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The RAPTURE is REAL! LOOK: A great difficulty is created when we arbitrarily introduce the later Prison Epistles of Paul into the Book of Revelation. So, to save us from making such a mistake, the Holy Spirit gave special instruction, through the Apostle Paul in 1 Thessalonians 5, immediately after He had inspired the revelation of 1 Thessalonians 4. If we pay attention to this and learn the great and important lesson here, all will be clear.
1 Thessalonians 5: 1, "But of the times and the season, brethren, ye have no need that I write unto you."
Why, "no need"? Simply because the Coming forth into the air and our "gathering together unto Him" there, do not depend on any time or season. His "Coming unto" the earth DOES; but that is NOT what he had been speaking about in the chapter immediately before (Thessalonians 4).
2. "For yourselves know perfectly that the Day of the LORD so cometh as a thief in the night."
It is the "Day of the LORD" which (as we have been discussin