Living in the Last Days – Pt. 2 What’s Next?

Living in the Last Days - Pt. 2 (What's Next?)

Luke 12:40 NIV
⁴⁰You also must be ready, because the Son of Man will come at an hour when you do not expect him.”

John 14:1-3 NIV
¹“Do not let your hearts be troubled. You believe in God ; believe also in me. ²My Father’s house has many rooms; if that were not so, would I have told you that I am going there to prepare a place for you? ³And if I go and prepare a place for you, I will come back and take you to be with me that you also may be where I am.

1 Corinthians 15:51-52 NLT
⁵¹But let me reveal to you a wonderful secret. We will not all die, but we will all be transformed! ⁵²It will happen in a moment, in the blink of an eye, when the last trumpet is blown. For when the trumpet sounds, those who have died will be raised to live forever. And we who are living will also be transformed.

1 Thessalonians 4:13 ESV
¹³But we do not want you to be uninformed, brothers, about those who are asleep, that you may not grieve as others do who have no hope.

Acts 7:59-60 NIV
⁵⁹While they were stoning him, Stephen prayed, “Lord Jesus, receive my spirit.” ⁶⁰Then he fell on his knees and cried out, “Lord, do not hold this sin against them.” When he had said this, he fell asleep.

2 Corinthians 5:8 NIV
⁸We are confident, I say, and would prefer to be away from the body and at home with the Lord.

Philippians 1:23-24 GNT
²³I am pulled in two directions. I want very much to leave this life and be with Christ, which is a far better thing; ²⁴but for your sake it is much more important that I remain alive.

1st - The Basis of the Rapture

1 Thessalonians 4:14 ESV
¹⁴For since we believe that Jesus died and rose again, even so, through Jesus, God will bring with him those who have fallen asleep.

John 14:19 NIV
¹⁹Before long, the world will not see me anymore, but you will see me. Because I live, you also will live.

1 Corinthians 6:14 NIV
¹⁴By his power God raised the Lord from the dead, and he will raise us also.

2 Corinthians 4:14 NIV
¹⁴because we know that the one who raised the Lord Jesus from the dead will also raise us with Jesus and present us with you to himself.

1 Thessalonians 4:14 ESV
¹⁴For since we believe that Jesus died and rose again, even so, through Jesus, God will bring with him those who have fallen asleep.

1 Thessalonians 4:15 ESV
¹⁵For this we declare to you by a word from the Lord, that we who are alive, who are left until the coming of the Lord, will not precede those who have fallen asleep.

2nd The Blueprint of the Rapture

1 Thessalonians 4:16 ESV
¹⁶For the Lord himself will descend from heaven with a cry of command, with the voice of an archangel, and with the sound of the trumpet of God. And the dead in Christ will rise first.

John 5:25 NIV
²⁵Very truly I tell you, a time is coming and has now come when the dead will hear the voice of the Son of God and those who hear will live.

1 Thessalonians 4:16 ESV
¹⁶For the Lord himself will descend from heaven with a cry of command, with the voice of an archangel, and with the sound of the trumpet of God. And the dead in Christ will rise first.

1 Thessalonians 4:17 ESV
¹⁷Then 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 Corinthians 15:51-52 NLT
⁵¹But let me reveal to you a wonderful secret. We will not all die, but we will all be transformed! ⁵²It will happen in a moment, in the blink of an eye, when the last trumpet is blown. For when the trumpet sounds, those who have died will be raised to live forever. And we who are living will also be transformed.

1 Thessalonians 4:17 ESV
¹⁷Then 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.

3rd - The Blessing of the Rapture

1 Thessalonians 4:18 ESV
¹⁸Therefore encourage one another with these words.

Luke 12:40 GNT
⁴⁰And you, too, must be ready, because the Son of Man will come at an hour when you are not expecting him.”

1 Thessalonians 5:1-2 NIV
¹Now, brothers and sisters, about times and dates we do not need to write to you, ²for you know very well that the day of the Lord will come like a thief in the night.

Revelation 16:15 NIV
¹⁵“Look, I come like a thief! Blessed is the one who stays awake and remains clothed, so as not to go naked and be shamefully exposed.”