Tag: rapture
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Take Care With Biblical Prophecy
As I work through the Old Testament witness about Jesus’s First Coming for our the 25 Days of Christmas at Alex Southern Baptist Chapel, I’m noticing the same tendency to do too much with the biblical witness. I understand how tempting it is. We want everything to be a direct foretelling about Jesus so we…
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The Rapture Didn’t Happen, Now What?
It was predicted that the Christian rapture would happen on September 23 or 24, 2025. Well, I am confident that Jesus knows me and has saved me, and I’m still here to write this. I even checked on Facebook to make sure I wasn’t left behind. I gave it a few extra days so I…
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Daily Devotional: 1 Thessalonians 4:13-18
Paul does not want the Thessalonians to be uninformed concerning those who are asleep, or their brothers and sisters in the faith who have died. Whatever Paul is about to write is about a particular type of rapture, but not a future, secret rapture of all the saints all at once prior to a greater…
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God Is Not Destroying His World
In Revelation 1-3, we received almost everything we need to interpret the remaining chapters well. John has already provided the meanings for many of his symbols and has set the direction for the rest of the letter, including his own basic eschatology—God is renewing the world, not destroying it, and Christians will inherit the earth…
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Jesus On Predestination and the Rapture
A couple weeks ago, we saw Jesus tell the crowds a parable in which the kingdom of Heaven was compared to wheat and tares. He did not explain his parable to the crowds, so we made a couple observations and application but did not explain the parable specifically. In today’s text, Jesus explains His parable…