Wrong thread sorry. :prayer-hands: I wondered about this too and found the answer I believe is correct. Then we which are alive and remain; or, are left; that is, the saints who shall then be found alive on the earth at the rapture. The dead in Christ rise first we are the remaining. :good: For myself, I would get to enjoy the sense of deep satisfaction in the knowledge that my Faith had been justified, in this realm! Faith fulfilled. Tie up any loose ends with those that I know! As well as being able to whole heartedly direct my whole being upon Him! Discarding all of life's concerns. TR Okay. I can understand that. I don't like leaving things undone, either. I don't leave town or go on vacation without getting my affairs in order. So I understand wanting to do the same before a permanent trip :good: Oh Geri, you said, "Plus I don’t want to be cooking or using the faucet when the rapture occurs." If what you had was a three days or less notice, with those cautions you may well be raptured both hungry and smelly. Maybe you should plan to go to a motel and only order room service. Then if the faucet was left on or something it would not be a reflection on you. 😉 🙁 LOL ... oh, no fear about being hungry ... I’ve made provisions .... I will eat the old stand by .... a peanut butter and jelly sandwich. Or open a can of soup and heat it up in the microwave. Will munch on candy, potato chips. 😉 But you do have a good point about the washing up at a local motel. Last year on high watch Rosh Hashanah day .... I was driving to the post office at 1:00 pm and I kid you not ... on the side street where I had to make a left hand turn into the post office parking lot ... there was a pair of men’s dress slacks, a dress shirt and tie just laying there on the pavement. My heart skipped a beat and I did a double take as I drove around the clothes and thought ... did I just miss hearing that trumpet blast?!! It was truly an eerie sight! I’m still trying to figure out how someone could have drop their dress clothes like that AND on that particular day! Perhaps that guy who drop :unsure: his clothes was heading to the motel to wash up? :unsure: That's funny! "Behold, someone showed you a mystery..." Maybe it was a suit left there by that well-tanned angel in the elevator, or from one of his friends who didn't need the suit at the time and intentionally left it for someone in need who found it after you drove by. :scratch: B-). Or maybe some absent minded laundry service driver drove off having hung it on the door handle. :mdrmdr: I love it ... The angel was quickly assigned to another emergency duty and didn’t need the clothings! LOL Or perhaps ... the owner is an end time watcher and was walking quickly to the dry cleaners (it’s a few blocks away) and accidentally drop them while trying to get his house in order before sundown to midnight watch. :whistle: Will we get a heads-up before the rapture? I think that watchers will know when the rapture is about to take place through the Holy Spirit. We have already been given so many pointers. However, I think that many believers will miss the joyous anticipation of our 'removal' because they don't know or believe it, or they believe that we will go through some or all of the tribulation. Maybe the resurrection of the dead in Christ will be the event that will turn the eyes of every believer toward the heavens in expectation of our Saviour. I always wondered if there was some time between the translation of the dead in Christ and those who remain. Why two separate mass movements? Maybe for the benefit of those believers who are uninformed, unaware or unfocused on Him. Twinkling of an eye expression IMHO applies only to our getting our glorified bodies. Other than that, everything listed speaks of sequence. Which means time must elapse. TR
