Question: Can you please explain your teaching on the rapture?
The following question was sent to Pastor and Bro
Rob via email. It is our desire to help you better understand the
"rapture" or "catching away" by sharing
Brother Rob's reply.
This
question is easy and simple when you understand dimensional projection
of God’s Word. You might think that I might make things difficult,
but you must have this dimensional understanding to answer your
question properly. I do teach on the rapture. It would be easy to
simply answer your question by saying, " I believe that the
church will be caught out (raptured) prior to the tribulation,"
and leave it at that. However, I perceive that this answer alone
would not suffice you. So, lets go a little deeper. I will make an
attempt to answer your question in a letter but I may choose to send
you an audio CD dealing with this matter. First of all, I teach
dimensions. The Bible says that there are three that bear witness in
the earth: water, blood, and spirit. This is found in 1 John 5. There
is a rapture for each one of these dimensions. Or, I could say that
there is one relative to the water, one to the blood, and one to the
spirit. The natural Jew is considered as God’s elect in the Word,
and the Jew will find themselves in the tribulation. So then, the
natural Jew would be post tribulation, which is where many Bible
scholars that teach post tribulation rapture get their scripture
reference for post tribulation rapture. Because the Bible speaks of
the elect in the tribulation, we know that is not the Church or
spiritual elect but that is the natural elect or the Jew. The Bible
says that there is a spiritual Jew and a natural Jew. So the natural
Jew is relative to this world and will have a different rapture than
the spiritual Jew. The Bible teaches us that there is a once and for
all crucifixion and then there is a daily crucifixion, so we
differentiate crucifixion. Well, we have been caught away into
heavenly places, and our spirit is caught away and hid with Christ.
Satan can’t touch us there. We are sealed in, nothing can be held to
our charge. Our spirit has been raptured, or caught up, it’s already
happened.
Our outer garment is relative to this world. It has to go through the
metamorphose, or a change (witting the redemption of the body).
Your outer man will have a rapture. It is a collective change to the
entire body of Christ. This is the rapture that most of our churches
teach about, but we need to know that we can daily dwell with
the Lord in heavenly places. We don’t want to make the mistake of
making God only a God of the past, or only the one of the future. We
have to make him the God of "now."
So, I
can say that the inner man is already caught away, the outer man is
waiting and longing for the manifestation of the Sons of God, or to
wit the redemption of the body (rapture). We are daily caught up to
the throne of God by the renewing of our mind. We have one once and
for all been caught away, one on a daily bases, and the body yearning
and longing for the change.
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