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Jack Kinsella is the editor and publisher of the Omega Letter, a subscription website community and news
and information website examining current events from a conservative Christian perspective. Jack Kinsella is the head writer of the TBN television program, “The Hal Lindsey Report”, and previously, Hal Lindsey’s “International Intelligence Briefing” and the 1990’s television broadcast, “This Week in Bible Prophecy.”
Jack is the author of several books, including “The Last Generation”, two dozen video documentaries, a daily subscription newsletter by email, in addition to several thousand columns. Jack’s recent public appearances include the National Geographic documentary, “Doomsday: The Book of Revelation” “Zola Levitt Presents” “Celebration” and many nationally-syndicated radio programs.
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One third of the Scriptures were prophetic when they were written. A large percentage of these prophecies have been fulfilled and many have yet to be. The most controversial and unappreciated of all biblical prophecies is the one now known as the “Rapture.” The reasons for this are faulty hermeneutics and teachings based upon assumption. The word “Rapture” is not a biblical word! The apostle Paul in his first letter to the church at Thessalonica used the Greek word “harpazo” which means “to snatch away” or “to catch up” when describing this return of the Lord Jesus FOR His own (1 Th. 4:13-18). The Latin word “rapare” also means “to snatch out” or “to take away.” It was translated from the Greek word “harpazo” for the Latin Vulgate Bible. Thus, “rapare” led to the use of the English word “Rapture” meaning “an expression or manifestation of ecstasy or passion” among those ‘snatched up’ by the Lord Jesus.
In his first letter to the church at Thessalonica, the apostle Paul told of a generation of Christians who would not experience physical death (1 Th. 4:14-17). Paul also comforted this church in his second letter to them with this truth which was told of by “the word of the Lord” (1 Th. 4:15). Paul wrote his second letter to the Thessalonians shortly after his first to reassure them that they had not missed the coming of the Lord Jesus and the assembling to meet Him in the air (2 Th. 2:1), regardless of what they had been told or what they had heard (2 Th. 2:2). In his first letter to the church at Corinth, Paul expanded upon this return of the Lord Jesus by telling them of a “mystery” that he was going to reveal to them (1 Cor. 15:51-53).
It is commonly taught that the English word “mystery,” when used in the Scriptures, is about a teaching [doctrine] not previously revealed or known. This interpretation and teaching for the word “mystery” cannot be true since Paul is using this word AFTER he had first taught about the “Rapture” in his two letters to the Thessalonians. The English word “mystery” is from the Greek word “musterion.” The Greek word “musterion” was often used by secret Greek fraternities in ancient Greece. When used, it meant something that wasn’t known by the people at large but only to those initiated into the fraternity; or the subject under discussion was some-thing that was known only to the initiated of the fraternity [Young’s Analytical Con-cordance to the Bible]. Thus, the “Rapture” is a teaching that the apostles, being members of the fraternity of Christ, were already aware of! Paul is now revealing this teaching to both the “Church” and the world at large in 1 Corinthians 15:51-53.
The place where the Lord Jesus is going to take those who He will meet in the air at the “Rapture” is a city God has prepared for them (Heb.11:16). It is the city to which Abraham looked forward to seeing (Heb. 11:8-10) and why Christians have thought themselves strangers and pilgrims while on the earth (Heb. 11:13). They
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knew their true citizenship was in this city located in Heaven (Phil. 3:20). Its beauty and size will be a wonder to behold (Rev. 21:2, 10-23; 22:1-5) and the citizens of this city will only be those people who have done the will of God the Father during their life on earth; in whichever of the five ages they lived (Mt. 7:21; 1 Cor. 15:1-4; Eph. 2:8-9; Rev. 21:24-27). The Christians “snatched up” by the Lord Jesus at the “Rapture” will be taken to Heaven to face the “judgment seat of Christ” (2Cor.5:10). This is not a judgment for sin (Heb. 10:12, 14, 17) but for the works they did after they became a Christian (Mt.12:36; Ro.14:10-12; Gal.6:7; Eph.6:8; Col.3:23-25). They will be rewarded accordingly (1Cor.3:8, 13-15; 2Tim. 4:7-8; Rev.2:10; 22:12). It is after they have received their earned rewards when “the marriage supper of the Lamb” [Christ] will be celebrated (Rev.19:7-9). The Lord Jesus promised to come FOR His own and take them to this city in Heaven (Jn. 14:1-3). He will keep this promise with the return known as the “Rapture.” At His “2nd Advent” the Lord Jesus will return WITH His saints (Rev. 19:11-14) and His angels (Mt. 25:31).
Bob Schoenle
29 May 09 at 5:28 pm