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THE DOCTRINE OF THE "CATCHING AWAY OF THE CHURCH"

  BY PASTOR MIKE   TAYLOR  http://www.churchofgod-usa.org/index.html     “For the Lord himself shall descend from heaven with a shout, with the voice of the archangel, and with the trump of God: and the dead in Christ shall rise   first: 4:17 [1]   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.” 1st Thessalonians  4:16 [2]   ­17   Very familiar verses for all prophecy writers and readers alike, has been the subject of much debate and confusion over the last 150 years. Many critics believe that this verse is talking about the church being taken up in the air at the seventh trump that the seventh angel blows to signal the bowl judgments spoken of in Revelation chapter 16. That would be a Post­Tribulation model. But are they   right?   I had a brother in Christ, who at the very me...

THE LAODECIAN CHURCH AGE

by Pastor Mike Taylor “Yea, a man may say, Thou hast faith, and I have works: shew me thy faith without  [4]  thy works, and I will shew thee my faith by my works.  19 Thou believest that there is one God; thou doest well: the devils also believe, and tremble.  20 But wilt thou know, O vain man, that faith without works is dead?” (James 2:18-20) Most of us would agree that we are living in the last days of mankind's rule on this earth. But are we living like we believe it? We see the evil around this nation manifested in grotesque shootings of the innocent in our  schools , on our streets, Islam rising up to commit terrible acts in the name of their false god, and the multitude of sins that are growing exponentially as each day passes and we scream, “WHEN IS THIS ALL GOING TO END?” Of course, we know that the last days will become more and more evil as time passes, because the Bible prophesied it would be so. II Timothy chapter 3, sta...