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s with all the articles in this issue Father, inherit the kingdom prepared for
of the magazine, the subject is you from the foundation of the world”
Avast, and this is only a brief, broad (Mat 25:34).
overview of some aspects of the Lord’s Rescuing
future ministry. At various stages in the program for
Raising the future, the Lord Jesus will rescue His
“The hour is coming, in the which all people. A notable example is at the close
that are in the graves shall hear his voice, of the Tribulation, when Israel is facing
And shall come forth; they that have done what looks like certain destruction. Then
good, unto the resurrection of life; and He will come and grant both physical
they that have done evil, unto the resur- and spiritual deliverance: “And it shall
rection of damnation” (Joh 5:28,29). This come to pass in that day, that I will seek to
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will take place over a period of time, be- destroy all the nations that come against
ginning with the raising of dead believers Jerusalem. And I will pour upon the
from the Church Age at the Rapture (1Th house of David, and upon the inhabitants
4:13-18), going on to the raising of Tribula- of Jerusalem, the spirit of grace and of
tion saints (and, I believe, Old Testament supplications” (Zec 12:9,10); “And so all
saints) at the end of the Tribulation (Dan Israel shall be saved: as it is written, There
12:1,2; Rev 20:4,6), and ending with the shall come out of Sion the Deliverer, and
raising of the unrighteous dead at the end shall turn away ungodliness from Jacob”
of the Millennium (Rev 20:5). (Rom 11:26).
Receiving Revealing
At the Rapture, the Lord Jesus will At the judgment seat of Christ, He will
receive His Church: “And if I go and pre- reveal our works: “Every man’s work shall
pare a place for you, I will come again, be made manifest: for the day shall declare
and receive you unto myself; that where it, because it shall be revealed by fire; and
I am, there ye may be also” (Joh 14:3). A the fire shall try every man’s work of what
few years later, He will receive the repen- sort it is” (1Co 3:13). When He returns to
tant nation of Israel, welcoming them to the earth at the end of the Tribulation, He
Himself: “For if the casting away of them will reveal Himself: “Then shall appear
be the reconciling of the world, what shall the sign of the Son of man in heaven: and
the receiving of them be, but life from the then shall all the tribes of the earth mourn,
dead?” (Rom 11:15). At the same time, and they shall see the Son of man coming
He will receive the saved of the nations, in the clouds of heaven with power and
who, with redeemed Israel, will enter great glory” (Mat 24:30). Peter also writes
His kingdom: “Come, ye blessed of my of “his glory” that “shall be revealed” (1Pe
¹ Bible quotations in this article are from the 4:13; 5:1). We will have a part in that; Paul
KJV. writes that “the sufferings of this present

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