ECUMENICAL CHAPLAIN'S PRAYER Let us pray. Almighty Creator, whose past and continuing existence is rationally asserted by the acceptable assumption that every physical thing and phenomenon around us, including ourselves, which exists, was indeed created, did not create itself by any presumed mind nor alleged will of its own whenever it supposedly chose, and you who created such has logically been and continues to be far superior to and above all of what you obviously have created and which continues, and which we must duly adjust and accommodate ourselves to in order to survive and thrive as your unique creatures within your creation which, although we did not first solicit you to put us into, which - of necessity - we have been and yet are benignly consigned to and eternally cannot extricate ourselves out of nor away from by any known means of deletion nor proposed means of deletion. It thus behooves us to not consider your initial creative actions: "spam." We thank you for you being the benevolent entitled "God" the Creator you are, powerful, intelligent, and wise beyond description to those who are similarly intelligent and can comprehend what intelligence is, which - lamentably - not all humans are honest about admitting, and have indicated your kind compassion to us by the remarkably pleasant and convenient environmental entities you have placed us into, reflecting your immovable and immutable sovereign will. All of us have admittedly also become aware that you have made known your quasi-anonymous identity, attributes, and intentions for us, your sentient free-willed beings, who, and not simply what, are quite cognizant of natural-order morality not merely of and in the objects and operational principles and processes of natural law which entities do not have your given name inscribed upon but which we have surprisingly and joyfully discovered regarding intriguing macro and micro, massive and intricate, intricately interdependent, stable and consistent and extensive, awesome manifestations of your exquisitely-displayed handiwork. It is acknowledged by most of us that all of your unique beings residing on this your very special planet you created in the past and strategically placed within your Universe, have also been communicated to in a more personal way, as revealed to various extents and in various ways by those adhering to and in allegiance with the existing major religions of the world, such as Christianity of both Protestants and Catholics, the Jews and Israel of judaism, the muslims of islam, and sundry assortment of less well-known beliefs based in congruent-with-nature fact or instead in imaginary superstition. Respective of that, those of us fortunate humans who happen to like and approve what you have created, and your Divine requirements for responsibly utilizing and enjoying such gifts of benevolence, praise you for so endowing us with this capacity and opportunity to verbally talk to you now in what is known as prayer. We therefore ask you to guide us and bless us in this our opportunity to express our gratitude, and we ask this in the name you have, through your inspired Scriptural authors, made known to us, and which we claim in faith as applicable to and for us, and which your sane and sensible worshipers never have had nor currently have valid grounds to dispute or deny, the name Jesus Christ, whose historical resume and qualifications have been made well known by both sacred and secular declaratives, to all peoples in every land, worldwide. Amen. P.S. 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Instead, there will be only one Rapture of whoever is post-Millennially alive (at that time) comprising "The Church" when the heavens and Earth pass away with a loud noise (Second Peter 3:10-12) immediately preceding that one Last-Day "sheep-and-goats" Final Judgment involving The King seated on His Great White Throne. (Study Matthew 25:31-46 and Revelation 20:7-15). So many references in Scripture can be applied to a post-millennial (and obviously post-Great-Tribulation) Rapture, as for example, a previous one cited: First Corinthians 15:51 Wow, I tell you a mystery. We shall not all sleep, but we shall all be changed, 15:52 in a moment, in the twinkling of an eye, at the last trumpet. For the trumpet will sound, and the dead will be raised imperishable, and we shall be changed. 15:53 For this perishable nature must put on the imperishable, and this mortal nature must put on immortality. 15:54 When the perishable puts on the imperishable, and the mortal puts on immortality, then shall come to pass the saying that is written: “Death is swallowed up in victory.” 15:55 “Oh death, where is your victory? Oh death, where is your sting?” The words "we shall not all sleep" indicate that after the Millennium there will be some yet-living saints who are raptured up alive at the sound of the Last Trumpet - or shofar (with those formerly anti-666 beheaded who were resurrected one thousand years previous at the return of Jesus at Armageddon and thus part of that First Resurrection mentioned in the opening verses of Revelation chapter 20) to join the resurrected saints and resurrected sinners to appear before The King on His Great White Throne in that Final "sheep-and-goats" Last-Day Final Judgment spoken of in Matthew chapter 25. Such snatching up of raptured righteous living at that event (those Book-of-Life included "working in the field" or "grinding at the mill" who are whisked up to glory and stand as "sheep" before The Great White Throne in Final Judgment) plus the all the resurrected righteous dead since the beginning of human history (who also are Book-of-Life included and also whisked up to glory and stand as "sheep" before The Great White Throne in Final Judgment) plus the resurrected wicked dead (those others left behind incinerated but then stand as "goats" before The Great White Throne in Final Judgment) . . . . will occur in an instant (i.e. "the twinkling of an eye"), as the heavens and Earth are annihilated in fervent heat with a loud noise (as it states in Second Peter chapter 3). The wicked, as will the righteous, be given eternal bodies - the former to constantly be painfully consumed forever in the invisible flames of Outer Darkness (but bodies eternally renewed for more to burn in "everlasting destruction") within the Lake of Fire . . . and the latter to enjoy the tear-less painless ecstatic bliss of Heaven and the blazing-sun-bright Host and hosts therein.