THE SNATCHING

JOHN 14:3 And if I go and prepare a place

For you, I will come again and take you
with me; that where I am, there you may be also
you too.
THE MYSTERY OF THIS
TRUTH
• What is the rapture?
• What is the second coming of
Christ?
• What is the difference between one and
the other?
• When will it happen?
snatching?
• Who will be taken away?
• Who stays?
1 Thessalonians 4:15-17
•
Therefore we tell you this by the word
of the Lord: that we who are
let us live and remain until the coming
of the Lord, we will not precede those who
they slept.
•
For the Lord himself will descend from heaven
with a commanding voice, with the voice of an archangel and
with the trumpet of God, and the dead in
Christ will rise first.
•
17 Then we who are alive
that we remain, we will be taken away
together with them in the clouds at
meeting of the Lord in the air, and thus
We will be with the Lord always.
The word of verse 17 translated by
snatched
Greek term "harpazo" which means
take by force
In some texts of the NT this word
appears in the sense of
["loot","take away","snatch"]
Matthew 12:29 Or how can anyone
enter the house of a strong man and
to loot his goods, if he does not tie it up first? And
then he will loot his house.
It can also have the meaning of
to take by force
John 10:27 My sheep hear my voice, and I
I know them and they follow me;
– John 10:28 and I give them eternal life and they will never
they will perish, and no one will take them from me
hand.
 IT HAS HAPPENED BEFORE
• Hebrews 11:5 By faith Enoch was taken away
sky so that death would not see; AND IT WAS NOT
FOUND BECAUSE GOD TRANSFERRED HIM;
because before being transferred he received
testimony of having pleased God.

• Transferred: metatídsemi; to transfer, i.e. (lit.)

["transport, change, switch sides: -move away,"]
["change","convert","transfer","transpose"]
• 2 Kings 2:11 And it happened that
while they were walking and
speaking, here, appeared a
car of fire and horses of fire
what separated the two. And Eli ascended
to the sky in a whirlwind.
• Acts 8:39 When they came up from the water
water, the Spirit of the Lord snatched
to Felipe; and the eunuch saw him no more,
and joyfully continued on his way.40But
Felipe found himself in Azoto; and
passing, announced the gospel in
all the cities, until it arrived
at Caesarea
• 2a. Corintios 12:2Conozco a un
man in Christ, who is fourteen
years (if in the body, I don't know; if
out of the body, I don't know; God it
he was taken away to the third
sky.
 When does it happen?
• There are 5 main points of view within premillennialism (Jesus Christ
comes before the Millennium) about when the rapture will happen in
relationship with the great tribulation of 7 years:

PRE-TRIBULATIONISM: All Christians will be taken in the

rapture that will take place before the Great Tribulation.
PARTIAL SNATCHING: The snatching takes place before the
Great Tribulation, but only the spiritual Christians will be taken,
while the other Christians will go through the tribulation.
MIDTRIBULATIONISM: All Christians will be taken in the
rapture at the midpoint of the Great Tribulation (after the first three
and a half years

PRE-TRIBULATION RAPTURE: All Christians will be taken in the

seizure approximately after the passage of three quarters of
the tribulation.
POSTRIBULACIONISM: All Christians will be raptured at the end of
the great tribulation.
 What Is the Correct Concept?
• Romans 5:9 Then much
more, having been now
justified by His blood,
we will be saved from the wrath of God
through Him.
• 2 Corinthians 5:20 Therefore,
we are ambassadors of Christ,
as if God pleaded through
we; in the name of Christ, you
We urge you: Be reconciled to God!
1 Thessalonians 1:10 and to wait for His Son from heaven
His Son, whom he raised from the dead, is
to say, to Jesus, who delivers us from the coming wrath.
1 Thessalonians 4:14 For if we believe that
Jesus died and rose again, so God will bring with them
He to those who slept in Jesus.
1 Thessalonians 5:9 Because he has not
intended by God for wrath, but to obtain
salvation through our Lord Jesus Christ,
1 John 2:28 And now, little children, abide in Him,
so that when it manifests, we have
trust and let us not stray from the ashamed
in his coming (parousia).
Apoc. 3:10 'Because you have kept the word of my
perseverance, I will also keep you from the hour
of the trial, it is now that is about to come upon
everyone to test those who inhabit above
the earth.
After this I looked, and behold, a great
multitude, which no one could count, of all the
nations, tribes, peoples and languages, standing before
from the throne and before the Lamb, dressed in
white robes and palms in their hands.
And one of the elders spoke
telling me: These who are dressed in
white garments, who are they and where have they
come?
And I answered him: My lord, you it
You know. And he told me: These are the ones who come from the
great tribulation, and they have washed their robes and
they have been made white in the blood of the Lamb.
What is the difference?
between the
snatching and the
second coming?
• The rapture is
characterized in the Bible
like a coming of
transliteration in which Christ
he comes for his faithful Church.
• The second coming is the
the return of Christ with his
saints, descending from
sky to establish your
millennial or messianic kingdom
• The Bible teaches that the tribulation (the 7 years of the
seventieth week of Daniel) is a time of
preparation for the restoration of Israel, like
of treatment to the believers who did not keep their
garments in Holiness and were not faithful to the Lord.
snatching Second Coming
The transfer of the believers No transfer.
faithful The transferred saints
Picks up his girlfriend. they return to the land with Him
The transferred saints go The earth is judged, and it
to heaven at the weddings with the establish justice.
Lamb. Follow some signs
Imminent, at any concrete and predicted,
moment, without signs including the tribulation
Only faithful believers It is often predicted in the
Before the day of wrath. Old Testament.
Christ comes for his own It affects all men.
in the air. It gives an end to the Day of Wrath.
Only theirs can see it. Satan is bound.
The Great begins He comes with his wife.
Tribulation. Every eye will see him.
The Reign Begins
Millennial.
Restoration of Israel
 THE UNRAPTURED BELIEVER
• Deut. 4:30 In the latter days, when you are in distress and
all those things come upon you, you will return to the LORD your God
and you will hear his voice.
• Zac. 12:11 That day there will be great lamentation in Jerusalem,
like the lamentation of Hadad-rimmon in the plain of
Megiddo.
• Zac. 12:12 And the land will mourn, every family by itself:
the family of the house of David on their side, and their women through
on his side; the family of Nathan's house on their side, and his
women on their side;
• Rom. 2:9 There will be tribulation and anguish for every soul
human who does wrong, of the Jew primarily and also
from the Greek;
• Rom. 2:10 but glory and honor and peace for everyone who does good
to the Jew first, and also to the Greek.
2 Corinthians 5:10 For we must all appear before the judgment seat of Christ
we must appear before the court of
Christ, so that each one may be
rewarded for his actions while being
in the body, according to what he/she did,
whether it is good or bad.
Revelation 22:11 Let the unjust continue
committing injustices, let the impure continue
being unclean, let the righteous continue practicing
justice, and let the one who is holy continue
keeping holy.
Revelation 22:12 Behold, I come
soon, and my reward is with me to
reward each one according to their
work.
Revelation 20:11-15
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11
And I saw a great white throne and the one who was sitting on it.
from whose presence the earth and the sky fled,
and there was no place for them.
•
12Y I saw the dead, great and small, standing.
in front of the throne, and the books were opened; and another
the book was opened, which is the book of life, and the
the dead were judged by what was written
in the books, according to their works.
•
And the sea gave up the dead that were in it, and
Death and Hades delivered the dead who
they were in them; and they were judged, each one
according to their works.
•
And Death and Hades were thrown into the lake of
fire. This is the second death: the lake of
fire.
•
15 And whoever was not registered in the book of the
life was thrown into the lake of fire.
Philippians 3:20 Because
our citizenship is
in the heavens, from where
also eagerly
we are waiting for a
Savior, the Lord
Jesus Christ,
Rev. 22:12 Behold,
I am coming soon, and my
reward is
with me for
reward each
one according to its work.