THE TRUE RAPTURE part 4

                                     Here read Genesis 5:24 Hebrews 11:5

One possible objection to the bodily deaths of the living saints at the time of the Rapture concerns that which the Bible (KJV) relates about Enoch. Enoch was bodily transferred upward before he died, and this event was a prophecy about the Rapture, but the Bible does not state that Enoch did not subsequently die.
Hebrews 11:5 does not state that Enoch never died. To be specific, it simply relates that "Enoch was translated that he should not see death." "To see" means to observe. Apparently, Enoch was such a righteous and tender-hearted person, that God took him out of the world so that he would not be so greatly grieved by having to constantly observe the deaths of humans.

                                                   Here read II Kings 2:11

Elijah the prophet was translated to heaven in a chariot of fire, but he must have subsequently died because he and Moses appeared to Jesus and three of His disciples in the Mount of Transfiguration. The Bible certainly relates that Moses had died, and so it seems to be reasonable that Elijah had also died. It does not seem reasonable that God would have preserved the body of Elijah for 900 years to appear to Jesus, but have allowed only Moses' spirit to appear.

Therefore, even though the Bible does not explicitly state that the earthly bodies of Enoch and Elijah subsequently died even though they were bodily translated, one can reasonably assume that they did. The Bible certainly relates that Moses died and that God buried him and hid his grave. Perhaps, God did the same for Enoch and Elijah.

Thus the evidence adduced from a careful and exact reading of scripture indicates that the bodies of the living saints at the time of the Rapture will be instantaneously "unclothed;" that is, their dead bodies will be left behind; and they will be instantaneously "clothed;" that is, they will receive their new spiritual bodies " in the twinkling of an eye" just before they rise to meet the Lord in the air.

One can only speculate as to why those who write books and make movies about the Rapture depict it as a sudden and unannounced dissolving of the bodies of saints. They call themselves Fundamentalists, but they leave out that which the Bible relates about the appearance of Jesus in the air, the shout in the voice of the archangel, the rising of the dead in Christ first, only then followed by the "twinkling of an eye" translation of the living saints. They also leave out the Biblical teaching that all men must die and return to dust. Fundamentalists should strive to believe strictly and exactly that which the Bible (KJV) teaches, adding nothing and subtracting nothing.