PAUL, THE RAPTURE FANATIC!

I find that the Apostle Paul must’ve been as obsessed with the Rapture as much as I am. Why?

Well, let’s see……

Here are 33 different passages from just Paul himself, not even counting those of Peter, James, Jude, and John, that talk about the Rapture or some aspect thereof!!! Notice also that with the exception of Philemon, Paul mentions the Rapture in every single epistle and letter that he wrote!!!

Yes, I think about the Rapture everyday. It should be at least as important to us as it was to Paul, I would think.

1. “Waiting for the adoption, to wit, the redemption of our body.” Romans 8:23.
2. “Waiting for the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ.” 1 Corinthians 1:7.
3. “they that are Christ’s at his coming.” 1 Corinthians 15:23.
4. “Behold, I shew you a mystery; We shall not all sleep, but we shall all be changed, In a moment, in the twinkling of an eye, at the last trump: for the trumpet shall sound, and the dead shall be raised incorruptible, and we shall be changed.”
   1 Corinthians 15:51-52.
5. “For in this we groan, earnestly desiring to be clothed upon with our house which is from heaven:”
   2 Corinthians 5:2.
6. “We are confident, I say, and willing rather to be absent from the body, and to be present with the Lord.”
   2 Corinthians 5:8.
7. “Who gave himself for our sins, that he might deliver us from this present evil world, according to the will of God and our Father:”
   Galatians 1:4.
8. “That in the dispensation of the fulness of times he might gather together in one all things in Christ, both which are in heaven, and which are on earth; even in him: In whom also we have obtained an inheritance, being predestinated according to the purpose of him who worketh all things after the counsel of his own will: That we should be to the praise of his glory, who first trusted in Christ. In whom ye also trusted, after that ye heard the word of truth, the gospel of your salvation: in whom also after that ye believed, ye were sealed with that holy Spirit of promise, Which is the earnest of our inheritance until the redemption of the purchased possession, unto the praise of his glory.”
   Ephesians 1:10-14.
9. “For this cause shall a man leave his father and mother, and shall be joined unto his wife, and they two shall be one flesh. This is a great mystery: but I speak concerning Christ and the church.”
   Ephesians 5:31-32.
10. “until the day of Jesus Christ.” Philippians 1:6.
11. “till the day of Christ”. Philippians 1:10.
12. “to depart, and to be with Christ, which is far better.” Philippians 1:23.
13. “the day of Christ.” Philippians 2:16.
14. “If by any means I might attain unto the resurrection of the dead.”
    Philippians 3:11.
15. “For our conversation is in heaven; from whence also we look for the Saviour, the Lord Jesus Christ: Who shall change our vile body, that it may be fashioned like unto his glorious body, according to the working whereby he is able even to subdue all things unto himself.”
    Philippians 3:20-21.
16. “The Lord is at hand.” Philippians 4:5.
17. “If ye then be risen with Christ, seek those things which are above, where Christ sitteth on the right hand of God. Set your affection on things above, not on things on the earth. For ye are dead, and your life is hid with Christ in God. When Christ, who is our life, shall appear, then shall ye also appear with him in glory.”
    Colossians 3:1-4.
18. “And to wait for his Son from heaven, whom he raised from the dead, even Jesus, which delivered us from the wrath to come.”
    1 Thessalonians 1:10.
19. “For what is our hope, or joy, or crown of rejoicing? Are not even ye in the presence of our Lord Jesus Christ at his coming?”
    1 Thessalonians 2:19.
20. “the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ.” 1 Thess. 3:13.
21. “the coming of the Lord” 1 Thess. 4:15.
22. “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.”
    1 Thessalonians 4:16-18.
23. “But ye, brethren, are not in darkness, that that day should overtake you as a thief.”
    1 Thessalonians 5:4.
24. “the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ ” 1 Thess. 5:23.
25. “the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ, and by our gathering together unto him.” 2 Thess. 2:1.
26. “the brightness of his coming.” 2 Thess. 2:8.
27. “the obtaining of the glory of our Lord Jesus Christ.” 2 Thess. 2:14.
28. “the patient waiting for Christ” 2 Thess. 3:5.
29. “the appearing of our Lord Jesus Christ.” 1 Timothy 6:14.
30. “His appearing and his kingdom.” 2 Timothy 4:1.
31. “Henceforth there is laid up for me a crown of righteousness, which the Lord, the righteous judge, shall give me at that day: and not to me only, but unto all them also that love his appearing.”
    2 Timothy 4:8.
32. “Looking for that blessed hope, and the glorious appearing of the great God and our Saviour Jesus Christ;”
    Titus 2:13.
33. “So Christ was once offered to bear the sins of many; and unto them that look for him shall he appear the second time without sin unto salvation.”
    Hebrews 9:28.

Nate Beck