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THE 1st-CENTURY RAPTURE (SNATCHING AWAY) OF LIVING SAINTS Below is the text of a 4-page leaflet written by James Stuart Russell, author of the late 19th-century masterpiece The Parousia: The New Testament Doctrine of Our Lord’s Second Coming . The authorship of the pamphlet, published anonymously before 1895, was identified through meticulous research by Mateus Fonseca Souza. The document is housed at Brigham Young University and can be accessed on the Internet ( https:// archive.org/details/therap tureofsain697engl … ). Text placed in brackets [such as this] has been added for clarity by the editor of this blog ( http:// russellparousia.blogspot.com ). Text placed in bold reflects the emphasis of the blog editor. -------------------- Leaflet No. [no number given] "The Rapture of the Saints." "Then, we that are alive, that are left; shall together with them (the dead in Christ) be caught up in the clouds to meet the Lord in the air, &c.” — I. THESS. IV., 1...

  Jerusalem's Fall in A.D. 70: An Event that Signified Christ's Second Coming Below is the 42nd of multiple excerpts from Parts I and II of The Parousia , the late 19th-century masterpiece on the Second Coming by James Stuart Russell. The initial 31 posts on this blog deal with the Book of Revelation, which is cogently interpreted in Part III of Russell's magnum opus. (For all blog posts, see russellparousia.blogspot.com) [In previous excerpts, posted at the Parousia blog, Russell has painstakingly shown that an imminent, 1st-century Second Coming was a belief central to Christ's own prophecies and to the teachings of the apostles in the New Testament's epistles and the Book of Revelation. [Russell deals with three key questions in this excerpt: (1) Were Christ and the apostles deluded about the timing of the Second Coming and did God permit this to keep Christians in a state of constant vigilance? (2) Was the destruction of Jerusalem and the Temple in A.D. 70...