What is the rapture?

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Matthew Miller here from Maranatha Ministries. We're going to get

straight to the Word. Now, in doing so, know this

up front. You're not going to get any theological myths

out of me. It's not going to happen. This is

going to be done exclusively from the Word and from

the Word alone. What is the rapture? Let's evade all

of the cunningly devised fables. Let's get to the text.

Let's read it. I'm just going to point out for

you what these pre-tribbers are obviously leaving out. So, Their

two proof texts is 1 Thessalonians chapter 4 and 1

1 Thessalonians 4 · chapter mention 1 Corinthians 15 · chapter mention

Corinthians chapter 15. So let's go to the first instance,

1 Corinthians chapter 15, verses 50 through 52. What does

1 Corinthians 15:50–52

this say the rapture is? Let's check it out. Now

this I say, brethren, that flesh and blood cannot inherit

the kingdom of God, nor does corruption inherit corruption. This

is an inheritance transfer. The kingdom of heaven was never

in the dimension of the spiritual. It was never in

the spiritual dimension, ever. Look at every reference for the

kingdom of heaven that Jesus Christ ever talked about. It's

on earth. You must inherit the kingdom of heaven on earth.

Of course, there's only one kingdom in heaven. No rebellion

goes on in heaven, people. That's another theological myth. The

war in heaven is triggered by the miraculous conceptions as

described in Revelation chapter 12, in Isaiah chapter 26, in

Revelation 12 · chapter mention Isaiah 26 · chapter mention

Matthew chapter 24, verse 19. Okay, so that's what this is.

Matthew 24:19

It is a transfer of inheritance. That's what it is.

And it is saying you cannot inherit the kingdom of God,

which is on earth. Yes, all the references in the

New Testament make it on earth. It's not in heaven. No,

it's not. It's on earth. Thus saith the word, thus

saith the Lord Jesus Christ. It's on earth. So, you

must inherit it. So, now that you know that, the

kingdom of God is on earth. Of course, I really

don't have to tell you that. You all know that

if you've read and studied the New Testament. You know

it's on earth. You know it's not heaven. So, it's

saying that you are not permitted to inherit the kingdom

of God in your fallen fleshly state. It's going to

elaborate on this. This is not saying you're getting translated

to heaven. No, that's never what it says. Never says that.

Because there are no verses in the Bible that say

you're going to go to heaven. Never says that. Not

one verse in Isaiah. If you can find me, One

person who can contest this with me publicly will do

this right, because I can prove this in a court

of law. No prophet, major or minor, ever said anybody

was going to heaven. This is not describing a translation

to heaven. It's describing a transference of inheritance. Let's read on. So,

this being the truth that you're going to have to

be changed into your resurrected form to inherit the kingdom

of God on earth. Is that what it's going to say?

Is this what it's going to say? Let's read it.

Now this I say, brethren, that flesh and blood cannot

inherit the kingdom of God, nor does corruption inherit incorruption. Behold,

I tell you a mystery. We shall not all sleep,

but we shall be Changed, not translated. No, not translated

to heaven. You will be changed. This in the Greek

right here is very clear. Not only does this verse

end with this Greek word, so does the next one.

It's G236. Alaso. It means to be changed. Literally, you

affect the case in form here. Literally, this says in Greek,

A Logos Mothia. Oh, I don't need to go with

the generic Strong's. I know what it actually says. It

says a Logos Mothia because of its case in form.

That's why. Because this is the second future passive inductive

first person plural. A Logos Mothia. We will be changed

not translated to heaven we will be changed terrestrially that's

what it says that's what it means so the next

verse in the moment in the twinkling of an eye

at the last trump for the trumpet will sound and

the dead will rise incorruptible and then we shall be

changed Not translated, this said logos mothia, twice. That's how

51 ended, and it repeated itself in the Greek in 52.

You're going to be changed, not translated to heaven. It's

not what it said. The Greek is ten times more

exacting than English. The Greek said, you're going to receive

your inheritance if you're alive. Who receives their inheritance first

is the dead. And they shall be changed. They shall

be elagos mothia and receive their resurrected bodies first. That's

the mystery. The Greek says that's the mystery. The mystery

is not the rapture. The mystery is that the dead

will receive their inheritance first. Then we who are alive

and remain will receive it next. Let's see if this

is what it says. Does it continue explaining this? Verse 53,

for this corruptible must put on incorruption and this mortal

must put on immortality. The mystery is not the rapture.

The mystery is, read it in Greek, the mystery is

that dead receive their incorruptible bodies first. That's what it said. So,

take note. This never said a translation to heaven. Ever.

It never said that. So, let's go to the second

instance in 1 Thessalonians chapter 4 starting in verse 13.

1 Thessalonians 4 · chapter mention

Let's just read it and believe it. Can you do that?

Can you read the word and just accept what it says?

Because that's what's going on with dispensationalists. They're reading it

and rejecting it. They reject what it says. Now, albeit,

most of them have never even tried to access the

Greek to see what the word actually says. Because the

word is not in KJV. The word's not in New

American Standard Bible or anything else. The word is in

Greek and it's in Hebrew. What does this say? Start

out with verse 13, 1 Thessalonians chapter 4. Does it

1 Thessalonians 4 · chapter mention

say this is a translation to heaven? What does it say?

It says, But I do not want you to be ignorant, brethren,

concerning those who have fallen asleep, lest you sorrow as

others who have no hope. For we believe that Jesus

died and rose again, even so he will bring with

him those who sleep in Jesus. This is saying exactly

what 1 Corinthians chapter 15 said. The dead get their

1 Corinthians 15 · chapter mention

inheritance first. Verse 15. For we say this by the

word of the Lord, that we who are alive and

remain until the coming of the Lord will by no

mean precede those who are asleep. What is this coming

in Hebrews? What is this word here? What is the

word for coming? If you have access to on-life research,

it is parousia. The destination is earth. Jesus Christ leaves

heaven and his destination is earth. There's no such thing

as a partial return. This said parousia in Greek. When

you know what it means, you can't be deceived. So

it just said he's going to bring those who are

asleep with him and they will receive their resurrected bodies first.

That's exactly what the prior instance said. So now that

we have that out of the way, it should say,

it should elaborate. So his parousia, that means he's coming here.

No partial cowardly return. No, it said parousia, he is coming.

This is not a partial return. pre-trib nonsense. That's not biblical.

That's a theological myth. Okay? What's the next verse say?

I bet the next verse is going to back it up.

Of course it is because this is the Word. This

is the Word. Verse 16. For the Lord Himself will

descend from Heaven. Yes. In the Greek, this doesn't mean

anything other than what this elementary translation said. To descend. Descend.

Karabino in Greek. I don't think I know. I don't

need some professor to tell me. I'm well familiar with

what this Greek is saying. I don't care what dispensationalists say.

They're lying to you. This says, and in the Strong's number,

please write this down. This is in the Strong's Concordance.

You can get it at Blue Letter Bible. You can

get it at Logos. You can get it at the

Bible Hub. It's literally common knowledge. You can get this

from any library. This Greek word is a dual compound

Greek word. It is derived from the Greek word kata

and basis. This literally means to descend, to go from

an elevation down. It is incredible that people lie. These

dispensationalists lie. It's a lie. There is no partial return.

That's a lie. Okay? This compound, this dual compound Greek word,

it comes from the Greek word kata, for one. Kata

means down. It means down, okay? And it's derived from basis.

What does this mean? It means stepping or walking to traverse,

to take a step. It means that he's stepping from

heaven To earth. He is stepping from. He's stepping out of.

The spiritual dimension. Into the material dimension. Doesn't mean anything else.

If you say something else. It's because you're lying. No

partial preacher of rapture. No such thing. An outright theological myth.

A cunningly devised fable. So. For the Lord himself will

descend from heaven. descend from heaven with the shout, with

the voice of the archangel, with the trumpet of God, uh-oh,

it agrees with 1 Corinthians chapter 15. It says, and

1 Corinthians 15 · chapter mention

the dead in Christ will rise first. Then we who

are alive and remain will be caught together with them

in the clouds to meet the Lord in the air

just like parousia. When there's a divine procession, once it

gets in range of the city, a welcoming committee would

go out to greet the sovereign. This truth is non-contestable.

It's non-contestable. And thus we shall always be with the Lord,

therefore comfort one another with these words. So, What is

the rapture? The last thing it is is a translation

to heaven. The second to the last thing it is

is a partial return. The Greek negates that lie, that

cunningly devised fable. And remember, dispensationalism, okay, it's just a

It's just one of the symptoms of the Darby Schofield syndrome.

Dispensationalism and preacher of rapture is just a few of them.

The other one, of course, is Christian Zionism, and I

could go on and on and on and on and on.

So the preacher of rapture is just one of the

many symptoms of Darby Schofield syndrome. Because this Greek, you

can't argue with it. It says what it means. Anything

that goes left or right of this is a cunningly

devised fable meant to confuse those of us who have

been born again. You are going to inherit the kingdom

of God. Oh, yes you are. Yes you are. You

are not going to inherit heaven's throne room. You're never

going there. That's never going to happen. So it amazes

me that when I talk about this in a classroom

with dispensationalists, first off, they dare not counter me because

I literally, I put the Greek up on the board.

But it's amazing that they all say, well, wait a minute.

Nobody told me. It does say descend. Yeah. It does

say we inherit. Yeah. Yeah. It does say kingdom of God. Yeah,

kingdom of God is on earth. Duh. I mean, duh. Duh.

Read the New Testament. Just read the quotations about it

from the Lord Jesus Christ himself. The kingdom of God

is right here. Yeah, it is. Oh, yes, it is.

You're not going to inherit what belongs to angels. That's

the spiritual dimension. You don't get that. You get what

God created for you. He created the earth for you.

That's what you're going to inherit. And once the Lord

Jesus Christ assumes authority over it, once he assumes command

in the material creation, that's the kingdom of God because

he is God the Son. Yes, he is. So this

can help heal that psychological scarring that you have on

your psyche from dispensationalism. Just believe the Word. Study it

for yourself. These are very, very short verses. So how

many verses? There's one, two, three, four, five, six verses

from 1 Thessalonians 4 and three verses from 1 Corinthians 15.

Get these on Bible Hub. Bible Hub will actually expand

it and break it down for you and show you

everything you need to see. There's no partial return of

Christ here. It said, and it said, I don't need

to go on and on. What I've said, I've said,

and that's the fact. I've just relayed to you the

facts of the word. The word. I don't care what

Darby said. I sure fire don't care what that criminal

Schofield said. He's a criminal. Yeah, he should have been

put in jail. And yet, they believe him as if

what he put in that Schofield Bible commentary was the

words of Christ. No. No, he was a heretic. Yeah.

One thing's for sure, we can prove in a court

of law just the historical facts. He had insulted the

spirit of grace. Now listen, you need to learn this,

you dispensationalists. You need to learn this. Hebrews chapter 10,

Hebrews 10:26–29

verses 26 through 29. Once you insult the spirit of grace,

you're just going to continue on in your cunningly devised fables,

chasing your tails. It'll never make sense to you. The

word cannot make sense to you unless you've been born again.

I'm not arguing with you. This is not a debate.

I've given you the facts of what the Greek says

in the New Testament. This isn't a debate. This is

a lecture. And you deserve to know. If you're a churchgoer,

you deserve to know what the word says. Because that's

what you're going to be judged off of. And I'm

hoping that I've inspired you to go to Bible Hub.

Pull up these verses and look at them in the

Greek yourself. Because if you do this, if you begin

to saturate your psyche with the word, the spirit can

begin to move in you. You must be born again.

You must be baptized in the Holy Spirit. So please,

this is the only way because the word is the

inspired word of God. It was inspired by the Holy Spirit.

If you saturate your psyche with it and throw away

all your entertainment, throw it all away. Listen to it.

Read it and study it. It will heal. It will

heal your psyche of that scarring because the spirit can

begin to move because it is the spirit that wrote

the word. So please look these things up. Like I said,

I'm not lying to you. This isn't a debate. This

is a lecture. I'm telling you the truth. Everything that

I said, go verify it. And I pray that when

you verify it, the Spirit begins to move in you. Hey,

with that being said, now you know what the rapture is.

It's not a partial return. Jesus Christ descends. And number two,

it is not a translation to heaven. Now you know

what it actually is. It is a descent. It is

a transfer of inheritance. It is a changing. What's the Greek?

I told you what the actual Greek says in both verses.

It's a changing. It's not a translation. It's not a

translation to heaven. It's a changing in creation is what

it is. So those of you that's been born again,

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