Rapture vs Appearing

Children—Josh Stewart
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Time for Sunday School class. So time to sing a few songs from our hymn sheet here. So if you have one that you'd like to sing, just raise your hand. Go ahead, 4444.
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1021 Temporary justice, Boyfriend.
Thou Gracie Chen's daughter, really read me nor and all Lord there no time can stay on the children of men.
So why did you never had so many big bowl of water?
Oh boy. And nine children didn't have their entire name.
I, not better than my hands, will be alone. Nobody has ever heard of us. No, I think that's all.
That's not happening here. I can't.
Uh, they can't go on already. Do you know what? I'm going to go home. Yeah. I'm like, you can't stay out of the garden. Tell me about my house and I'll come and buy all the GS where you have to go. Baby, fall over here.
And you gain weight on the blood sweat down to his grandmother and see that there is some kind of thing in the house down.
I sent him five years old and the happy birthday dear you and I am Sharon as I had to be in second to him. Or do you need anything?
That I was in my mind again, and I don't know if you have a lot of things.
There are times you can't say that all the Hell's dead and I'll come back and and and I don't know why I didn't ever have so easy. Oh Lord.
OK, how about another one? Go ahead, 48343.
Anyone have one they'd like to give out?
Go ahead, Jack #4 #4.
OK, guess we'll see number. We've seen the first and last first. Christ, this does say.
Good morning.
But I have seen this in thy heart and I'm glad. It's great. I am praying.
There is another day and turn it, Yeah, it's a grasp of the day you have gotten together and Jennifer's life. And it's like, maybe.
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I don't know about my son changing. Life swelled up. I think so brave. I'll tell my account like his friend in heaven. This is the same therefore be.
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One of the adults can give one out too.
In shining roads outside the spiking swine will be arrayed will rain in half grandstate of life and joy in the matter of birthday.
Singing Glory.
What brings them to that world above that heaven's no pride answer where all this is, and joy and love thou gaining with your grandparents.
Glory, Sailor of God.
The constant came during the shadow blind to wash away their sins.
No, no no, no fried chicken. But I can't hold on the template and I can't believe.
It's written Bella Bella, Bella and La La La La la.
OK, how about another one?
4747.
Umm, when I come and get rid of them, but I've got to pay them and download them. But I, it's, it's hard to go out of the water and it's, it's right round and round from a party. They shall shine in the middle of the sea right now. So I'm getting crowned.
And I'll tell them on the ground and play for children's grants from there. From the last ever being convenient, I have to give them a call to the practice to fail the boss and getting his own.
OK, before we go on, we're going to close our eyes and pray to the Lord Jesus for help for Jesus. We are so thankful this morning for the privilege that we have to have all these children here, older ones too. And we just thank you for the privilege that we have to open up by word and to sing these songs and we just pray for.
Umm, each one. Here there's a little child that's not yet saved. But they would.
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Turn to the Lord Jesus for salvation. Just pray to you about the Sunday school lesson today that it would be something that would umm, be helpful to each one here, that the children might learn something or if they already understand that they would, umm, understand a little bit better. So we would just pray this and give thanks in the worthy name of our Lord Jesus Christ, Amen. Amen. OK.
How about we sing one more and then if anyone has a verse that they've memorized, they can.
Say it for us. OK, go ahead #40 #40.
OK, I said. That's the other time. Yeah, it's not plastic. That's James. That's nice game. Yeah, I have to change. That's what I'm saying. Bye bye. Bye bye. Without need.
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It is about one of them is about 1545 and being the restroom made me glad. That's why I'm with his beautiful men and hands and hands on her. He didn't change the same thing from never bring any power. Yeah, I'll have a security transplant with him.
Give me a lot of me. Yeah. I don't know what to do. I'm positive. That's why I'm telling you. God, no, no, no, no, no. Do you hear any kind of me by the mainstream when I stand in the rain? Never mind.
I'm going to die in all my life, give me myself a lot of life and my life, you know, I'm not going to see anything. That's what I'm saying, Yeah. I don't know what happened to me. Umm, so I would say, but I don't, I don't know.
Do you need some clouds may be delivered? Well, the headache is closed.
Getting out of the way and left by the empty stomach. He did well, they did one of my eyes and hide. Yeah, you need to start slotting to me. Yeah, she's not like me.
Yes, I'm not sleeping, I'm fine, but I'm seeing some.
Go ahead.
Do you want me to come back to you? OK. OK. Anyone else here have one they wanna say go ahead, Nellie. Second PD39. Lord, it's not willing that any should perish, but that all should come through 10 to the second.
Oh, do you have one you want to say?
If you don't, if you don't want to, that's all right.
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The password today, that's all right. OK Anybody else want to say versatile they've memorized?
All right.
Well, it's very important that we realize what we have in those two verses, that first of all, God so loved the world that He gave His only begotten Son. Are you ready? You want to try? Go ahead.
OK.
You want to stay the same way, your brother said.
I love this first because it's, it's the gospel in a nutshell, right? And it tells us that God loves the world so much.
That he gave his only begotten Son. Now Can you imagine those of you who are boys in this room? You know how much your your daddies love you, right? Very, very much. And you think it would be easy for them to give you away to someone else?
You know, very hard because they love you very much. Well, God loves his Son. It's the greatest love there is. And he gave him because he loved this world. He loved you.
And he loved me so much that he gave his Son to die on the cross. And on the cross the Lord Jesus suffered for our sins so that we could be safe. And why do we need to do to be safe?
Can someone tell me?
OK, go ahead.
Very good.
Good to have a verse when you answer. That's very good.
Umm, so we just need to believe and then we'll be safe. And the other verse that was umm said this morning was God is not willing that any should perish, but that all should come to repentance. So those verses went together very well. And uh, now do we, do we have lots of time to make a choice?
To be saved, can we just take our time or do we need to decide early? What do you think?
Go ahead. That's right. Because why? Why do we need to decide early? You're pretty young, you know, you have a lot of years left. Why didn't you decide now?
That's right, the word might come any minute or.
Something really terrible might happen. It could happen.
Some of us could not, you know, So we are, we will all the Lord doesn't come first. We will all die one day. And so it's very important we don't know when that will be, to believe on the Lord Jesus Christ so that we can be saved.
Well, you talked about, umm, the Lord coming and that's what I wanted to talk about this morning. This is the subject that I, I prepared for today's Sunday school lesson. So I hope that, umm, I hope that this is something that we can all understand, even you, uh, boys and girls. So I brought some, uh, some prizes here, some treats here.
Starburst and.
Someone has provided these gospel booklets.
So I have some questions for you and if you, uh, you answer the question, then you can come up and take one of these gospel booklets, one or the whole stack, just one.
And you can also have one of these. OK, so I have lots of questions and.
So the first thing I want to do was.
To show you something that I drew.
First of all, before we do that.
I want to read to you a couple verses from the last chapter of the Bible. Does anyone know what that is without looking? You know what the last chapter of the Bible is. Go ahead.
Someone else want to try? Go ahead. Umm.
So I tried the Romans.
How about someone down here?
Revelation 22. OK, I guess I'm thinking of candy today.
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OK, Revelation 22 and I'm just going to read three parts of three verses. OK, verse 7, Behold, I come quickly.
Verse 12 and behold, I come quickly and verse 20.
Surely I come quickly.
So what is what are those verses talking about? How about someone down here? What are those verses talking about, Nelly?
That's right, the Lord is coming very soon. OK, how about I will just bring these down when the question is answered. That way we don't have a lot of traffic. OK.
And the more questions you ask you you answer, the more prizes you get. OK, so the word is coming very, very soon.
And so now I want to show you guys something that I've done here. OK, everyone can take a look at this. This is a timeline and it stretches for a long time. Can anyone see what this is over here? What is it? Go ahead across. OK, that cross is where the Lord Jesus died. And that was a long time ago.
2000 years ago.
And this arrow here is called. Does anyone know what this is?
Go ahead. Can you read this?
The reaction OK and what is in between the cross and the rapture? Does anyone know?
2000 years, very good. OK. And what is in that that 2000 years?
Go ahead, the church period, the church period. That's right. OK. And so at the end of the church period, the Lord is going to come and he's going to rapture us. That means this word rapture. Does anyone know what a Raptor is? It's a bird that comes down and grabs a fish and picks it up. And that's the same basic word as rapture needs to be caught up and.
This word is actually not found in our English Bible, but.
I think if you've had a Latin Bible, it is found because the word caught up or to catch up is found in our English. So I want to talk a little bit about that. But then after the Lord comes to catch us up at this rapture, you can see the up arrow. It's up because we are going to go up in the air, OK?
After that, you can see there's a down arrow. What do you think that means? If this arrow means that we go up in the air, what do you think this arrow means?
Jack, what do you think it means?
Yeah. Does anyone know?
That's right, we're going to come back. Very good. OK, so this arrow means we go up and this arrow means we go back. And what is in between there? I can see that I probably shouldn't have written the answers then.
What is in between the time when we go up and the time when we come back? Go ahead.
Right now, what is the tribulation?
Can anyone tell me how long the tribulation will be?
I didn't write that on here.
Can anyone tell me?
It's not very long. It's a lot shorter than this. OK, Does anyone know what's that? Someone that's older maybe? Uh, Mr. Doppler? Seven years? Yeah, that's right. It's only about seven years. OK. And does anyone know where we are on the timeline?
Where are we on this timeline? That's right. And and are we towards the beginning, do we think or the end?
Right. We're right here at the end, we believe of this period. So, so that means that the Lord's coming to take us up to be very, very soon, OK. And this tribulation period is a time of judgment where God is going to judge the world and he's going to pour out all kinds of judgments. He's going to cause you famines and earthquakes. He's going to cause economic collapse. People are going to go to the store to buy food and there's going to be no food.
And they're going to have to go home all hungry. Many people are going to die. There's going to be diseases, and then the wild animals are going to start coming out of the woods to bite people. It's going to be a very terrible time because God is judging this earth. And there's going to be big movements of armies. There's going to be great battles that will take place, and many will die. Many. The population of the earth is going to be reduced dramatically during this time.
And at the very end of it.
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The Ward is going to come and he is going to fight huge battles and he's going to win every single one of them, OK?
So I just wanted to show you something and I hope by the end of this Sunday school.
Children will be able to explain to us.
Some of the verses that talk about the rapture and some of the verses that talk about the Lord's coming back to the earth called the appearance, OK? And remember, when He comes at the rapture, He comes for us, OK? That's very important. The Lord comes for His people, but at the appearing He comes with His people. Remember that. OK, Because I'm going to ask you some questions. Did you hear that?
At the rapture he comes forth his Saints. At the period he comes back with his Saints. OK.
So before we look at some verses to, to, uh, point this out, I drew this little chart here which I hope can illustrate what the rapture will be like. I said the word coming for his people. Now you can all see. Is it hard for you guys to see back there? Can you see? OK, I'll walk down there in a minute. But right up here at the top is heaven.
OK.
And the verse that we're going to read in a few minutes says the Lord himself shall descend from heaven. He's going to come down from heaven to this cloud to the clouds, OK.
And then what's the next thing that's going to happen? It says the dead in Christ shall rise first.
What's this thing down here?
It's coughing, right? It's under the ground and there's a lot of coffins in the ground today. There's a lot of Christians that have died. And when they die, most of the time we we buried them under the ground, OK.
And there's a like a little gravestone there.
And when the Lord descends from heaven.
With a shout, then the dead in Christ are going to rise. They're going to come right out of their graves. Isn't that amazing? So what about somebody who's been in their coffin for 100 years or 200 years? Do they look like a person?
They just look like dust, right? They just turn. They just turn into dirt after a long time, after we die, right? Well, when the Lord comes, he's so powerful.
And he is going to raise.
Those bodies up from the brain.
Isn't that amazing? And that's all going to happen. That's the rapture. But what about the people that are still alive if the Lord came today and and each one of you, I hope has put your trust in the Lord. Jesus has believed in him. What about this guy over here? He's he wasn't in a coffin. He was just walking along one day and the Lord comes, what happens to him?
Well, the verse goes on to say we which are alive and remain will be caught up together. So you see how I have these two arrows coming together? We're all going to go up at the same time, OK, Isn't that, isn't that amazing? So if you know somebody that's a Christian that has died, when the Lord comes, you're gonna get to see them again because we're all gonna ride up together.
To meet the Lord in the clouds, OK.
So does everyone understand this? What the rapture will be?
Does anyone have any questions? Do you have any questions?
OK, so now on the backside of this I have the Opyrne. This is this will happen at least seven years later from the Rapture. This could happen any minute now. OK, any minute this could happen. Then this is the this is the appearance. So this is at least seven years later. I think the boys will find this very exciting. So again, we have heaven up here.
And what's going on in this part?
You know what? Does it look like it's happening? I should have drawn some arrows. What's coming out of heaven?
Horses, right, right. Does anyone know who this one is here in the this middle horse that's got a red red clothing on?
Or Jesus, right? Very good. He's going to come out of heaven.
And he's going to be riding on this White Horse. And you know what? All of these people here that are on other forces that are following him, those are the people that were caught up at the rack. Guess what? We're going to get to come back with him as a big army. We're called his armies. And we're going to get to follow the Lord Jesus when he comes out of heaven.
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Isn't that amazing?
OK. So this is going to be a very exciting time for all of us. We're going to get to ride out in this huge island. And now I have on here on the bottom.
What is going on down here?
Let's ask someone down here. Molly, do you know what does it look like it's happening?
I didn't do a very good job of this. Does anyone know what these are?
Yeah, that's right. It's an army camp, and I should have drawn a lot more tents because this is going to be a huge army, OK? Maybe the biggest army that you've ever, ever seen, maybe even a lot bigger than that, OK.
And they're going to come across the the ocean, the sea, and they're going to land and the land of Israel. They're going to set up their camps. They're going to get their guns all ready. And the Lord is going to come out of heaven and surprise them like a thief in the night itself.
And they're going to see the Lord, and they're going to decide to fight him. Now. Do you think that is a good idea?
No.
You know what some of the smartest people in the world are going to be in that battle. You know what they're going to do? They're going to decide to fight the Lord.
What does that tell you? Tells tells me that they hate him. And so this army is an army of people that hates the Lord Jesus. And that is what this world is like. And it may not seem that way today. It may seem like this world is a very nice place today, but one day they're going to fight against the Lord. The Lord is going to win three great battles that he will fight against. If I had a map, I could show you.
Where these battles will come from, It's going to be a great army from the West. That's what these ships are. And there's going to be a great army from the east, a huge army that's going to come. And then there's going to be a great army from the north that will come down afterwards. And one by one he will destroy these armies. And you see this thing that's coming out of his mouth here. What is it? Sword. Sword. That's right.
And that sword is the word of God. Did you notice that all these guys here on these horses, which is us, when we come back with him, they don't have any swords.
I used to think that when we came back we would be swinging our swords and.
All that, but you know what? There's only one weapon in the Lord's army, and that's this one. It's the sword, and it's going to be over in a moment.
He's just going to speak the word and all those aren't fall down on their faces.
Isn't that amazing? And we're going to get to be right there with him when that happens.
OK, so now comes the real challenging part. OK.
I have a little chart here that has these two events, these two parts of the Lord's coming, the rapture and the appearing, OK? And I'm going to read 6 verses, OK? And I want you children to tell us whether it is the rapture or the appearing OK? So I hope you remember that the rapture is the Lord's coming together.
And his appearance when he comes back with us. OK, let's see if you can do this. So the first verse I want to read is in John's Gospel.
Non-stop. OK. And I, I know some of you don't have Bibles, so I will, I will read you the verse and if, if you think you know which one it is, you can, uh, you can raise your hand and if you get it right, then you can get a prize. Uh, maybe when we're done.
So John's Gospel, chapter 14.
Seven verse one, let not your heart be troubled. You believe in God, believe also in me. In my Father's house are many mansions who were not so I would have pulled you. I go to prepare a place for you. OK, here it is verse three. Listen very carefully. And if I go and prepare a place for you, I will come again and receive you unto myself.
That where I am there ye may be also OK What do we think this is?
Go ahead. The rats are very good. OK.
I will write this in now.
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John 14 and verse 3.
Very, very good. The Lord says He's going to come and get us the rapture. OK, so now the next one you have to turn over.
To I think I want to go to 1St Thessalonians, OK.
First Thessalonians.
So you have to have your thinking caps on because this is you have to pay very close attention to these persons. OK, you ready for me to read it to you?
To the end that he may establish your heart's unblameable and holiness before God, even our Father. OK, here's the part with some very closely.
At the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ with all his Saints. Do you want me to read it again?
OK, which one is it?
You're hearing good job and if you appear in he said he comes with all these things very good. Let me write that on here. What verse is everything 3.
Stop.
OK, very good. Orgy's going to come back with all of his things. So it's the appearance.
OK, now we're going to turn over to the next chapter. All right, now this you have to pay very close attention because you don't want to get tripped.
Chapter 4 and verse. We'll start with verse 13. But I would not have you to be ignorant, brethren, concerning them which are asleep, that ye sorrow not even as others which have no hope for if we believe that Jesus died and rose again. Here's the part of the verse. Even so then which sleep in Jesus. Here it is.
Will God bring with them OK?
Jesus will God bring with him.
OK, OK. What do we think of this?
Let's go to the Rapture. That is not correct. I said this one was tricky, so I think it's pretty obvious if it's not the Rapture, which one it is, but let's see anyway. How about, uh, COVID? That's right. And can you tell me why it's occurring? I'll read it again. It says umm.
Even so, them also could sleep in Jesus will God bring with him.
Can someone tell me why it's the Apiri?
Go ahead.
Does anyone know any of these children? I'm going to emphasize the Word again. Will God bring with him? Go ahead.
It's because at the appearance we come back with him. So you know what this verse is telling us, the apostle Paul is explaining in this chapter that the people who had died aren't going to miss out on this great battle here, coming out of heaven on these horses and following the Lord Jesus and destroying all his enemies. This is this is a great thing, right? We we're looking forward.
This time and they thought that the people who had died were going to miss out on us, but he tells them no. What's going to happen is God is going to bring those ones who have died back with Him when He appears. OK, so let's write that one in before we go any further.
That was the that was probably the trickiest one. These are going to get a little bit easier going on for.
Four verse 4.
OK, all right, the next one we're going to read is and the the very next verse.
Verse 15 For this we say unto you, by the word of the Lord, that we which are alive and remain unto the coming of the Lord, shall not prevent them which are asleep. For the Lord Himself shall descend from heaven with a shout, and with the voice of the Archangel, and with the trump of God, and the dead in Christ shall rise first. Then we which are alive and remain shall be caught up together with them.
In the clouds to meet the Lord in the air.
So shall we ever be with the Lord? OK, caught up together with them in the clouds to be the Lord in the air. What is this one? Go ahead.
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Very good. The Rapture.
Excellent work because we're caught up to meet the Lord. You came back to get us to come back together, so First Thessalonians.
UH-4.
And verse 1617 OK.
Very good job.
OK, now I want to read one or two more. We have two on each side. OK, we have two that are for the Rapture and two that are for the appearance.
OK, so turn it over to 2nd Thessalonians Chapter 2.
And verse one, Now we deceit you, brethren, here it is by the coming of our Lord, and by our gathering together unto him.
We beseech you, brethren, by the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ, and by our gathering together unto Him. OK now, very good. Why is it the Rapture?
That's very good. Excellent. OK.
So this is this one is the rapture as well.
Two and verse one. OK and I want to read one more and our time is almost gone.
And that will be in the book of Jude.
OK.
So put put your thinking caps on and we're going to see if you can tell me which one this is.
Verse 14.
And Enoch also the 7th from Adam, prophesied of these things. Behold, the Lord cometh with 10,000 of his Saints to execute judgment upon all, et cetera. The Lord cometh with 10,000 of his Saints to execute judgment upon all. OK, let's give Quincy another thing. Very good, excellent.
OK so that was the last one I wanted to read Jude verse.
UH-14.
OK, so now we have our chart here and you can see that some verses are talking about the rapture and some verses are talking about the appearance. So you guys did a very, very good job at.
Discerning whether a verse was talking about the rapture or the appearance.
Well, there's a lot of people in this world today that are very confused about this and they they don't think the rapture is going to happen. They think that the Lord Jesus is going to leave those who are in the grave and he's going to come back anyways without them. But Paul explains.
Let me get this chart back out in First Thessalonians that.
The way that we're going to get to be with Christ when he comes back is by being caught up with him at the ration. So we're going to go up, we're going to be with Christ, we're going to come back with him, and we're always going to be with Him. Does anyone know what this is over here?
You can read it.
That comes after the appearing.
Anyone who can't read know what this is. OK, you can read the Millennium. That's right. And Millennium simply means the 1000 years. And what does the Millennium like? Do you know, Gabe? What's the Millennium life?
That's right. So when Christ is reigning over this earth as the King and everything is according to the way that he decides, people are going to have to obey him. The people obey the Lord Jesus today in the world.
What do you think, Dakota?
But you know what? When this time over here, this green box over here, it's going to last for 1000 years and you know what the world is going to be like it's never been before. You know, there's going to be lots of food for people to eat. People are going to live very, very old. If people don't send and they're not going to die, they can live to be 1000 years old. Isn't that amazing?
You know, if it's not going to be disease and sickness anymore, there's not going to be wars anymore.
You know what? The lions and the lambs are going to play play together. Do they do that today? No, you put a lion and a lamb together. The lamb won't last very long, but they will in the Millennium when Christ is reigning. And so before we close, it says in Titus chapter 2 That we are looking for the blessed hope, which is the rapture and the glorious appearance of the great God and our Savior Jesus Christ. So we're looking for both of you.