TEXT: Psalm 110
Adrian Rogers gave this illustration of the Rapture: “When I was a boy, we had, near our house, about three or four blocks from our house, a great scrap yard. And, scrap was accumulated there; it was needed, actually, in the war effort. We boys used to play in the scrap yard, and one of the things that always amazed me was a giant magnet that would pick up huge pieces of metal. Sometimes the whole chassis of an automobile would be picked up by this magnet, and it had great force to pick up metal. I want you to imagine one of those great electromagnets, and here, on the ground, are all bits of metal. There's some zinc; there's some aluminum; there's some silver; there's some lead and other pieces of metal; but then, there's some steel and some iron. Some of that metal may be beneath the surface of the ground, and some of it lying on top of the ground. When that great magnet passes over there, there are certain pieces of metal that are going to rise and certain pieces of metal are going to stay on the ground. Even gold and silver, as precious as they are, would stay on the ground. What part will rise? That part that has in it iron—the same nature as the magnet. And, what part is going to rise again, of all the world's population? You see, in this congregation, there are some who have an affinity for Jesus Christ, and there are some who don't. And, if you are Heaven-born, you'll be Heaven-bound. That which has the nature of the magnet is that which is going to be raised, when Jesus comes again.”