Prophetic Scriptures - Part 6

INTRO: In our last message we asked what event closes the Church age, the age we are living in. The answer is? ---the rapture. And the rapture will be signaled by a trumpet sound. The dead in Christ will rise first and then those who are alive will be changed, in a moment, in the twinkling of an eye (1 Thess. 4 and 1 Cor. 15). 1 Corinthians 15:52 says it will take place in a moment. The original word is atomos. No doubt we get our word ‘atom' from this word. The word atomos means it cannot be cut in two. How quickly will the dead rise? How quickly will the bodies of living believers be changed? In a time so short, it cannot be cut in two! This verse further describes it as the time of the twinkling of an eye. Well, that was the smallest time unit known at that time.