Tough Topic

Ain't no Rapture if you not wearing a mask.

Don't get left behind.

Relax OP.

You’ll know when the end of days is near.


This ain’t it.

I understand the desire to want to escape or not face the horrors that are predicted, but Christians fed to lions, burned in Syria and Iraq, tortured throughout the world and time, didn't get to escape.

Hey brother,
I also was raised the same way until I started actually reading the Bible for myself and looking around me at the westernization of the Church with post modern ideas and the whole prosperity charlatans and said to myself...this isn’t what Jesus talked about.

I looked into what the early church believed and ALL along the way they taught what Christ said...He will return again ONCE and then those of the believers who are dead will be raised up and those who remain through the Troubles of Jacob aka Tribulation will be caught up to Christ before He judges those who reject Him on the Day of the Lord.

The pre trib school of thought came about with John Darby in the 1800s...prior to that...no such belief was accepted by Orthodox or other Protestants.

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That’s why so many in the Church will fall away when they are not taken away from the darkness that is coming and are disenchanted that they were lied to and thus may look towards our Lord as being unjust.

But we do not want you to be uninformed, brethren, about those who are asleep, so that you will not grieve as do the rest who have no hope. For if we believe that Jesus died and rose again, even so God will bring with Him those who have fallen asleep in Jesus. For this we say to you by the word of the Lord, that we who are alive and remain until the coming of the Lord, will not precede those who have fallen asleep.

For the Lord Himself will descend from heaven with a shout, with the voice of the archangel and with the trumpet of God, and the dead in Christ will rise first.

Then we who are alive and remain will be caught up together with them in the clouds to meet the Lord in the air, and so we shall always be with the Lord. Therefore comfort one another with these words.
1 Thessalonians 4:13?-?18 NASB

Probably have the wrong board as this is the Politics board. No you won't find the word "rapture" in the bible, but the principles is clearly there, and you will see similar terms such "catching away", "caught up", etc. There are usually three different views....pre-millennial, A-millennial, and post-millennial, depending on when you believe the "rapture" will happen.

Good point!!

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Probably have the wrong board as this is the Politics board.

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There is no board on this website that’s earmarked specifically for discussions about faith and religion.

Read revelations. There is rapture Paul spoke of it:

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According to Paul, at the appointed time and as quickly as “a blink of an eye” (1 Cor. 15:52), the dead would rise. Then the living would be snatched up or carried off immediately afterward in order to meet Christ in the clouds (1 Thess. 4:16-17). In the Vulgate, the early Latin Bible, the word used for God’s plucking us up into the sky was rapiemur, from which we derive the word “rapture.” To understand what would happen next, we must grasp the ancient idea of parousia.

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In the Greco-Roman world, a parousia was a celebration of the arrival of someone of distinction. It could be a person of political or military status or a god represented by an idol and accompanied by priests. The church’s liturgical calendar celebrates the triumphant entry of Jesus into Jerusalem on Palm Sunday—a Christian adaptation of a pre-existent practice. It is important to note that such celebrated arrivals were planned in advance. At the appointed time, those being visited by the arriving dignity or deity would go out of the city gate as a sign of welcome and respect. The townsfolk would then process back into the city with the honored visitor, along with devotions or merriment.

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When most Christians think of the Rapture today, they imagine the redeemed being snatched up to heaven by Christ as if they have a one-way ticket. But when Paul spoke of being carried off to meet Christ in the clouds, it was not for the purpose of flying away to heaven but to welcome the Lord and return with him in glory. This moment represents the culmination of God’s plan, the great Eschaton, for which all Christians pray when they cry out, “Thy kingdom come.” Our very baptism reminded us of this day: “When the Lord comes, may you go out to meet him with all the saints of the heavenly kingdom.”

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