From: allan-sv@algonet.se   
      
             The Resurrection of the Assembly of God   
                      happens when Jesus comes   
      
   We can see in 2 Thess. 2:8 that when Jesus comes, then it is   
   the end with the Antichrist's government. When Jesus comes   
   he shall kill "the lawless one" (Antichrist). But in Rev. 19:20   
   we can read about the beast (Antichrist) and the false prophet,   
   that the two were thrown living into the Lake of Fire burning   
   with brimstone.   
      
   This can seem to be a contradiction. But the process for the   
   man of lawlessness, Antichrist, is the same as for other   
   unrighteousness people. First, die and then arise to judgement,   
   and thereafter thrown in the lake of fire. Accordingly, first the   
   Antichrist will become killed when Jesus comes, then arise   
   again and become thrown alive in the lake of fire.   
      
   After the great tribulation, when Antichrist's reign is ended,   
   then Jesus comes. When Jesus comes he shall kill the Antichrist,   
   and after that the first resurrection takes place. Then those dead   
   arise, which have believed in God and served him. They get   
   heavenly bodies. 1 Cor. 15:49-58.   
      
   And immediately after the affliction of those days the sun will   
   be darkened and the moon will not give its light, and the stars   
   will fall from the heaven, and the powers of the heavens will   
   be shaken. And then the sign of the Son of Man will appear   
   in the heavens. And then all the tribes of the land will wail.   
   And they will see the Son of Man coming on the clouds of   
   heaven with power and much glory. And He will send His   
   angels with a great sound of a trumpet, and they will gather   
   His elect from the four winds, from the extreme limits of the   
   heavens to the extreme limits of them. Matt. 24:29-31.   
      
   Behold, I tell a mystery to you: we shall not all sleep, but we   
   shall all be changed. In a moment, in a glance of an eye, at the   
   last trumpet; for a trumpet will sound, and the dead ones will   
   be raised incorruptible, and we shall all be changed. For this   
   corruptible must put on incorruption, and this mortal one must   
   put on immortality. 1 Cor. 15:51-53.   
      
   For we say this to you in the Word of the Lord, that we the   
   living who remain to the coming of the Lord will not at all   
   go before the ones having fallen asleep. Because the Lord   
   Himself shall come down from Heaven with a commanding   
   shout of an archangel's voice, and with God's trumpet. And   
   the dead ones in Christ will rise again first. Then we who   
   remain alive will be caught up together with them in the clouds   
   to a meeting with the Lord in the air. And so we will always   
   be with the Lord. So, then, comfort each other with these   
   words. 1 Thess. 4:15-18. This is the rapture, and there is no   
   other rapture.   
      
   Accordingly, this is the first resurrection that we also can read   
   about in Rev. 20:4-6. Among those who have parts in the first   
   resurrection are also these that have lived under the Antichrist's   
   government, and not have worshipped the beast or its image,   
   and have not taken its mark on their foreheads or hands. It   
   cannot be more than one first resurrection.   
      
   In the free-churches they have preached, and many have this   
   comprehension, that Jesus first shall come and fetch the   
   Assembly, invisible for the world. But this is only a theory   
   that does not have any support in the Bible. That Jesus would   
   fetch the Assembly before the first resurrection is entirely   
   absurdly. The resurrection of the Assembly of God happens   
   when Jesus comes.   
      
   The wrath of the Antichrist will hit the Assembly of God   
   under the great Tribulation, but not of God's wrath. Jesus says   
   in Matt. 24:22, "And except those days were cut short, not any   
   flesh would be saved. But on account of the elect, those days   
   will be cut short." The Antichrist shall not succeed to murder   
   all Christians. When Jesus comes after the great Tribulation,   
   to take his people up to heaven, then there will be living   
   Christians on the earth. Then they will be caught up together   
   with those who have died in the faith in Jesus, in the clouds to   
   a meeting with the Lord in the air. And so we will always be   
   with the Lord. 1 Thess. 4:17.   
      
      
   Allan Svensson   
      
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