Today,
reply is on whether the Rapture has already occurred without those
left behind being made aware of judgment against themselves. As a
sacred process, the focus or object of hope may be fixed and
unchanging, yet, hope is to be ongoing, pending, and recurring.
Properly understood, our sacred hope also is timeless, eternal, and
everlasting. Hope for the believer derives from the grace and
personhood of divinity, rather than deliverance by the law, and from
the law. One
of the fighters in the “Yahoo! Answers” public forum on Religion
and Spirituality who uses the ID “Anonymous” (no profile data
appears) posted the following:
What
if Rapture has already happened but no one was saved and therefor no
one got Raptured?
THE
GOLDEN ARROW: But I would not have you to be ignorant, brethren,
concerning them which are asleep, that ye sorrow not, even as others
which have no hope. For if we believe that Jesus died and rose
again, even so them also which sleep in Jesus will God bring with
him. For this we say unto you by the word of the Lord, that we which
are alive and remain unto the coming of the Lord shall not
prevent them which 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
which 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. (1st Thessalonians 4: 13-18, King James Version,
KJV)
THE
DOUBLE DAGGER: Divine Preparations for Advent (03/17/2019); His
Words About Returning (12/02/2018); Preparing For The Rapture
(11/09/2018); A Short Time Left (10/30/2018); Believers Must Become
“Ripe” (09/02/2018); “The End Is Near” (03/14/2018); Waiting
For His Appearing (02/09/2016)
“Anonymous”,
developing Christian believers are all cautioned to acknowledge that
the present process of divinity for redemption and salvation is one
of proclamation and revelation. Things otherwise invisible and
unseen are displayed and made actual for created beings and living
creatures to establish unshakable consciousness of divine things that
have been, that are, and that are yet to come. Divine law is not the
hope of the Christian; yet, law is a life process, not merely a set
of rules, whereby the accomplishment of judgment appears. Spiritual
confusion is eliminated through sacred devices that include the
operations of inseparable spirit substance from the makeup of GOD
such as faith, holiness, impartiality, oneness without sameness, and
prophetic demonstration. Saying this another way, multiple sacred
events to make divinity known, knowable, accessible and approachable
will occur that are “public” and “open”. While there will be
various operations that involve only those members of the church
founded by Jesus Christ who are adjudged as just and righteous, these
will not be private or secret events. Through what they witness,
those ruled as being unjust, unrighteous and wicked are to realize
their condition of condemnation before the Most High, and their
further entrance into the tribunals of final judgment.
Keeping
in mind that salvation is through grace and the merits of Jesus
Christ, who, when, how and why there is a harvesting of the earth is
not a social event, or a matter of selection on the basis of human
accomplishment. Christ will be published within the consciousness
and substance of all Creation through righteous judgment, and the
resolution of all conflict. Among Christian believers teachings that
have themes of the new creation, “the rapture,” or the
descent of the New Jerusalem are to generate appetite (ire., longing
for the appearing of the Lord), expectation (we also say, hope), and
zeal through assurance. Consider against the following that uses
language from the Bible:
1.
Deuteronomy 29: 29, King James Version (KJV): 29 The secret things
belong unto the LORD our God: but those
things which are revealed belong unto us and to our
children for ever, that we may do all the words of this law.
2.
Revelation 1: 5-8, KJV: 5 And from Jesus Christ, who is the
faithful witness, and the first begotten of the dead, and the
prince of the kings of the earth. Unto him that loved us, and washed
us from our sins in his own blood, 6 And hath made us kings and
priests unto God and his Father; to him be glory and dominion
for ever and ever. Amen. 7 Behold, he cometh with clouds; and every
eye shall see him, and they also which pierced him: and all
kindreds of the earth shall wail because of him. Even so, Amen. 8 I
am Alpha and Omega, the beginning and the ending, saith the Lord,
which is, and which was, and which is to come, the Almighty.
3.
Matthew 24: 23-28, KJV: 23 Then if any man shall say unto you, Lo,
here is Christ, or there; believe it not. 24 For there
shall arise false Christs, and false prophets, and shall shew great
signs and wonders; insomuch that, if it were possible, they
shall deceive the very elect. 25 Behold, I have told you before. 26
Wherefore if they shall say unto you, Behold, he is in the desert; go
not forth: behold, he is in the secret chambers; believe it
not. 27 For as the lightning cometh out of the east, and shineth
even unto the west; so shall also the coming of the Son of man be.
28 For wheresoever the carcase is, there will the eagles be gathered
together.
There
is far more that should be said, correctly examined, and spiritually
apprehended. (For example, 4. Romans 8: 24-25, KJV: 24 For we are
saved by hope: but hope that is seen is not hope: for what a man
seeth, why doth he yet hope for? 25 But if we hope for that we see
not, then do we with patience wait for it.) Even
so, I trust this fragment will be useful. Be it unto you according
to your faith.
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