<TITLE>16. Par -</TITLE>L-716-141 The gathering of the people will be not clannish, for a group here. It'll be a universal resurrection gathering together, and the rapture will come the same way. Because He said, "When one fell asleep in this watch, one in that watch, one in--on down to the seventh watch. And then when the Bridegroom come, all of them awaked, every one all the way from the time of Genesis until the end of Revelation. Every one of them awakened, that's right, to get ready to go in."
Now, you see, He shows that all the dead will rise forth from the grave at His coming, the righteous, the Bride, the sleeping ones that's in the grave will rise at the resurrection. Then He shows that the people that are living on earth, it'll be one here and one there, it will not be a bunch of people gathered together in a little group, "For there will be one in the field, or two in the field, I'll take one and leave one," there comes one of the church out of daylight. On the other side of the earth, "There'll be two in bed, I'll take one and leave one." Is that right?

L-717-143 So the gathering will be unto Christ whether I am in Jeffersonville, whether I am in Sweden, whether I... And wherever it is, is the gathering will be unto the Shepherd. See? And then together we'll be caught up with the resurrection to meet the Lord in the air. People will be coming from all parts of the earth that's living. People that's dead, and so forth, will rise. And together the church will be caught up together to meet the Lord in the air. See?
His coming will be universal. It will not be just coming to Louisville. It will not be just coming to the Baptist, to the Presbyterian. It'll be "the pure in heart shall see God," and the resurrection and the gathering shall be from everywhere.
And now, when is it coming? Maybe tonight, maybe tomorrow, maybe this year, maybe fifty years, maybe a hundred years, maybe another thousand years. I don't know. Nobody else knows. But let's us, you and I, live tonight like it was going to be yet tonight.


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