Rapturing Grace – Rapturing Faith
Spiritual Building-Stone No. 153

I Peter 1:13, “Wherefore gird up the loins of your mind, be sober, and hope to the end for the grace that is to be brought unto you at the revelation of Jesus Christ.”

Listen to what God’s Prophet said about it:

That's the reason I do believe that when that Bride is called out and elected and set in the Book of Life, there'll come a sound from heaven that'll take such a baptism of the Holy Spirit into that Bride that'll take Her from the earth in a rapturing grace. God promised it.

I don't care how many science or how many astronauts they signed up, and everything else, and how many million miles they can see; I don't care nothing about that. There is a heaven, and there's a literal Jesus Christ there that'll come in a body form to receive His church and His Bride! (I Thess. 4:16-17). No matter how old the story seems, it's still the Truth; God said so. That's what believers believe. [1]

I truly believe, before the church can have the rapture, it's got to have rapturing faith. We can't even have faith for Divine healing, let alone rapturing faith. Got to have a faith that'll change and quicken this body, and be taken away (I Cor. 15:51-54). I believe there’s a church on its road tonight, a power of the living God, that men will speak the Word here and there, and it'll flash like lightning. And a church is coming out, not a psychologist, not some of this put-on, make-belief; but a real, true, genuine, anointed Holy Ghost, called-out church. Amen. [2]

And you talk about a Church for the rapturing grace, it would come to pass when we can tear down our traditions, forget all of our denominational things, and come right back on the basis of God's Word. [3]

There's your five wise virgins who had Oil in their lamps, rapturing faith, believing all the signs, wonders, prophecies, and everything. And these five cut out of the remnant was taken away. And the rest of them were still virgins and will not be lost, but will go through the tribulation period. Jesus said "There'll be…” (Matt. 25:1-13). And they said, "Give us some of your Oil; we want the Holy Ghost now." [4]

And I want you to get built up now in the holy Oracles of God, in the faith, the faith of this hour. The faith, it's going to take more faith than ever was in any age, for this has to be rapturing faith, be taken up (Jude 3). [5]

Now, great Teacher, as Thou has taught us in Thy most marvelous Word, our hearts just quiver with a rapturing grace to know that we've passed from death unto Life (John 5:24). It's all through the goodness of our Lord Jesus Who called us, and has washed us in His blood, and has presented us before the throne of God, faultless, blameless, for He took our sins; we have no sin. God laid the iniquity of us all upon Him, and He was wounded for our transgressions (Isaiah 53:4-7). Oh, how we love Him, the great Lamb of God. [6]

Just as we know now, as a man asked me a few moments ago about the coming and the rapture. We know we've lived the time out. The time of the rapture is at hand. And we're looking for a rapturing faith that can pull the churches together and give it some supernatural strength that can change these bodies that we live in (Phil. 3:20-21). We see a God that can raise the dead off the floor, or out in the yard, and bring him back to life again, and present him before us. When we see a God who can take a cancer that's eat a man to a shadow, and raise him up to a strong healthy man, that ought to give rapturing faith to the people. That when that Light flashes from the sky, and the trumpet sounds, the Body of Christ will be quickly gathered together, and changed in a moment, and taken into the heavens. [7]

And at the end of the Pentecostal age we are supposed to receive, according to the Word, as God help me tonight to show you through here, that we are to receive a messenger that will take all those loose ends out there and reveal the whole secret of God for the rapturing of the Church. And then there's coming forth seven mysterious thunders that's not even written at all. That's right. And I believe that through those seven thunders will be revealed in the last days in order to get the Bride together for rapturing faith; because what we got right now, we wouldn't be able to do it. There's something we've got to step farther; we can't have enough faith for Divine healing hardly. We've got to have enough faith to be changed in a moment and be swept up out of this earth, and we'll find that after a while, the Lord willing, find where it's written.

But think, now he wrote this, but when he started to write those other seven thunders, he said, "Don't write it." He'd been commissioned to write everything he seen. But when these seven thunders over in Revelations 10 uttered, he said, "Don't write them at all." (Rev. 10:1-7). They're mysteries. We don't know what they are yet; but my opinion they'll be revealed right away. And when it do, it'll give faith for that rapturing grace for that Church to move out. We just move through everything that we know of; through all the dispensations we've watched everything. We've seen the mysteries of God. We've seen the appearing of the great gathering together of the Bride in the last days, but yet there's something in there that we just can't lighten ourself with. There's something another. But I imagine when them mysteries begins to come forth... God said, "Hold it back now. Wait a minute. I'll reveal it in that day. Don't write it at all, John, 'cause they'll stagger over it. Just let it go. But I'll reveal it in that day when it has need to done." [8]

And Father, so many things could be said right here; maybe the church wouldn't understand. But I pray that You'll give them such a crave for it, Lord, that they'll come and see we're at the end time, the astronaut age. I pray, Father, that they'll realize it isn't trying to condemn what they had; it's only trying to give them more rapturing grace. For the hour will come when we'll have to have rapture power, not only to heal the body but to change it in a moment in a twinkling of an eye. Christ will be so real into their bodies (Col. 1:24-29), till He can change it by His great death and what He purchased. May they take this today, that Token that I spoke of last night, hold It before them and walk into this Astronaut (Grant it, Father.), where visions, powers, and worlds beyond, known, and, O God, where all the great mysteries of God is unfolded in those Seven Seals and made known to men. Grant it, Father. [9]

It is so sacred that I mustn't not say much about it, as He told me in the beginning. Said, "This, say nothing of it." You remember that years ago? It speaks for Itself. I've tried to explain the others, and I made a mistake. This will be the thing that to my opinion (I don't say the Lord tells me this.)--this will be the thing that will start the rapturing faith for the going away. Now, and that... I must lay quiet for just a little while. [10]

Hattie Wright, the other day, she didn't ask for nothing. She was just setting there, but she said the right thing, which pleased the Holy Spirit. And the Holy Spirit spoke back and said, "Hattie, ask anything that you will, whatever you got and you want. Find out whether this is real or not. Ask anything (the healing of her little crippled sister setting there all drawed up; ten thousand dollars to keep her from digging on them hills over there; the youth restored to her well run-down body); whatever you want to ask, you ask it right now. If It don't come and give it to you right now, then I'm a false prophet." That's something, isn't it?

Jesus said, “Say to this mountain…” (Mark 11:22-26). And you've heard about what's been taken place; that's the ministry that we're entering into. We're way up the road now. Soon the coming of the Lord Jesus. And we've got to have rapturing faith in a church that can be changed in a moment in a twinkling of an eye to go out, or we'll not go. But don't worry, it'll be there. It’ll be there. And when the power of this church rises, it'll bring its brethren; the power of that church rises will bring its brethren; the power of that church will bring the other brethren; then there'll be a general resurrection (Rev. 20:6). We're looking forward to it. [11]

It's the Holy Ghost that we're justified by. You ministers know that, don't you? The Holy Ghost sanctifies. The Holy Ghost fills us. The Holy Ghost gives us rapturing faith, see, as we move up. [9]

Reference:
[1] “Three Kinds Of Believers”, pg. 15
[2] “Israel At Kadesh Barnea” (53-0328), par. 79
[3] “World Is Falling Apart” (63-1115), par. 193
[4] “Questions & Answers On Genesis” (53-0729), COD pg. 53, par. 260
[5] “Spiritual Food In Due Season”, par. 3
[6] “Hebrews, Chapter 6, Part 2”, par. 503
[7] “Why Cry, Speak” (63-0714M), pg. 10
[8] “First Seal”, pg. 128 + 142
[9] “Countdown” (64-0209), par. 95 + 175
[10] “Look Away To Jesus” (63-1229E), pg. 6
[11] “Questions & Answers On The Holy Ghost”, COD pg. 411, par. 20

Spiritual Building-Stone No. 153 from the Revealed Word of this hour, compiled by: Gerd Rodewald, Friedenstr. 69, D-75328 Schömberg, Germany
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