THE SOUNDING OF THE TRUMPET

Many people have been waiting with great anticipation to hear the Sound of the Trumpet, so that they might take their “flight to the sky”. What part of the sky they are going to no one seems to know. No one seems to know whether we Americans will fly up and the Chinese Christians will fly downward, or they will fly up and we will fly down. Now if all of us on this Earthen ball fly upward physically, then we will all be going in different directions in God’s great universe.

Please understand me, I in no way deny the Scriptures that tell us that Jesus is coming and that there will be a Trumpet, that we will ascend to Him, and that we will meet Him in the clouds. These things are all true and we think God for these wonderful truths. But, it is the traditional interpretations put on these scriptures and the man made church teaching about them that we differ with.

        WHAT ABOUT THE CLOUDS?

The Bible never says that Jesus returns ‘to’ the clouds, or ‘on’ clouds. It is very careful to tell us that He comes ’in’ or ‘with’ the clouds. Clouds of Glory – Dan 7:13, says “with the clouds of heaven”. Does heaven have clouds? Oh yes!

Revelation 1:7 also says that He comes with ‘clouds’ Matthew 24:30, 26:64, Mark 13:26, 14:62 and Thessalonians 4:17 all say ‘in’ the clouds. Hebrews 12:1 tells us that the heroes of faith are a cloud.

Those Old Testament saints that have gone on to be with the Lord are a great cloud of witnesses. 2 Peter 2:17 and Jude 12 both tell us that false ministries are clouds without water. They appear to be a witness, but they have no life to give. Ecclesiastes 11:3 says that, “if clouds be full of rain, they empty themselves upon the earth”. A true ministry has life to give, and is willing to empty himself in order to be a blessing to a dry and thirsty people and pour his life out for others. THAT IS WHAT JESUS DID.

The Old Testament speaks about a cloud of incense over the mercy seat in the Holy of Holies, and says that is where God will appear. “I will appear in the cloud upon the mercy seat” Lev 16:2.

           A CLOUD RECEIVED HIM

Acts 1:11 is a scripture some like to quote, and they say, “see, it says that as He went away, He shall come in like manner, and He left from that cloud and went up into heaven didn’t He? NO HE DIDN’T. read it again please. Acts 1:9-11 and when He had spoken these things, while they beheld, He was taken up, and a cloud received Him out of their sight, and while they looked steadfastly toward heaven as He went up, behold, two men stood by them in white apparel, which also said, “ye men of Galilee, why stand ye gazing up into heaven? This same Jesus which is taken up from you into heaven, shall so come in like manner as ye have seen Him go into heaven. IN LIKE MANNER. Some say that He will come out of the sky and stop on a cloud where we will meet Him. But notice that in Acts1:9 He did not start from a cloud and ascend to outer space. He started from their visible presence, and disappeared from view in a cloud, ascending by that, means into heaven. Reverse the order, and we will see Him appearing from out of a cloud and descending back into our visible presence where we can see Him and be with Him. GLORY TO GOD, “AS He went in LIKE MANNER”.

        WHAT REALLY HAPPENS?

“To meet the Lord in the Air”. Not meet Him up in the sky, or outer space. But in the air. “AIR”, the stuff we breath. It is all around us, it’s what there isn’t any of in outer space. If you go into outer space you have to take air with you to be able to breath. Wyest translation says, “we meet Him in the lower atmosphere”. But it will be in a much higher spiritual order. Caught up…..Hallelujah! I love that! “So shall we ever be with the Lord”. But are we not with the Lord now? In one sense we are. 2 Cor 5:6 makes it plain that, “while we are at home in the body, we are absent from the Lord, but when we are caught up”, our bodies are also involved in the ascent, so that we can be forever in the presence of the Lord in a way we cannot know now, and still have our body. But then a glorious body as He reveals Himself to us.

So to sum up what we have said in this writing is this; The old pre-tribulation, or whatever tribulation and escape rapture theory that originated by a dream Margaret MacDonald had in 1830, and now held by many dear and sincere brothers and sisters has proven to be false and contrary to scripture. Our prayer is that God will reveal His truth to all His children and will deal with the untruth that has lulled the people to sleep with this doctrine. In Ezekiel 13:4-5 He says, “O Israel, thy prophets are like the foxes in the deserts.

5  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.

Pray that God by the Holy Spirit will teach you TRUTH when you read your Bible. Truth is the only thing that will make us free.

2 Timothy 2:15 Study (Yourself) to show thyself approved unto God, a workman that needeth not to be ashamed, rightly dividing the word of truth.

We would suggest that you study ALL about Mystery!

Colossians 1:26 Even the mystery which hath been hid from ages and from generations, but now is made manifest to his saints:

Colossians 1:27 To whom God would make known what is the riches of the glory of this mystery among the Gentiles; which is Christ in you, the hope of glory: (Glory = Victory)