What do you think about God making the Saints disappear? Can you believe that the disappearing saints who are lifted up to heaven don’t die, there’s no body, they just disappear?
Awhile back, I had a Sunday Brunch blog post about the disappearance of Philip. Well, I’d heard that there were other scriptures in the Bible where the Lord made the Saints disappear. Ironically, I read and reviewed a Chris Well book recently, and in that novel, he listed some other scriptures that had disappearing saints.
I think it’s oh, so amazing and awesome! Do you think something like that could happen today? I think it’s possible, but not probable. Depending upon who it was, I’m sure that person would be missed by friends and loved ones, people would be wondering what had happened to him/her. There may be those who would know that the missing person was lifted up by God, but, it’s highly unlikely that all would believe.
Also, to be lifted up by God, disappearing, with no dead body behind…well, I’d think the one being swept up by God would have a unique, highly-personal, very deep, relationship with God. It’d be a relationship that most of us wouldn’t even begin to understand.
Here are the scriptures:
ENOCH
Genesis 5:24
24 And Enoch walked with God; and he was not, for God took him.
Hebrews 11:5
5 By faith Enoch was taken away so that he did not see death, “and was not found, because God had taken him”; for before he was taken he had this testimony, that he pleased God.
ELIJAH
2 Kings 2:11-12
11 Then it happened, as they continued on and talked, that suddenly a chariot of fire appeared with horses of fire, and separated the two of them; and Elijah went up by a whirlwind into heaven.
12 And Elisha saw it, and he cried out, “My father, my father, the chariot of Israel and its horsemen!” So he saw him no more. And he took hold of his own clothes and tore them into two pieces.
JESUS – This instance is in a different vein than the rest on this list. However, I felt compelled to include this one since it’s familiar to most Christians and it helps to illustrate what I’m talking about.
Luke 24:3-7
3 Then they went in and did not find the body of the Lord Jesus. 4 And it happened, as they were greatly perplexed about this, that behold, two men stood by them in shining garments. 5 Then, as they were afraid and bowed their faces to the earth, they said to them, “Why do you seek the living among the dead? 6 He is not here, but is risen! Remember how He spoke to you when He was still in Galilee, 7 saying, ‘The Son of Man must be delivered into the hands of sinful men, and be crucified, and the third day rise again.’”
PHILIP
Acts 8:39-40
39 When they came up out of the water, the Spirit of the Lord suddenly took Philip away, and the eunuch did not see him again, but went on his way rejoicing. 40 Philip, however, appeared at Azotus and traveled about, preaching the gospel in all the towns until he reached Caesarea.
What do you think about God making the Saints disappear? Do you think something like that could happen today? Leave a comment!
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This is interesting. Yes I do believe that God can still allow someone to leave without death “disappear”.
Don’t forget the big disappearance to come “the rapture”. I thought about this when the airplane disappeared recently over seas. It could it have been “the rapture”. We do not know exactly how it will all take place will it be in masses or sparingly? God’s timing is not ours. Something to ponder.
Hi, Pat
Interesting comment about the missing plane. I highly doubt that it’s the rapture, but, then, who am I to know these things? The 24th chapter of Matthew gives all sorts of signs of the End of the Times. I found the 40th and the 41st verse to be interesting since it references what I perceive MAY be the rapture: 40Two men will be in the field; one will be taken and the other left. 41Two women will be grinding with a hand mill; one will be taken and the other left.
I kinda think that it’ll be worldwide, not in bits and pieces. If there are people missing, raptured, from the missing plane, then, I’d think there’d be disappearances elsewhere? Kinda hard to speculate about these things.
I do find it weird to think that some saints are just lifted up, piecemeal, to go to the Lord, like Enoch and Elijah. What about their families, friends, and loved ones? Were they aware that Enoch and Elijah had been lifted up to be with the Lord since they no longer existed on earth, and didn’t die – they just got lifted up?