The “R” Series

Rapture: Five Facts

1 Thessalonians 4:13-18

Lesson II

1. The RAPTURE is a SURE event

1 Thessalonians 4:15-17 “shall”

1 Corinthians 15:51-54 “shall”

Philippians 3:20-21 “shall”

Colossians 3:4 “shall”

1 John 3:2 “shall”

11. The RAPTURE will be a SUDDEN event

1 Corinthians 15: 51-52

Revelation 22:7

Revelation 22:12

Revelation 22:20

111 The RAPTURE will be a great SAVING event

Romans13:11

1 Thessalonians 5:8-11

1 Thessalonians 1:9,10

1V The RAPTURE will be a SEPARATING event.

1.It will remove the bodies of the saved from the bodies of the unsaved in all burial places.

1 Thessalonians 4:16

1 Corinthians 15:52 (b)

2. It will remove all children and all who are not accountable, from earth ,with all the saved.

V The RAPTURE will be a SATISFYING event

1. We will be bodily with the Lord.

1 Thessalonians 4:17

cf. Matthew 17:4

2. We will have given-up this body of sin 2 Corinthians 5:1 this earthly body.

Philippians 3:21 this vile body

Psalm 17:15 Full satisfaction will come when we awake with His likeness.

V1 CONCLUSION

Luke 19:13 occupy

Revelation 2:25 hold fast

John 21:23 follow

Titus 2:12-13 live looking

2 Timothy 4:8 live loving His appearing

Revelation 22:20 pray this prayer daily