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Let me preface this article by saying, "If you are NOT already prepared for the Rapture, you can be, by accepting Jesus as your Lord and Savior." Once done, you will be ready for the Rapture. Simple as that. Nothing more, nothing less. But let's take a closer look at what Jesus actually says about the Rapture.

In Matthew, Chapter 24, which is called the Sermon on the Mount, we find this dialogue between Jesus and His disciples.

Mat 24:3 And he sat upon the mount of Olives, the disciples came unto him privately, saying, Tell us, when shall these things be? And what shall be the sign of thy coming, and of the end of the world?

The disciples are asking Jesus to tell them three things. (1) When shall these things be? (2) What shall be the sign of thy coming? (3) Of the end of the world? Some believe this refers to the destruction of Jerusalem, and the other two to the end of the world. Christ, hereupon, foretells the utter ruin and destruction that were coming upon this place, Mat_24:2. Their question looked no further than the event Christ now foretold about the destruction of the Temple; but it appears by other passages, that they had very confused thoughts of future events. Christ, in his answer, though he does not expressly correct the mistakes of his disciples, yet looks beyond their question, and instructs his church, not only concerning the great events of that age, the destruction of Jerusalem, but concerning his second coming at the end of time, which he enters into a discourse of events, signs and warnings that will precede the end of time. Jesus continues on through verse 13 foretelling what events and happenings to expect leading up to the end time. In verse 14, He says, "And this gospel of the kingdom shall be preached in all the world for a witness unto all nations, and then shall the end come." That which is intended here, is, that the end of the world shall be then, and not till then, when the gospel has done its work in the world. The gospel shall be preached, and that work carried on, so that all nations, first or last, shall have either the enjoyment, or the refusal, of the gospel; and then cometh the end, when the kingdom shall be delivered up to God, even the Father; when the mystery of God shall be finished, the mystical body completed, and the nations either converted and saved, or convicted and silenced, by the gospel; then shall the end come, of which he had said before (Mat_24:6, Mat_24:7), not yet, not till those intermediate events be

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