The First Rapture

1 Thessalonians 4:13-18 “We do not want you to be uninformed, brothers, concerning those who are asleep, so that you will not grieve like the rest, who have no hope. Since we believe that Jesus died and rose again, in the same way God will bring with Him those who have fallen asleep through Jesus. For we say this to you by a revelation from the Lord: We who are still alive at the Lord’s coming will certainly have no advantage over those who have fallen asleep. For the Lord Himself will descend from heaven with a shout, with the archangel’s voice, and with the trumpet of God, and the dead in Christ will rise first. Then we who are still alive will be caught up together with them in the clouds to meet the Lord in the air; and so we will always be with the Lord. Therefore encourage one another with these words.”

When Paul said, “those who have fallen asleep” he was referring to those that had already passed over from the fleshly plane to the spirit plane. In the fleshly plane, the container of the human mortal is left behind, and the container itself has been spent or used up. It is in effect, in a state of a death-like sleep to all that view the remains. But that which passes over, it is the spirit, the essence of what that person really is:

Psalm 3:5 “I lie down and sleep; I wake again because the LORD sustains me.” This gives insight into the loss of the fleshly container, and the waking again by passing over to the other side. The life over there is attributed to Yahweh whom sustains the existence of those that have passed over.

Psalm 13:3 “Consider me and answer, LORD, my God. Restore brightness to my eyes; otherwise, I will sleep in death,” Death on this plane is often symbolized as “sleep.”

Daniel 12:2 “Many of those who sleep in the dust of the earth will awake, some to eternal life, and some to shame and eternal contempt.” When he said “Many of those” he was referring to those that have not perished during a Judgment periods like those of the Great Flood, or that of Sodom and Gomorrah. Those people that died during those Judgments are forevermore erased from Yahweh’s memory. But some that are awake are “some to eternal life” by Crossing Over and joining the Spiritual War as Holy Ghosts. However “and some to shame and eternal contempt.” These are the ones called Converts, they have passed over and refuse to accept Yahweh’s Will; they are considered shameful in their conduct, and are under the eternal contempt of the Holy side of Yahweh’s Heavenly family.

When Paul said, “so that you will not grieve like the rest, who have no hope.” he was referring to those that reject Christ and will be erased from Yahweh’s memory. Then he went on to say, “Since we believe that Jesus died and rose again, in the same way God will bring with Him those who have fallen asleep through Jesus.” In order for Christ to bring the Holy Ghosts with him, they must have first passed over from this fleshly mortal plane to the other side; then it was required that they Crossed Over through his Light of Sanctification in order to be with him. This clearly reveals that the Heavens are made up of faithful Holy Ghosts that serve with Christ in this spiritual war against the negative energy spawned by Satan the Devil.

The “dead in Christ” that “will rise first” means that they rise to see the Kingdom first. Since they are with him at the time he comes, it follows that they have RISEN to the height of the Promised Kingdom FIRST – before he Raptures those alive on this planet in the first of two scheduled Raptures. Those Holy Ghosts accompany Christ from the Kingdom in the Rapture Vessel, so they have had the advantage of seeing the Kingdom first, over those that are about to be Raptured. That’s why Paul stated: “We who are still alive at the Lord’s coming will certainly have no advantage over those” This is because the Holy Ghosts were the first fruits of the Kingdom, because they had fallen asleep in death and been transformed as spirits in Christ at their later Crossing Over.

To be ALIVE, and to be CAUGHT UP IN THE AIR, you have to leave this planet’s surface. To be with Christ in the clouds, you have to be UP IN THE AIR, not on the ground. And since those that make it into either of the two Raptures, you have to be footstep followers of Christ. Being Raptured up into the clouds in the air, is exactly how Christ left this planet at his ascension as noted in the following scripture. Acts 1:9 “After He had said this, He was taken up as they were watching, and a cloud received Him out of their sight.” Note that it says “He was taken up.” You that are Raptured will also be “taken up.” It is the following in Christ’s footsteps. What he did, you also follow suit and do. He laid out the blueprint to follow.

Romans 6:3-5 “Or are you unaware that all of us who were baptized into Christ Jesus were baptized into His death? Therefore we were buried with Him by baptism into death, in order that, just as Christ was raised from the dead by the glory of the Father, so we too may walk in a new way of life. For if we have been joined with Him in the likeness of His death, we will certainly also be in the likeness of His resurrection.” Those that follow Christ’s teachings are sanctified into his death that bought the keys to eternal death. That raises you up from beyond mortal death, because you are then walking in the “new way of life.” Your sins are dead, but you remain alive with Christ. You are then joined with Him in his likeness, of both death of your sins, and a resurrection of a spiritual body to the prospect of eternal life in his Kingdom.

1 Corinthians 15:35 “But someone will say, “How are the dead raised? What kind of body will they have when they come?” If you are raised from your trespass of sin, then your sins are dead. But, you cannot enter the Spiritual Kingdom of Christ with a mortal fleshly body. Yet, you will be caught up alive in the air to the clouds at the time Christ performs the Raptures; so what will happen at that time? 1 Corinthians 15:36 ” Foolish one! What you sow does not come to life unless it dies.” So, what dies? It is the mortal container. Just as the fallen angels had shed their mortal containers (and back to incorruptible spirit bodies) to flee back into the spirit realm at the Great Flood (read more about the Noahian Order of angels HERE), you will be transformed to spirit body in a similar way. Your fleshly container will die without your spirit giving it life-support, but you will be transformed into an incorruptible spirit body. That means that your new body will be beyond harm in the spirit realm environment. Flesh cannot survive in the spirit realm, so it must die off during the transformation process.

1 Corinthians 15:51 “Listen! I am telling you a mystery: We will not all fall asleep, but we will all be changed,” You yourself will not fall asleep in death. Your spirit energy will simply separate from your human container. Just like when you astral project, except that now you will no longer be connected to your corrupted human body you previously used for a container to exist in the fleshly realm. 1 Corinthians 15:52 “in a moment, in the twinkling of an eye, at the last trumpet. For the trumpet will sound, and the dead will be raised incorruptible, and we will be changed.”

The dead are those that were once considered dead in the trespass of Adamic sin. At the first Rapture, they are caught up to Christ, and “in the twinkling of an eye” they are transformed to spirit energies that are self sustaining.

**The Rapture will take place in stages**