Berean Bible Church

Second Advent Events

Lesson XV

November 29, 2009

 

 

Text:  Matthew 24:39-44  One shall be taken, the other left

This has been one of the many debatable subjects of Scripture. Is this the Rapture?

 

I  1 Thessalonians 4:13-18

            If this passage is not teaching a Rapture, then what is it teaching?

 

II  1 Thessalonians 5:1-2

            Introduces a different subject: “the day of the Lord cometh as a thief in the night”

 

III  The Rapture was not fully revealed by Jesus when He was on earth

            It was fully revealed to the Apostle Paul by Jesus, after He returned to Heaven     

            1 Thessalonians 4:15  This we say unto you by the word of the Lord

1 Corinthians 15:52-58  Behold I show you a mystery—something the Lord alone could have revealed.   we shall not all die”

We repeat, these facts were stated by Jesus in Heaven

 

IV   With this background, we come to Matthew 24:39-40

In these verses the Lord is not teaching the Rapture, if He were, the words in

1 Corinthians 15:52 would be wrong, for the mystery would have been revealed

Notice  Matthew 24:30   “the son of man coming”

                        Matthew 24:37    “the coming of the son of man”

                        Matthew 24:39   “the coming of the son of man”

                        Daniel 7:13-14   “the Son of man” comes to receive a kingdom      

            Notice Matthew 24:40    Then,” a time word

                        Matthew 24:43. His coming is likened to the coming of a thief in the night

                        Matthew 24:44   in such an hour as ye think not.

 

V   Zechariah 12: 10-14

      When Israel “looks upon Him whom they have pierced, there will be great mourning.

In every family there will be those who have been taken away, as the flood took away the ungodly in the days of Noah.

 

           Exodus 12: 12, 29-30   there was not a house in which there was not one dead.

           When Christ returns, there will be death in every family

          

           Mathew 24:44   be ready for that day of judgment

                                    2 Peter 2:4-5  whom did the flood take-away?         

                                    Luke 17:34-37   bodies are left for eagles! The Rapture?