The catching away

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Originally Posted by Lafon

"Come, and let us return unto the LORD: for he hath torn, and he will heal us; he hath smitten, and he will bind us up. After two days will he revive us: in the third day he will raise us up, and we shall live in his sight."

Does not this tell us that a period of 2,000 years must pass before God will "raise us up" - that is to say, resurrect us from the dead - after which "we shall live in his sight"? Please bear in mind that while one cannot know the hour, or even the day, week, month of His coming again, it is possible to be aware of the particular era of time when this event will take place. I should also point out that the apostle Peter has written to inform us that "...beloved, be not ignorant of this one thing, that one day is with the Lord as a thousand years, and a thousand years as one day." (2 Peter 3:8)

I do not believe we can take that passage and dogmatically say it is teaching 2,000 years must pass before the Lord comes. Peter said a day with the Lord is as a thousand years. But he did not mean to take every instance of a day and realize it is actually one thousand years. He simply meant that whether God 's promises come to pass a day after they are promised, or one thousand years after they are promised, time does not effect how valid God's promises are.

By the way, after two days is meant to be synonymous with the third day, because the third day occurs after the second, and the third day means any time during the third day.

Some feel this passage deals with revival in the church, not rapture.

There must be clear teaching in the New Testament that actually says Christ shall rapture the church after 2,000 years before we can say there is a message in the form of a type in the Old Testament about such a thing.

No offence intended, but it is abuse of typology to claim an old testament type says something the new testament never explicitly taught. Something must be spelled out for us plainly in the New Testament before we take a type or shadow in the Old and claim it means such a something.