What Happens to Our Clothes at the Rapture?

  What Happens to Our Clothes at the Rapture? - by Bill Perkins - https://compass.org/what-happens-to-our-clothes-at-rapture/ It breaks my heart to listen to "Bible teachers" teaching the horrible mid-Trib or post-Trib Rapture theories. I can promise you it is not from the Lord. People are all overthe place these days. I heard someone this week on the radio saying "We're about to enter the 6th Seal of Revelation." Really? I guess I missed 25% of the earth dying during the 4th Seal. 🙁 Properly understanding Bible prophecy from a pre-tribulational, dispensational viewpoint is hugely important. Especially today! You can't just say you're a pan-millennial("It'll all pan out"). preach the word; be ready in season and out of season; reprove, rebuke, exhort, with great patience and instruction. 2Tim. 4:2 If you're not familiar with dispensational theology, you can't explain the marriage chart at the top of this page! Without applying dispensations to your Biblical understanding,nothing makes sense. always being ready to make a defense to everyone who asks 1Pet:3:15 God has given us great insight into what is taking place in the world today and He wants us to share and teach truth to those Believers and non-Believers who have no clue.Time to be bold! I hope the nuts-and-bolts Rapture article below is helpful—maybe good to pass along to those in your sphere of influence. "There is not one problem I have that won't be fixed at the Rapture." - Andy Woods What Happens to Our Clothes At The Rapture? The Rapture of the Church is a special event when New Testament Believers, who are alive at the end of the Church Age, bypass physical death and go straight to heaven. The Doctrine of The Rapture brings up lots of interesting questions, like: What happens to our clothes? What age/look will our new bodies be? Do we want to live to be 100 if we'll look like that forever? What happens to our pets (that surely God loves as much as we do)? What happens to our glasses and contacts? What happens to our old bodies—are they left behind or do they disappear? The late Ed Hindson once noted that even if our bodies disappear at the Rapture, what happens to false teeth, dental fillings, false eyelashes, titanium hips or shoulders,toupees, false fingernails and jewelry? His conclusion was that some people would have more left behind than that which was Raptured! So if you have a room full of Believers, what would the room look like post-Rapture? Surely those God-awful tattoos will remain behind. Surely! To answer these questions let’s look at what we know... There are two Raptures that are similar mentioned in the Bible: 1. Enoch (Gen 5:21-24; Heb 11:5) 2. Church Age Saints (1Thes 4:13-18; 1Cor.) Elijah and John, the Two Witnesses (Rev. 11), were also taken to heaven before death but they will come back to the earth and be killed before being taken up to heaven infront of everyone in Jerusalem. (More on that CLICKHERE) For the Church Age Saints’ Rapture, there are two Pauline verses most people point to: For the Lord Himself will descend from heaven with a shout, with the voice of the archangel and with the trumpet of God, and the dead in Christ will rise first. Then we whoare alive and remain will be caught up together with them in the clouds to meet the Lord in the air, and so we shall always be with the Lord. 1Th. 4:16-17 Now I say this, brethren, that flesh and blood cannot inherit the kingdom of God; nor does the perishable inherit the imperishable. Behold, I tell you a mystery; we will notall sleep [die], but we will all be changed, in a moment, in the twinkling of an eye, at the last trumpet; for the trumpet will sound, and the dead will be raised imperishable, and we will be changed. 1Cor. 15:50-52 So we learn from those verses that Believers are “changed” at the exact moment of the Rapture. We get our new bodies instantaneously...from our original earthly, sinful, temporalbodies to our new eternal, heavenly bodies. The Bible compares our new body to upgrading from a temporary tent to an eternal house. For we know that if the earthly tent which is our house is torn down, we have a building from God, a house not made with hands, eternal in the heavens. 2Cor. 5:1 This new body is eternal and sinless as it was washed clean by the cross. This body will be just like the new body that Jesus received upon His resurrection. ...the Lord Jesus Christ; who will transform the body of our humble state into conformity with the body of His glory, Phil. 3:20b-21a God’s not about to put a new body into old temporal clothes. So we have to assume that our new body comes with a white robe attached…at least those in heaven who were martyredin the Tribulation are wearing white robes: After these things I looked, and behold, a great multitude which no one could count, from every nation and all tribes and peoples and tongues, standing before the throne andbefore the Lamb, clothed in white robes, and palm branches were in their hands; Rev. 7:9 Since God made it so the Israelites’ shoes didn’t wear out as they wandered in the desert for 40 years, I’m guessing that, like our new bodies, our robes will be fashionedby the Lord for eternal use. I’ll bet we won’t even have to iron them—ever! And do note that we meet the Lord in the air, not on the ground and not in heaven. Therefore we can fly, we can move about at the speed of thought. I’m guessing it’ll takeme a while to get used to my new jets. At the moment of the Rapture, those who have previously died will be Raptured a split second ahead of those who are alive. ... the dead in Christ will rise first. IThes. 4:16 There are other verses that refer to the Rapture of the Church Age Saints: “If I go and prepare a place for you, I will come again and receive you to Myself, that where I am, there you may be also.” John 14:3 It’s important to note here that Jesus takes His Church to heaven for the Marriage Supper of the Lamb (Rev. 19:7, 9). Therefore it’s unlikely that just before the weddingJesus would drag His beloved Church through the horrors of the Tribulation, and then say "Let's get married!" Just saying. And since we’re going to that Big Dinner and Jesus promised He would again drink wine with us, well, are there restrooms in heaven? CLICKHERE After these things I looked, and behold, a door [Jesus is the door] standing open in heaven, and the first voice which I had heard, like the sound of a trumpet speaking withme, said, “Come up here,” Rev. 4:1 This verse comes after Revelation chapters 2 and 3, which discuss the good and bad Believers in the Church Age. It signifies that when the Church Age is over, the Rapturehappens. I heard another voice from heaven, saying, “Come out of her, my people, so that you will not participate in her sins and receive of her plagues;” Rev. 18:4 This verse teaches that before the beginning of the Wrath of God, those Believers living in Babylon will be Raptured out so as to not receive God’s Wrath. I’m 99% sure Revelation18 is referring to the USA as Babylon, even down to its worldwide drug deception and distribution in v. 23 (CLICKHERE for more on this). So a big question is, what happens to our bodies? Do they disappear or are they left behind on the ground? To add some additional insight to what happens to our bodies and clothes, we know God is big on consistency. And we can look to the past to see what the future looks like.The Bible says: That which has been is that which will be, and that which has been done is that which will be done. So there is nothing new under the sun. Eccl. 1:9 In light of that, Enoch was Raptured quickly, and he disappeared. By faith Enoch was taken up so that he would not see death; AND HE WAS NOT FOUND BECAUSE GOD TOOK HIM UP; Heb. 11:5 Enoch was translated, changed to permanent status in heaven. Jesus was also Raptured up at His ascension, maybe a bit more slowly, but He also disappeared. And after He had said these things, He was lifted up while they were looking on, and a cloud received Him out of their sight. Acts 1:9 But maybe our best example is when Jesus rose from the dead. His grave linens were found but the body vanished without unwrapping them. Joseph took the body and wrapped it in a clean linen cloth, Matt. 27:58b [Peter] saw the linen wrappings only Luke 24:12b and stooping and looking in, he saw the linen wrappings lying there; but he did not go in. And so Simon Peter also came, following him, and entered the tomb; and he saw thelinen wrappings lying there, John 20:5-6 Jesus didn't have to unwrap Himself like Lazarus. His clothes basically imploded as he was Raptured away. We have an excellent, free, point-and-click-to-view, Steeling Conferencevideo on Jesus' resurrection and what happened to His grave clothes by Gary Habermas. CLICKHERE So using Jesus as the model, Believers’ bodies would disappear at the Rapture and the clothes left behind. Probably mixed in with all the fake body parts. This is how thelate Tim Lahaye described the Rapture event in his Left Behind novel series. We already addressed “Are There Pets In Heaven.” CLICKHERE And “Are There Restrooms In Heaven?” CLICKHERE And we had a GML deal with how old we will look in heaven. GML QUESTION FOR THE DAY I have often wondered: If we don't age in heaven, do babies that have gone there always stay babies? And what age will we be? I don't want to live to be100 if that's what I'm going to look like for eternity! ANSWER: The new body believers receive is different than the one we now have here on earth. Although we will have all the knowledge accumulated on earth (1 Corinthians 13:12), wewill be different physically as we are transformed into a body similar to Jesus' resurrected body: who will transform the body of our humble state into conformity with the body of His glory, by the exertion of the power that He has even to subject all things to Himself.Phil. 3:21 Our new state also will be similar to angels: . . . in the resurrection they neither marry nor are given in marriage, but are like angels in heaven. Matt. 22:30 Being compared to angels is not too shabby. •Angels are majestic in appearance, "awesome" (Judges 13:6). •Angels have great wisdom: "know all that is in the earth" (2 Samuel 14:20). •Angels are "mighty in strength" (Psalm 103:20). But realize we are a higher order than the angels:". . . we will judge angels" (1 Corinthians 6:3). But the most important parts of us, our spirit and soul, have no mass. Our current sinful earthly containers will be done away with when we die and we'll receive new eternalsinless containers in the future. I consider it right, as long as I am in this earthly dwelling, to stir you up by way of reminder, knowing that the laying aside of my earthly dwelling is imminent. . . . 2Pet. 1:13-14 For we know that if the earthly tent which is our house is torn down, we have a building from God, a house not made with hands, eternal in the heavens. 2Cor. 5:1 But for a rough idea in human terminology, we think the men will all be around age 21 and the women age 18. (No, we don't have a verse for that! 🙂 If you want to sign up for our free Good Morning Lord! daily (Mon-Fri) Bible study, CLICKHERE. But be warned—don't sip your coffee while you're reading it! You can try it for a few days and then opt out if you can't take the scriptural heat! 🙂 Bottom line: The Rapture will be one exhilarating ride to the top! BP Love this verse: He must increase, but I must decrease. John 3:30