Rapture is the defining moment we all are awaiting – whether you are a Christian or not, whether you know it or not.
Rapture is the ultimate jubilee – the multiplied restoration of all that was lost.
Rapture is the last jubilee – the great liberty and rest.
Rapture is the jubilee of jubilees – the unprecedented redemptive magnanimity of all times.
Jesus informed us and urged us to look forward to this ultimate release: “…Now when these things begin to take place, look up and raise your heads because your redemption (or jubilee) is drawing near’’ (Luke 21:28).
The Jubilee philosophy or concept is an invention of God. Jehovah, the God of jubilee (Ex. 6:2-3, 6-8) sent us His son – Jesus to be our jubilee. “For God sent the SON into the world, not to condemn the world, but the world might be saved through Him’’ (John 3:17), “And this is eternal life, that they know thee, the only true God, and JESUS CHRIST whom thou hast sent”( John 17:3).
Anyone who comes to Jesus is set free from every encumbrance known to and bedeviling man – whatever is the opposite of what jubilee represents; but it is only a prelude and a foretaste as far as our stay on earth is concerned.
This is the jubilee of jubilees every person in Christ should look forward to with so much zest and zeal.
Concerning those that will be partaking in the phenomenal “popping up” to the clouds to meet Christ, the scriptures says, “…Blessed are those who are invited to the marriage supper of the lamb… these are true words of God” (Rev. 19:9).
This Jubilee is the greatest blessing of God - for God is not just commanding His blessings on a nation but on His Church, a group purchased at a great expense – by the blood of Jesus – His (God) only begotten Son.
In the same manner the trumpet sounded on the “Day of Atonement” after every 50 years, declaring the jubilee throughout the land (Lev. 25).
There is and will be an “acceptable year (or hour) of the Lord” (Luke 4:19) – A year of God’s (finest) grace when the trumpet will also sound in a similar fashion – only this time not by men but by angels and not from the earthly sphere but from the heavenly realm. “…for the Lord HIMSELF will descend from heaven with a cry of command with the arch angels call, and with the sound of TRUMPET of God. And the dead in Christ will rise first; then we who are alive, who are left, shall be caught up together with them in the clouds to meet the Lord in the air; and so we shall always be with the Lord” (1 Thess. 4:16-17).
Without conceding, at rapture “we shall always be with the Lord; and without pontificating, the angel said, “These are true words of God.” So there is a coming final and permanent jubilee. It is the taking away of God’s people from the planet earth to the 3rd heavenly realm – it is called RAPTURE (Matt. 24:40-42).
Maran’atha
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