First Baptist Church LaGrange

Matthew 24:14, This good news of the kingdom will be proclaimed in all the world as a testimony to all nations, and then the end will come.

Mark 13:23, And you must watch! I have told you everything in advance.
Mark 13:33, Watch! Be alert! For you don’t know when the time is coming.
Mark 13:37, And what I say to you, I say to everyone: Be alert!

1 Thess. 4:16, For the Lord himself will descend from heaven with a shout, with the archangel’s voice, and with the trumpet of God, and the dead in Christ will rise first.

1 Thess. 4:14, For if we believe that Jesus died and rose again, in the same way, through Jesus, God will bring with him those who have fallen asleep.

1 Thess. 4:17, Then we who are still 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.

1 Corinthians 15:51-52, In a moment, in the twinkling of an eye, the dead will be raised and we will be changed.

The Tribulation is not for the Church.

Rev. 3:10-11, Because you have kept my command to endure, I will also keep you from the hour of testing that is going to come on the whole world to test those who live on the earth. 11 I am coming soon. Hold on to what you have, so that no one takes your crown.

The Tribulation is the Wrath of the Lamb

Revelation 6:16, And they said to the mountains and to the rocks, “Fall on us and hide us from the face of the one seated on the throne and from the wrath of the Lamb,

Revelation 19:6-9, Then I heard something like the voice of a vast multitude, like the sound of cascading waters, and like the rumbling of loud thunder, saying, Hallelujah, because our Lord God, the Almighty,
reigns!
and his bride has prepared herself. For the fine linen represents the righteous acts of the saints. 9 Then he said to me, “Write: Blessed are those invited to the marriage feast of the Lamb!” He also said to me, “These words of God are true.”

The Holy Spirit will restrain evil until Church is taken home.

The Wedding of Jesus & the Church (Rev. 19) takes place before the Return of Christ (Rev. 20)

The Rapture is Separate from the Second Coming

2 Peter 3:7, By the same word, the present heavens and earth are stored up for fire, being kept for the day of judgment and destruction of the ungodly.