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Question: Must the church be united before Christ can return?

November 1, 2023

Question: Many are teaching that the church must be united and purified before Christ can return. Is that biblical? Response: It is neither biblical nor logical that the small fraction of the church that is alive on earth at the time of the Rapture must have attained to a status...Read more

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Question: I am confused about “the dead in Christ shall rise”— what does that exactly mean?

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