The Rapture, The Great Tribulation, and Armageddon
The truth is that there will be two Raptures. One which will take place pre-tribulation and one which will take at Armageddon. The beginning of End Times was signified by Tunguska Explosion which occurred June 30th, 1908 at 7:17am over Siberia and at this point scientists still have no explanation for. Revelation 12:7-12 reveals when Satan and his angels (demonic forces) were hurled down to the earth. At this time we are nearing the culmination of End Times. The Great Tribulation ushers in when the first Rapture is completed. During this time, those who were left behind will have the opportunity to have a change or heart, to prove their faith to the Father and accept Christ as their savior. It is a second chance for many. At the end of the Great Tribulation, Armageddon will occur and this is when Christ will return. Those who have had a change of heart will be Raptured. The rest will be annihilated by the Father’s deputies of the Holy Angelic Orders, known as the Lions of Zion (LOZ). Satan and his legions of demons will then be captured and tossed into the Abyss and locked away for the duration of Christ’s Kingdom where he will reign for 1,000 years (the Millennium) and at the end of the Millennium Satan will be loosed one final time to test mankind. It is after the Millennium that Eternity will begin. Want more details / Scriptural references? Read a lot more HERE.
At the rapture, the dead will rise first but why?
The “dead in Christ” that “will rise first” means that they rise to see the Kingdom first. Since they are with him at the time he comes, it follows that they have RISEN to the height of the Promised Kingdom FIRST – before he Raptures those alive on this planet.
When Paul said, “concerning those who are asleep,” he was referring to those that had already passed over from the fleshly plane to the spirit plane. In the fleshly plane, the container of the human mortal is left behind, and the container itself has been spent or used up. It is in effect, in a state of a death-like sleep to all that view the remains. But that which passes over, it is the spirit, the essence of what that person really is:
Psalm 3:5 “I lie down and sleep; I wake again because the LORD sustains me.”
This verse gives insight into the loss of the fleshly container, and the waking again by passing over to the other side. The life over there is attributed to Yahweh whom sustains the existence of those that have passed over.