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1. ENOCH
Gen 5:24 And Enoch walked with God: and he was not; for
God took him.
(TYPE OF
LIVING SAINTS AT CHURCH AGE RAPTURE.
HE DIDN'T DIE AND HE NEVER DIES)
2. MOSES
Deut 34:5,6 So Moses the servant of the LORD
died there in the
land of Moab, according to the word of the LORD. 6 And he
buried him in a
valley in the land of Moab, over against Bethpeor: but no man knoweth of his
sepulchre unto this day.
Jude 1:9 Yet
Michael the archangel, when contending with the devil
he disputed about the body of Moses, durst not bring against him a railing accusation, but
said, The Lord rebuke thee.
Mark 9:4 And
there appeared unto them Elias with
Moses: and they were talking with Jesus.
(TYPE OF
DEAD SAINTS AT THE CHURCH AGE RAPTURE. HIS BODY WENT UP AFTER HE WAS BURIED)
3. ELIJAH
2 King 2:11 And it came to pass, as they
still went on, and talked, that, behold, there appeared a chariot of fire,
and horses of fire, and parted them both asunder; and
Elijah went up by a whirlwind into heaven.
(HE WENT UP WITHOUT DYING, BUT HE WILL
DIE IN THE TRIBULATION.)
4. O.T. SAINTS AT THE
RESURRECTION
Matt
27:50-53 Jesus, when he had cried again with a loud voice, yielded up the
ghost. 51 And, behold, the veil of the temple was rent in twain from the top
to the bottom; and the earth did quake, and the rocks rent; 52 And the
graves were opened; and
many bodies of the saints which slept arose, 53 And came out of the graves after his resurrection,
and went into the holy city, and appeared unto many.
("FIRST
FRUITS" COMPARE
FEAST OF UNLEAVENED BREAD)
Deut 16:16 Three times in a year shall all
thy males appear before the LORD thy God in the place which he shall choose;
in the
feast of
unleavened bread,
and in the feast of weeks, and in the feast of tabernacles:
and they shall not appear before
the LORD empty:
1 Cor 15:21-23 For since by man came death,
by man came also the resurrection of the dead. 22 For as in Adam all die,
even so in Christ shall all be made alive. 23 But every man in his own
order:
Christ the
firstfruits;
afterward they that are Christ's at his
coming.
Eph 4:8-10 Wherefore he saith, When he
ascended up on high, he led captivity captive, and gave gifts unto men.
9 (Now that he ascended, what is
it but that he also descended first into the lower parts of the earth? 10 He
that descended is the same also that ascended up far above all heavens, that
he might fill all things.)
5. BRIDE OF
CHRIST
Rev 4:1 After this I looked, and, behold, a
door was opened in heaven: and the first voice which I heard was as it were
of a trumpet talking with me;
which said, Come up hither,
and I will shew thee things which must be
hereafter.
(THIS IS A
PICTURE OF
RAPTURE
AFTER THE LAODICIAN PERIOD,
WHICH WE ARE IN NOW)
Deut 16:16 Three times in a year shall all
thy males appear before the LORD thy God in the place which he shall choose;
in the feast of unleavened bread, and in the
feast of weeks, and in the feast of tabernacles: and they shall not
appear before the LORD empty:
("HARVEST" COMPARE WITH THE FEAST OF
WEEKS. 1
COR. 15:49-53; 1 Thess. 4:13-18; Ps. 50:5; Song of Solomon 2)
6. MOSES AND ELIJAH
(SEE Rev. 11:3-12)
Rev 11:12 And they heard a great voice from
heaven saying unto them, Come up
hither. And
they ascended up to heaven in a cloud; and
their enemies beheld them.
(REFERENCES
FOR WHO THE TWO WITNESSES ARE) Num. 16:35; 2 Ki. 1:10; Mal. 4:4-6; Matt.
17:3
7. POST TRIBULATION SAINTS
Deut 16:16 Three times in a year shall all
thy males appear before the LORD thy God in the place which he shall choose;
in the feast of unleavened bread, and in the feast of weeks, and in the feast of tabernacles: and they shall not appear before the LORD empty:
("GLEANINGS" COMPARE WITH THE
FEAST OF TABERNACLES) THIS GROUP IS THE TRIBULATION. SAINTS AT THE END OF
THE TRIBULATION.
Rev 14:14-16 And I looked, and behold a white
cloud, and upon the cloud one sat like unto the Son of man, having on his
head a golden crown, and in his hand a sharp sickle. 15 And another angel
came out of the temple, crying with a loud voice to him that sat on the
cloud, Thrust in thy sickle, and reap: for the time is come for thee to
reap; for the harvest of the earth is ripe. 16 And he that sat on the cloud
thrust in his sickle on the earth;
and the
earth was reaped. (SEE ALSO
Matt. 24)
by
Tommy H. Heffner Sr

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