rapture, Harpazo, a REAL EVENT because spiritual is real Lead [-] remember, the Kingdom of heaven is within you.......and few find it.....it is a NARROW ROAD TO LIFE the actual word rapture isn't in the Bible, but the phrase "caught up" or harpazo in Greek is found there and here are a few of the verses to show it is a "lifting up" experience: 2Cr 12:2 I knew a man in Christ above fourteen years ago, (whether in the body, I cannot tell; or whether out of the body, I cannot tell: God knoweth;) such an one caught up to the third heaven. 2Cr 12:4 How that he was caught up into paradise, and heard unspeakable words, which it is not lawful for a man to utter. 1Th 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. Rev 12:5 And she brought forth a man child, who was to rule all nations with a rod of iron: and her child was caught up unto God, and [to] his throne. the word harpazo means harpazô Outline of Biblical Usage 1) to seize, carry off by force 2) to seize on, claim for one's self eagerly 3) to snatch out or away Authorized Version (KJV) Translation Count - Total: 13 AV - catch up 4, take by force 3, catch away 2, pluck 2, catch 1, pull 1 ME: AND I DID experience this SPIRITUAL EVENT in my OWN SOUL, so I know its real and true even as Paul knew it: there is nothing to compare it to in this world other than being PHYSICALLY PULLED through a tunnel by a TREMENDOUS FORCE you can not see: this is a spiritual experience and what is PULLED THROUGH and LIFTED UP is your spirit and like Paul said, he didn't know if he now was out of his body or not, and neither did I because for almost six years, I could not feel the boundaries of my body unless I MOVED: I felt my existence outside of the body, above the body, but yet, my body moved with me when my spirit moved to show it was still somehow connected.......but the spirit was NO LONGER INSIDE of me as it was before it was outside as much as inside and therefore my experience was IN HEAVEN as much as it was on earth........ caught up or raptured...............its a real event September 26 2008 at 12:22 PM y (Select Login Harpazo) Response to harpazo,.............CAUGHT up to God in Paradise -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- I would even say it is a PHYSICAL EVENT since the Spirit is the LIFE of the body and when the spirit is moved in us, the body feels changed somehow, even to the point that when the spirit leaves the body, it dies.......so this is a powerful experience, and it is why it is said we "DIE WITH CHRIST", because the spirit actually leaves the old boundaries and moves us to a new consciousness IN CHRIST: at least I witness to this event as REAL and physical and TRUE how others speak of something they have never experienced.........I don't know for me, I speak of what I have experienced........but I can't prove it anymore than Paul to me, could before I had the same experience then I UNDERSTOOD Paul the way I never did the previous 26 years of being a "Christian": I was not really as much of a Christian as I THOUGHT I was, because CHRIST was not yet IN ME......even though I BELIEVED IN HIM when CHRIST comes.............he changes everything in us... September 26 2008 at 12:25 PM y (Select Login Harpazo) Response to caught up or raptured...............its a real event -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- HE MAKES ALL THINGS NEW those who have not experienced this MAKING OF ALL THINGS NEW, are just like before, only they believe things will change......... and they will in the TWINKLING OF AN EYE when SUDDENLY the Lord comes into his TEMPLE........and our heart is that temple believe it or not now............when it happens you will you will believe because YOU HAVE SEEN and HEARD not because YOU were told to believe God is spirit and spirit is life: Christ is the MEDIUM God flows in and through us, the soul he is making: God is WILL and Christ is the EXPRESSION of that WILL in us and Jesus is the name of the soul who experiences this to its completion in US: Return to Index |
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