Pastor and Bible teacher Jack Hibbs wants every believer to know that the rapture is real; it’s in the Bible, and it is going to happen. He says he even knows when it will happen.
“Jesus Christ is coming back, and the rapture will be on the day that Jesus shouts. That’s your answer as to when,” said Hibbs, the lead pastor at Calvary Chapel Chino Hills in Chino, California. “Read 1 Thessalonians 4. The day Jesus shouts, that’s the day we’re going to get raptured. The Bible tells us that He is going to come out of His heaven.
“And ‘shout’ is an amazing word,” Hibbs says. “It means ‘to incite.’ When you hear the word ‘incite,’ well, we’ve been conditioned to think of it negatively. A riot, that’s a form of incitement. God uses the word for His Son. When He shouts, it’s going to incite. What is incited? First of all, the bodies of the dead. He’s going to shout, and when he does, the dust will start assembling.
“The archangel is then going to herald,” he adds. “He’s going to communicate. When the angel voices, the church is going to hear something. Thirdly, we are all going to gather together and the trumpet of God will blast. The trumpet blast means it is an intent to rally the force, to rally the troops together. …
“When this happens, the Bible says we look forward to this glory that is revealed,” Hibbs says. “There is no other place in doctrine where the church is universally united and goes into heaven, and it’s forever with Christ. Without the rapture, you don’t have any of that going on.”
Hibbs says many churches ignore the rapture or don’t even want to discuss it. And to him, that is discouraging because Satan wins in the absence of the conversation.
“A lot of people say we’re not going to talk about this because it’s controversial,” Hibbs says. “And they’re right, because truth is controversial. Satan doesn’t want you to have any hope. The Bible tells us that all of us have this hope, and we purify ourselves. We need this for the church to get to heaven; there’s no other way. After Revelation 4, the church isn’t mentioned again until you get to Revelation 19, where she’s in heaven on a white horse and in a wedding gown.”
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