<blockquote><font size=1>In reply to:</font><hr>[color:"blue"]I don't know where he got "secret" from. </font><hr></blockquote><p> [color:red]From dispensational literature.</font color=red><br><br>Silver, The Lord’s Return, p. 260, says:<br><blockquote>Quickly and INVISIBLY, unperceived by the world, the Lord will come as a thief in the night and catch away His waiting saints.</blockquote> Roberts, How to be Personally Prepared for the Second Coming of Christ, p. 34, says:<br><br><blockquote>His appearance in the clouds will be veiled to the human eye and NO ONE WILL SEE HIM. He will slip in, slip out; move in to get His jewels and slip out as under the cover of night.</blockquote> <br>Ford, Seven Simple Sermons on the Second Coming, p. 51, says:<br><br><blockquote>[The rapture] will be a SECRET appearing, and only the believers will know about it.</blockquote> Bishop, The Doctrine of Grace, p. 341, says:<br><br><blockquote>It will be a SECRET rapture — QUIET, NOISELESS, sudden as the step of the thief in the night. All that the world will know will be that multitudes at once have gone.</blockquote> As compared to Scripture with says:<br><br><blockquote>1 Thes 4:16-18 For the Lord Himself will descend from heaven with [color:red]a shout</font color=red>, with the [color:red]voice of the archangel and with the trumpet of God</font color=red>, and the dead in Christ will rise first. Then we who are alive and remain will be caught up together with them in the clouds to meet the Lord in the air, and so we shall always be with the Lord. </blockquote><br>

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