The next event to occur after "the falling away" is revealed in I Thessalonians 4:16-17 as the pre-tribulation "rapture" of the true Church ... which is His body ... composed of all true believers and will leave Earth "to meet the Lord in the air."

"For the Lord himself shall descend from heaven with a shout, with the voice of the archangel, and with the trump of God: and the dead in Christ shall rise: Then we which are alive and remain shall be caught up together with them in the clouds, to meet the Lord in the air: and so shall we ever be with the Lord."

We need to comfort one another with these words (vs.18). This is known as the blessed hope in Titus 2:13.

"That Wicked" one can not be revealed in a temple to be built in Jerusalem until we believers (the Christians) are removed from this Planet Earth!

In this dispensation the Holy Ghost inhabits the believer's heart and not some building made with hands. "Know ye not that ye are the temple of God, and that the Spirit dwelleth in you?" [1 Corinthians 3:16]

Therefore, when Jesus Christ comes in the clouds (now look at verse 7 in II Thessalonians 2) "he be taken out the way" takes place. "... the mystery of iniquity doth already work: only he who now letteth will let, until he be taken out of the way. And then shall that Wicked be revealed,"

AND NOT UNTIL THEN!

"For God hath not appointed us to wrath, but to obtain salvation by our Lord Jesus Christ," [1 Thessalonians 5:9] "And to wait for his Son from heaven, whom he raised from the dead, even Jesus, which delivered us from the wrath to come." [1 Thessalonians 1:10]

We ourselves are living on the threshold of the time of the coming translation and judgment The Great Tribulation (or Jacob's Trial).

God in His mercy took Josiah out before the judgment came. God will take us out before the Great Tribulation judgment begins.

"Wherefore comfort one another with these words." [1 Thessalonians 4:18]

We Shall Fly Away!

Amen!

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