Now that there is no more time, the rapture has already begun. Christians who believe in the second coming of Christ, depending on the Christian group, have drawn their own timetable for how the Lord will come again. There have been talks about the sound of trumpets, the rapture, the resurrection of the dead, the war of Armageddon, the first and second deaths, etc. But Christians have never agreed on what these concepts mean and the sequence of events. Of these, the most controversial and possibly the most misleading is the concept of ecstasy. Again, I have to give explanations based on my understanding of Abd-ru-shin’s In Th Light Of Truth The Grail Message.
Ecstasy, by the dictionary definition, is a state of bliss. The Longman dictionary defines ecstasy as a great emotion, pleasure and happiness. Therefore, the Christian definition of ecstasy is new. The general understanding of the rapture by Christians shows that they believe that they are destined to disappear from the face of the earth, to paradise, perhaps, just before the great tribulation. This was based on 1 Thessalonians 4:13-18. It is the literal interpretation of this part of the end-time revelation that results in the misconception of the rapture. According to Paul’s letter to the Thessalonians, the Creator will bring Christ (during the second coming) with those who are asleep (ie, those who are dead). That means they will be awakened at the coming of Christ. Because according to him, Christ with a shout, with the voice of the archangel, and with the trumpet of God, will descend from heaven. And the dead in Christ will be the first to rise, and those who live will be caught up together with them in the clouds to meet the Lord in the air. That, along with 1 Corinthians 15:50-54, completes the foundation of the rapture concept, according to some Christian thought.
To understand these passages, certain fundamentals must be kept in mind. The first is the fact that the Bible is first and foremost a spiritual book before anything else. Thus, for example, when Christ told his disciples that they would be present again when he came, they took that to mean that they would not die before the second coming. So, as many of them started to die, it was rumored that some of them – John, for example, probably because he was the youngest – would not die. That prompted them to ask Christ, as recorded in the gospel according to John, after Christ appeared to them after the resurrection, just before the ascension, if John will be present until Christ returns. He responded by asking what do they care if he decides that John will be present during the coming of the Son of Man.
The concept of rapture falls into such a category. It can only be explained using the spiritual perspective.
It is not possible for a flesh and blood person to be catapulted into heaven to meet Christ or anyone else. Still, rapture advocates insist that those who will be raptured will meet Christ in the air, until after the time of the tribulation they equate with the reign of the antichrist. Whether they will be floating in the air until Armageddon is over is not explained, because flesh and blood, according to Paul, cannot inherit the kingdom of God (1 Cor. 15:40-52). They can’t use parachutes, or it will land. Unless they all use hot air balloons, whose cluster will put them at risk of blowing up planes piloted by non-abducted pilots.
The ecstasy in its simplicity is already taking place. Human beings destined to survive the time of trouble are being branded on their foreheads so that their spirits are protected as long as they themselves do not break through the protection from within. This is the new baptism, sometimes called the new anointing. Anyone so anointed is protected against the powers of darkness unless he himself stretches out his hands into darkness. Therefore, in the truest sense, the anointing breaks the yoke. But this has nothing to do with understanding anointing in general, where some kind of spiritual ecstasy is induced in the anointed. Rather it relates to the sealing of the called 144,000 on Patmos, where the Son of Man sealed them on their foreheads and unites them to himself spiritually. Thus, those sealed are “caught up in the air,” that is, the connection and union is spiritual, not physical, although those so bound with the Son of Man are expected to physically bear the mark of truth as a seal of truth. your conviction. That activity is ongoing now, a situation prophesied in the book of Ezekiel chapter 8 and 9. These are the people who will change internally because they are awake, as Paul pointed out we will be changed, in a moment, in the twinkling of an eye. . Then the trumpet will sound—this refers to the last trumpet, which results in the resurrection of all who are dead to judge themselves. With this animation of everything, the great tribulation enters fully with the appearance of the comet or sign of the son of man, which is the same as the last trumpet. Therefore, the raptured, whether in the flesh or not, will become columns that will rise as oases to help humanity in danger to find the way out of the collapsing world system, the chaos of the collapsing intellect, where those who make him their God and have his mark on their foreheads and right hands are left in perilous agony: those with the mark of 666 on them, or the mark of the beast.
Then, when this is all over, the raptured will now experience true ecstasy when, as the crowning of their activities, they find themselves back in paradise where they will experience the greatest bliss and ecstasy, perpetual ecstasy.