Rapture (Rebuke)-21
 
[ Regarding THE 2D COMING ]
 
"The MYSTERY"..
 
[10] Ok. One "last little item", and we'll close this out.. Way back at the beginning (on "page-1"), the very first verse quoted from 1 Cor 15.51, which says:
 
 
 ..'Behold, I show you a mystery: we shall not all sleep,    but we shall all be changed',
 
 
 ..Notice The word "MYSTERY" and what follows: 'We will not all sleep, but we will all be changed'. The 'mystery' never was a declaration of "your rapture"! "It ALWAYS was about exactly what it says": 'We shall Not all sleep, but we shall all be changed'!
 
->The Mystery "IS ALL ABOUT THOSE WHO HAD DIED"..and Paul was comforting them regarding that!  Not that he was creating "a Second Coming rapture idea"! ..but rather "easing their minds about their loved ones". This had not been written before; neither did they know it, yet, that "at death they would go straight up to be with Jesus": (As it says: 'to be absent from the body is to be present with THE LORD'), nor had they any scriptures telling them about 'the Blessed Hope': that "At His Coming, the dead would be raised again and changed". So, He proceeded to tell them more: that (at the time when Jesus comes) 'the dead'-('the spirits of just ones made perfect') would come back with Him, and "they would rise again in the Res-urrection of The Just"(!) And that "the living would also be 'changed' then too", which 1Cor 15.52 clarifies perfectly (below):
 
 
 ..'in a moment, in the twinkling of an eye, in the last trump(et): for the trumpet will sound, and The Dead will be Raised incorruptible, and We shall be Changed'.
 
 
 ..So, there it is. That's the 'MYSTERY'--plain as Day!  ..No "rap-ture" IN it!!  ..It's Only about 'resurrecting' 'into incorruption': of the saints "that have died and gone to be with THE LORD before us" (whom, 'He will bring back with Him' and "raise them up from the dead back to physical life"; AND in the same moments He will even 'Change' us, the 'living (saints)'!    (..my my)
 
 Furthermore, let's look at 1Thes 4.17 for what you call "the rap-ture"! Where it clearly says: 'snatched', 'seized' or 'caught up' (or away).   THAT'S All you get:  *Caught Up, Caught Away, or etc..!
 
 Notice that, *That's After "The Moment Of RESURRECTION"!