And when these things begin to come to pass, then look up, and lift up your heads; for your redemption draws near.
LUKE 21:28
In Matthew 24, verse 37, Jesus prophesied that "as it was in the days of Noah, so shall it be in the days just before He returns." how were things in the days of Noah?What were they like? the Bible says
"And God saw that the wickedness of man was great in the Earth, and that every imagination of the thoughts of his heart was only evil continually. The Earth also was corrupt before God, and the Earth was filled with violence" (Gen. 6:5,11).
Pauls description of the Rapture
1 Cor 15:51-53 (NRSV) – Listen, I will tell you a mystery!We will not all die, but we will all be changed, in a moment, in the twinkling of an eye, at the last trumpet.For the trumpet will sound, and the dead will be raised imperishable, and we will be changed.For this perishable body must put on imperishability, and this mortal body must put on immortality.
1 Thess 4:13-18 (NRSV) – But we do not want you to be uninformed, brothers and sisters, about those who have died, so that you may not grieve as others do who have no hope.For since we believe that Jesus died and rose again, even so, through Jesus, God will bring with him those who have died.For this we declare to you by the word of the Lord, that we who are alive, who are left until the coming of the Lord, will by no means precede those who have died.For the Lord himself, with a cry of command, with the archangel’s call and with the sound of God’s trumpet, will descend from Heaven, and the dead in Christ will rise first.Then we who are alive, who are left, will be caught up in the clouds together with them to meet the Lord in the air; and so we will be with the Lord forever.Therefore encourage one another with these words.
