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3.28.2007

Rapture and recurrence

The Rapture of the church. People getting taken up and others left behind. In all the various views of such things each side has a piece of truth, usually. That's usually how it works. Here's the rapture in reality:

When a person leaves their 'time', i.e. leaves recurrence, then that is the rapture of that person. They leave and others are left behind. When a person is raptured like that, leaves recurrence, it happens at death, obviously, YET, in a real sense it also happens in life, in the 'round' that they have finally made contact and are not going to be around anymore.

So, take a person in a family. They awaken, are regenerated, and leave their 'time' at death. The family still exists, just without that member. The member is no longer there. Not even a memory. In effect, that person has been 'raptured', to use that language.

When you see all the end time events like that in 'higher time' it is clearer. Things manifest in higher time and not in the linear time perceived by the flesh.

This means of course that the average church Christian is not yet regenerated (hasn't been raptured) because...they are still here in their time. Maybe some of them have been and will disappear from their time at death, but most likely not many. Regeneration seems rare. In time maybe most all will experience it, but most of them don't seem to be there currently.

You sort of start to recede from the world prior to it anyway. Stages of recurrence once one has awoken and been regenerated.

ps- I've noticed there is a prejudice among mainstream church theologians to replace 'individuals' with 'church' when speaking of rapture or even regeneration and such things. Hence, rapture of the 'church', when it is individuals afterall. I see this in an old work such as Ursinus' Commentary where the term 'church' is used in a way that seems off-the-mark because the matter really refers to individuals.