The Blessed Hope🧑🧑🧒🧒
The Blessed Hope — Understanding the Rapture "For the Lord himself will descend from heaven with a cry of command, with the voice of an archangel, and with the trumpet of God. And the dead in Christ will rise first. Then we who are alive, who are left, will be caught up together with them in the clouds to meet the Lord in the air, and so we will always be with the Lord." — 1 Thessalonians 4:16–17 (ESV) 📖 Introduction to the Rapture The Rapture is one of the greatest promises given to believers. It is the moment when Jesus Christ will return to take His church out of this world to be with Him forever. Unlike His Second Coming, when He will return to reign and judge, the Rapture is a meeting in the air between Christ and His church. It is the blessed hope that encourages us to live in holiness and faithfulness, reminding us that this world is not our final home. Paul wrote in 1 Thessalonians 4:16–17 that the Lord Himself will descend with a shout, the voice of the archangel...