When will rapture happen? Is secret rapture scriptural? Concerning the timing of rapture,
there's five different views. The first view is the post-tribulation view is that believers will
be raptured at the end of the great tribulation, at the coming of Jesus Christ. The second view is
the pre-wrath view. It's that believers will be caught up sometime in between the sixth and the
seventh seal described in the Book of Revelation. The third view is the mid-tribulation view. It's
that believers will be taken and meet the Lord during the middle of the tribulation period. The
fourth view is the partial rapture, meaning only faithful believers are taken to be with
Christ at the beginning of the tribulation, and the unfaithful ones are left to endure it. And
the fifth view is the pre-tribulation view. It's the view that is held by many people.
It's the most popular view, is that believers are caught up to be with the Lord before the
trouble breaks out on this earth, before this whole saga of Antichrist, and false miracles,
and the mark of the beast. Now what does the Bible say? I want you to look at the verses
that I'm going to share with you today, without your own view or opinion that a
lot of times we bring into when we read the Scriptures. In 2 Thessalonians 2:1 it says:
Now we all understand that our gathering together to Him, it does refer to us being captured,
being caught up to meet the Lord. And the coming of the Lord Jesus Christ seems to refer to the
second coming of Jesus. The coming of the Lord and our gathering together with Him, looks like
it's the same event. In fact a single definitive article in the Greek connects these two phrases,
suggesting that it's the same event. If somebody were to read this verse without being told if this
is referring to rapture or the second coming of Jesus. It will be easy to come to the conclusion,
it's referring to the same event. Now the word "coming" is parousia. It's used about 24 times in
the New Testament. Out of these, 6 times it's used to the coming of the individual. The seventh time,
it's used to the coming of the lawless one, the Antichrist. And the other 17 times, it refers to
the second coming of Jesus Christ. Except one time it refers to the coming of the Day of the Lord.
Now in Jack Hayford's new Spirit-Filled Bible, there is a definition of this word "parousia," the
coming. The technical term signifying the second advent of Christ, was never used to describe His
first coming. Parousia originally was the official term for a visit by a person of high rank,
especially a king. It was an arrival that included a permanent presence from that coming onward. The
glorified Messiah's arrival will be followed by a permanent residence with His glorified people.
Now why is that important? Because when it's talking about the coming of Christ, this is not
referring to Him snatching us in the air and then taking us to heaven. Every time that it uses the
word "coming." It's referring to His permanent presence. His presence permanently being where
He is coming to, okay, and that's very important to highlight that. Now somebody who studies the
history, mentioned that the word "parousia" in the old times was used to describe when an important
person was coming into a city, they would say, in a parousia. And then a delegation from the city
would go out to meet this person, and then escort him on his way into the city. It's kind of like
this, you know when my wife, she sometimes would travel, and she's going in fact this weekend to
the Mexican border to help the Ukraine refugees. And so when she's coming back from a trip,
and I go to the airport to meet her. So I don't meet her halfway. She's coming all the way from
wherever she went and I meet her at the airport. Then I escort her, I bring her to the house. And
that's what it seems like that the rapture will be, is Jesus Christ will be coming, and then we
will be caught up to meet Him in the air, in the process we will be transformed, the dead will be
raised. And then together with the Lord, we will come, and He will set His feet, with His saints,
on the Mount of Olives. Now this second coming of Jesus, and the rapture, seem to be the same event.
Let's read the most famous verse concerning the rapture. 1 Thessalonians 4:15-17. "For this we say
to you by the word of the Lord, that we who are alive and remain until the coming," the parousia,
"of the Lord." Again this is presence of Jesus permanently coming to the place, not just coming
and leaving halfway. So, "Until the coming of the Lord by no means precede those who are asleep. For
the Lord Himself will descend from heaven with the shout, with the voice of an archangel, and with
the trumpet of God. And the dead in Christ will rise first. Then we who are alive and remain shall
be caught up together with them in the clouds to meet the Lord in the air. And thus we shall always
be with the Lord." Meaning there is going to be no separation from us and God. Now Paul doesn't
mentioned here, where a lot of people who hold the pre-trip view that we will go with the Lord
into heaven. But in here that doesn't say that. In fact all other verses indicate that the coming
of Jesus with His saints, is Him coming on earth. And so you don't have to be a scholar or a huge
theologian to come to the conclusion that this is referring to the same event of the second coming
of Jesus, and we will be caught up to Him. We are meeting Him halfway, we're being transformed,
people are being raised from the dead, and then we're coming with Jesus on the earth. Now unless
you read these verses with already a made-up mindset, or a view, a traditional view that's most
popular right now, and that is we will go meet the Lord in the air. He's gonna be kind of coming,
but not really coming. And then we're gonna spend seven years during the marriage supper of the Lamb
and then He's gonna really come down. And that is not the view that it seems like the Scripture is
advancing here. Now so when will that happen? When will the rapture happen? Well from these verses,
it seems like it will happen when Jesus will come again. Now, when will Jesus come again? The Bible
seemed to tell us that it will happen after the tribulation, Matthew 24:29, that Jesus will appear
in heaven. It will not be a secret coming, Matthew 24:30. That Jesus is coming will be as visible
as lightning, Matthew 24:27. That at His coming, all the tribes of people and nations will mourn,
Matthew 24:30. And that Jesus is coming will be seen and it will not be secret, Matthew 24:30
and Revelation 1:7. And then He will be coming on the clouds with power and glory, Matthew 24:30,
and that at His coming there will be a sound. You see how we've read already in the verse concerning
the rapture, that there will be a sound of a trumpet. Meaning it's going to get loud,
and the same thing is talking about the coming of the Lord, as it's talking about us being caught
up to Him. So this would be loud. It will not be secret. And another thing that we see is that He
will be coming with His saints. No not only He will be coming with His saints in heaven,
but then we're being, we're caught up to the Lord. And so with us as well, the resurrected ones, He
will be coming on this earth. At His coming we see that the dead will be raised, and that we will be
changed instantly to meet Him in the air, and then He will land on the Mount of Olives in Jerusalem
and it says in Zechariah 14:4. Now there's five raptures described in the Bible. Enoch,
you know who was taken to be with the Lord. It was a secret rapture. Nobody knows how and when,
and there seems to be no evidence of somebody seeing that. Elijah being cut up to be with the
Lord, and Elisha saw it. In fact he captured the mental from Elijah, his mentor. Jesus's ascension,
disciples saw it. We see that there will be two witnesses who will be raptured, who will go up
to heaven in front of other people, and as well as our rapture seems to be visible as the Lord's
coming. That means that most likely the rapture of the church and the coming of Jesus Christ,
not only is the same event but it will not be secret. In fact it will be loud,
it will be visible and it will be a very glorious event. When Jesus came first time, He came in
humility but when He's coming second time, He's coming in honor. When He came first time,
He rode a donkey. When He's coming second time, He will ride a horse. When He came first time,
He came to suffer and die. When He's coming second time, He comes to rule and reign. When
He came first time, He was killed. When He's coming second time, He will kill Injustice,
He will kill the devil, He will destroy that which is bad. We are looking forward, we are groaning,
the creation is groaning, the world is groaning. Everyone is aching and waiting for that time when
God will finally set the record straight, and that will happen at His second coming.
He will bring the reward to the righteous. He will bring the punishment to the wicked.
He will establish His kingdom on this earth, and then He will rapture us, and we will meet Him in
the air. If we look at Luke 17:34-37, it seems to talk about this kind of rapture. It says:
This doesn't talk about the secrecy of the rapture, as much as that the rapture will
be a decisive separation, and this will happen at the Lord's return. As well as this parable
of the eagles and the body, you know there's many versions, and I think personally, I could be wrong
on this, but it's referring to where the body is the eagles will be gathered. It's talking about
the church being snatched heavenward as the bird snatches its prey. Now we don't know the exact
timing of the Lord's coming or the rapture. We can know the times and seasons but not the day
and the hour. For the true believer, one is always ready for the coming of the Lord. If it's secret,
then the believer is ready. If it's open, the believer has to be ready. We should always be
ready for His coming, whether we live or die. But for many Christians, this any minute secret
rapture has become a false hope, and a kind of escape from the realities of present life.
The Bible teaches us to ever be ready when we die before His coming or if we will be alive to meet
Him at His coming. The early Christians expected Christ to return in their time. But however,
if you remember when Jesus talked with Peter, He told Peter, that when you get old you will be made
to do what you don't want to do. Somebody will you know carry you, and He was talking about Peter's
death. And even though the Lord you know signified to them He's coming soon, but He made very obvious
to Peter that not that soon. And we see that Paul started to teach, you know that, hey, Jesus is
not coming like right now, right now. The Gospel still has to be preached, the man of lawlessness
still has to be made manifest and so many other things. And so it was a little bit later that this
idea that any moment right now Jesus can come, started to go through the Christianity. And though
it created some urgency in some people toward evangelism, but at the same time I do believe that
it can create more damage than good. When will rapture happen? I believe it will happen at the
same time as the coming of Jesus Christ, though we don't know the hour and we don't know the day,
but we know the signs. And the signs are the signs of the end times and most of them already
have been fulfilled, like false messiahs, fake religions, wars in the world, increase of hunger,
earthquakes, incurable diseases. I mean covid, pandemics, persecution of Christians, a high
surge of wickedness, love of believers growing cold, world being evangelized and Israel being
in the land. But there's just a few things that I want you to keep in mind is that about 2 billion
people still don't know Jesus Christ. So the idea that the Gospel will be preached to all the world
and then the end will come, that one is still yet to be fulfilled. And we, instead of just sitting
you know on our butts and waiting for Jesus to come, we should obey what Jesus told us to do
and go into all the world and make disciples. We should go to colleges, we should build churches,
we should start schools, we should disciple our children, we should make missionaries, we should
make disciples. We should get about the Lord's business, and so that's the one that I see that is
still yet to be fulfilled is the reaching of the world with the Gospel of Jesus. The other part is
that if the Lord will come, and the Antichrist will already rule and reign and establish his
religion. Then we don't see the revelation of the man of lawlessness who will imitate Christ and who
will have his own parousia. If you remember when I mentioned about the word "parousia." One of the
times the word "parousia" is actually used for the lawless one, the Antichrist. And so the Antichrist
is still going to come, with his own signs and wonders, and he will establish his government, his
religion and his economy. Now as of recording of this video, we don't see that yet being manifest.
I do believe it's probably in the works some were, you know hidden, being worked on. I do believe
what happened with this whole covid is a good preparation for one world government. You know to
make the whole world stop and make the whole world realize we need the vaccine, you know we need
this, and if you don't have it, that's it. You can't get a job, you can't you know shop anywhere,
you can't go to any places and stuff. So I do see that this is a preparation, but to say that we are
like you know next few years this could happen is very unlikely, though the way things develop in
this world, this could happen any moment. But we do have to see the Gospel be preached to all the
world, and it's not been done yet. We don't see the revelation of the man of lawlessness, we don't
see the establishment of one world government, one world currency or if you don't take the mark of
the beast, you're not able to eat, buy and do all of these transactions. So we still don't see those
things. Now I understand this may burst a bubble for somebody who has lived with fear, or who has
lived with this like little panic, that sometimes preachers or evangelists like to induce us with,
to drive us to you know I guess reconsider our decisions and to recommit our lives to God. But
it's better to let love drive our life instead of fear and let the urgency come from the Lord's
commandments, instead of coming from something that we come up with. I believe that rapture will
involve instantaneous transformation of our bodies to fit us for eternity. The doctrine of rapture is
a mystery. Paul said to encourage each other with these words. We are not here to escape, we are
here to occupy until Jesus comes. He will make the new earthand a new heaven. He will set the record
straight. He will conquer evil at His coming, and I believe that. We have to cry out and expect and
desire for Him to come, but this understanding that He might not come instantly and right now,
doesn't cause us not to want for Him to come. Every time we see injustice, every time we see
somebody dying, every time we see you know evil advancing in this world. This is just a cry of
our heart, Lord Jesus come. Maranatha. Come Lord Jesus, come. Thank you for watching this video.
I hope this brought encouragement, strength, and helped you to plan for the future, but live being
ready for Jesus's return any moment. Let me know in the comments below and what you think
concerning rapture. When do you think rapture will happen? Before tribulation or after tribulation?
I have other videos concerning this topic. Please be nice in the comments below. I understand this
is a highly debatable topic, and we can still be civil, and be brothers and sisters, even
if we disagree on some of these hair splitting issues. Thank you for watching. God bless you.