A statement in the “Rapture” sermon was made a doctrine; this can by no means be allowed. If anyone only reads a few more pages, he will find how the Holy Spirit straightway moved to Matthew 25. “A message comes forth first. Now, ‘Lamp-trimming time. Rise and trim your lamps.’ … ‘Behold the Bridegroom cometh. Rise and trim your lamps.’ … But it’s lamp-trimming time. It’s Malachi 4 time … It’s Luke 17. It’s Isaiah… All those prophecies… perfectly set in order for this day in the Scriptures…“ (Pg. 29)

There is a cry which goes forth to wake up and to call out according to Matthew 25 and Rev. 18:4. That is going on now through the message. The shout, voice and trumpet of I. Thess. 4 will take place at the second coming of Christ. If somebody teaches that the first phase started with the opening of the seven seals and that Christ has left the mercy seat then, that is wrong. If the first phase is still going on after over twenty years, how long should we wait until the second and the third phase will be accomplished? This again shows how quickly unscriptural conclusions are drawn. Only after the last predestinated seed has come in, Christ will leave the mercy seat. It takes a divine call to the ministry. Otherwise someone is only “trying to do God a service without it being His will”. The result of that is pathetic.

In Psalms 47:5 we read, “God is gone up with a shout, the Lord with the sound of a trumpet”. Take this Old Testament prophecy as the basis. Two things happened when the Lord our God went up: a shout and a trumpet. Three things will take place as the Lord comes down. The voice which is connected with the raising of the dead could not be there when He went up, because the Old Testament saints who were to partake in the first resurrection had already risen with Christ. Matthew 27:46 says, “Jesus, when He had cried again with a loud voice, yielded up the spirit. … And the graves were opened; and many bodies of the saints that slept were raised…” So at His ascension to heaven there was only the shout and the trumpet. O how perfect is the Word of God!

“For the Lord himself shall descend from heaven with a shout, with the voice of the archangel, and with the trump of God; and the dead in Christ shall rise first.”

A statement in the “Rapture” sermon was made a doctrine; this can by no means be allowed. If anyone only reads a few more pages, he will find how the Holy Spirit straightway moved to Matthew 25. “A message comes forth first. Now, ‘Lamp-trimming time. Rise and trim your lamps.’ … ‘Behold the Bridegroom cometh. Rise and trim your lamps.’ … But it’s lamp-trimming time. It’s Malachi 4 time … It’s Luke 17. It’s Isaiah… All those prophecies… perfectly set in order for this day in the Scriptures…“ (Pg. 29)

There is a cry which goes forth to wake up and to call out according to Matthew 25 and Rev. 18:4. That is going on now through the message. The shout, voice and trumpet of I. Thess. 4 will take place at the second coming of Christ. If somebody teaches that the first phase started with the opening of the seven seals and that Christ has left the mercy seat then, that is wrong. If the first phase is still going on after over twenty years, how long should we wait until the second and the third phase will be accomplished? This again shows how quickly unscriptural conclusions are drawn. Only after the last predestinated seed has come in, Christ will leave the mercy seat. It takes a divine call to the ministry. Otherwise someone is only “trying to do God a service without it being His will”. The result of that is pathetic.

In Psalms 47:5 we read, “God is gone up with a shout, the Lord with the sound of a trumpet”. Take this Old Testament prophecy as the basis. Two things happened when the Lord our God went up: a shout and a trumpet. Three things will take place as the Lord comes down. The voice which is connected with the raising of the dead could not be there when He went up, because the Old Testament saints who were to partake in the first resurrection had already risen with Christ. Matthew 27:46 says, “Jesus, when He had cried again with a loud voice, yielded up the spirit. … And the graves were opened; and many bodies of the saints that slept were raised…” So at His ascension to heaven there was only the shout and the trumpet. O how perfect is the Word of God!

“For the Lord himself shall descend from heaven with a shout, with the voice of the archangel, and with the trump of God; and the dead in Christ shall rise first.”