Originally posted by Truthseeker
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The persecution: ". . . when they persecute you in this city, flee ye into another: for verily I say unto you, Ye shall not have gone over the cities of Israel, till the Son of man be come." -- Matthew 10:23.
". . . For then shall be great tribulation, such as was not since the beginning of the world to this time, no, nor ever shall be. And except those days should be shortened, there should no flesh be saved: but for the elect's sake those days shall be shortened. . . ." -- Matthew 24:21-22.
". . . Immediately after the tribulation of those days . . . then shall appear the sign of the Son of man in heaven: . . ." -- Matthew 24:29-30.
As a fulfillment of:
". . . this same Jesus, which is taken up from you into heaven, shall so come in like manner as ye have seen him go into heaven. . . ." -- Acts 1:11.
". . . And he shall send his angels with a great sound of a trumpet, and they shall gather together his elect from the four winds, from one end of heaven to the other. . . ." -- Matthew 24:31.
". . . them also which sleep in Jesus will God bring with him. . . . 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: Then we which are alive [and] remain shall be caught up[raptured] together with them in the clouds, to meet the Lord in the air: . . . " -- 1 Thessalonians 4:14, 16-17.
". . . 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. . . ." -- 1 Corinthians 15:52.
And that is just a quick overview.
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