Members living in the world must remember their place of citizenship and act accordingly. Free from all earthly rituals. Members to seek those things above where Christ sitteth at the right hand of God. Set affection there. In this great kingdom of God and His dear Son in the heavenlies is the promise of reigning for those who suffer or endure.
Members are to live looking for the glorious appearing.
These members are to be a peculiar people. Besides these references it would be well for the reader to look up all the occurrences of epiphaneia, manifestation or appearing and where it will be and who will be there. No rapture is mentioned in connection with any of the above references. It is for another family or dispensation, those who had the hope of the promise made to Abraham. Those with a little knowledge of Greek can do well to make a study of ton hagion as used in the prison epistles and in Hebrews.