h praise and joy unspeakable. Oh, for that shout,
that assembling shout from the glorified Head to His own members! The
dead in Christ shall rise first, then we which are alive shall be
caught up together with them in clouds. The clouds will be the
chariots of glory which take us into His presence. Then we shall meet
the Lord in the air, and so shall we ever be with the Lord. This
coming of the Lord for his saints is the blessed Hope, the Hope of the
Church, our Hope.

We are to occupy ourselves next with the question, who, when the hour
arrives, will be caught up to meet the Lord in the air. Will all true
Christians be caught up or only a few? This is an important question,
important because that blessed event may come at any time. There is,
in our days, a decided increase of teachers who teach what has been
termed a "partial rapture." According to some of these teachings only
those who believe that the Lord is coming, and who wait for His coming,
who have a correct knowledge of His Second Coming, will be taken, and
others who had not light on dispensational teachings, but were equally
sincere, will be left to pass through the tribulation. Others again
declare that only those will be caught up who attained to a certain
spirituality. What is termed "a higher life experience" is, according
to these, necessary to share in the rapture. Only "consecrated"
Christians will be taken up who are loosened from earthly things. This
teaching is found mostly among Christian believers, who are much
occupied with themselves, their experiences, and who do not know the
blessed position the believer holds through grace in Christ. Then
there are numerous groups of people, some of them perfectionists, who
are scattered from Maine to California, from North to South and who
claim that only the 144,000 will be caught up, and that those who hold
these teachings, or, possess their peculiar experience, will belong to
that company. These people forget that the 144,000 in Revelation are
of Israel. Some of the so-called "Pentecostal people," now split up in
different sects, have imposed another condition, that of speaking in a
strange tongue. There is still another view, or rather new
presentation of the partial rapture, which seems to have unsettled some
believers. We have received a number of letters from students and
others have come to us and asked us about it.

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