It can be seen from this that when God returns in the last days, He will appear to the church of Philadelphia, and that the church of Philadelphia is a church that is raptured in the last days.
Before, the pastors often preached that when the Lord comes, we will be raptured before the tribulation, but now disasters are growing ever greater and we have not been raptured.
Chen Li was walking home after a gathering when she thought of what Sister Wang had just said to her about the Lord Jesus already having returned, and asking Chen Li to go to her house that afternoon to listen to a sermon.
When the sins of us believers in the Lord are forgiven, do we attain purification? If we do not strive for purification, and only pay attention to expending ourselves for the Lord and diligently doing the Lord's work, will we be raptured into the kingdom of heaven?
Nowadays, all manner of disasters are occurring one after another, such as earthquakes, famines, epidemics, floods, droughts, and plagues of locusts, and the areas affected are growing larger and larger in scale.
They feel that since we still sin constantly, fail to attain holiness by far and disobey God’s will, how can we be raised into the kingdom of heaven when the Lord comes?
We believe, according to 1 Corinthians 15:52–53, that when the Lord returns in the last days, He will change us all in the twinkling of an eye, make us holy, and rapture us into the kingdom of heaven. But is this view really correct?
Not everyone that said to me, Lord, Lord, shall enter into the kingdom of heaven; but he that does the will of my Father which is in heaven (Mat 7:21).