UP ABOVE THE FRAY

Genesis 5:22-24 - "And Enoch walked with God after he begat Methuselah three hundred years, and begat sons and daughters:  And all the days of Enoch were three hundred sixty and five years:  And Enoch walked with God: and he was not; for God took him (UP)."

Genesis 7:15-17 - "And they went in unto Noah into the ark, two and two of all flesh, wherein is the breath of life.  And they that went in, went in male and female of all flesh, as God had commanded him: and the LORD shut him in.  And the flood was forty days upon the earth; and the waters increased, and bare UP the ark, and it was lift up above the earth."

Genesis 19:29-30 - "And it came to pass, when God destroyed the cities of the plain, that God remembered Abraham, and sent Lot out of the midst of the overthrow, when he overthrew the cities in the which Lot dwelt.  And Lot went UP out of Zoar, and dwelt in the mountain, and his two daughters with him...."

2 Kings 2:11 - "And it came to pass, as they still went on, and talked, that, behold, there appeared a chariot of fire, and horses of fire, and parted them both asunder; and Elijah went UP by a whirlwind into heaven.

John 14:1-3 - "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 (His disciples), I will come again, and receive you (UP) unto Myself; that where I am, there ye may be also."

Acts 1:9-11 - "And when He had spoken these things, while they beheld, (Jesus) was taken UP; and a cloud received Him out of their sight.  And while they looked steadfastly toward heaven as He went UP, behold, two men stood by them in white apparel; which also said, Ye men of Galilee, why stand ye gazing UP into heaven?  This same Jesus, which is taken UP from you into heaven, shall so come in like manner as ye have seen Him go into heaven."

1 Thessalonians 4:16-17 - "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."

Revelation 4:1-2 - "After this I (John) looked, and, behold, a door was opened in heaven: and the first voice which I heard was as it were of a trumpet talking with me; which said, Come UP hither, and I will show thee things which must be hereafter.  And immediately I was in the spirit: and, behold, a throne was set in heaven, and one sat on the throne."

 

Those who belong to God shall be kept from His judgment below!