Remember therefore how
thou hast received and heard, and hold fast, and repent. If therefore thou
shalt not watch, I will come on thee as a thief, and thou shalt not know what
hour I will come upon thee. (Revelation 3:3 King
James Version)
After the fall of man, the Bible and even the Lord
Himself speaks of the Lord’s first coming already. (Genesis 3:15) The Lord
predicted of the Messiah who would come in weakness, humility and in human
form. As scofield puts it this way,
“Whoever carefully considers Old Testament prophecies must be struck by two
contrasting, and seemingly contradictory, lines of prediction concerning the
coming Messiah. One body of prediction speaks of Him as coming in weakness and
humiliation, a man of sorrows and acquainted with grief, a root out of dry
ground, having no form, nor comeliness, nor beauty that He should be desired.
His visage is to be marred, His hands and feet pierced, He is to be forsaken of
man and of God, and to make His grave with wicked. (Isaiah 53)”
The Bible was talking about the Lord’s birth in due
time, and His death on the cross. The Rapture according to Apostle Paul in the
book of (I Thessalonians 4:14- 18 KJV) “For if we believe that Jesus died and
rose again, even so them also who sleep in Jesus will God bring with him. 15
For this we say unto you by the word of the Lord,that we who are alive and
remain unto the coming of the Lord shall not precede (to go before in time,
rank, or importance) them who 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 who are alive and
remain shall be caught up together in the air; and so shall we ever be with the
Lord. 18 Wherefore, comfort one another with these words.”
(To be Continued...)
