14/02/2014
1. Jesus told His disciples in John 14:1,2, “I go to ______________ a place for you.”
2. In verse 3 of that same chapter He says, “And if I go and prepare a place for you, I will come again, and ______________ you unto myself; that where I am, there ye may be also.”
3. I Thessalonians 4:13-18 describes how He will come again to receive us.
a. Verse 14 of this passage says, “even so them also which sleep in Jesus will God bring ________ him.”
b. Verse 16 says, “the dead in Christ shall rise __________.”
Note: Believers who have died and gone to be with Jesus will come back with Him, and will receive their new glorified bodies first.
c. Then verse 17 says, “Then we which are alive and remain shall be caught up together with them in the clouds to meet the ________ in the air: and so shall we ever be with the Lord.”
Note: All believers still alive upon earth at the rapture will instantly “be ______________, In a moment, in the twinkling of an eye...” (I Corinthians 15:51,52)
4. After the rapture, we will then be with Jesus in the third heaven for 7 years, which is the length of the Tribulation Period then taking place upon earth.
a. According to Revelation 11:3, God’s two witnesses will prophesy for how long? __________ days or ____ years
b. When their job is finished, Revelation 11:7 says the beast “shall overcome them, and ________ them.”
c. According to Revelation 12:1-6, the “woman” (Israel) will need protection for how long? __________ days or ____ years
Note: So the Tribulation Period is 3½ years plus 3½ years, which equals 7 years.
Christians who have died and are in the third heaven right now with Jesus, will leave there and come back with Jesus at the Rapture to get us and to receive their glorified bodies. Then we will all return to the third heaven with Jesus, to spend the next 7 years there.
