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TOPIC: THE RAPTURE IS NOT THE SAME AS THE SECOND COMING OF CHRIST

HOLINESS REVIVAL MOVEMENT WORLDWIDE HOREMOW

DAILY DEVOTIONAL BY PASTOR PAUL RIKA INTERNATIONAL DIRECTOR.

DATE: SUNDAY AUGUST 30, 2026.

TOPIC: THE RAPTURE IS NOT THE SAME AS THE SECOND COMING OF CHRIST 

TEXT: 1 CORINTHIANS 15:31-38
31. I protest by your rejoicing which I have in Christ Jesus our Lord, I die daily.
32. If after the manner of men I have fought with beasts at Ephesus, what advantageth it me, if the dead rise not? let us eat and drink; for to morrow we die.
33. Be not deceived: evil communications corrupt good manners.
34. Awake to righteousness, and sin not; for some have not the knowledge of God: I speak this to your shame.
35. But some man will say, How are the dead raised up? and with what body do they come?
36. Thou fool, that which thou sowest is not quickened, except it die: 
37. And that which thou sowest, thou sowest not that body that shall be, but bare grain, it may chance of wheat, or of some other grain:
38. But God giveth it a body as it hath pleased him, and to every seed his own body. 

KEY VERSE: 1 THESSALONIANS 4:17. “Then we which are alive and remain shall be caught up together with them in the clouds, to meet the Lord in the air: and so, shall we ever be with the Lord.”

The rapture is not the same as the second coming of Christ. At the rapture Christ will appear in the air. He will not be visible to the inhabitants of the earth. His mission then will be to resurrect all the dead saints, who along with the living believers, will put on immotality and shall be caught up to be with the Lord. 

This event will take place in the twinkling of an “eye” before the great and terrible day of the Lord, when the wrath of God will be poured down from the cup of indignation without mixture an event fitly called the great tribulation. The rapture will be heralded by the voice of the archangel and the blowing of trumpets signalling the end of the church age. 

Only true believers who are ready for His coming will hear the sound of the trumpet. The rapture was a mystery unknown to the Old Testament saints and prophets. God had underlined this great event in two different ways in the scripture to assure us of its certainty. It was illustrated in Enoch and Elijah, the two living saints who did not taste death but were translated in a moment of time and caught up in the air. 

The second-advent will not take place until after the great tribulation. The time of the rapture is unknown, even by the angels. Therefore, the rapture should not be confused with the second coming. The two event are distinct and separated by seven years. 

Specially, the second coming refers to Christ’s coming, to be seen by every eye. The rapture lies in the valley between the mountains of Christ’s first coming and second coming. In the second coming, however, He will come to the earth to live and fulfil a definite part of God’s timetable for the earth and man. 

Christ will come with the saints raptured seven years earlier. The Rapture can take place any moment, without warning but the second coming cannot happen until after the rapture and the great tribulation.

Thought for the day: The Rapture is different from the second coming. 

Song for the day: Remember me oh Lord, Remember me in Your Kingdom.

Bible reading for the day: Ezekiel 21-22

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