Hi, Gary Stearman of Prophecy Watchers. Today we're going to do something that I think is going to talk about the rapture of the church. My favorite subject, and we have with us

at Prophecy Watchers, a gentleman whom I think you're going to get to know and love. And his name is Mando Gonzalez. Mando, welcome to Prophecy Watch.

Thank you, Gary. Good to be here. Now, you are a pastor teacher and you have taught about the rapture and I know from conversations

that you really think this is a kind of a centerpiece in Christian teaching.

I totally agree. When I think of the rapture, it's it brings joy to my heart. It's what

I'm looking for. And unfortunately, you know, not a lot of people know it or believe it or hear

about it and it's worth the discussion. I mean this is this is why we study prophecy and it's

something that Jesus told us to be aware of so to me it's great.

And you know it's rapture and resurrection are two almost interchangeable terms. We talk about the resurrection

of Jesus Christ and there's the story about the stone being rolled away and we have angels

that superintend this operation but the story that everybody remembers is when Peter looks in and sees the grave clothing

of Jesus empty, just he's gone.

And it hit him like a ton of bricks.

You can tell, by the way, the Bible, the scripture is written.

Look, the clothes are still here, but the Lord's gone. And you know what he was thinking,

and what all of us think. And I'm looking forward to having a similar effect acting upon my body because this body is going to wear out. At some point, who knows when, I am going to be lowered into the earth and my hope is

for resurrection. That's the Christian hope is for resurrection. Various churches

teach that hope in different ways, but we try to get active with the idea of the rapture. In other

words, we don't leave it back in some closet somewhere. We talk about it all the time.

Because to me, it's a wonderful, wonderful thing to have right out in front of our theology, right?

No, I totally agree. I mean, when you look at what God is telling us to do and watch for,

and as we know from 1st Thessalonians 4 that Paul does, he tells us not to be ignorant.

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