Posted on 05/05/2015 6:10:22 PM PDT by EveningStar
Question: A friend of mine has been reading the Left Behind books that have all of this stuff about the “Rapture” in them. Is there really going to be a “Rapture” like these books talk about?
Answer: No.The “Rapture” refers to a passage in First Thessalonians 4, where Christians are “caught up” in the clouds to meet the Lord in the air.” Many Christians believe, and the Left Behind books promote, that this being “caught up” to meet the Lord will occur before the Great Tribulation sometime in the near future. Christians will simply vanish, meet Jesus somewhere in the air, and then return with Him to Heaven to await the end of time.
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Next thing you know, someone will say there are not any rock monsters either
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Unfortunately, I believe Christians will go thru the Tribulation. It is from there, that God will separate the wheat from the Chaff. That is during those difficult times God will test his people - just saying.
Oh, it’s in the penumbra.
Read the wheat and the tares (Matt. 13: 42-30). The tares are taken first - the wheat is left behind. I would rather be left behind!
That’s exactly what happens. God will provide during this time, but we will be experiencing what the lost will be experiencing.
One interesting observation, the description of thebTen Last plagues sound awfully a like what a nuclear holocaust might sound be like.
The “rapture” was invented by a door-to-door Bible salesman during the Depression.
The term Fervent Heat has several times led me to believe that a nuclear bomb might have some place in those very last days.
of course were the sun and the earth to somehow come into closer proximity with each another that heat would even be more fervent.
About 20 years ago my pastor and his friend, smiled at each other about this same verse (Independent Baptists). I took it to mean that they also believed the rebellious ones were removed.
I always tell everyone to read 2 Thessalonians and make an outline when studying chapter 2. Occam’s Razor has come to mind when reading the Bible in regards to the Messiah. If it is too complicated, it sounds like someone justifying a lie.
Too many people haven’t read the whole New Testament in a way that they can retain it let alone the Old Testament. Why rush? Go to a fine restaurant (5 star) where each course is served individually and with plenty of time to enjoy it. Don’t read the Word of God like you are at McDonalds.
Matt 24: 40-44
40“Then there will be two men in the field; one will be taken and one will be left. 41“Two women will be grinding at the mill; one will be taken and one will be left.
42“Therefore be on the alert, for you do not know which day your Lord is coming. 43“But be sure of this, that if the head of the house had known at what time of the night the thief was coming, he would have been on the alert and would not have allowed his house to be broken into. 44“For this reason you also must be ready; for the Son of Man is coming at an hour when you do not think He will.
The word rapture is not in the Bible but event it speaks of is show clearly.
Why would God punish those that already believe in him?
“Oh it’s in the penumbra.”
Is that before the index of Books? Or, behind the maps in the back?
The rapture is a term that describes an event. the Bible is clear the event will happen.
Luke 17:34 I tell you, in that night there shall be two men in one bed; the one shall be taken, and the other shall be left. 35 Two women shall be grinding together; the one shall be taken, and the other left. 36 Two men shall be in the field; the one shall be taken, and the other left. 37 And they answered and said unto him, Where, Lord? And he said unto them, Wheresoever the body is, thither will the eagles be gathered together.
Companion verses to Matt. 24. How do you reconcile the two?
“In a moment, in the twinkling of an eye, at the last trump: for the trumpet shall sound, and the dead shall be raised incorruptible, and we shall be changed.”
“After that, we who are still alive and are left will be caught up together with them in the clouds to meet the Lord in the air. And so we will be with the Lord forever.”
Actually, it does.
Vulgate:
deinde nos qui vivimus qui relinquimur simul RAPIEMUR cum illis in nubibus obviam Domino in aera et sic semper cum Domino erimus
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