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By the way, before the Rapture and the receiving of glorified bodies, we are not in a temporary body. We are in
the spirit, living in a spiritual domain in heaven. This is told to us by the Apostle Paul in 1 Corinthians.

1 Corinthians 15:45:46 “So also it is written, “The first MAN, Adam, BECAME A LIVING SOUL.” The last
Adam became a life-giving spirit. However, the spiritual is not first, but the natural; then the spiritual.
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The first man is from the earth, earthy; the second man is from heaven.”
This belief comes from the insertion in the previous passage of the word body in “spiritual body”, which is not
mentioned at all in the original Greek manuscript. This insertion of “body” has confused Bible teachers.

1 Corinthians 15:44 “it is sown a natural body, it is raised a spiritual body. If there is a natural body, there
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is also spiritual body.”

Trumpet Judgments: Seventh Seal
These contrasting events in heaven reveal to us that the Rapture must follow after the sixth seal is broken. Once
the seventh seal is opened by the Lamb, it will start the Trumpet Judgments. The opening of the seventh seal
begins with silence in heaven for the space of approximately a half-hour. What is the significance of the silence?

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August 2397 Light Tunnel for Christ’s Return to earth with His Armies of War, similar to the Rapture Light Tunnel

The light tunnel is used for both Christ’s Return with His immortal armies of war as well as for the Rapture.
Nevertheless, the light tunnel used for the Rapture of the Bride in Christ appears on the earth for approximately
a half-hour? This time is paralleled in scripture with the statement “there was silence in heaven for about half an hour.”
This silence occurs when Christ, the Lamb, breaks the seventh seal. His gathering of His Bride requires them to
come to earth from the heavens in the spirit to receive their resurrected bodies. For those who are dead in Christ
and sealed with the Holy Spirit are in heaven. This gathering from the heavens and on the earth those who are

183 New American Standard Bible : 1995 update. 1995 (1 Co 15:45–47). LaHabra, CA: The Lockman Foundation.

184 New American Standard Bible : 1995 update. 1995 (1 Co 15:44). LaHabra, CA: The Lockman Foundation.