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The title of the message this afternoon, if you're still awake is how close are we to the rapture? I love

this because it's the shortest message I will ever give in my life.

The one slide, very.

We can move to the question and answers right now if you want.

But for the sake of those of you who are struggling with the concept of what is the rapture all about.

Let me remind you that in the letter

that Paul wrote to the church in Thessaloniki, the church in northern Greece,

probably the only one that I can think of that had no Jews in it and therefore

no Old Testament verses were ever quoted in that

in those epistles and it's interesting because he said to them I do not want you

to be ignorant brethren concerning those who have fallen asleep.

This is the biblical term for those who died as believers.

You see we as believers we don't die and enjoy that death that is so final

and it's so destructive. No, we just fall asleep.

And when your child fall asleep, all you do is you take him and you move him to bed. So he falls asleep here and he wakes up here.

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