Here is our Saturday evening Truth Online social media message. This message is fully grounded in Scripture only, avoiding all modern labels like “rapture,” and instead drawing only from what the biblical text itself reveals. The tone is rich, passionate, poetically weighty, and aimed to encourage and strengthen—not to incite fear. It also naturally prepares the hearers for our upcoming eschatology series.
🕊 Opening Prayer
“Opening Our Eyes to the Light of the Day”
Heavenly Father,
We come before You tonight with hearts open and minds ready, desiring not man’s wisdom, but the light that comes from Your eternal Word. You are the God who was, and is, and is to come. You dwell in unapproachable light, yet You have made Yourself known to us through Your Son, Christ Jesus—who is our life, our hope, our glory.
Lord, we are not gathered here to speculate or to fear, but to understand, to be edified, and to be awakened to the reality of what You have already spoken. As we look into Your Scriptures concerning the Day of the Lord, we ask for clarity, reverence, and divine insight—not filtered through the traditions of men, but through the Spirit of Truth who guides us into all truth.
Open our ears, God, that we may hear.
Open our eyes, that we may see.
Open our hearts, that we may believe.
Let the flame of expectation rise in us—not for escape, but for transformation. Not for hiding, but for revealing. For You have not appointed us to wrath, but to obtain salvation through our Lord Jesus Christ.
May Your presence fill this time.
May Your voice be the loudest we hear.
And may our spirits rise in joyful anticipation—because the Day is near.
In the matchless name of Jesus Christ,
Amen.
“The Gathering of the Redeemed”
What does the WORD SAY?
Beloved,
There is a stirring in the heart of creation—an ancient whisper, ever present in the pages of Holy Writ. It is not a new idea, nor the invention of men. It is not the echo of theologians past, nor the work of speculative pens present. No, this truth is older than the stars and purer than the dew upon Zion’s hills. It is the promise of God’s own return, a day not wrapped in terror, but cloaked in glory.
Let us open the scroll and read what is written, not what has been theorized.
📖 “For the Lord himself, with a cry of command, with the archangel’s call and with the sound of God’s trumpet, will descend from heaven, and the dead in Christ will rise first. Then we who are alive, who are left, will be caught up in the clouds together with them to meet the Lord in the air; and so, we will be with the Lord forever.” — 1 Thessalonians 4:16–17
This is not metaphor.
This is not mystical.
This is the straight and unfiltered promise of the Living God.
There is no room here for fear. Although many have used the rapture as just that.
There is no cause for dread. Yet, many in several denominations continue using it as that.
This is the victory cry of the faithful, the trumpet that gathers the saints, the moment when mortality is swallowed by life.
“For while we are in this tent, we groan under our burden because we wish not to be unclothed but to be further clothed, so that what is mortal may be swallowed up by life.” (2 Corinthians 5:4)
This is not a doctrine born of councils or creeds; this is the divine revelation of what is to come.
And again, Paul writes not in shadows, but in sunlight:
📖 “Listen, I will tell you a mystery! We will not all die, but we will all be changed, in a moment, in the twinkling of an eye, at the last trumpet.” — 1 Corinthians 15:51–52
This “change” is no philosophical ideal—it is the transformation of the faithful, the putting off of perishable things for the imperishable, the donning of robes not stitched by man but woven in glory.
The prophets, too, spoke of this day—not in timetables, but in hope:
📖 “Your dead shall live, their corpses shall rise. O dwellers in the dust, awake and sing for joy! For your dew is a radiant dew, and the earth will give birth to those long dead.” — Isaiah 26:19
What is this, if not resurrection?
What is this, if not the call of God awakening His beloved from the sleep of the grave?
And our Lord Himself declared:
📖 “Then he will send out the angels and gather his elect from the four winds, from the ends of the earth to the ends of heaven.” — Mark 13:27
This is not fantasy.
This is the gathering of the holy, a sweeping of the saints from every corner of creation—not abandoned, but received; not scattered, but gathered unto Him who purchased them with His own blood.
This is not about fleeing. This is about being brought home.
🌿 So why should we tremble?
The Scriptures do not cast this hope in shadows or nightmares. They speak of meeting, of resurrection, of gathering, of transformation. Not once do they call the faithful to fear. They call us to watch, to hope, to encourage one another with these words.
“Therefore encourage one another with these words.” (1 Thessalonians 4:18)
This is not escapism. This is fulfillment. This is not dread.
This is deliverance. This is the moment when Heaven and Earth bend toward each other and the children of light are caught up—not to disappear, but to appear in glory with Him.
“When Christ who is your life is revealed, then you also will be revealed with him in glory.” (Colossians 3:4)
🔑 So then, what are we waiting for?
We are not looking to escape this world by vanishing—we are longing to be fully seen for who we truly are in Christ. For the believer, the blessed hope is not a ticket out of tribulation, but the unveiling of glory already planted in the soul. That’s what Paul is echoing in Colossians 3:4:
“When Christ, who is your life, is revealed, then you also will be revealed with Him in glory.”
This is not describing a secret rapture—it’s proclaiming a glorious revelation.
The gathering is not a vanishing act; it is the full disclosure of what is already real in the heavens. It is the eternal NOW stepping fully into time. The glory of the children of God, long hidden in jars of clay, will burst forth when the Day of the Lord arrives—not as a fearful event, but as the inevitable rising of the sun.
When Christ is revealed—whether in the clouds or in the final transformation of the cosmos—we will be revealed with Him. Not made new in that moment, but unveiled as already redeemed. The new creation will no longer be hidden under earthly garments.
You see, beloved, this has always been about a Day—not days plural. Not a timeline of endless chapters. But one Day. One unending, radiant, eternal Day.
A Day that began when the stone was rolled away.
A Day that will never see another sunset.
A Day that lives in you now… if Christ is your life.
And so we close not in fear, but in fire—
Not with anxiety, but with anticipation.
Not waiting to flee, but watching to shine.
Colossians 3:4 is not referring to a so-called “rapture” as popularly taught in modern theology. Instead, this verse speaks of a present spiritual identity and future glorification, rooted in union with Christ, and it’s part of a much deeper theological framework Paul is unfolding in Colossians 3 and the letter as a whole.
Let’s explore this in structured and systematic fashion, using only the Bible as our authority:
🔹 1. Contextual Foundation – Union with Christ (Colossians 3:1–4)
📖 Colossians 3:1–4:
“So, if you have been raised with Christ, seek the things that are above, where Christ is, seated at the right hand of God. Set your minds on things that are above, not on things that are on earth, for you have died, and your life is hidden with Christ in God. When Christ who is your life is revealed, then you also will be revealed with him in glory.”
✨ Key Themes:
- “You have been raised with Christ” – This is not future; this is a present spiritual reality. Paul teaches that believers are already participating in resurrection life through Christ.
“Therefore, we were buried with him by baptism into death, so that, just as Christ was raised from the dead by the glory of the Father, so we also might walk in newness of life. For if we have been united with him in a death like his, we will certainly be united with him in a resurrection like his.” (Romans 6:4–5)
- “Your life is hidden with Christ in God” – This hiddenness points to security and mystery, not absence. The believer’s real life is bound up in Christ, in a dimension the world cannot see.
- “When Christ… is revealed” – This revelation (Greek: phaneroō) is about unveiling Christ in glory—not necessarily in a secret or sudden departure, but a full manifestation of who He is, which simultaneously unveils who we are in Him.
- Paul is affirming that our identity in Christ is so united to Him, that His future revealing is our revealing. It is not about some futuristic time, but an eternal now!
So, this is about the believer’s participation in Christ’s glorification—not about a secret exit or escape from the earth, but a transformation rooted in resurrection identity.
🔹 2. Paul’s Broader Theological Theme – The New Creation Life
Paul never limits his teachings to end-times events as escape hatches. Instead, he repeatedly teaches about our current participation in Christ’s death and resurrection.
📖 Romans 6:3–5:
“Do you not know that all of us who have been baptized into Christ Jesus were baptized into his death? … so that, just as Christ was raised from the dead … so we too might walk in newness of life.”
🔑 Here, resurrection is not merely future—it is present reality. We walk in newness of life now, and this is exactly the theme Paul carries into Colossians 3.
📖 2 Corinthians 5:17:
“So, if anyone is in Christ, there is a new creation: everything old has passed away; see, everything has become new!”
Paul is not focused on departure from the world, but rather, on the radical transformation of the believer in the present age. This “revealing in glory” in Colossians 3:4 is the culmination of this identity being made manifest—not a sudden vanishing.
🔹 3. Glory in Scripture – A Revealed Identity, Not an Escape
When Paul says “you also will be revealed with him in glory,” he is echoing a major biblical motif of glorification as the final stage of salvation (Romans 8:30), not removal.
📖 Romans 8:18–19, 21:
“…the glory about to be revealed to us. For the creation waits with eager longing for the revealing of the children of God… that the creation itself will be set free…”
This is not a “rapture” moment—it is a cosmic unveiling, where Christ’s glory is shared with His people, and the entire creation benefits. It is about restoration, not evacuation.
🔹 4. The Practical Outflow – Christ in You, the Hope of Glory
Back in Colossians 1:27, Paul already established the core theme:
📖 Colossians 1:27:
“…Christ in you, the hope of glory.”
- Glory is not some abstract future event; it is the very hope of the believer’s current walk.
- The life we now live is shaped and guided by the glory that is already working within us, to be revealed in fullness when Christ is fully manifest.
“But our citizenship is in heaven, and it is from there that we are expecting a Savior, the Lord Jesus Christ. He will transform the body of our humiliation that it may be conformed to the body of his glory, by the power that also enables him to make all things subject to himself.” (Philippians 3:20–21).
🔹 5. The Flow of Colossians 3:5–17 – Living the Revealed Life Now
Immediately after Colossians 3:4, Paul exhorts believers to put off the old self and put on the new:
- Vv. 5–9: Put to death earthly behaviors.
- Vv. 10–11: “You have clothed yourselves with the new self, which is being renewed in knowledge according to the image of its creator.”
- Vv. 12–17: Live in compassion, forgiveness, peace, and thankfulness.
🎯 These imperatives make no sense unless the glory Paul is talking about in verse 4 is already influencing us now. The life hidden with Christ is to be lived out boldly—not in fear of judgment, but in the light of hope and power.
🔹 Summary of Biblical Support
| Point | Scriptural Evidence | Summary |
| 1. Present resurrection life | Colossians 3:1; Romans 6:4 | We are already raised with Christ now. |
| 2. Hidden life revealed in Christ | Colossians 3:3–4 | Our life is secured and will be unveiled in Him. |
| 3. Glory is shared identity, not escape | Romans 8:18–21 | Creation waits for our revealing, not disappearance. |
| 4. Christ in us now | Colossians 1:27 | The glory is already alive in us. |
| 5. Present transformation proves future hope | Colossians 3:5–17 | Our lifestyle reflects the inner reality of being in Christ. |
🔹 Final Exhortation
Colossians 3:4 is not about disappearing.
It’s about appearing—with Christ.
It is not an exit strategy. It is a revelation strategy—a moment when what is true about us now in Christ will no longer be hidden, but will shine in full view, as the Son of God is glorified before all.
Let this be your confidence:
You are not waiting to escape the world.
You are waiting to be revealed, shining with the glory of Christ, clothed in immortality, and radiant with the truth that your life is already in Him.
🌅 The Day of the Lord…
It is not a concept built on dread or wrapped in the shadows of speculation. It is not a calendar event, boxed in by man’s definitions. It is a Day unlike any other—a Day not marked by hours, but by the revealing of glory.
It is the one true Day—the eternal Day of His appearing.
A Day that had a beginning before time was born.
A Day that shall never see a dusk.
A Day not measured by the sun, but by the Light of the Lamb.
✨ To the believer:
Lift up your head. The Day is not your enemy—it is your unveiling. You are not waiting for escape; you are waiting for union, for fullness, for glory revealed. That Day is not the end. It is the beginning that never ends.
✨ To the one who has never known Him:
You were born for this Day. Not to fear it, but to be found in it, to step into the eternal morning where mercy has no measure and peace has no expiration. The Light of that Day shines even now—calling you.
✨ To the wandering soul, the one who left the path—or stands trembling at its threshold:
This Day is not closed to you. It is not a locked door. It is open. And its light does not shame you—it invites you home. Come. The dawn does not delay for your darkness; it dispels it.
🕊 The prophets saw it. The apostles longed for it. And now we, too, look toward it.
Not as those groping in the shadows, but as those whose eyes have been opened.
The Day of the Lord is not doom for the children of God.
It is not vengeance for those who abide in His love.
It is the long-awaited revelation of what already lives within us—Christ, our hope of glory.
🌟 So, let us look up—not in dread, but in expectation.
The same Jesus who ascended is coming again (Acts 1:11), and He will not forget a single one of His own.
In the weeks to come, we will walk together through the writings of the prophets and apostles—not with the torches of tradition or the lenses of modernism—but with the light of God’s Word alone. We will explore not man’s maps of the end times, but God’s majestic timeline, laid bare in Scripture.
Prepare your heart, beloved. The Word of the Lord is not silent. It speaks. And it declares:
📖 “Behold, I am coming soon; my reward is with me, to repay according to everyone’s work.” — Revelation 22:12
And we who are in Him say not in fear, but in faith:
📖 “Amen. Come, Lord Jesus!” — Revelation 22:20
🙌 Be encouraged. Be strong. And above all—be watching.
For the Day of the Lord is not darkness to the children of light.
It is the dawn. 🌅
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🌅 Ending Prayer
“Walking in the Light of the Eternal Day”
Lord God,
You have spoken to us tonight—not through human invention, but through the enduring truth of Your Word. We thank You for the revelation that the Day of the Lord is not a threat to those who abide in You—but a promise. A promise of glory, of light, and of everlasting union with You.
Let this Word settle deep within us. Let it silence fear and stir faith. Let it drive away the fog of confusion and awaken in us the eternal perspective that You call us to walk in.
For the believer—may hope rise like the morning sun.
For the unbeliever—may the call of grace be heard and received.
For the returning heart—may tonight be the moment where they step out of the shadows and into the light of Your mercy.
Remind us daily, O Lord, that we are children of the Day—not waiting for destruction, but for the revealing of glory. Help us live as those who are already lit by the light of that eternal morning, even now.
Until the skies split with Your return, keep us faithful. Keep us watching.
And may our cry forever be: “Come, Lord Jesus.”
In Jesus’ name,
Amen.
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