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All right, my Bible in 365, 
brothers and sisters, we have 

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arrived at the book of First 
Thessalonians and folks, this 

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one is a doozy. 
I love, I love, I love this 

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book. 
And I would be amiss to not 

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recommend that you go to 
jamescadice.com and get all of 

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the Bible studies that I teach 
through this because it is 

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remarkable. 
I go through multiple 

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generations of this study. 
If you want to get down to the 

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technical background of this in 
this book or a little bit of the

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cultural or even some of the 
lexical syntactical analysis 

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tied to this book, you can go to
some of my summaries at Bible in

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365 or go to jamescadice.com and
it will give you great insight 

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regarding so much of why this 
book is important. 

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Now there are so many places 
that I would love to focus on. 

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I would love to focus on 1st 
Thessalonians 5, which talks 

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about a thief in the night. 
The coming of the Lord is going 

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to be as as such. 
Actually the judgment of God is 

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going to be as such and how 
we're told to be sober, how to 

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be watching an incredible 
passage, but perhaps my favorite

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passage, the one that I think is
critical to go through would be 

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First Thessalonians chapter 4. 
It is encouraging. 

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I want to start at verse 13, 
because verse 13 it says, But I 

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would not have you to be 
ignorant, brethren, concerning 

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them which are a sleep that you 
sorrow not even as others which 

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have no hope. 
In other words, we're going to 

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sorrow when our loved ones pass 
away. 

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Of course we are. 
But we're not going to sorrow 

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the way the world does. 
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Because we're going to see them 
again. 

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But what's even more spectacular
is what the apostle Paul says, 

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and it's incredible. 
Look what he says. 

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He says. 
For if we believe that Jesus 

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died and rose again, Even so 
them also which sleep in Jesus 

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will God bring with him. 
For this we say unto you by the 

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word of the Lord, that we which 
are alive and remain unto the 

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coming of the Lord shall not 
prevent them which are asleep. 

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In other words, God is saying 
everybody's going to join the 

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party when the rapture happens, 
and it's going to be absolutely 

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incredible. 
Now, there is so much to talk 

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about, especially concerning the
word rapture. 

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We get the word rapture actually
from this passage, and I'll 

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explain it in just a second. 
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something really important here 
before we go on. 

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And I think it's critical. 
The apostle Paul says, I would 

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have you not be ignorant. 
Look, before we get on to the 

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description of what happens at 
the rapture in this passage, I 

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want to make a statement that I 
think is incredibly important. 

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The return of Christ is eminent.
The rapture of the Church is 

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eminent. 
How do we know? 

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How do we know? 
Where is the evidence of that? 

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Let me give you 10 quick things,
and I've got these memorized. 

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I've actually got 30 things 
memorized, but let me give you 

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these 10 because they are the 
most consequential related to 

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this particular subject. 
And the first one is the state 

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of Israel, Israel's restoration,
guys, the Jewish people have 

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returned to their ancestral 
homeland. 

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Look at Ezekiel 36. 
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it. 
Look at Amos 9. 

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It is all over the Bible and it 
is happening and you have to 

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have an Israel in order for a 
for the last days to happen. 

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How about this Jerusalem is at 
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I have talked about this 
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that Jerusalem will be a 
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Jerusalem has become a focal 
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conflict in the whole world, 
international conflict. 

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The third thing, the rise of 
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Look at what's happening with it
on it on is increasingly central

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to everything happening in 
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That's an Ezekiel 38 principle 
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The fourth thing, wars, rumors 
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Military conflicts, you guys and
threats continue across the 

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world, not just the Middle East 
and Jesus told us about this in 

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Matthew 24 right around verse 
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The fifth thing is the increase 
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Look at what's happening. 
Evil is increasingly normalized 

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and celebrated. 
Matthew 24. 

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Again, Jesus said this would 
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Second Timothy chapter 3. 
We see this all over the place 

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in the Bible. 
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How about a growing rejection of
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How about that? 
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that that would happen. 
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a better term. 
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faith. 
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We see it coming and it's 
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How about the global government 
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That's number 7, and that's a 
big #7 we are seeing increasing 

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technological capacity for all 
of this centralized economic 

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control and everything else. 
That's Revelation 13, the mark 

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of the beast. 
It's that whole picture #8 this 

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one's a big one. 
Think about this one, the re 

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emergence of Temple preparation.
Look at what the Temple 

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Institute is doing. 
Look at how all the laws are 

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beginning to change. 
Look at how Jews are praying on 

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the Temple Mount. 
They're ascending to the Temple 

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Mount. 
It is becoming a big deal. 

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When you read passages like 
Revelation Chapter 11, I believe

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it is, or you look at 2nd 
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it. 
We see the discussion of the 

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Temple, Matthew 24, the 
abomination that causes 

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desolate. 
You can't have an abomination 

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that causes desolate if you 
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So we see that beginning to 
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What about the deception and all
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that's a big one. 
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spiritual deception is right 
now, including within, you know,

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those who profess to be 
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It's unbelievable. 
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for number 10 would be the 
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The Bible says that the spirit 
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around. 
But think about this increasing 

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opposition to Christ in the 
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seeking to replace him. 
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It's happening everywhere. 
So the apostle Paul doesn't want

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us to be ignorant concerning 
these things. 

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Look what he says in verse 14. 
For if we believe that Jesus 

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died and rose again, Even so 
them which also sleep in Jesus 

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will God bring with him. 
For this we say unto you by the 

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word of the Lord, that we which 
are alive and remain unto the 

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coming of the Lord shall not 
prevent them which are asleep. 

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Verse 16 For the Lord himself. 
Oh, I cry when I read this often

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times. 
I'm not going to do it now. 

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For the Lord himself shall 
descend from heaven with a 

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shout, with the voice of the 
Archangel, and with the trump of

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God. 
And the dead in Christ shall 

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rise first, then we which are 
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What? 
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We're going to go back to that 
word caught up in just a second.

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Caught up together with them in 
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the air. 
And so shall we ever be with the

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Lord. 
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rapture, the word caught up in 
Greek, harpazzo. 

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People say the word. 
The rapture is not even in the 

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Bible. 
Yes, it is. 

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Harpazzo is the Greek word. 
The way that we get the word 

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rapture is when we look at the 
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In the Latin we see the word 
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That's where we get the word 
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It's in a translation of the 
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It's a very, it's a very real 
thing and it's coming and it's 

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exciting. 
We're going to talk about that 

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more, especially when we get 
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We're going to have a 
conversation about it. 

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And I cannot wait to fill you in
on the importance of that 

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passage. 
It's critical to understand the 

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eminence of Christ's return. 
What I love about this chapter 

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are the last words in it. 
Wherefore comfort one another 

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with these words. 
Let me say that one more time, 

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verse 18. 
Wherefore comfort one another 

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with these words. 
It should be comforting to know 

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the Christ is coming soon. 
It should be comforting to know 

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that He could come at any 
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Why? 
No more pain, no more suffering.

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We'll be reunited. 
We experience the Lord full of 

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glory, full of grace, and full 
of truth. 

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Can you imagine how wonderful? 
Think about this. 

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Think about how wonderful our 
relationship with the Lord is 

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right now. 
Can you imagine how much better 

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it would be? 
How much better it would be in 

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perfect, glorified, transformed 
bodies? 

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Does get better than that? 
God is faithful and He's good, 

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and his love and his mercy 
endures forever. 

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Keep seeking him, get into His 
word and do what I tell you to 

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do every single day. 
I'm so proud of you guys. 

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Seriously, I'm so proud of you. 
Read the Word of God. 

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That's what our mission is here 
at Bible in 365 and go out there

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and fight the good fight. 
I love you guys, God bless you.