The First Time the rapture is mentioned

Ezekiel 13---The first mention of the rapture
The main focus of this exegesis is Ezekiel 13:20 Wherefore thus saith the Lord GOD; Behold, I am against your pillows, wherewith ye there hunt the souls to make them fly, and I will tear them from your arms, and will let the souls go, even the souls that ye hunt
to make them fly.

Many false teachers are claiming the first time the rapture is mentioned was in the second century and fail to rightly divide the meaning of this verse above. The scriptures do not directly mention the pre tribulation rapture anywhere except in Ezekiel who teaches against it. False teaching is false teaching and it doesn’t matter when it started. Ezekiel mentions “flying away” which is a direct reference to the pre tribulation rapture long before the second century. YHVH says he is against it!

There is only one time in history where Christians are taught to fly away and that is the end times. The words “flying away” are a direct reference to the rapture. It’s one of the greatest heresies in all of Christian history. They actually teach the flesh body will come out of the grave and reunite with the spirit body at the rapture. This is a form of reincarnation which is totally contrary to God’s Word. It is appointed unto man once to die and after that the judgment.

Does the flesh body get harpazo? or Caught Up?—Or Does the Spirit body get harpazo?
“Caught Up” G 726 (har-pad'-zo) to seize, catch up, snatch away obtain by robbery. catch, seize, take by force.
2 Corinthians 5:8 and Ecclesiastes 12:6 and 7 are perfect explanations of the harpazo which is the separation of the body and the spirit. The spirit is harpazo away from the flesh body and separated. Not the flesh body harpazo away from the earth and separated from it.
The flesh body is not caught up in rapture from the earth.
The flesh body remains and it is the spirit that is caught up.
The two verses below explain it perfectly.
2 Corinthians 5:8 We are confident, I say, and willing rather to be absent from the body, and to be present with the Lord. (It doesn’t say you go lay in a hole in the ground after death)
Ecclesiastes 12:6 Or ever the silver cord be loosed, or the golden bowl be broken, or the pitcher be broken at the fountain, or the wheel broken at the cistern.
7 Then shall the dust return to the earth as it was: and the spirit shall return unto God who gave it. (The dust is symbolic for flesh-carnal man-kind)

Your flesh body goes back to dirt (dust) and your spirit goes back to God. The great Harpazo… explained on an individual basis and also collectively at the second coming.
Let’s look at the rapture apologists go 2 scripture for the rapture doctrine;

1 Thessalonians 4:17 Then we which are alive and remain shall be caught up together with them in the clouds, to meet the Lord in the air: and so shall we ever be with the Lord.
To render this verse into modern English would be as follows;
Then we that are still alive and remain on the earth at the time of the second coming shall all die and then be reunited with those who have died in the past to meet the LORD in our new celestial spirit bodies and so shall we ever be with the Lord. Zachariah 14 describes this moment.

Here is how fast this change of bodies will be; 1 Corinthians 15:51 Behold, I shew you a mystery; We shall not all sleep, (Limbo) but we shall all be changed, (to spiritual body)
52 In a moment, in the twinkling of an eye, at the last trump: (7th) for the trumpet shall sound, and the dead shall be raised incorruptible, and we shall be changed. (The change is instantaneous)
53 For this corruptible must put on incorruption, and this mortal must put on immortality.
The Celestial body is incorruptible and the terrestrial is corruptible
40 There are also celestial bodies, and bodies terrestrial: but the glory of the celestial is one, and the glory of the terrestrial is another.


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