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WHOSE REALLY GOING IN THE RAPTURE WHEN JESUS COMES TO FETCH

HIS BRIDE?

By Bernard Cox

There is such contention and debate concerning this question yet, nobody really knows the answer.
The reason being, the names of those eligible to be translated are written in the Lambs Book of
Life from before the foundations of the world and only God knows who they are. Even the most
devout, sincere, most diligent, studious theologian arent assured of there ticket into the rapture.

Christians believe, as in the case with their salvation also, in hope by faith that they are going to
be raptured; hence it is written, If ye continue in the FAITH grounded and settled, and be
not moved away from the HOPE of the gospel, WHICH YE HAVE HEARD, AND WHICH
WAS PREACHED TO EVERY CREATURE WHICH IS UNDER HEAVEN; WHEREOF I PAUL
AM MADE A MINISTER...... - COLOSSIANS 1:23 For we, through the Spirit, wait for the
HOPE of righteousness by FAITH. - GALATIANS 5:5

Lets now have a look at Enochs rapturing experience...

GENESIS 5:22 And ENOCH WALKED WITH GOD after he begat Methuselah THREE
HUNDRED YEARS, and begat sons and daughters:
GENESIS 5:23 And all the days of Enoch were three hundred sixty and five years:
GENESIS 5:24 And ENOCH WALKED WITH GOD: AND HE WAS NOT; FOR GOD TOOK
HIM.

HEBREWS 11:5 By faith Enoch was translated, (raptured) that he should not see death; and was not
found, because God had translated him: FOR BEFORE HIS TRANSLATION, he had THIS
testimony, that HE PLEASED GOD.

HEBREWS 11:6 But without faith it is impossible to please Him: for he that cometh to God must
believe THAT HE IS, and that He is a rewarder OF THEM THAT DILIGENTLY SEEK HIM.

God must have seen something really special in the personage of Enoch to have not only attracted
Gods attention, but to have God, the Logos, the Word, walk with Enoch for at least three hundred
years.

The Hebrew word in the above text walked is halak which literally means... to go, walk, come
but, figuratively it means to die, live, manner of life. How does a man, (in the fallen state that
Enoch was in... same as us) walk an extended lifetime in the presence of the Creator without
offending or aggrieving Him? I mean, He didnt have the benefit of the indwelling Holy Spirit of
God to lead and guide him as is offered to us in this day.

Worse still and by which we are susceptible to, everything these days is based upon intellectuality.
All things, everything, has to be scientifically proved before people will believe it. Let me remind
the reader, YOU CANNOT SCIENTIFICALLY PROVE GOD. YOU HAVE TO ACCEPT HIM
BY FAITH.

What is then it that hampers a Christians faith? It is the unrighteous lives that we lead. Let me
assure you, the moment that you trip and fall for whatsoever reason, (spiritually speaking) the
demons relentlessly attack you with fiery darts of guilt... and lest you persistently respond in
repentant prayer, these guilt trips accumulate, becoming ever a greater burden to bear. Hopefully,
and eventually, the load brings us to our knees before a crossroads... Then it is decision time! The
unbeliever doesnt experience these epiphanies for they do not entertain guilt conscience. It is the
make-believer and the believer who wrestle with the demons in their mind. Some backslide at this
point, sometimes for a time, sometimes permanently; and some repent again, (and again, and
again...) rising to their feet to fight another battle.

What God saw in Enoch was his faith, and his will, to please God by overcoming adversity; and he
triumphed exceedingly for hundreds of years.

Enoch lived alongside the unbelieving and industrialist descendants of Cain and he saw the
wickedness among these sons and daughters of man. He saw the evil, which caused God to visit the
Earth to see for Himself, the depravity of man; that led Him to destroy the Earth with the great
flood.

In light of the above, we might ask, What then is expected of us in this final age to secure passage
in the coming rapture? Only the Bible can tell us that.

I THESSALONIANS 4:1-6 points us directly to the Bible for that answer...

Furthermore then we beseech you, brethren, and exhort you by the Lord Jesus, THAT AS YE
HAVE RECEIVED OF US HOW YE OUGHT TO WALK and TO PLEASE GOD, so ye would
abound more and more. For YE KNOW WHAT COMMANDMENTS WE GAVE YOU by the
Lord Jesus. For THIS IS THE WILL OF GOD, EVEN YOUR SANCTIFICATION, that ye
should abstain from FORNICATION: That EVERY ONE OF YOU SHOULD KNOW HOW TO
POSSESS HIS VESSEL IN SANCTIFICATION AND HONOUR; Not in the lust of concupiscence,
(A desire for sexual intimacy) even as the Gentiles, WHICH KNOW NOT God: That no man go
beyond and defraud his brother in any matter: because that the Lord is the avenger of all such, AS
WE ALSO HAVE FOREWARNED YOU AND TESTIFIED.

In the GREEK LEXICON -- STRONG'S NUMBER 38 the word SANCTIFICATION is

HAGIASMOS {hag-ee-as-mos'} aJgiasmov from 37; TDNT -- 1:88,14; n m

AV -- HOLINESS (5)
-- SANCTIFICATION (5) [10]
1) consecration, purification
2) sanctification of heart and life

And further, in the GREEK LEXICON -- STRONG'S NUMBER 4202 the word FORNICATION
IS PORNEIA {por-ni'-ah} porneiva from 4203; TDNT -- 6:579,918; n f
AV -- FORNICATION (26)
1a) illicit sexual intercourse; (from 1 Cor. 6:12, we learn how leniently converts among the
heathen, (Gentiles) regarded this vice and how lightly they indulged in it)
1b) metaph. the worship of idols; of the defilement of idolatry, as incurred by eating the sacrifices
offered to idols

In respect of 1b above... we find that in the church age leading up to the successful protestation of
Martin Luther against Roman Catholicism, (the church age of Thiatira) the Christian church was
rebuked by the Angel of the Lord in Revelations 2:18-29 for their fornication. This was not in a
physically sexual context, but in the context of leaving their first love, The Word; for the dogmatic
teachings of Rome. Jesus considers such a fornication an adultery against Him admonishing them
saying, I will cast her, (Roman Catholicism) into a bed, AND Them That Commit Adultery With
Her Into Great Tribulation, (Ed; Bernard right there we miss the rapture for the rapture precedes
the Great Tribulation) Except They Repent Of Their Deeds, And I will kill her children with death;
and all the churches shall know that I am he which searcheth the reins and hearts: AND I WILL
GIVE UNTO EVERY ONE OF YOU ACCORDING TO YOUR WORKS, But unto you I say, and
unto the rest in Thyatira, as many AS HAVE NOT THIS DOCTRINE, and which have not
known the depths of Satan, as they speak; I will put upon you none other burden...
This subject is so huge, with mountains of confirmations regarding how one could be seduced into
missing the rapture. I pin to that statement, for purposes of grasping the enormity of the situation,
the fact that if we believe a contradictory teaching to the Word, I.E. a dogma, we in fact commit
adultery against the statutes of the Word of god Whos prime reason for life is to prepare and finally
produce for Himself, a many membered Bride who has been tutored by the Holy Spirit and tried and
tested for her loyalty, love and obedience to His Word. That being understood, howbeit, that if God
pronounced death upon Eve for committing the very same crime, how dare we expect Him, a
righteous Judge, not to hold us accountable for the same crime/s as written in His Word?

Friends, these are the very reasons why the Lord sent us, in small measure, the Holy Spirit as a
guide to lead us unto all truth, and eventually for the sealing of our souls by the baptism of our
soul and being by the fullness of the Holy Spirit to infuse eternal life into our being that our bodies
would thereby be immortalized by the quickening of said eternal Holy Spirit.

I hope this short explanation suffices to set you to serious consideration regarding your final
destiny.