Living in light of the Rapture, the Blessed Hope What comes after the Rapture? Pt 1 – the Bema 2 Corinthians 5:1-10 The doctrine of the rapture of the church, the fact of the translation from these lowly mortal bodies and from death, to glorified bodies and relocation upward into heaven of the body of […]

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Titus 2:11-3:8 How should our soon translation affect our living? The blessed hope of our great God and Savior Jesus Christ’s appearing in glory, at the Rapture, also motivates the sensitive Christian to honor God by his or her behavior now. The Greek verb prosdechomenoi (“looking for”) is in the present tense indicating that this […]

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Daniel 9:1-19 We have moved forward in Daniel’s life. We’re now in the 66th year of his exile from Judah, so he’s in his 80’s now. What Daniel did and saw in this chapter dates from 539 B.C., the first year of Darius the Mede’s (Gobryus’) rule as king over the Persian province of Babylon […]

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Isaiah 44:28-45:5, Ezra 1:1-2 With all the changes in our society, the confusion and clashes in our government and among nations, one is inclined to wonder, “Just who is in charge of all this?” God’s people have historically taken comfort in the answer to that question, found in the pages of the Bible: God is […]

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