The purpose of the Rapture, theologically, is to remove the Spiritual Church of Jesus Christ which is founded in Grace alone, and the indwelling of the Holy Spirit. The Jews will be the salt during the Tribulation. If one does not believe God puts His Holy SPirit int he believer, then it is not difficult to dismiss the escape plan God has for The Spiritual Church of Jeuss Christ. If one cannot see that 2 Thess 2 speaks of the 'restrainer' of the lawlessness as the Holy Spirit, then it is not suprising that the whole reason for the Rapture escapes notice.
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>> “Well, duh, the Rapture IS what God designed as the escape” <<
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But he didn’t call it a ‘rapture,’ he called it a resurrection, and said that we would meet him “in the spirit” in a cloud, and that it would be the event that ended Satan’s tribulation of the saints.
He promised persecution, torture, and death from Satan’s people to us, and promised that we would not experience the Father’s wrath that would begin as we were resurrected in the spirit.
No escape is required, only belief of what he told us, and obedience. He will protect us in the place he will prepare in the desert, if we follow his commandments. That was what he stated to the Philadelphians in Revelation 3.
Or not! We can be like the rest of the churches, not watching, and he will come as a thief.
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