Text:
Matt 24:30-40
Eschatology
Series 3
The
Rapture
By
Pastor
Gbenga Aluko
This will be done with the following sub-headings:
Background
This
transient world
What
is Rapture
Signs
of the End
Like
Noah’s Time
Outro
The gospel according to Matthew was written under the inspiration of the Holy Spirit by Matthew, scholars believes that it was written between AD 60 and & 75, one of the centrality of this gospel is the kingdom of heaven Matt.4:17. The whole chapter 24 is built around the end time may God help us to be ready for Rapture amen.
His disciples (like most of us today are doing) pointed Jesus to the various temples and buildings Matt.24:1 (we are also pointing vigorously and pursuing desperately things, titles, positions, placements, fame, money and also other things in the semblance of merely temple buildings and more worrisome is that we do this at the expense of our soul). Jesus quickly responded and corrected with a response of the end time where all those will become immaterial/inconsequential, destroyed and null and void.Matt.16:26, Mark 8:36. Change/reorder your focus to align with God.
Rapture is an event in which all believers who are alive will be caught up along with the dead in Christ who will be resurrected to meet with the Lord in the air however in glorified bodies. Will you be ready/are you preparing for this great and fearful day?
Ø False ministers’/ministries vs 4
Ø Rumours
of wars and wars vs 6
Ø Famines
vs 7b-8
Ø Persecutions,
arrests, deaths vs 9
Ø Rampants
sin and Lukewarmness
vs 12.
Like
Noah’s Time
One of the challenges that people had during Noah’s time was because the flood hadn’t happened before vis a vis now why a lot of people are still doubting the rapture is because something like that hasn’t happened before, the word of God is settled in heaven, yea and Amen, will never go without fulfillment.
CACGHB NUMBER 117
1. Jesus is coming with joy to the sky
Oh, happy
day! oh, happy day!
Then all who
love Him shall heavenward fly.
Oh, happy
day! Happy day!
Upward shall
fly to the Lord in the air,
Together
with Jesus we all shall be there,
Far from the
earth, and from sorrow and care
Oh, happy
day! Happy day!
2. Parents and children shall then again meet,
Oh, happy
day! Oh happy day!
Sisters and
brothers oh, it will be sweet!
Oh, happy day! Happy day!
We miss'd
them on earth, to Jesus they went;
We love them
as ever, their absence lament;
Soon we
shall meet them, and then be content,
Oh, happy
day! Happy day!
3. Are we all ready, should Jesus now call?
Oh! Happy
day! oh happy day!
Would each
one answer, the great and the small?
Oh, happy
day! happy day!
We long to
rise up and with Thee to be,
Thy face,
blessed Jesus, our
Saviour to
see
Would you
then, dear children, sing sweetly with me?
Oh, happy
day! happy day!
4. Some will stay weeping unable to sing,
Oh, happy
day! oh happy day!
Yet all may
rejoice their glad praises bring
Oh, happy
day! happy day!
For Jesus
still waits, He tarries that we
May trust in
His name, and thus ready may be,
When
brightly beaming, His glory we see
Oh, happy
day! happy day!
Amen.
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