Sons of God most people who believe in the rapture quote this Scripture a lot and over the next one to two messages we will put this in its proper context.
1 Thessalonians 4:14-18: For if we believe that Jesus died and rose again, even so them also which sleep in Jesus will God bring with him. 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 will descend from heaven with a shout with the voice of an archangel, and with the trumpet of God. And the dead in Christ will rise first. Then we who are alive and remain shall be caught up together with them in the clouds to meet the Lord in the air. And thus we shall always be with the Lord. Therefore comfort one another with these words.
Let's start! First notice the Spirit tells us that those who sleep in Jesus will God bring with Him. So when Christ returns He is bringing everyone who died in Christ back to the earth. The Scriptures say he is coming on a cloud. That cloud is the Cloud of Witnesses, those who died in Christ.
"Now if there was going to be a rapture and disappearance of the saints from the earth why would Christ bring those that had died in Him back to the earth. He could have left them in Heaven and went and got those who are in the earth and brought them back."
But as we can see that is not what God does, He brings those who had died in Christ WITH HIM TO THE EARTH. Why? To bring complete restoration to the being of the sons. Flesh, soul and spirit will be in perfect order and the sons of God will have a incorruptible body. But before we get there let us keep in mind that the angels told the disciples after the cloud received Jesus that He will come in LIKE MANNER. So God is not going to just make us disappear….He is coming to the earth so that every eye shall see Him and every knee shall bow. So He is coming into our atmosphere so that all will see Him. No disappearing, just manifestation.
