BELIEVERS RISE BEFORE JUDGMENT FALLS BELOW

COMPARE

"And as it was in the days of (Noah)..." (Lk. 17:26).

WITH



"...the waters increased, and bare up the ark, and it was lift up above the earth" (Gen. 7:17).

COMPARE

"Likewise also as it was in the days of Lot..." (Lk. 17:28).

WITH

"And Lot went up out of Zoar, and dwelt in the mountain..." (Gen. 19:30).

 

 

"Let not your heart be troubled: ye believe in God, believe also in Me.  In My Father's house are many mansions: if it were not so, I would have told you. I go to prepare a place for you.  And if I go and prepare a place for you, I will come again, and receive you unto Myself; that where I am, there ye may be also" (Jn. 14:1-3).

 

 

"Behold, I shew you a mystery; We shall not all sleep, but we shall all be changed, in a moment, in the twinkling of an eye, at the last trump: for the trumpet shall sound, and the dead shall be raised incorruptible, and we shall be changed" (1 Cor. 15:51-52).

 

 

"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:  then we which are alive and remain shall be caught up together with them in the clouds, to meet the Lord in the air: and so shall we ever be with the Lord" (1 Thes. 4:16-17). 

 

 

"For God hath not appointed us to wrath, but to obtain salvation by our Lord Jesus Christ, who died for us, that, whether we wake or sleep, we should live together with Him."  "Because thou hast kept the word of My patience, I also will keep thee from the hour of temptation, which shall come upon all the world, to try them that dwell upon the earth" (1 Thes. 5:9-10; Rev. 3:10).

 

 

The Rapture of the Church precedes the Tribulation of the Jews!