John 14:1-3 KJV
Jesus made a powerful promise when he spoke these words. He gave the people HOPE to hold on to. His word is TRUTH and he will come again. He will come in the same manner that the diciples watched him leave. One day soon he will step out on the clouds and he will call his people up to join him. The world will try to explain it all away, but when millions go missing there will be some left behind that know God's word and they will know what truly happened. Jesus Christ is getting ready to prepare his army, and friends, I don't know about you, but I am one of his soldiers! Many confuse the rapture with the second coming of Christ, but they are two separate events. The rapture is simply the calling away of his people. He will remove them from the wickedness that is coming upon the world.
14 For if we believe that Jesus died and rose again, even so them also which sleep in Jesus will God bring with him.
15 For this we say unto you by the word of the Lord, that we which are alive and remain unto the coming of the Lord shall not prevent them which are asleep.
16 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:
17 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.
1 Corinthians 15:51-52 KJV
51 Behold, I shew you a mystery; We shall not all sleep, but we shall all be changed,
52 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.
Now the second coming is a whole new story. He will step his feet upon the Mount of Olives and every eye shall see him at the second coming and what is amazing is that he will be bringing that army of raptured saints back with him as soldiers riding upon white horses.
Revelation 19:13-15 KJV
13 And he was clothed with a vesture dipped in blood: and his name is called The Word of God.
14 And the armies which were in heaven followed him upon white horses, clothed in fine linen, white and clean.
15 And out of his mouth goeth a sharp sword, that with it he should smite the nations: and he shall rule them with a rod of iron: and he treadeth the winepress of the fierceness and wrath of Almighty God.
God made us another promise too, that because we keep his word, he will keep us from the tribulation.
10 Because thou hast kept the word of my patience, I also will keep thee from the hour of temptation, which shall come upon all the world, to try them that dwell upon the earth.
11 Behold, I come quickly: hold that fast which thou hast, that no man take thy crown.
Two powerful promises from Christ. He will prepare a place for his people and he will keep them from the wickedness that is coming upon the world. Hold fast to your faith and wait. Wait upon the Lord!
