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  The Rapture and the General Resurrection continued

The Rapture of the Church and the General Resurrection happen to be two separate events that occur in separate Ages. Jesus will definitely Rapture His Church as He promised His disciples that He would. John 14:1-6 (KJB). That will end the Church Age, and the Tribulation Age will begin. Jesus will then come again to the earth to end the Tribulation Age and rescue Israel from destruction. Revelation 19:11-16 (KJB). God will then begin a new Age which will be a thousand year reign of Christ on the earth. Revelation 20:4 (KJB). This Age will end when Satan somehow emerges from his confinement in the bottomless pit to bring evil again into God's world, and Satan will raise an evil army to again attack Jerusalem the capitol of the world. God will destroy the Devil's army with His fiery wrath against evil, and He will cast the Devil into the eternal lake of fire. Revelation 20:7-10 (KJB). At the end of the thousand year reign of Christ, He will appear to all living humans confined to the regions of death, cause them all to repent and believe in Him as the Lamb of God, and He will raise all of His living humans from the dead to a new recreated life on His recreated earth. Revelation 5:11-14; Revelation 20:5; Revelation 21:1-5 (KJB). God will use His fiery wrath against evil to burn up both Heaven and earth to thoroughly cleanse them both of any taint of evil so that He can begin a new Age of complete righteousness when He recreates the Heaven and the earth. II Peter 3:9-13; Revelation 21:1-5 (KJB). God will thoroughly purge all sin, evil, spiritual death, and the Devil from His entire creation so that He can recreate it all, including all of His living humans, to be wholly righteous. Revelation 21:1-5; Revelation 22:11-13 (KJB).

The Rapture of the Church will not happen as many have depicted in sermons and novels. Christians will not suddenly disappear from the world. When Christians read the Bible, they should really pay close attention to that which it actually states. Jesus will appear in the air and announce the Rapture with a loud shout which the whole world will hear. Jesus will then cause an angel to make a loud trumpet blast that the whole world will hear. Jesus will then first raise all Christians from their graves with new bodies to meet Him in the air. After that, Christ will cause all alive Christians to leave their dead bodies behind, and He will raise them with new bodies to meet Him in the air, and the Church will forever be with the Lord. I Thessalonians 4:13-18 (KJB). Earthly bodies can never inherit a home in Heaven. I Corinthians 15:50; Genesis 3:19 (KJB). All of the Christians' new bodies Christ will bring with Him when He comes for His Church. The reference to the "the twinkling of an eye" does not mean a sudden disappearance from the world. This phrase simply means that in an instance of time, believers will receive their recreated bodies that Christ will bring with Him from Heaven, and believers will leave their dead bodies behind. I Corinthians 15:51-57; II Corinthians 5:1-5 (KJB).