I see Noah preparing the Ark in the days of the flood, and being caught up between the earth and the heavens where God set him until the flood was passed.
There's a lot of catching up in the bible.
Philip was caught up, the woman in revelation was caught up and taken into the wilderness,
Jesus was caught up, we are caught up.
Where is the origen of this catching up?
Could it go as far back as God taking dust up in his hand and forming the man he called Adam?
dust being those dead in Christ being made alive at the resurrection?
And someone will say, Adam wasn't resurrected he was the first man.
Ok, but time doesn't always fit the way we want it to.
Gen 1:26
And God said, Let us make man in our image, after our likeness: and let them have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the fowl of the air, and over the cattle, and over all the earth, and over every creeping thing that creepeth upon the earth.
Gen 2:7
And the LORD God formed man
of the dust of the ground, and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life; and man became a living soul.
Gen 3:14
And the LORD God said unto the serpent, Because thou hast done this, thou
art cursed above all cattle, and above every beast of the field; upon thy belly shalt thou go, and dust shalt thou eat all the days of thy life:
ashes to ashes and dust to dust.
Gen 3:19
In the sweat of thy face shalt thou eat bread, till thou return unto the ground; for out of it wast thou taken: for dust thou
art, and unto dust shalt thou return.
Adam was taken out of the ground... if this don't sound like ressurection then I don't know what does.
So God took some dust from the ground and formed a man in his own image and likeness and gave him dominion over the world.
God gave Adam his own Kingdom. And a bride. Eve.
And they both sinned and died.
Ye must be born again.
So Israel by the time Jesus is ready to be born into the world, Israel is spiritually dead. So God sees Mary.. just a speck of dust and takes her and breathes on her and put life in her belly and Jesus is born. But he also is born according to the flesh.
And as God breathed on Adam, God breathed into Jesus his life from the womb.
So Adam sins and he goes down. And Jesus don't sin and he goes up.
So God catches up Jesus and all those who believe in him, the dust and we are then formed into His body.
And Jesus is formed in the image and likeness of God and is given dominion over the world.
God gave Jesus his own Kingdom, and his bride, the church.
And if we believe and have faith we will not die but have eternal life.
So this is where I see the origen of this rapture occuring.
When God took dust from the earth in the first place.
Just like he took Noah and his family and raptured them out of the earth until the flood was over.
Jst like when Jesus comes back to gather his bride, his church and catches us up to be with him in his kingdom.
So whether we be dead (dust) or alive we shall be caught up with him.
Whether we sleep (dead) or whether we are awake if we believe or have believed, whether dead or alive, we're going for a ride.
And as far as timing goes, all we do know is when the world got wicked enough so that mens imaginations were only evil continually, that God told Noah to build the ark and be ready.
But of that day and hour knoweth no man, not even the angels in heaven, but the Father only.
Because he is merciful and longsuffering and not wanting any to perish, I suppose he will wait until it becomes absolutely unbearable for us to stay here any longer, lest we also get washed away with flood. And forget to watch.
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