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To: GGpaX4DumpedTea
..."search in the Bible on “Rapture".....

No, you will get the same result on "Trinity" and a dozen more thing Christians believe in.

The passages are many and I'm sure you have heard of them, seen them, and read them if you have studied the Bible at all.

If you chose not to believe, that's your business, but you will be denying the Wedding Feast of the Lamb. A careful study of the Bible reveals there will be a Rapture and IMHO, it will precede the Tribulation and Second coming. I know and have read the verses that sound like there could be a mid-Trib and a post-Trib Rapture, but that is another argument all together. The fact that there will be a Rapture at the sound of the Trump is certain for myself. God sent His people an Ark before the Flood and has sent Jesus for our Salvation. He said we are not the children of wrath. The wrath He speaks of is His wrath, not just the everyday tragedies we all experience. The bowls of wrath that are spoken of in Revelations are Gods wrath on the Earth. IMO, God will rescue His Bride BEFORE delivering His Wrath to the unbelievers.

Would you allow your wife to suffer the greatest destruction since the foundation of the world? How does that show His love for us?

75 posted on 12/07/2008 1:07:11 PM PST by chuckles
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To: chuckles; GGpaX4DumpedTea; Campion
A careful study of the Bible reveals there will be a Rapture and IMHO, it will precede the Tribulation and Second coming.

The Bible teaches that there will, indeed, be a "catching up" of the saints (1 Thess. 4:17). The purpose of Paul’s instruction was to assure the saints in Thessalonica that those saints who had "fallen asleep" (i.e., preceded them in death) would not miss out on the Lord’s return. "[T]hat we who are alive and remain until the coming of the Lord will by no means precede those who are asleep." Apparently the Thessalonian church was given to all kinds of eschatological rumors and error (cf. 2 Thess. 2:1-3).

Until 1830 this "catching up" was considered by the Church to be the Second Coming from the vantage point of the saints. Around 1830 a new theology arrived on the scene which eventually became known as dispensationalism. One of the fundamental tenants of dispensationalism is the radical distinction between Israel and the Church. So, in order to preserve this radical distinction, the followers of this new theology had to invent the secret so-called "pre-tribulational rapture" in which the Church was removed from the world so God could pour His divine wrath out upon physical Israel during the so-called "seven year great tribulation". Dispensationalism believes that physical Israel is destined for great future divine wrath, but the Church is exempt from wrath (cf. 1 Thess. 5:9). Voila, you need a secret rapture to get the Church off the earth.

In reality the secret rapture, future seven year tribulation, and a whole host of other doctrines espoused by futurist dispensationalists are not found in the Bible. They are only "discovered" (as they originally discovered for the firs time in 1830) by reading the Bible through dispensational glasses with the assumptions and presuppositions of dispensationalism.

A truly careful study will reveal the hallmark of dispensationalism, the secret, separate rapture, to not be true. Careful study will reveal that the "rapture" and Second coming are, in fact, the same event. There is no reason to use the term "rapture" when one correctly understands the biblical subject of eschatology. Second Coming is good enough.

51 Behold, I tell you a mystery: We shall not all sleep, but we shall all be changed-- 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 incorruptible, and we shall be changed. 53 For this corruptible must put on incorruption, and this mortal must put on immortality. 54 So when this corruptible has put on incorruption, and this mortal has put on immortality, then shall be brought to pass the saying that is written: "Death is swallowed up in victory." 55 "O Death, where is your sting? O Hades, where is your victory?" 56 The sting of death is sin, and the strength of sin is the law. 57 But thanks be to God, who gives us the victory through our Lord Jesus Christ. (1 Cor. 15)

78 posted on 12/07/2008 3:09:02 PM PST by topcat54 ("Friends don't let friends become dispensationalists.")
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