There are those who believe that Christians will go through the judgment God has for those who refuse to accept His gift of salvation, but I believe, based on Scripture and God’s track record, that those who know Christ will be taken out before the wrath falls.
I thought the rapture was after the attack on Israel.
If I had the chance, I’d prefer to stay behind and do what I can to get as many in the fold as possible. Since the time line is pretty much set up, after three and a half years I’d been in Petra with my fellow converts partying like mad waiting for Christ to appear.
Don’t get me wrong I’d work too, but I’d still kick back and happily wait to meet Christ. I would spend free time writing questions to ask.
I HOPE we’ll be raptured out of here before.
But I don’t think it’s likely that we’ll be partying in heaven at the time millions are dying as martyrs on earth.
“It wasn’t until the early or mid 1800’s that there was any significant group of believers around the world that looked for a “rapture” of the Church prior to a seven-year tribulation period. It may come as a shock to some who read these lines, but it is a fact, nonetheless, that the “rapture” teaching was not taught by the early Church, it was not taught by Church of the first centuries, it was not taught by the Reformers, it was not taught by anyone (except a couple of Roman Catholic theologians) until about the year 1830.