INTRO: I want to take you to a very interesting passage with regard to the return of Christ for the Church (read 1 Thessalonians 2:1-4). The point of particular interest to me for this message is the phrase, ‘the day of Christ.' The subject matter of this passage is ‘the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ and our gathering together to Him.' That is a specific reference to what we call the ‘rapture'. The word rapture is the Latin of the word ‘caught up' in 1 Thessalonians 4:13. That the rapture, or ‘catching up' and the second coming are two distinct events is agreed by pre, mid and post-trib teachers. The rapture is when He comes for the Church. The second coming is when He comes back down to earth to set up the millennial kingdom. For the post-trib view, the rapture is a very brief event. Christ comes into the air for the Church. The Church meets Him in the air, and both Christ and the Church return to earth. What is in view, in our passage is the rapture of the Church.
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