A Study in Bible Prophecy

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The Cross Of Christ Series

Jimmy Swaggart Study Guide

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Table Of Contents

Chapter

1. CHAPTER 1 – The Rapture Of the Church

2. CHAPTER 2 – The Tribulation

3. CHAPTER 3 – The Battle Of Armageddon

4. CHAPTER 4 – The Second Coming

5. CHAPTER 5 – The Millennium

6. CHAPTER 6 – The New Heaven And New Earth

Chapter 1

The Rapture Of The Church

Subject

Definition of terms

Differing viewpoints

Scriptural support for a Pre-tribulation Rapture

Purpose of the Rapture

Signs of the Times

Levity concerning the rapture

IN CHRIST

Worthy to Escape

Examine yourselves

Peter’s use

Four conditions for remaining in Christ

SLEEPLESSNESS

Watchfulness

Soberness

COVEREDNESS

Chapter one

The RAPTURE OF THE CHURCH

The Rapture of the Church of Jesus Christ is the next great event on the horizon of time (perhaps the greatest in all of history). What a glorious event this will be! Millions of people will suddenly disappear from this Earth to rise through the air, past the clouds, to meet their Lord and Saviour in the air.

“In a moment, IN THE TWINKLING OF AN EYE, at the last trump: for THE TRUMPET SHALL SOUND, and the dead shall be raised incorruptible, and WE SHALL BE CHANGED.

“For this corruptible must put on incorruption, and this mortal must put on immortality.

“So when this corruptible shall have put on incorruption, and this mortal shall have put on immortality, then shall be brought to pass the saying that is written, Death is swallowed up in Victory” (I Cor. 15:52-54).

Is it any wonder that in Scripture it is called …

“that Blessed Hope” (Titus 2:13)?

This mass disappearance of the Saints of God is called in Biblical terminology the Rapture of the Church. Although the word “rapture” does not appear in the Scripture as such, the fact is clearly taught. Jesus referred to this event when He said:

“Let not your heart be troubled: you 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, I WILL COME AGAIN, AND RECEIVE YOU UNTO MYSELF; that where I am, there you may be also” (Jn. 14:1-3).

In other Passages Jesus referred to the “raising” of the dead at the Resurrection (Jn. 6:39-54; 11:24; 12:48). The Angels consoled the Disciples of Jesus at His Ascension by referring to the fact that …

“THIS SAME JESUS, which is taken up from you into Heaven, SHALL SO COME IN LIKE MANNER as you have seen Him go into Heaven” (Acts 1:11).

The Apostle Paul spoke of this event as a great “mystery”—that is “something previously hid but now revealed” (see I Cor. 15:51)—and as being …

“caught up together”(I Thess. 4:17).

In Hebrews ...