Transforming Series (6): Rapture: Since when Jesus spoke about escaping Earth? By JSalum

Rapture: Since when Jesus spoke about escaping Earth? 
By Dr. JSalum

What do you think about this Photoshop picture?
I think it is ridiculous!

It is unfortunate that millions of believers without a personal study and without checking out themselves the Scriptures believe in videos with distorted images, exciting plots and songs of suspense about what they call "The Rapture".

Understand well! Jesus will come and every eye shall see Him! 

But there is no verse in the Bible that says He will return or will "come back" to take His church to heaven.This is a myth.

It is not us only who are still alive and are left that will be caught up, but those who sleep in death will also be caught up in the clouds to meet the Lord in the air. 

According to some millenarian teaching rapture is transport (a believer) from Earth to Heaven and at the Second Coming of Christ. Where in the Scriptures do you honestly find verses that will clearly affirm this fallacy?

To be caught up according to I Thessalonians 4:13-18 is not vanishing, it is not a escape nor sensationalism .

"Brothers and sisters, we do not want you to be uninformed about those who sleep in death, so that you do not grieve like the rest of mankind, who have no hope. For we believe that Jesus died and rose again, and so we believe that God will bring with Jesus those who have fallen asleep in Him. According to the LORD'S WORD, we tell you that we who are still alive, who are left until the COMING OF THE LORD, 

For the coming and not for the rapture... 

will certainly not precede those who have fallen asleep. 

For 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. 

With a shout and great noise! It is a descend! There is no verse that says He will return to heaven, much less with the believers.

After 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. 

We will be - not geographically, but being with the Lord forever, as ONE. "Where?" In the New Heavens and New Earth, it is a new creation with no space, no time, no physical matter, because the heavens who now exist shall cease to exist.

Therefore encourage one another with these words."

I kindly ask that before you condemn me for what it is written here, let us dialogue: dia = through - Logos = the Word!