When is the 'Rapture'?

~ also known as the 'Gathering' back to Christ ~

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Matthew 24

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And Jesus went out, and departed from the temple: and his disciples came to him for to shew him the buildings of the temple.

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And Jesus said unto them, See ye not all these things? verily I say unto you, There shall not be left here one stone upon another, that shall not be thrown down.

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And as he sat upon the mount of Olives, the disciples came unto him privately, saying, Tell us, when shall these things be? and what shall be the sign of thy coming, and of the end of the world?

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And Jesus answered and said unto them, Take heed that no man deceive you.

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[First Seal  Rev.6:1-2 ] For many shall come in my name, saying, I am Christ; and shall deceive many .

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And ye shall hear of [Second Seal  Rev.6:3-4 ] wars and rumours of wars : see that ye be not troubled: for all these things must come to pass, but the end is not yet.

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For nation shall rise against nation, and kingdom against kingdom: and there shall be
[Third Seal  Rev.6:5-6 ] famines , and [Fourth Seal  Rev.6:7-8 ] pestilences , and earthquakes, in divers places.

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All these are the beginning of sorrows [ This verse locks the Seals in place, in the same order as given in Revelation!  Why would you let someone tell you they're given "out of chronological order "?  Why would anyone make such a ridiculous claim?  To justify their interpretations, some will even shamelessly 'rewrite the Bible' , but what they're really changing is God's  intended meaning, in favor of theirs !        Wake up!!! .

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[Fifth Seal  Rev. 6:9-11 ] Then shall they deliver you up to be afflicted, and shall kill you: and ye shall be hated of all nations for my name's sake .

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And then shall many be offended, and shall betray one another, and shall hate one another.

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And many false prophets shall rise, and shall deceive many.

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And because iniquity shall abound, the love of many shall wax cold.

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But he that shall endure unto the end, the same shall be saved.

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And this gospel of the kingdom shall be preached in all the world for a witness unto all nations; and then shall the end come.

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When ye therefore shall see the abomination of desolation, spoken of by Daniel the prophet, stand in the holy place, (whoso readeth, let him understand:)

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Then let them which be in Judaea flee into the mountains:

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Let him which is on the housetop not come down to take any thing out of his house:

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Neither let him which is in the field return back to take his clothes.

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And woe unto them that are with child, and to them that give suck in those days!

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But pray ye that your flight be not in the winter, neither on the sabbath day:

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For then shall be great tribulation, such as was not since the beginning of the world to this time, no, nor ever shall be.

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And except those days should be shortened, there should no flesh be saved: but for the elect's sake those days shall be shortened.

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Then if any man shall say unto you, Lo, here is Christ, or there; believe it not.

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  For there shall arise false Christs, and false prophets, and shall shew great signs and wonders; insomuch that, if it were possible, they shall deceive the very elect.

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Behold, I have told you before.

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Wherefore if they shall say unto you, Behold, he is in the desert; go not forth: behold, he is in the secret chambers; believe it not.

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For as the lightning cometh out of the east, and shineth even unto the west; so shall also the coming of the Son of man be.

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For wheresoever the carcase is, there will the eagles be gathered together.

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[Sixth Seal Rev.6:12 -7:17 ]  Immediately after the tribulation of those days shall the sun be darkened, and the moon shall not give her light, and the stars shall fall from heaven, and the powers of the heavens shall be shaken :

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And then shall appear the sign of the Son of man in heaven: and then shall all the tribes of the earth mourn, and they shall see the Son of man coming in the clouds of heaven with power and great glory.

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And he shall send his angels with a great sound of a trumpet,

 

and they shall *gather together His elect ['Rapture'] from the four winds, from one end of heaven to the other.[*See Eze 34-39] [Does this sound like every living human is "changed into spiritual bodies"?, or can you read what it actually says?    If so, go reread 1Cor 15...See who is actually changed & why {you just read the answer!}!

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Now learn a parable of the fig tree; When his branch is yet tender, and putteth forth leaves, ye know that summer is nigh:

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So likewise ye, when ye shall see all these things, know that it is near, even at the doors.

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Verily I say unto you, This generation shall not pass, till all these things be fulfilled.

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Heaven and earth shall pass away, but my words shall not pass away.

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But of that day and hour knoweth no man, no, not the angels of heaven, but my Father only.

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But as the days of Noe were, so shall also the coming of the Son of man be. 
[ Notice this example !!!   The first one 'taken' was Noah, taken to safety, because he continued God's work, while the rest were given to their own desires. The rest were left to God's wrath as in vs.48-50 below....

 Just as Noah was saved from the wrath to come, so is the first one taken to safety by Christ in the example given in verse 40 & 41 below.   Remember, the 'Rapture'  is not a voluntary event. Only those worthy at Christ's return are 'gathered'  back to Christ ! ]

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For as in the days that were before the flood they were eating and drinking, marrying and giving in marriage, until the day that Noe entered into the ark,

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And knew not until the flood came, and *took them all away; so shall also the coming of the Son of man be.

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Then shall two be in the field; the one shall be *taken, and the other left.

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Two women shall be grinding at the mill; the one shall be *taken, and the other left.

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Watch therefore: *for ye know not what hour your Lord doth come.

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But know this, that if the goodman of the house had known in what watch the thief would come, he would have watched, and would not have suffered his house to be broken up.

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Therefore be ye also ready: *for in such an hour as ye think not the Son of man cometh.

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Who then is a faithful and wise servant, whom his lord hath made ruler over his household, to give them meat in due season?

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Blessed is that servant, whom his lord when he cometh shall find so doing. [ *Understand this most important message from God....    Here we have two servants, one serving God,,. one Evil...
The Lord returns, rewarding the Good servant, but punishing the Evil servant. 
Now, applying a little common sense to what is actually written, if Arnold Murray was correct, that the first one taken is taken by satan, in some unwritten "SATANIC RAPTURE"  then there wouldn't be two servants, or two men in the field for that matter, because as Pastor Murray teaches, one would have already been taken by satan when Jesus returned !         Think about it.

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Verily I say unto you, That he shall make him ruler over all his goods.

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But and if that evil servant shall say in his heart, My lord delayeth his coming;

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And shall begin to smite his fellowservants, and to eat and drink with the drunken;

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The lord of that servant shall come in a day when he looketh not for him, and in an hour that he is not aware of,

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And shall cut him asunder, and appoint him his portion with the hypocrites: there shall be weeping and gnashing of teeth.

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Revelation 8

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[Seventh Seal  Rev.8:1-2 ] And when he had opened the seventh seal, there was silence in heaven about the space of half an hour.

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And I saw the seven angels which stood before God; and to them were given seven trumpets.

Notice the Seventh Seal begins the Seven Trumps, aka the "Wrath of the Lamb"!

It appears to this writer that the 'Rapture', also known as the 'Gathering back to Christ'  comes after the Great Tribulation, after the Sixth Seal, and before the Seventh.  But who comprises this 'gathered' group God calls His "Elect"?...  Is it all Christians?... Is it only the 144,000?... Who are those 'gathered' back to Israel in Ezekiel 34-end?...  What is the "Wrath of the Lamb"[ aka 7 Trumps]?... How is it different from the "Wrath of God"[aka 7 Vials]?

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Eze 34:12 
As a shepherd seeketh out his flock in the day that he is among his sheep that are scattered; so will I seek out my sheep, and will deliver them out of all places where they have been scattered in the cloudy and dark day.

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