Bible Prophecy helps us understand that things aren’t falling , they are falling
In The Last Days becomes a again
…you will come up against My people Israel like a cloud to cover the land. It will come about in the last days that I shall bring you against My land… – Ezekiel 38:16 (NASB)
Days of Noah (vv.26-27) are described in Genesis 6
And just as it happened in the days of Noah, so will it also be in the days of the Son of Man – Luke 17:26 (NASB)
…and the earth was filled with violence (hamas) – Genesis 6:11 (NASB)
Violence: ḥâmas – a primitive root; to be violent (OTESD)
(Paul) You must understand this: In the last days there will be violent (chalepos) periods of time. – 2 Timothy 3:1-2 (GWT)
Violent: chalepos – violent, fierce, difficult, grievous (CWSB)
The Days of Lot (vv.28-32) are described in Genesis 19
Know this first of all, that in the last days mockers will come with their mocking, following after their own lusts, 4and saying, “Where is the promise of His coming? For ever since the fathers fell asleep, all continues just as it was from the beginning of creation.” 5For when they maintain this, it escapes their notice that by the word of God the heavens existed long ago and the earth was formed out of water and by water… – 2 Peter 3:3-5 (NASB95)
Will happen and be
“I tell you, on that night there will be two in one bed (); one will be taken and the other will be left. There will be two women grinding at the same place (); one will be taken and the other will be left. Two men will be in the field (); one will be taken and the otherwill be left.” – Luke 17:34-36 (NASB)
“We will not all sleep” implies a
(Paul) Behold, I tell you a mystery; we will not all sleep, but we will all be changed, in a moment, in the twinkling of an eye, at the last trumpet; for the trumpet will sound, and the dead will be raised imperishable, and we shall be changed. – 1 Corinthians 15:51-52 (NASB77)
Do not let your heart be troubled; believe in God, believe also in Me. In My Father’s house are many dwelling places; if it were not so, I would have told you; for I go to prepare a place for you. If I go and prepare a place for you, I will come again and receive you to Myself, that where I am, there you may be also. – John 14:1-3 (NASB95)
Your dead will live; their corpses will rise. You who lie in the dust, awake and shout for joy, for your dew is as the dew of the dawn, and the earth will give birth to the departed spirits. Come, my people, enter into your rooms and close your doors behind you; hide for a little while until indignation (wrath [NIV]) runs its course. For behold, the LORD is about to come out from His place to punish the inhabitants of the earth for their iniquity… Isaiah 26:19-21 (NASB95)
The (Revelation 4:1-2)
After these things I looked, and behold, a door standing open in heaven, and the first voice which I had heard, like the sound of a trumpet speaking with me, said, “Come up here, and I will show you what must take place after these things.” Immediately I was in the Spirit; and behold, a throne was standing in heaven, and someone was sitting on the throne – Revelation 4:1-2 (NASB)
The year (Revelation 6-18)
Then the kings…and the wealthy and the strong, and every slave and free person hid themselves in the caves and among the rocks of the mountains; and they said to the mountains and the rocks, “Fall on us and hide us from the sight of Him who sits on the throne, and from the wrath of the Lamb; for the great day of Their wrath has come, and who is able to stand?” – Revelation 6:15-17 (NASB) (Revelation 6:9-11)
1 Thessalonians 4:13-18
Then we who are alive and remain will be caught up (harpazo [Greek]), (rapiemur [Latin Vulgate]), (rapture [AMP]) together with them in the clouds to meet the Lord in the air, and so we shall always be with the Lord.
– 1 Thessalonians 4:17 (NASB95)
(v.18)
The teaching of the Rapture is given to be a
Comfort, encourage: parakaleo – to console, to encourage and strengthen by consolation, to comfort (TH)