Well it’s been a couple of weeks since I could get focused back on some prophecy. I had a great two week vacation and was blessed enough to have access to the internet so I could keep up on the posting.
There are two scriptures I will put down that tell us to be encouraged regarding the rapture. The first one comes right after one of the most popular rapture versus.
1 Thessalonians 4:16-18 – 16For the Lord himself will come down from heaven, with a loud command, with the voice of the archangel and with the trumpet call of God, and the dead in Christ will rise first. 17After that, we who are still alive and are left will be caught up together with them in the clouds to meet the Lord in the air. And so we will be with the Lord forever. 18Therefore encourage each other with these words.
Is this in itself a verse that proves a pre-trib rapture on its own? No, probably not.
However, it’s much easier to find encouragement in being spared during the most horrific time on the earth, even more so than the flood, than having to go through it.
The second verse which speaks on encouragement is Titus 2:13.
Titus 2:13 – 13while we wait for the blessed hope—the glorious appearing of our great God and Savior, Jesus Christ,
Paul refers to the rapture in this verse as our blessed hope. Hope like encouragement is something to look forward to, not something that is a consolation if you happen to avoid the slaughter of the days.
When is the church going to see His glorious appearing? At the rapture.
I am getting down to the last few Pre-Trib support scriptures, so I realize these are not as solid as the other 15 or so Pre-Trib posts I’ve done previously. To see those just go over to the categories column and click on Rapture and they will come up from the most recent on down.