A Closer Look At The Rapture

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http://www.kingdomlife.com/kingdom/britton-rapture.htm Truth..the Word of the Lord WILL COME TO YOU! It is seeking a lodging place in the hearts and minds of men who are not afraid to know the Truth! They may be in the minority, as Ezekiel was, and they may be scorned and mocked as false..but when the Word of the Lord comes to them, they can never be the same again! Look at verse 2: "Say thou unto them that prophesy out of their own hearts, Hear ye the word of the Lord." Yes, there are those who preach that which sounds good, which they would like to see come to pass, "out of their own hearts", but when the Word of the Lord comes, it will not be liked by the natural man. Verse 3 says that these foolish prophets follow their own spirit and have seen nothing! What is this that these men have been telling God's people, what is it they have not seen? Ezekiel goes on to say that these false prophets who were so accepted by Israel had been seducing the people, preaching "Peace", when there was no peace. For God had determined JUDGMENT upon the land, but these men had not seen the true Word of the Lord, and they kept telling the people that God would not let judgment come to His own chosen people, the apple of His eye...now would He? How much this sounds like the preachers of our day who have seduced the vast majority of God's people into believing that before Judgment, or the Great Tribulation, or The Day of the Lord comes...that God would let them all fly away to some other place in the physical universe and escape those days that are coming upon the earth! But Ezekiel faithfully warns them, as Paul did, that they would have to... STAND IN THE BATTLE "Oh Israel, thy prophets are like the foxes in the deserts. Ye have not gone up into the gaps, neither made up the hedge for the house of Israel to stand in the battle in the day of the Lord." Hebrews says that we "see the Day approaching." Paul told the Ephesians they would have to stand "in the Evil Day." And Ezekiel has the Word of Lord that God's people are going to STAND...''in the Day of the Lord". The prophet goes on in that 13th chapter to tell what God will do to those prophets who fail to warn God's people that they will be here http://www.kingdomlife.com/kingdom/britton-rapture.htm (29 of 74) [06.03.02 09:43:47]
http://www.kingdomlife.com/kingdom/britton-rapture.htm in the Day of the Lord, and to prepare to stand. gut let's turn to the New Testament again to see what it Says about this day... THE DAY OF THE LORD I Thessalonians chapter 4 tells of the glorious hope of the Church, how that Jesus will descend from heaven into this earth realm, how that first the dead in Christ shall rise, and then later we are "caught up" to meet the Lord (not "caught away" to some distant planet). This same wonderful topic is continued in chapter 5 as Paul speaks of the times and seasons when this will take place. "For yourselves know perfectly that the day of the Lord so cometh as a thief in the night." Praise God! Here is that "Day" that is approaching or coming..And as the false prophets in Ezekiel 13, some are saying "peace and safety"...but sudden destruction comes upon them "as travail upon A WOMAN WITH CHILD!" yes, there is a woman who at this time is in travail, and out of this travail is born a manchild who is to rule all nations with a rod of iron. The "catching up" of the saints (or Rapture, as it is called), the birth of the Manchild and the Day of the Lord (or Tribulation) are all linked together here. But notice, dear ones, in verse 4: "But ye, brethren, are not in the darkness, that that day should overtake you as a thief. You are all the children of light, and the children of the day: we are not of the night, nor of darkness..For they that sleep sleep in the night; and they that be drunken are drunken in the night..For God hath not appointed us to wrath, but to obtain salvation by our Lord Jesus Christ. CHILDREN OF LIGHT There are two kinds of people spoken of here...Children of the day and light..and children of the night and darkness. The children of darkness do not know that this "Day of the Lord" is coming upon them in all its fury and destruction. They continue to blithely play their religious games while the http://www.kingdomlife.com/kingdom/britton-rapture.htm (30 of 74) [06.03.02 09:43:47]
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