The rapture will not be secret but open and manifest. Its purpose will not be to whisk the elect away from the earth for a while until Christ returns for a 'second' Second Coming. The purpose of the rapture is to allow the saints to meet Jesus in the air as He returns and be included in His entourage during His triumphal descent from Heaven. His coming in this manner will be attended by the general resurrection, the final judgment, and the end of the world.
R. C. SproulThe irony of New Testament lordship is that only in slavery to Christ can a man discover authentic freedom.
R. C. SproulThe resurrection was God the Father's way of authenticating all of the truths that were declared by Jesus.
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