The rapture is not about an event, but about a Person, Jesus Christ.
Sermon Title: FOUR VIEWS OF THE RAPTURE
Sermon Text: VARIOUS TEXTS
Sermon Series: LIVING IN THE LAST DAYS
By: PTR NESTOR SY
Sermon Notes:
The doctrine of the rapture is not an essential Christian belief.
I. What are the four views of the Rapture?
II. What unites these views?
JOHN 13:35 NASB
35 By this all men will know that you are My disciples, if you have love for one another.
1. ALL FOUR VIEWS BELIEVE THAT GOD IS GOING TO RAPTURE US TO BE WITH HIM.
The rapture is not about an event, but about a Person, Jesus Christ.
2. WE WILL EITHER BE RESCUED FROM WRATH OR PROTECTED FROM WRATH.
3. WE’RE GOING TO GET GLORIFIED BODIES.
4. WE WILL BE REUNITED WITH OUR (SAVED) LOVED ONES.
III. What’s at stake?
REVELATIONS 13:2 NASB
2 And the beast which I saw was like a leopard, and his feet were like those of a bear, and his mouth like the mouth of a lion. And the dragon gave him his power and his throne and great authority.
REVELATIONS 13:7 NASB
7 It was also given to him to make war with the saints and to overcome them, and authority over every tribe and people and tongue and nation was given to him.
DANIEL 7:21-22 NASB
21 “I kept looking, and that horn was waging war with the saints and overpowering them 22 until the Ancient of Days came and judgment was passed in favor of the saints of the Highest One, and the time arrived when the saints took possession of the kingdom.
REVELATIONS 20:4 NASB
4 Then I saw thrones, and they sat on them, and judgment was given to them. And I saw the souls of those who had been beheaded because of their testimony of Jesus and because of the word of God,… and those who had not worshiped the beast or his image, and had not received the mark on their forehead and on their hand; and they came to life and reigned with Christ for a thousand years.
MATTHEW 24:10 NASB
10 At that time many will fall away and will betray one another and hate one another.