness) that you may die to self and enter Rest today, in the twinkling of an eye being a perfect description of a changed mind in this regard.
 

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Are you ready to meet Jesus..

I have already met Him! And for 5 decades have walked with Him..
While in prayer I often feel like I am 'caught up' in wonderful rapture on His glorious presence.
My feet do not have to leave this earth for that to happen....I am not "waiting for"...I am "enjoying now..."
I hope you are experiencing this too on a daily basis , and not just waiting for some distant 'future date'.

Bless you...
 
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