Christ is resurrected and sitting at the right hand of God, interceding for us daily and waiting for the command of God, all of our Father’s instructions, to blow heaven’s trumpet and go get the bride….Christ’s earthly church, alive today and patiently at work saving souls and awaiting Christ’s soon return. I have been reading many accounts by people so sure that this is somehow a “cop out” desired by God’s people to “just escape” and not be persecuted by antichrist. Here is what they miss: rewards for your own children who love you and have minded you and been about your family’s business and brought glory to your family name are not considered a “cop out.” God is even right now separating His faithful spirit-filled, DNA changed believers by the blood of Jesus Christ from those who are rebellious, arrogant and prideful against Holy Spirit’s invitation to join God’s family. God has been gracious to grant a few more moments or days before  this most marvelous, amazing, awe-inspiring, wonderful event will transpire on planet earth. Satan wants you to believe that this is a myth, but what God has promised will always occur. His promises, like His love, never fail.

God repeats what has been done before. Two men from the Old Testament were raptured and did not face physical death. A man who broke the pattern of death was Enoch.  “So all the days of Enoch were three hundred and sixty-five years.  And Enoch walked with God; and he was not, for God took him.” (Genesis 5:23-24 NASB)  He didn’t die.  God just took him away.  It was an anomaly, but a telling one.  Something like it happened again later in the Old Testament.  Instead of dying, the prophet Elijah “went up by a whirlwind to heaven.’” (2 Kings 2:11 NASB)

God gave me a wonderful assurance in a dream where I was shown a wall-mount fire alarm with the words ELIJAH OPTION printed on them. When I awoke, I thought of all that I knew about him — prophet, etc. but Holy Spirit pointed out that he was raptured. When all seems to be panic, as in a school fire breaking out, we will pull the Elijah Option. This is God’s promise to those who have been faithful and true. Have faith. Your salvation approaches. The joy of the Lord should be your strength as we wait with all hope for the appearance of our King of King and Lord of Lord in the skies. Jesus, our bridegroom, will not jilt his bride at the alter. We will soon be reunited. The wedding supper of the lamb is ready and prepared. Make sure there is a chair at the table with a name card of invitation on it just for you.

These two biblical precedents hold any meaning for us living in 2016.  1 Corinthians 15:51-53 in the New Living Translation says, “But let me reveal to you a wonderful secret.  We will not all die, but we will all be transformed!  It will happen in a moment, in the blink of an eye, when the last trumpet is blown.  For when the trumpet sounds, those who have died will be raised to live forever.  And we who are living will also be    transformed.  For our dying bodies must be transformed into bodies that will never die; our mortal bodies must be transformed into immortal bodies.”This is a prophetic description of the Rapture of the Church.  What wonderful news!  “We will not all die!”  Those who are truly part of the body of Christ at the time of the rapture will be snatched away…very, very soon.

As the deer longs for brooks of water, so does my soul long for you. My soul thirsts for God, for the living God, when shall I come and appear before God?