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To: topcat54
Again, there is no "rapture" resurrection separate from the final resurrection (Rev. 20), anywhere in the Bible.

Not true ----

The rapture resurrection probably takes place somewhere between Rev 10:7 [in the days of the voice of the 7th angel when the Mystery of God is finished] and Rev 14:4 [These are they who follow the Lamb wherever He goes; these were redeemed from among men, the first fruits unto God and to the Lamb].

Furthermore I Corinthians 15 reads:

"20But now is Christ risen from the dead, and become the first fruits of them that slept. 21For since by man came death, by man came also the resurrection of the dead. 22For as in Adam all die, even so in Christ shall all be made alive. 23But every man in his own order: Christ the firstfruits; afterward they that are Christ's at his coming."

[So there has been a rapture-resurrection right here at His coming --- right??? What happens next:]

"24Then cometh the end, when he shall have delivered up the kingdom to God, even the Father; when he shall have put down all rule and all authority and power."

[The resurrections in Rev 20 come after "He puts down all rule and all authority and all power" in Rev 19, you know, when the fowl of the air will be feasting on the "flesh" of "kings, captains, mighty men, and horses" -------- "horses" -------- what are they doing there??? --------- Well, I guess Zechariah must have been right after all.

120 posted on 08/11/2007 11:21:07 AM PDT by Uncle Chip (TRUTH : Ignore it. Deride it. Allegorize it. Interpret it. But you can't ESCAPE it.)
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To: Uncle Chip; Ping-Pong; invoman
The rapture resurrection probably takes place somewhere between Rev 10:7 ...

But you are admitting that Reveation is silent on this so-called rapture resurrction separate from the resurrection of chapter 20.

And there is no rapture resurrection separate from the final resurrection in 1 Cor 15. That is plain from the reading:

"23 But each one in his own order: Christ the firstfruits, afterward those who are Christ's at His coming. 24 Then comes the end, when He delivers the kingdom to God the Father, when He puts an end to all rule and all authority and power." (1 Cor. 15)

There are folks who wish to insert something like 1007 years between "those who are Christ's at His coming" and "then comes the end, when He delivers the kingdom to God the Father", but such an insertion of time is clearly unwarranted from the text and context. At the resurrection of the saint is th end, followed immediately by judgment and glorification/damnation.

There is only one future coming of Jesus Christ, that which the Church commonly calls the "second coming". All Christ's saints are resurrected at the same time at the second coming.

127 posted on 08/11/2007 3:51:04 PM PDT by topcat54 ("... knowing that the testing of your faith produces patience." (James 1:3))
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