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232 "THIS MEANS EVERLASTING LIFE"
spirit, clothed upon with immortality and incorruption
.
i0 It is not first at the moment of death that
this faithful remnant are "caught away in clouds
to meet the Lord in the air" . The Lord's being in
the air shows he is not directly on or at the earth
and that he is invisible, in the spirit, just as Satan
has all along been in the spirit, "the ruler of
the authority of the air, the spirit that now operates
in the sons of disobedience ." Ephesians 2 :2,
NW The existence of clouds then also denotes
invisibility, as when the cloud received our ascending
Lord out of the sight of the onlooking
disciples . Their being caught away means first
their being harvested, being separated from the
power of the wicked world and brought into the
free and delivered Theocratic organization under
their invisible Lord .
11 After warning his disciples against being misled
by false Christs and false prophets with their
deceptive signs and wonders at the consummation
of this system of things, Jesus said : "Wherever
the carcass is, there the eagles will flock together."
Matthew 24 :28, NW In a like prophecy describing
the end of the world at Armageddon he
also said : "I tell you, In that night two men will
be in one bed ; the one will be taken along, but the
other will be abandoned . There will be two women
grinding at the same mill ; the one will be taken
along, but the other will be abandoned ." "So in
to. a How is the Lord now in the air, in clouds?
b When or with what does the catching away of the
remnant to meet him begin?
11, 12 . How are some taken along, but others abandoned?