Rapture Resources

The Rapture explores the mystery of the Church being gathered to Christ and the hope of the Bride’s union with her Bridegroom at His appearing. While sincere believers hold differing views concerning the timing and nature of this event, this theme approaches the subject through the Bridal paradigm — a perspective that places relationship, covenant, preparation, and longing at the centre of prophetic understanding. When viewed through this lens, together with the Apostle Paul’s own expectation of the Lord’s coming, much of the haze and confusion surrounding end-time events begins to lift, allowing a clearer and more spiritually grounded picture to emerge. Rather than fuelling speculation or fear, this perspective helps prepare the Bride with wisdom, endurance, watchfulness, and faithful devotion for the days that lie ahead.

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QB81 The Rapture of the Bride (Part 3)

October 24, 2023
Last time we explored the parable of the Wedding Feast (Matthew 22:1-14) and discovered the Wedding of the Lamb arranged for Israel was not cancelled but extended to include the Gentiles also, and therefore a separate…
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QB80 The Rapture of the Bride (Part 2)

October 23, 2023
Previously I shared there can be no wedding before the resurrection because to become “one flesh” with our Bridegroom first requires our lowly bodies to be transformed to be like His glorious body (Php 3:21). I…
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QB79 The Rapture of the Bride (Part 1)

October 20, 2023
As we see the escalation of tumult, depravity, suffering and destabilisation across the world I feel it is time to talk once more about the rapture from a bridal perspective. As the Body of Christ, for…
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QB34 Unravelling the Rapture (Part 5)

May 27, 2020
Paul writes clearly in 1 Thess 4:13-18 that the rapture does not occur before the resurrection, and that the resurrection happens when Christ returns. Here’s verses 16,17 again: 16 For the Lord Himself will descend from…
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QB33 Unravelling the Rapture (Part 4)

May 26, 2020
Since the passage in 1 Thess 4:13-18 is the core passage that teaches on the rapture and is used by both the pre-tribulation and non-pre-tribulation view, it would be worthwhile taking a little time to digest…
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QB32 Unravelling the Rapture (Part 3)

May 25, 2020
In our studies so far looking at the end times, I have wanted to establish some foundational markers that will serve to provide us with a framework upon which we can begin to add the various…
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