Rapture – Another View

We take a look at the rapture doctrine to update our understanding of what might happen soon. Many people have heard about the the aerial gathering of the church described in Paul's first letter to the Thessalonian church, which is an event when all Christian believers who are alive, along with resurrected believers, will rise in the clouds to meet the Lord in the air. Will believers go through the tribulation or avoid it at the rapture of the church?

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