The Pre-Rapture Rapture

Come fly with me into orbit above the country where you live. We will be making this flight during the night, on the side of the earth that is turned away from the sun. This would work on the daylight side of the planet just as well, but we might get a better visual on the night side. We will hang in orbit in our space ship looking down at the earth below. It will be utterly quiet (there is no sound in space). We can see the lights of the great cities below us.

Suddenly God touches us. He opens our eyes to see into the spirit realm. He opens our ears to hear in that realm. Our view of the earth is suddenly transformed. What are these bright and shinning lights rising up from the earth and flashing past us into the depths of space? What are these glad cries of triumph, of exultation, of unspeakable joy that fill our ears?

What we are seeing and hearing is the pre-rapture rapture. It is the rapture that you experience without your physical body. This is the other side of death. It is filled with glory and wonder. For thousands of years human have mourned and known great sorrow at the physical death of their loved ones. It is not wrong for a Christian to grieve. But our grief should be balanced with hope and in the comfort of hope we should eventually come to the place of joy because our loved ones are now living the life of perfect joy.
The next time you look up into the sky think about it: the pre-rapture rapture. It’s been going on for thousands of years. The departed souls of the Christians you knew and loved have taken that flight. If the Lord tarries, someday soon, you and I will join them.