God’s Full Armour
GLOBAL GRACE – August 2017
Do You Know The Secret?
30. The Rapture is Part of the Secret
1 Corinthians 15:51-52, “Listen very carefully, I tell you a mystery [a secret truth decreed by God and previously hidden, but now revealed]; we will not all sleep [in death], but we will all be [completely] changed [wondrously transformed], in a moment, in the twinkling of an eye, at [the sound of] the last trumpet call. For a trumpet will sound, and the dead [who believed in Christ] will be raised imperishable, and we will be [completely] changed [wondrously transformed].”
Here it is specifically mentioned that our meeting with the Lord was a secret – so it is a new truth that was not known until the day Paul began to proclaim it. Nor can it be otherwise, because if the church itself as the body of Christ was a secret, then the church’s hope or destination at the rapture was also a secret.
It is not easy being a Christian in our everyday lives. People do not believe us and they do not really like us. ISIS even cuts off believers’ heads. In schools and universities, evolution is openly taught in order to represent the Bible, our faith, and Christ as foolish and unscientific. Media and most major churches agree with them. All of this should remind believers to keep in mind that this world is not our home, not our hope.
Our hope is not to cherish the things of this world and not to think that everyone will think and believe the same as us. It will never happen. Yes, we testify that some will be saved, and in heaven, there is great joy for everyone who is saved, but this world remains in the grip of evil. Our hope is found in the verses above. It is to be taken away from this and then to stand before our Lord. And this can happen any day!
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