RAPTURE (Left Behind)
Do you remember when your were in high school, and you got to the bus stop late? Just as you got there the bus was pulling off, or for those who are trying to catch the bus to work and see the bus pulling off, you try to run to catch it, but it but you cannot. You missed the bus or got left.
Then you should able to understand the Rapture, when Jesus call the church out soon. The backslider(the one who went back to the world, the ungodly, the unholy, the unthankful, the unbeliever and many more will soon find out, just like the days of Noah, when the flood began it was too late.
What doe RAPTURE mean? It mean to be taken away, carried away, or called out of the earth by Jesus to meet him in the sky.
There is an earthly rapture which means to be lost in your emotions or surrounding on earth, but it is only temporary.
Anita Baker made a song called, "Caught up in the Rapture of Love", which is physical. She also meant that by her physical intimacy with her lover, she was carried away, yet she remains in her physical body.
When God call his church out, we will put off the fleshly body and take on our eternal spiritual bodies, never to die, hurt, sorrow, hunger. or thirst again. We will live forever with Jesus.
1st Thessalonians 4th Chapter, 13 - 18 Verses, But I would not have you to be ignorant, brethren, concerning them which are asleep, that ye sorrow not, even as others which have no hope 14 For if we believe that Jesus died and rose again, even so them also which sleep in Jesus will God bring with him 15 for this we say unto you by the word of the Lord, that we which are alive and remain unto the coming of the Lord shall not prevent them which are asleep 16 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 17 Then we which are alive and remain shall be caught up together with in the clouds, to meet the Lord in the air: and so shall we ever be with the Lord 18 Wherefore comfort one another with these words.
Can you imagine when the RAPTURE happen that if you are on a plane flying and the pilot is a Christian and Jesus call him out, your plane may crash. Iif you are in a taxi cab or Uber and they are driving and they are a Christian and Jesus call them out how many crashes there are going to be. If you are in the hospital going through surgery, and the doctor is a Christian and Jesus Call the Doctor out, many will die on the operating table. This is just a few examples.
Matthew 25th Chapter, 1 - 13th Verses ( I cannot tell you the whole story about the 10 virgins). Five of those virgins were wise and five were unwise. Five trimmed their lamps(they made sure they had enough oil in their lamps and went forth to meet the bridegroom. Five were unwise or foolish and did not trim their lamps(they did not prepare themselves for the bridegroom while he tarried(stayed away for a little while), but when the bridegroom came the five wise were ready and the five unwise the foolish were not. The bride groom called the five who were ready into the wedding and shut the door shut. The five foolish went to buy oil and came and knock and said let me in, but the bridegroom answered, I know you not, and would not let them in.
In other word, the RAPTURE came, and when it was time to go into heaven they were not ready. They got left behind.
When Jesus Come or call you, will you be ready? If you are not you will be left behind.