Youth Bible Study

Rapture

Who will go in the rapture?

1. Is it all the children will go in to the rapture?
2. Do all the Christians shall go into the rapture?
3. Whoever says they are born again will go in the rapture. Is it true?
4. Does all the church going people will go into the rapture?
5. Whoever believes they will go in the rapture will go in the rapture. Is it true?
6. Don't worry; if the rapture accrues we will go. Is it true?

We may have many questions. But the rapture will happen according to the bible, not as the way we think.

1 Cor 7:14
For the unbelieving husband is sanctified by the wife, and the unbelieving wife is sanctified by the husband: else were your children unclean; but now are they holy.

Mal 2:15
And did not he make one? Yet had he the residue of the spirit. And wherefore one? That he might seek a godly seed. Therefore take heed to your spirit, and let none deal treacherously against the wife of his youth.

So when Jesus comes He will look for the godly seed. So we should know how to be godly.

Heb 12:14
Follow peace with all men, and holiness, without which no man shall see the Lord:

So if the parents are not sanctified and holy the children are not holy. When the Lord comes in the 2nd time how they can see Him without holiness and go with Him. Do you know why the people were called Christians? How we were inherited the name Christian?

Act 11:24
For he was a good man, and full of the Holy Ghost and of faith: and much people was added unto the Lord.
25. Then departed Barnabas to Tarsus, for to seek Saul:
26. And when he had found him, he brought him unto Antioch. And it came to pass, that a whole year they assembled themselves with the church, and taught much people. And the disciples were called Christians first in Antioch.

Let us look at the bible what the bible says about the rapture.

Ten virgins

Mt 25: 1
Then shall the kingdom of heaven be likened unto ten virgins, which took their lamps, and went forth to meet the bridegroom.

The ten virgins are the Christians who believe in the 2nd coming, waiting for Jesus Christ.

2. And five of them were wise, and five were foolish.
3. They that were foolish took their lamps, and took no oil with them:
4. But the wise took oil in their vessels with their lamps.
5. While the bridegroom tarried, they all slumbered and slept.

This is the tarring time before the coming of the Lord.

2Pe3:
3. Knowing this first, that there shall come in the last days scoffers, walking after their own lusts,
4. And saying, Where is the promise of his coming? for since the fathers fell asleep, all things continue as they were from the beginning of the creation.
9. The Lord is not slack concerning his promise, as some men count slackness; but is longsuffering to us-ward, not willing that any should perish, but that all should come to repentance.

Mt 25:
6. And at midnight there was a cry made, Behold, the bridegroom cometh; go ye out to meet him.
7. Then all those virgins arose, and trimmed their lamps.
8. And the foolish said unto the wise, Give us of your oil; for our lamps are gone out.
9. But the wise answered, saying, Not so; lest there be not enough for us and you: but go ye rather to them that sell, and buy for yourselves.

Where they can go and buy?

Ps 49:7-9
7 None of them can by any means redeem his brother, nor give to God a ransom for him:
8. (For the redemption of their soul is precious, and it ceaseth for ever:)
9. That he should still live for ever, and not see corruption.

Re 3:18
I counsel thee to buy of me gold tried in the fire, that thou mayest be rich; and white raiment, that thou mayest be clothed, and that the shame of thy nakedness do not appear; and anoint thine eyes with eyesalve, that thou mayest see.

Isaiah 55:1-3
1 Ho, every one that thirsteth, come ye to the waters, and he that hath no money; come ye, buy, and eat; yea, come, buy wine and milk without money and without price.
2 Wherefore do ye spend money for that which is not bread? and your labour for that which satisfieth not? hearken diligently unto me, and eat ye that which is good, and let your soul delight itself in fatness.
3 Incline your ear, and come unto me: hear, and your soul shall live; and I will make an everlasting covenant with you, even the sure mercies of David.

Mt25: 10
And while they went to buy, the bridegroom came; and they that were ready went in with him to the marriage: and the door was shut.

The rapture was happened in a moment.

1 Corinthians 15:51-52
51 Behold, I shew you a mystery; We shall not all sleep, but we shall all be changed,
52 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.

Mt25:
11. Afterward came also the other virgins, saying, Lord, Lord, open to us.
12. But he answered and said, Verily I say unto you, I know you not.

Is it not sad those Christians were left behind to go through the tribulation. They were also virgins (Christians) and they were also waiting. Then why they were missed the rapture?

Matthew 7:14
Because strait is the gate, and narrow is the way, which leadeth unto life, and few there be that find it.

Because it says few, we have to be very careful to follow the commandments.

Mk 12: 30
And thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thy heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy mind, and with all thy strength: this is the first commandment.

It is good to follow the first commandment as virgin, but we also should have the lamp in our hand which is the 2nd commandment, to shows the light to the people.

Mk 12: 31
And the second is like, namely this, Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself. There is none other commandment greater than these.

It says that you have to love your neighbor.

Ja 4: 17
Therefore to him that knoweth to do good, and doeth it not, to him it is sin.

Do you know this is a sin? It is a common sin.

Mt 5: 20
For I say unto you, That except your righteousness shall exceed the righteousness of the scribes and Pharisees, ye shall in no case enter into the kingdom of heaven.

The Scribes and Pharisees are the religious leaders and the good teachers. In the church, maybe they were in the 1st place for the prayer and worship. Are they going to heaven? Jesus said,

Mt 23: 3
All therefore whatsoever they bid you observe, that observe and do; but do not ye after their works: for they say, and do not.

Col 3:
2. Set your affection on things above, not on things on the earth.
3. For ye are dead, and your life is hid with Christ in God.
4. When Christ, who is our life, shall appear, then shall ye also appear with him in glory.

Mt 5: 8
Blessed are the pure in heart: for they shall see God.

Is your heart is clean(pure).Without seeing Jesus how we can go with Him when He comes in the 2nd coming? Without holiness the light is not clean, and without pure oil from the heart it will not burn bright.

1Jn4: 17. Herein is our love made perfect, that we may have boldness in the day of Judgment: because as he is, so are we in this world.

1Jn3:
2. Beloved, now are we the sons of God, and it doth not yet appear what we shall be: but we know that, when he shall appear, we shall be like him; for we shall see him as he is.
3. And every man that hath this hope in him purifieth himself, even as he is pure.

Mt 5: 48.
Be ye therefore perfect, even as your Father which is in heaven is perfect.

Col 3: 14.
And above all these things put on charity, which is the bond of perfectness.

If you want make sure you want to be in the rapture read the following ward and follow.

1 Corinthians 1:7-9 (KJV)
7 So that ye come behind in no gift; waiting for the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ:
8 Who shall also confirm you unto the end, that ye may be blameless in the day of our Lord Jesus Christ.
9 God is faithful, by whom ye were called unto the fellowship of his Son Jesus Christ our Lord.

What are those gifts?

1 Corinthians 12:8-10 (KJV)
8 For to one is given by the Spirit the word of wisdom; to another the word of knowledge by the same Spirit;
9 To another faith by the same Spirit; to another the gifts of healing by the same Spirit;
10 To another the working of miracles; to another prophecy; to another discerning of spirits; to another divers kinds of tongues; to another the interpretation of tongues:

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