What Happens After the Rapture (TMF:2765)

Friday, December 12, 2025

Peace to Live By: What Happens After the Rapture (TMF:2765) - Daniel Litton
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Finishing Paul’s verse to the Colossians, “then you also will appear with him in glory.” There it is. There is the completion of the whole project. Amazing it will be, for we will be restored back to the original state, the state of that which Adam and Eve had with God in the Garden. We will be in perfect fellowship with God, without an inkling of sin in the picture. We will be with him “in glory” which means we will be with everyone else who is saved, all those who are also with us “in glory.” That means we will have perfect fellowship with them as well. There won’t be any relational tensions with anyone. Everyone who is saved will be in perfect fellowship one with another. Notice how Paul said when Christ “appears” that “then you also will appear.” So, as Paul told the Thessalonians, we will be “caught up” to the Lord and then “we will always be with the Lord.” That’s the promise; that’s the beauty of the whole thing.

What Happens at the Rapture (TMF:2764)

Thursday, December 11, 2025

Peace to Live By: What Happens at the Rapture (TMF:2764) - Daniel Litton
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Even if we die before that event takes place, before the Rapture, we will still obtain our new bodies, those sin-free bodies, at the Rapture. That’s the way it works. Let’s consider that passage, the one Paul said to the Thessalonians. 1 Thessalonians 4, starting in verse 15: “For this we declare to you by a word from the Lord, that we who are alive, who are left until the coming of the Lord, will not precede those who have fallen asleep. For the Lord himself will descend from heaven with a cry of command, with the voice of an archangel, and with the sound of the trumpet of God. And the dead in Christ will rise first. Then we who are alive, who are left, will be caught up together with them in the clouds to meet the Lord in the air, and so we will always be with the Lord. Therefore encourage one another with these words” (ESV). Therefore, here Paul gives us a complete summary of what is going to happen, and how the process of which Paul is discussing with the Colossian believers is going to be completed.

But Still on the Earth, Part 2 (TMF:2763)

Wednesday, December 10, 2025

Peace to Live By: But Still on the Earth, Part 2 (TMF:2763) - Daniel Litton
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That’s just the way it works. We are still under the curse of sin, the one that God warned Adam about in the Garden, remember, “for in the day that you eat of it you shall surely die” (Genesis 2:17, ESV). We don’t get to physically be with Christ right now, right at the moment we immediately believe in him, believe in what he accomplished for us. That doesn’t come till later. And that later, why, we don’t actually know when that will be. Paul said, “When Christ who is your life appears.” We often don’t think about this verse as being a reference to the Rapture of the Church, but really, if you stop and think about it, it seems that it’s a fair reference to that event. It seems fair because, that’s when we are going to get our new resurrection bodies, when Christ appears in the sky, calling those of us who are alive up to be with him. Even if we die before that event takes place, before the Rapture, we will still obtain our new bodies, those sin-free bodies, at the Rapture. That’s the way it works.

But Still on the Earth, Part 1 (TMF:2762)

Tuesday, December 09, 2025

Peace to Live By: But Still on the Earth, Part 1 (TMF:2762) - Daniel Litton
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Verse 4: “When Christ who is your life appears, then you also will appear with him in glory” (ESV). The verse points out for us that while we may be seated with Christ in Heaven, we are also still separated from him in the physical sense. We still live on this earth, and we still live in our human flesh, that flesh which is affected by the sin-nature. It’s that sin nature that tries to draw us away from living like Christ, living in a way that is pleasing to God. So, while we have that spiritual unity, there is also that separation in the sense that we are not holy in this life. We will still make incorrect decisions, no matter how much we don’t want to, and we will struggle in this body to the end. That’s just the way it works. We are still under the curse of sin, the one that God warned Adam about in the Garden, remember, “for in the day that you eat of it you shall surely die” (Genesis 2:17, ESV).

Being Hidden in Christ with God, Part 3 (TMF:2761)

Monday, December 08, 2025

Peace to Live By: Being Hidden in Christ with God, Part 3 (TMF:2761) - Daniel Litton
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If we are spiritually up in Heaven with God and Christ, the fact that we are “hidden” in him seems to denote a separation from the world. We are hidden in him, thus separated from the world. That means, again, we don’t find our foundation and our home here on this earth. There’s a separation, and that should come out in how we view ourselves, how we view this life, and consequently how others view us as a result of the first two things. If we are seeing ourselves not belonging to this world, then the world will undoubtedly sense that in some way, shape, or form. If we are trying to align our characters with Christ, in a way that is pleasing to God, that should also resonate in the minds of the world. They should look at each one of us and wonder what is different about us. Hopefully, they will be drawn to that, and then we can tell them when we are asked about it. We can tell them why we are different—different in a good way, and perhaps they follow through in obtaining what we already have.