Thursday, February 3, 2011

Anticipation: It is late, and time for bed, but wanted to at lea...

Anticipation: It is late, and time for bed, but wanted to at lea...: "It is late, and time for bed, but wanted to at least get started. I John 3:3 tells the reader that those who have the hope of the Rapture p..."
It is late, and time for bed, but wanted to at least get started.

I John 3:3 tells the reader that those who have the hope of the Rapture purify themselves.

The word hope in that passage from the original Greek actually means 'anticipate.'

So the apostle is encouraging believers that anticipating the Rapture is a positive, even an active pursuit which purifies them.

Paul said in I Thessalonians 5:11 that Christians should  comfort and edify, or strengthen, one another with this teaching of the imminent snatching away of all believers beginning with the dead in Messiah first.

To be continued...