Have you been to a metal recycling center? I have been several times while working in my dad's garage. A few times each year we would haul off the "junk iron". We would sell the metals to the salvage yard. We normally spent 1 or 2 days separating and loading the metals. It was a nasty and time consuming process. However, when we arrived at salvage yard it only took moments for the giant magnet to draw all the iron to itself. I have watched engines, axles, water pumps, coil springs and bolts lifted will equal easy! It was amazing watching the effects of the magnetic power on iron! However, the cork gaskets, pieces of paper, and rubber houses, missed in our cleaning, were left behind! The magnet attracted items with a same composition as itself. In similar fashion, some day Jesus Christ will come for His church. Only those who have been saved with taken to meet the Lord in the air( 1 Thessalonians 4:13-18). The KJV reads " caught up to meet the Lord in the air". The word phrase "caught up" understood in the light of the Greek is very interesting! It is means to remove by force. Rapture is the term used today because of the influence of the Latin translation of the New Testament. Some day, Jesus will come again and believers will be instantly and amazingly transformed and transported to meet the Lord by His great power. He will call us out with His powerful voice, just like He did with Lazarus in John 11, and up. If Jesus had not used his name and simply called "come forth", the whole graveyard would have burst open! He is the Resurrection and Life! Some day, He will call out and all the graves of believers will burst open and the dead in Christ shall rise and those who are living will be changed in a split second! Only those with His nature will be drawn to Him. All others will be left behind! Will you be left behind?
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