Our glorious Text …
“1 After this I looked, and, behold, a door was opened in heaven: and the first voice which I heard was as it were of a trumpet talking with me; which said, Come up hither, and I will shew thee things which must be hereafter. 2 And immediately I was in the spirit: and, behold, a throne was set in heaven, and one sat on the throne. 3 And he that sat was to look upon like a jasper and a sardine stone: and there was a rainbow round about the throne, in sight like unto an emerald.”
I believe this Passage depicts the Rapture of the Church!
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In the two chapters of Revelation we just completed, chapters 2 and 3, Jesus has written seven short “Epistles” to as many Churches.
Paul did too, seven Epistles to Churches in seven locations!
Count them … Rome, Corinth, Galatia, Ephesus, Philippi, Colosse, and Thessalonica!
There also exist in our New Testament seven general Epistles, to God’s people, to His Churches!
James, Peter (2 separate Letters), John (3 Letters) and Jude!
I thought these were very interesting facts!
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Doors in Revelation’s first 4 chapters …
Jesus promised the Philadelphians an OPEN DOOR!
Jesus stood outside the CLOSED DOOR at Laodicea!
The Church is invited to a CELESTIAL DOOR, as a means of leaving this sin-cursed earth!
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God the Father, sitting on the Throne …
1 Timothy 6:16 … Who (the Only Potentate) only hath immortality, dwelling in the light which no man can approach unto; whom no man hath seen, nor can see: to whom be honour and power everlasting. Amen.
Colossians 1:15 … Who is the image of the invisible God, the firstborn of every creature …
1 Timothy 1:17 … Now unto the King eternal, immortal, invisible, the only wise God, be honour and glory for ever and ever. Amen.
John 4:24 … God is a Spirit: and they that worship him must worship him in spirit and in truth.
So, John sees COLORS indicating God!
Such as the Jasper Stone (a diamond, glistening clear light) and a Sardine Stone (red like Blood, Scarlet or Crimson), these colors emanating from the Throne! Perhaps even pulsating!
Reminds me of Isaiah 1:18 in some ways …
Isaiah 1:18 … Come now, and let us reason together, saith the LORD: though your sins be as scarlet, they shall be as white as snow; though they be red like crimson, they shall be as wool (white).
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And that unique rainbow?
Green! Like anEmerald!
The color of a lot of God’s creation! A color easy on the eyes, pleasant! Plus, the Bible color representing LIFE!
Is this glorious, heavenly rainbow all one color, green, because God foresaw the perversion attached to the “rainbow” in wicked America?
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The rainbows bespeaks …
1 Peter 5:10 … But the God of all grace, who hath called us unto his eternal glory by Christ Jesus …
Habakkuk 3:2 … O LORD, I have heard thy speech, and was afraid: O LORD, revive thy work in the midst of the years, in the midst of the years make known; in wrath remember mercy.
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At the Rapture …
The true Church will be “caught out!”
But the religious-but-lost (lukewarm) Church will be “spued out!”
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A good “the Church is not going through the Tribulation” verse …
1 Thessalonians 5:9 … For God hath not appointed us to wrath, but to obtain salvation by our Lord Jesus Christ.
Amen!
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— Dr. Mike Bagwell
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