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The Prologue · The UnRaptured

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  Unraptured, a dystopian Christian saga.
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  Created, written, directed, and produced by the People's Storylab, starring W.
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  Richard Johnson, Vavaria Etheridge, Eric Nolan, and Timothy Stonedancer Coleman.
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  This story begins after an event many Christians call the Rapture.
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  If you already know the term, you know the terrain.
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  If you do not, this explanation is here to set the ground beneath the story.
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  Not a sermon, not an argument, just a plain foundation so everyone starts in the same place.
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  It's It's been me and you
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  In Christian belief, at a moment known only to God, Jesus Christ returns to gather his people.
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  Those who died in him are raised first.
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  Then, believers who are still living are caught up instantly to meet him.
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  The world continues, but the people who remain must confront what happened and what it means.
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  Five Bible passages stand at the center of this belief.
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  Let's do a quick summary in plain.
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  1 Thessalonians 4, 16-17.
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  The Lord descends with command, with the archangel's voice, and with God's trumpet.
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  Those who died trusting Christ rise first.
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  Then, believers who are still living are caught up with them to meet the Lord.
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  The meaning is simple.
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  No one who belongs to him is forgotten.
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  1 Corinthians 15, 51 to 52.
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  The change happens in a moment, quicker than the blink of an eye when the trumpet sounds.
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  Paul calls it a mystery, something revealed by God, not discovered by ordinary reasoning.
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  John 14, 1-3.
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  Jesus tells his followers not to let their hearts be troubled.
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  He goes to prepare a place for them.
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  And he promises to come again and receive them to himself.
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  This passage frames the event not only as doctrine, but as reunion.
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  Matthew 24, 36 to 40.
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  No one knows the day or hour, only the Father.
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  Life goes on.
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  Meals, work, weddings, ordinary routines, until the moment comes.
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  Two may stand side by side.
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  One is taken, one remains.
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  This passage gives the rapture its suddenness and its selectivity.
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  1 Thessalonians 5, 9 to 11.
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  Believers are not appointed to wrath, but to salvation through Jesus Christ.
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  In classic Christian teaching, the rapture is rescue before the tribulation that follows.
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  Paul's instruction is not panic, but comfort.
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  Encourage one another with this hope.
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