The Antichrist will come. He will speak to
a disappointed world, and he will offer him-
self as the new messiah.

He will promise the people a wonderful and
glorious world. It will not be true, but he
will get away with his lies, because 'strong
delusion' will have come upon the whole
world 2 Thessalonians 2:11.

Some think that the Church will go through
the Tribulation, or half of it, or four-fifths of it.
At least some part of it. But it will not!

The Tribulation cannot begin, the Antichrist
cannot come to power, as long as the Body of
Christ is in the world, like it is today.

The Bible also tells us,
". . . he who now hindereth (is the Holy Spirit)
will continue to hinder until he be taken out
of the way. And then shall that wicked one
be revealed. . . ,"
2 Thessalonians 2:7-8

The revelation of the Antichrist, the time
when a large number of people recognize who
he really is, will not happen until the Church
(who is full of the Holy Spirit) is taken out of the world.
The Holy Spirit has to be gone because he is the
one hindering the evil one from appearing.

The Rapture will make way for the Antichrist.
The spirit of antichrist is in the world now, and
someday the real Antichrist will appear. He
will not be known as the Antichrist while the
Church is here.

The Bible says, "Let no man deceive you by
any means; for that day shall not come, except
there come the falling away first, and that man
of sin be revealed, the son of perdition, Who
supposeth and exalteth himself above all that is
called God, or that is worshiped, so that he, as
God, sitteth in the temple of God, showing him-
self that he is God," 2 Thessalonians 2:3-4

But when the Rapture comes, the Church Age
will suddenly end, and the Day of the Lord will
begin.

Then the world will discover, and they will
never forget, the absolute need for the
Christians.

That is what the Rapture is: it is the beginning
of the Day of the Lord.

We must remember what God did to Sodom.
He told Lot, "Come out of Sodom, with your
wife and your family, because only then can
I send the proper fire of judgment upon it."

The whole world is like Sodom, even today.
The whole world deserves to be wiped out.
People are lost and more lost every day in sin.

The only reason the fire doesn't fall is because
this great planet which is 'Sodom' has a lot of
Christians in it.

Thank God, the presence of the Church,
which is the Body of Christ, protects the
world from judgment now.

But when the Rapture of the Church
comes, this tremendous event ends the
Age of the Church, begins the Day of the
Lord, and brings devestation upon the
world.

A detailed discription of the Day of the Lord
begins is Revelation 6 and continues on to
Revelation 21.

There you have the story of the seven seals,
the seven trumpets, and the seven bowls.
It is an elaborate view of God's judgment of
wars and devastations moving across the
world.

All of that happens because man is treasuring
up wrath against the Day of Wrath.

Today is not the day of vengeance, but it is
the day of forgiveness and salvation.

But when the Rapture comes, and the Church
is taken out of the world, then begins the Day
of the Lord. It is well-known in the Old Testa-
ment. Jesus speaks of it in the Gospels. And
it is spoken of by the others in the New Testa-
ment.

But persecution is not the Day of the Lord.
The Day of the Lord is the day of vengeance
from God.

People sin in today's world. They murder,
rape, and steal and all the things reported
on the news. They are not judged instantly
because of the Church. It is in the world. It
is the 'Body of Christ, the Bride of Christ.'

It is the protecter against the wrath of God.
He isn't pouring out His wrath because it
is the beloved; so the wrath of God is being
stored up.

"by our gathering together unto him" is the
Rapture, that is when Jesus comes for His
own.

Then Paul continues by telling us what will
destinguish the Day of the Lord. He says
"Unless the Rapture has happened, the Day
of the Lord is not present. Therefore, you
are not living in the Day of the Lord."

"Yea, and all that will live godly in Christ
Jesus shall suffer persecution,"
2 Timothy 3:12 Yes, there may be some
persecution in this Day of Grace.

The time of the New Testament was inter-
esting because it was full of wondering about
the Day of the Lord.

The people of Thessalonica wondered if the
Day of the Lord was coming upon them,
because of their intense persecution. So
they wrote to Paul, "Is this the Day of the
Lord?"

Paul wrote back: "Now we beseech you,
brethren, by the coming of our Lord Jesus
Christ, and by our gathering together unto
him, That ye be not soon shaken in mind, or
be troubled, neither by spirit, nor by word,
nor by letter as from us, as that the day of
the Lord is present," 2 Thessalonians 2:1-2

So the Day of the Lord is a period of time,
beginning with the Rapture of the Church.
The Bible says, it is the day of vengeance;
it is the day of the wrath of God.

Romans Chapter 2 says something about
the people of this world.
"But after thy hardness and impenitent
heart treasurest up unto thyself wrath
against the day of wrath and revelation of
the righteous judgment of God, Who will
render to every man according to his deeds,"
Romans 2:5-6

The Rapture of the Church not only ends
the Church Age, but it begins the Day of
the Lord.

"But, beloved, be not ignorant of this one
thing, that one day is with the Lord as a
thousand years, and a thousand years as
one day.
The Lord is not slack concerning his promise,
as some men count slackness, but is long-
suffering toward us, not willing that any
should perish, but that all should come to
repentance.
But the day of the Lord will come as a thief
in the night, in which the heavens shall pass
away with a great noise, and the elements
shall melt with fervent heat; the earth also,
and the works that are in it, shall be burned
up." 2 Peter 3:8-10

We must remember when we come to
Jesus as our Savior, that it isn't just the
emotion of the moment; but that we are
becoming members of the greatest group
and institution; the greatest living thing
in the whole universe, the Church/the
Body of Christ.

When the Body is complete, the Church
Age will come to a close at the Rapture of
the Church.

There are other things that happen to us
when we are saved:

We are instantly members of God's family,
we are "accepted in the Beloved"
Ephesians 1:6

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The message of salvation is by grace only,
through faith only, in Jesus only.

Every person who has believed the Gospel,
and accepted Jesus as their personal Savior,
is a member of the Body of Christ.

When we realize we are a sinner. . . . .
when we see Jesus as the Son of God. . . . .
when we know He died for our sins. . . . .
when we claim that person and act. . . . .
then we are saved!

Remember, now, that each one of us is a
member of the Body of Christ as an individ-
ual.

We are not a member of the Body of Christ
by our membership in a certain church or
denomination.

That has nothing to do with it. We can be a
member of the Body of Christ by only one
thing and that is believing in Jesus Christ
as our personal Savior.

The true Church is an invisible entity, the
Body of Christ. Not a denomination, or a
local body. It is not a human organization.

When His body is completed, He will take
it out of this world. The end of the Church
Age will be that moment when Jesus comes
back.

Before Jesus' death and resurrection, nobody
knew about the Body of Christ. That wasn't
God's plan, but it was His plan to offered the
Kingdom to Israel.

Out of the sacrifice of the Lord Jesus, by
purchasing His own blood, God has chosen
to produce a remarkable organism (not an
organization) called the Body of Christ.

In Ephesians Chapter 3, he says this is
revealed to them, "That the Gentiles should
be fellow heirs, and of the same body, and
partakers of his promis in Christ by the
gospel," Ephesians 3:5-6

Jews and Gentiles are members of the same
body in this age. That wasn't the case before.

The age in which we live today is called the
Day of the Church, or the Day of Grace.

God is taking a group of people out of the
world for His Name, and putting them into
another called the Body of Christ.

Ephesians Chapter 1, Paul talks about "the
church, Which is his body, the fullness of
him that filleth all in all" Ephesians 1:22-23

It is important than we have the proper
understanding of the Rapture. We will learn
to appreciate it not simply as an escape,
delivering us from the cares of life, but as a
turning point in History!

The Rapture will end the Church Age.

The previous scripture are some of the most
remarkable words in the New Testament.

They tell of an amazing future event that will
take place in the lives of Christians, which is
the Rapture of the Church.

Now these are times in which the doctrine of
the Rapture has come under some discussion.
But we need to remember what it's all about,
and be aware that there are all kinds of insed-
eous pressures being put upon the Church.

Paul wrote back, "But I would not have you
to be ignorant, brethern, concerning them
who are asleep, that ye sorrow not, even as
others who have no hope.

For if we believe that Jesus died and rose
again, even so them also who sleep in Jesus
will God bring with him.

For this we say unto you by the word of the
Lord, that we who are alive and remain unto
the coming of the Lord shall not precede them
who are asleep.

For the Lord himself shall descend from heaven
with a shout, with the voice of the archangel,
and with the trump of God; and the dead in
Christ shall 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 so shall we ever be with the Lord.

Wherefore, comfort one another with these
words," 1 Thessalonians 4:13-18

In the early days of the Church, the people
at Thessalonica started wondering about the
future. Some of the Christians had died and
they had some questions. They wrote to Paul
and said,

"We'd like to know about the future. How do
those who have already died share in this
event you've told us about, called the return
of Christ?"

There is an event that is soon to happen
upon the world. It is so important because
it will be the beginning of the end.

It will have a great effect on every living
thing in the world. Its impact will be felt
far beyond the world as we know it.

It is called the Rapture!

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