Sermon (2). The Non-Apostate Church: Why the Body of Christ needs to Unite during these Difficult Times for Christian Service before the final rapture.

Friends, the Devil has been busy. Has he not? Lakeshore you don’t have to close your eyes to imagine it, we already know the enemy is encamped all around us.
Divisions are growing deeper and the birth pains are coming in greater frequency. The Apostate church is confusing and confounding millions of Christ followers to leave the body of Christ for man's approval over God's. Yet the clock ticks on and the day of the Rapture draws ever nearer.
With so much at stake, What do we do?
Brother and Sisters I submit to you, that the only option is to march straight ahead to Jesus Christ while snatching as many out of the fire as we can, without charring our Christian character,  to save even a few.
Father in Jesus Name, I thank you that even as the devil has been busy, captivating the culture all around us through Media, Big Tech, Academia, the Arts and the many enticing ensnaring branches of Social Media you have given your Bride the blueprint for these final days. Thank you that we don't have to walk blindfolded through the minefield of end times events. Lord, may my words be an echo of your Word cutting asunder through bone and marrow, truth and lies, a discerner of truth. In Jesus name, Amen.
Lakeshore, We're about to tackle 2 Massive, and often overlooked Mountain Sized ideas in this sermon: First is the explosion of the Apostate Church over the Past 4 years and its impact on their readiness for the rapture.
Second, which follows necessarily is the Mountain sized peculiarity of the Christian doctrine known as -- the Rapture.
And as a bonus...... I'm going to throw in how the Occult is trying to bottle and sell the rapture to the masses as it draws nearer.... You don't want to miss this.
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Good morning Lakeshore.
We are flying right into week two of our series entitled 3 weeks 2 Fly by 2nd Timothy: Preparing the Body of Christ in the Final Days.
Because of the urgency the Holy Spirit has given me, and due to the condensed amount of time I have to cover 2nd Timothy we'll continue flying through this content at a little less than hyper- speed.
Today is no different, I have a lot of information to cover with you concerning the Apostate Church and the rapture.
This series is a new development for me. As most of you know, typically I don't preach in an all facts, no fat, sonic fast type of variety, Which is why I entitled the Series 3 weeks 2 Fly by 2nd Timothy.: Preparing the Body of Christ in the Final Days.
What an amazing and amazingly troubling time to be alive. I have seen more changes in the past 3 years of my life, than I’ve seen in my previous 35 combined. Friends, today is the day to get out of the wrong position and into the right position, because when Jesus returns it’ll be in the twinkling of an eye.
1 Corinthians 15:51-52 King James Version (KJV)
Behold, I shew you a mystery; We shall not all sleep, but we shall all be changed, 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.
That’s my review. Let's see what Jesus had to say in the Gospel of John chapter 14.
Jesus says in John 14:2-3 King James Version
2 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.
3 And if I go and prepare a place for you, I will come again, and receive you unto myself; that where I am, there ye may be also.
Jesus says you 5 times in this verse, listen again [repeat].
Who do you think He's talking to? I'll give you a hint, it's you.
Jesus has gone to prepare a Mansion for you, and He has been at it for about 2,000 thousand years, so my guess is it's going to be really personalized to you.
Jesus is coming back for His Bride soon. I must ask, Will He be coming back for you, is He preparing a place for you? A Mansion for you. I hope He is.
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Because I think there are many who once belonging to the Body of Christ, have been deceived, and now they've abandoned the mansion Jesus has built for them.
Lakeshore the Devil has been busy. Busy leading many of our own astray to the Apostate Church, where man's approval out-weighs God's. Where truth and Common sense are absent. Where feeling reign supreme, and where so-called Pastors of God's Word sacrifice swine on the altar of marriage. I'm not just disgusted by the apostate church I'm broken over her blindness and voluntary foolishness.
Please listen my hearts cry as it mirrors that of Paul’s in his 2nd letter to Timothy.
I am desperate to reclaim those lost to the Apostate church and snatching as many as I can out of the fire with charring myself, with the hope of bringing even a few back into proper standing with Jesus before that imminent moment that’ll come like a twinkling of an eye.
Friends, there are confused Christians: friends, family members, mentors, those who once taught us the Truth and they're now rushing to the edge of the cliff.
Ones who have been deeply deceived and now must be deeply delivered. These are those who truly believe they’re on rock solid ground with Jesus. And the simple truth is, They’re not. They're not.
And just like you and I if they’re not prepared for that day... they will miss it...they will miss meeting Jesus in the air, and they’ll be stuck on this earth until deathhhhh.
It’s Luke 21:34, Where Jesus says, “But watch yourselves lest your hearts be weighed down with dissipation and drunkenness and cares of this life, and that day come upon you suddenly like a trap.” English Standard Version
In other words Jesus is saying, if you miss the rapture, you’ll be trapped here on the earth for that 70th and final week of remaining years. And as long as you’re alive on this earth you’ll go through the tribulation, up to and followed by the Great Tribulation.
Church were up against more enemies than  ever before in these final days.
The Devil is busy... beginning with the Apostates of the Almost Christian Church, and so many more they can't be counted.
The scene is palpable, yet there is such a noticeable comfortableness about the Apostates superficial Christianity that it should cause us in the Unified Body of Christ to become radically uncomfortable and deeply desperate for them.
Don't say you are when you're not, don't think you can placate God and pull the wool over His eyes. You're better than that.
Friends, Why do we so often allow people who we know are on stinky, sinking, false theological ground remain there?
It's Almost as if we intentionally agree with their heresy so as to not upset them, or maybe you hesitate to correct them because they’ve got part of it right and you don't want to lose that...or is it because they've spent so much time making it up and they really tried, at least they tried right,  If it’s not that, what is it?
The Holy Spirit gave you your platform, gave you your influence, brought that person into your specific sphere of influence for a reason and for a purpose.
There's only one way to bring people back, and that's to get desperate enough to want to get uncomfortable....uniting the Body of Christ takes desperation it starts with being desperate.
Brother, Aren’t you desperate to bring the lost back into communion with Jesus?
Sister, aren’t you desperate to Rescue others by snatching them from the flames of judgment… Doing so with great caution, hating the sins that contaminate their lives, valuing their soul as Jesus does?
Church, like most of you; I’m desperate for all who profess the name of Jesus, including the recent explosion of Apostates, to return and be united within the True Blue Body of Christ. Not within or under any other banner, agenda, or framework.... But Christ... in Christ alone!
And I’ll tell you why, Because Salvation is by grace alone, through faith alone, in Christ alone.
Friends, when you’re Found in Christ  - You don’t have to be alone!
Because You are Connected to something that Transcends every Ideological difference, every Denominational Difference, and every Social difference... the Devil can throw...and  Paul says – 28 There is neither Jew nor Greek, there is neither bond nor free, there is neither male nor female: for ye are all one in Christ Jesus. Galatians 3:28 KJV.
Let me show you why we need to get desperate:
As of 2023, there are 11 apostate denominations as opposed to 5 in 2019. Which claim to be obedient to the teachings of Jesus, who have heaped teachers unto themselves after their own lusts, with itching ears. They want what they want, and want to believe Jesus endorses it. This mindset is akin to sacrificing a swine on the altar.
There are 11 Christian denominations that sanction same-sex unions under the guise of Biblical marriage, and sanctioning other apostate activities.
If you add all the buildings of the 11 formerly Christian, now Apostate Churches...80, 000 buildings. Almost double the number of buildings from 2019.
If you add all of the members of the 11 formerly Christian, now Apostate denominations that sanction same-sex marriage, you get a total of over 25.4 million members as of right now in2023, which is 10 million more than in 2019.
It’s Revelation 3:9 – where Jesus starts by saying Behold, I will make them of the synagogue of Satan, the synagogue of Satan is comprised of those who say they're following God, but clearly are not.
One thing I don't like to acknowledge is that the apostate church is growing at a break neck pace, they’re certainly adding members and buildings more rapidly than we are.
Albeit through theft and the capturing of dead fish....  Nonetheless, they're soaring to all time high numbers, both in denominations and members.
And, unless there's revival,  I wouldn't at all be surprised if for a short time the apostate church will rival our or surpass our own because while the Spirit is willing, the flesh is weak.
Let's see what 2nd Timothy has to say about preparing a bold stance against the Apostate Church, turn to 2nd Timothy chapter 3.
As you're turning there, here's a  fly-by overview of 2nd Timothy chapter 3.
In chapter 3, Paul is warning Timothy of the opposition you and I, must prepare to face in the last days.
As the Body of Christ we need to anticipate the pushback from selfish people seeking to use the church for their own agenda by teaching error and false doctrine. (3:1-9).
The 2nd half of 2nd Timothy chapter 3, which you’ll have to catch later as you read through the Book of 2nd Timothy is Paul providing Timothy with 3 specific steps on handling these wickedly unfaithful people:
1). Remembering Paul's example in doctrine, life, and ministry (3:10, 11),
2). Understanding the real source of the opposition (3:12, 13), and
3). Finding strength and power in the Word of God as all Scripture is given by Inspiration. (3:14-17).
Chapter 3 starting at verse One
1 This know also, that in the last days perilous times shall come.
Paul's reference to the "last days" reveals his sense of urgency. The last days began after Jesus' resurrection, when the Holy Spirit came upon the believers at Pentecost.
The last days will continue until Jesus’ Second Coming.
Verses 2-4
2 For men shall be lovers of their own selves, covetous, boasters, proud, blasphemers, disobedient to parents, unthankful, unholy,
3 Without natural affection, trucebreakers, false accusers, incontinent, fierce, despisers of those that are good,
4 Traitors, heady, high-minded, lovers of pleasures more than lovers of God;
Quite the view. Paul's descriptive list of behaviors of the last days describes the moral decay and loss of value we're seeing in the Culture right now... Especially the value of human life made in the Imago Dei.
Jesus, Christianity, Sanctity, Purity, Truth, and Common sense have been watered down throughout all of society...
Including the Apostate church who call themselves followers of Christ.
Verse -5
5 Having a form of godliness, but denying the power thereof: from such turn away.
The "form" or appearance of godliness includes but isn’t limited to the Following:
Going to church, Knowing Christian doctrine, Using Christian clichés, and Following a community's Christian traditions.
Paul warns us not to be deceived by people who only appear to be Christians. In Today’s Apostate Church Age it may be difficult to distinguish the fallen from true Christians… at first, but their lifestyles and choices will give them away.
Verses 6 - 7
6 For of this sort are they which creep into houses, and lead captive silly women laden with sins, led away with diverse lusts,
7 Ever learning, and never able to come to the knowledge of the truth.
Here Paul is describing a specialized smaller group, within the larger group of swindlers and who will take their evil actions even further. Specifically targeting those who are most vulnerable.
Paul describes these men as con-men or one who turns a certain way of thinking into something else to pollute the real thing so their victim was always chasing but never finding the truth. Still, at some point, every person needs to recognize truth and accept it.
Verses 8
8 Now as Jannes and Jambres withstood Moses, so do these also resist the truth: men of corrupt minds, reprobate concerning the faith.
Jannes and Jambres where two of Pharaoh's magicians who opposed Moses in the Book of Exodus (Exodus 7:11–12, 22; 8:7, 18). These men were known for three things.
First, they opposed the truth. They stood against the command God had given through Moses to let the Jewish people go from slavery.
Second, these men were spiritually and intellectually depraved. They did not know God, did not seek God, and did not believe His words.
Verse 9
9 But they shall proceed no further: for their folly shall be manifest unto all men, as theirs also was.
Churches like the Apostate Church who resist the truth with corrupt minds are both exposed for their false teachings and proceed no further as part of the genuine Body of Christ.
While Jannes and Jambres were able to reproduce the signs of Moses at first (Exodus 7:11–12, 22; 8:7), Eventually they could not (Exodus 8:18; 9:11). Everyone knew their power had been exceeded by “the God of Moses.”
As you’re standing Boldly for Christ remember this above all else Despite early, superficial success, a false teacher will be exposed for who and what he is. The same is true of those who oppose the Body of Christ through false teachings today.
The Apostate church has chosen to become weak, choosing to abandon Godly Boldness and choosing to walk away from Biblical faithfulness.
Replacing God's truth with what their itching ears itch to hear.
At bottom: by losing the light, and giving up the fight they've taken a hatchet to their own roots thus they ultimately cannot prosper.
Listen to what Paul has to say about our roots through Jesus’ lineage 2nd Timothy 2:8
8 Always remember that Jesus Christ, a descendant of King David, was raised from the dead. This is the Good News I preach. NLT.
8 Remember that Jesus Christ of the seed of David was raised from the dead according to my gospel: KJV.
Here Paul is telling us, two things that are simultaneously true, one is Jesus has Jewish roots, Jewish ancestry, and that Jesus is.... Jewish. Did you know we serve a Jewish Savior. Yes.
Second is the Pauline Gospel, which is that Jesus Christ was raised from the dead. Why? so we may obtain the salvation which is in Christ Jesus with eternal glory.
The Roots of the Gospel of Jesus Christ are integrated throughout every Old Testament Book of the Bible. In this way you can see how, the New Testament is concealed in the Old Testament...and the Old Testament is revealed in the New Testament.
For context, the Old Testament has 350 fulfilled and verified - prophetic signs of the coming of Jesus.
And as Many as that is, it's 8 to 1 in the New Testament for the return of Christ. Yes, there's over 2500 total prophecies for Christ's return.
I think this is why the return of Christ to rule and reign for a literal millennium can be confused with the rapture.
These, are two separate events. And no matter what rapture view you hold pre, mid, or post-tribulation. The Rapture itself happens before the literal millennium when we come back with Jesus to rule and reign with Him for a thousand years in our glorified bodies.
I have a Brief Rapture questionnaire, how many of you have heard of the rapture before or this is you first time?
How many of you are excited for the rapture, or not sure what to think about it?
Raise your hand if you think a survey about the rapture is peculiar?
Well Guess what, God's Children are a Peculiar People, and we talk about peculiar things …Deuteronomy 14:2 KJV
2 For thou art an holy people unto the Lord thy God, and the Lord hath chosen thee to be a peculiar people unto himself, above all the nations that are upon the earth.
The Rapture is a peculiar idea for all of us, and Jesus followers aren't the only ones talking about the peculiarity of the rapture, every branch of the Occult is too.
But the rapture Really is a wild idea if you consider it, at some indeterminate  moment in time, we will be caught with Jesus, in the air, and we’ll be transformed, in the twinkling of an eye. And we will put on imperishable bodies.
That’s the position of the Rapture.
When it comes to the rapture we tend to see opposite high water mark responses from Jesus people... these high water mark responses have been dubbed: Rapture Mania and Rapture Paralysis –
There's a third response too called, I don't believe in the rapture because I don't see the word rapture in my Bible, and it actually is in there, but we'll get to that later.
Rapture Mania people are the ones who are 100% ready to be caught up and leave this earth, like ready to go right now. You’re so excited for the rapture you’ve already packed your suitcases and you’re ready to leave, 5 minutes ago.
There is Merit in that sense of urgency, but it’s kind of hard to fight apostasy in the Body of Christ and prepare the Bridegroom for Jesus' return with a Sword in one hand and a suitcase in the other.
Rapture paralysis, on the other hand, is the high water mark position on the opposite end.
These are the folks who are just paralyzed in fear at the thought of the end... and some in this position are really concerned with what’s going to happen to America, where is America in Revelation, and is America going to be around after the rapture.....typically these folks are American.
People with rapture paralysis also should stop watching TV, because it seems every time the news comes on they retreat back to the castle of the couch crying into a bowl of Chik-fil-a soup just wanting things to go back to normal.
Turn to Matthew 24.
As your turning there, I'm not trying to be insensitive, but according to Jesus, now that the process has begun, it must continue until final completion, in other words -  things aren't going back to normal.
Matthew 24:6-8 KJV
6 And ye shall hear of wars and rumors of wars: see that ye be not troubled { that’s a key point - be not troubled, remember Perfect love casts out fear}: for all these things must come to pass, but the end is not yet.
7 For nation shall rise against nation, and kingdom against kingdom: and there shall be famines, and pestilences, and earthquakes, in divers places.
8 All these are the beginning of sorrows... I prefer the translations that say, the beginning of Birth pains.
Birth pains is a great visualization of the ripening Jesus will occur before the end because it helps you visualize and picture that all these things.... which must come to pass.... indeed, must come to pass.
The repeated, repetitive sorrows are like birth pains, and like birth pains they're going to grow more, not less intense, and the time of respite between the sorrows and pains will become briefer and briefer.
For the Christian the birth pains preceding the rapture makes sense when you factor in the added gravity of our society is experiencing or at least sensing in today's atmosphere.  Many of us know and recognize this feeling ever since Covid.
A sort of feeling that says, "I'm waiting for the other shoe to drop", wondering when will it happen? Friends, I can't say when, and I don’t relish telling you that it will, and ultimately, it'll be more than 2 shoes. I don't hope in nor for normalcy.
A Christian's hope ought not be found in normalcy or going back to normalcy as this is a false and wrongly placed hope.
Rather, a Christians hope needs to placed in Jesus, not in this world or anything else. But in Jesus alone.
No matter what view you take on the Rapture, the Rapture has to happen at some point before Jesus returns.
At some point, He is going to have to call those Believers who are yet alive on this earth, and call them upppp, to be with Him, before He returns.  That’s simply what we mean by the Rapture.
Turn to
1 Thessalonians 4:16-18 KJV
16 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 first: [that's the resurrection]
17 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.
18 Wherefore comfort one another with these words.
At this time most agree there will be a rapture, as of yet  there isn't a consensus on when that period of time will be.
There are 3 schools of thought:
Post
Mid
And Pre tribulation rapture stances.
For extra credit I’ll acknowledge that Some of you may have heard of amillennialism, or preterism...
We addressed Preterism last week but properly connecting the dots of Daniel's 70 week prophecy.
Amillennialism is a non-Biblically sound model that gained ground after Christianity became a legal religion in Western Rome.
Constantine moved Rome to West to create a city called New Rome, which we know as Constantinople, it was built upon the literal foundations of a former Greek City-State named Byzantium, and is now modern-day Istanbul. When Constantine’s son succeeded him In the 4th Century he made Christianity the State religion, thus causing all Priests to become by default, Government employees.
Augustine of Hippo knowing the government may not be too hip to the idea of government employees talking about Jesus literally returning and literally overthrowing earthly governments and literally ruling for a thousand years...manufactured and systematized amillennialism which says Jesus rules and reigns in my heart, it's a symbolic construct , that symbolically represents the present church age.
At bottom. Augustine manufactured the amillennialism model to appease the Roman Government, likely it was meant to be reversed back, but never was.
Today, as folks become bolder and wiser in their study of God’s Word, views such as amillennialism and preterism are nearly extinct.
It's difficult to become overly dogmatic about these stances because one "no one knows the day or the hour,"
& 2 there are strong Biblical Theologians who love Jesus, within the Body Of Christ who hold fast to each of 3 stances for the rapture. Without a consensus what do we do?
Well I'll tell you what you do. Turn to 2nd Timothy 2:15.
2nd Timothy 2:15 KJV
Study to shew thyself approved unto God, a workman that needeth not to be ashamed, rightly dividing the word of truth.
When I rightly divide the Word of God I find myself unable to firmly stand anywhere but the pre-tribulation Rapture stance.
I can understand the mid-trib school of thought little more than the post-trib, because the folks I'm the middle are all saying, "hey after the regular tribulation, but before the great tribulation, which is God's wrath, we're out of here and we'll be sized up, judged and off we go to the marriage supper table of the Lamb".
Then while they're feasting, the final 3.5 years known as the Great Tribulation will play out on earth and the seals will be opened, the trumpets blown and the bowls poured out.
I know a lot of you are taking the Revelation study right now, this is a great study and there are seats available...  information for that study is available on LakeshoreAssemblyofGod. Com.
If you’ve never been through a study on Revelation, join this one.
Any ways for all of you taking the class this will be a review, but for the rest of you here is the order of events in Revelation:
1. Seals Opened: In Revelation 6, seven seals are opened by the Lamb, which initiate a series of events and judgments.
2. Trumpets Blown: In Revelation 8-9 and 11, seven trumpets are blown by angels, each bringing about a specific judgment or calamity.
3. Bowls Poured Out: In Revelation 15-16, seven bowls filled with God's wrath are poured out upon the earth, resulting in severe judgments and plagues.
Revelations order of events and God's refined wrath I find it hard to envision the Bridegroom of Christ having to endure God's wrath, although it would certainly be just desserts for a sinner like me. Still, I don’t foresee Jesus allowing His Bride to be the recipient of His wrath before being brought to the marriage supper table of the Lamb.
As Theologian Chuck Missler put it, " this puts the bridegroom in this kind of a program, "come we're gonna get married then I'm gonna beat the living daylights out of you and then we'll go have dinner.....Comfort you're one another with these words".
Alright, I have 2 final points, we're going to wind this thing up with this, I just have to get these 2 final points to you before you leave.
Some of you have said  Mike, the word rapture doesn’t show up in my Bible so I don't believe it's a thing. –  and my response is, Actually, yes it does show up in your Bible, if you're reading the Latin Bible, and beyond the Bible... even false and pagan religions believe in the rapture.
Yes, they have written about it in their occultist books, and spoken about it at their occultist conferences. I have one of those books here and I'm going to read an excerpt it to you because it's really wild what they think the rapture is going to be.
This book is called This is a book titled Project World Evacuation.
Just look at the cover, this is their idea of the rapture.
This is the forward on page 8.
"There must be peace on Earth. There must be an end to wars and
hatred between brothers. The millions that come from other worlds, from
far-off galaxies to assist in bringing Peace upon Earth, have My staunch
support and backing for all of their endeavors. They have come in My
Name and they serve under My Banner, as Lord of this Planet.
But you shall NOT be taken out of your physical forms, but you shall be spared to live on in those days that follow. So, I shall call unto those who follow Me, to listen to the voices of these who come from other worlds, and harden not your hearts against their words nor practices. Rather, lift up
LOVE unto them and desire for their coming.
Here's page 93 and 94,
PHASE I of the Great Exodus of souls from the planet will take place at a
moment's notice when it is determined that the inhabitants are in danger..
PHASE I of the global evacuation will come as the twinkling of an eye, [that's lifted right out of the Bible]
with no time for any pre-warning of any significance. It will be a secret
taking away of spiritual leaders and teachers of the Light workers, but not
those of the Special Legion who will remain until the last phase is completed.
so it'll be a special taking away of Spiritual leaders, teachers and light workers. So that's us, they're affirming that the real teachers and leaders are going to be evacuated....but all you who stay behind are special  - you're going to stay behind because you get to be part of the New World Order - so accept it with open arms or else.
People will be deceived by this, all over America and the deceptions will be different depending location, but in America I really think the prevailing viewpoint will be aliens abducted us.
People will be deceived "So God will cause them to be greatly deceived, and they will believe these lies. Then they will be condemned for enjoying evil rather than believing the truth."
2 Thessalonians 2:11-12
I'd love to think that the day after the rapture the pews will be filled with almost Christians pouring over their Bibles trying to make sense of what just happened. I don't that'll happen at all, and if it does, I don't think it'll last long, and neither will America as a whole.
When the rapture occurs the Christians who follow Jesus will be gone, and in the US, that's conservatively speaking 70-90 million men, women, youth, and children
The reason you don't see America in end times prophecies is because this country as know it won't exist. Christians are the ones who obey the law when no one else ill, Christians are the ones who volunteer and lend a helping hand when no on tells them too, Christians are the ones who pay their bills, and create community programs, and help the least of these. Christians own the bulk of small to medium sized US business and create jobs, and it's Christians who show up to those jobs - on time and with a Colossians 3:23 attitude. What'll happen to this country when we're gone. I shudder to consider that thought, luckily, it's not my problem or yours because the Bible says we'll be raptured.
This your final, last point, and I saved the best for last because I don't want anyone leaving here today forfeiting the reality of the rapture. "Some  say the word rapture does not appear in your Bible it does if you're reading the Latin Bible in the Vulgate this is the Latin Vulgate the word is
Rapiemur is the proper tense of rapio:
Our English words "rapt" and "rapture"
come from the past participle of rapio.
So, it's derived from that verb so the word
rapture occurs in effect in its proper
tenses in Latin... in the Latin Bible...in the
Vulgate that's where we get this term, so people who say it's rapture is another Bible they have another homework they're actually surprisingly enough seven raptures in the scripture". Chuck Missler
7 places the rapture happens:
Enoch  --> Genesis 5:42, Hebrews 11:15
Elijah --> 2 Kings 2:1,11
Jesus --> Mark 16:19, Acts 1:9, Rev 12:5
Phillip --> Acts 8:39
Paul --> 2 Corinthians 12:2-4
Body of Chrit 1 Thes 4:17
John --> John Revelation 4:1
Closing:  Jesus says in John 14:2-3 King James Version
2 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.

3 And if I go and prepare a place for you, I will come again, and receive you unto myself; that where I am, there ye may be also.
Who do you think He's talking to? I'll give you a hint, it's you.
Has Jesus gone to prepare a Mansion for you, Is Jesus Busy Tonight Preparing a Place for you?
Jesus is coming back for His bride very soon, to call us up to meet Him in the air, Will that include you, Will He be coming back for you, is I hope He is.