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...