Hi Marilyn,

I read your post and I agree with regard to the rapture.  Although I have a different perspective on the dead in Christ: a man named Joseph Herrin explained it well, the dead in Christ are not the one's presently in the grave.  It's those who have buried themselves in Christ, who have taken up their cross and followed him wherever He goes.  It is no longer I who live, but Christ in me.  Some will remain, and I believe it is those who will go during a Shavuot rapture: the two witnesses: Jews and Christians.  The two loaves with yeast. Is 43 describes the two witnesses.

Kari