Rapture and Subsequent Events

We believe in the premillennial return of Christ, an event which can occur at any moment, that at that moment the dead in Christ shall be raised in glorified bodies, all the living in Christ shall be given glorified bodies without tasting death, and shall be caught up together to meet the Lord in the air before the seven years of the tribulation (I Thess. 4:13-18; I Cor. 15:42- 44, 51-54; Phil. 3:20-21).

We believe that the tribulation, which follows the Rapture of the Church, will be culminated by the revelation of Christ in power and great glory to sit upon the throne of David and to establish the millennial kingdom (Dan. 9:25-27; Matt. 24:29-31; Luke 1:30-33; Isa. 9:6-7; 11:1-9; Acts 2:29-30; Rev. 20:1-4,6).

The Righteous and the Wicked

We believe that there is a radical and essential difference between the righteous and the wicked; that only those who are justified by faith in our Lord Jesus Christ and sanctified by the Spirit of our God are truly righteous in His esteem, while all such as continue in impenitence and unbelief are in His sight wicked and under the curse, and that this distinction holds among men both in and after death; in the everlasting felicity of the saved and the everlasting conscious suffering of the lost in the lake of fire (Matt. 3:18; Gen. 18:23; Rom. 6:17-18; I John 5:19; Rom. 6:23; Prov. 14:32; Luke 16:25; Matt. 25:34-41; John 8:21; Rev. 20:14-15).