In a word, Yes.
In THE Word, Yes.
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I refuse to believe humans have God figured out.
In an answer, no. Christians will have to suffer for the Lord Jesus, just like Jesus did in His passion.
There will be a rapture at the second coming of Christ. The perousia.
Bandwagon fallacy. Just because a number of people believe it doesn't make it true. Moreover, the statement is not even true, unless Catholics and Orthodx Christians don't count- they do not believe the concept of a pre-tribulational rapture is in the Bible either.
The argument is that the pre-tribulational rapture theory was invented by a girl in 19th century Scotland named Margaret MacDonald. This is patently false. For starters, 18 years prior to MacDonald, a Catholic Jesuit priest espoused his belief in the pre-trib rapture in his book The Coming of Messiah in Glory and Majesty.
Strawman fallacy. This is not the argument at all. The argument is that this was never a doctrine of any Christian church before MacDonald; that is no group of Christians ever accepted this, incorporated this into their written beliefs, and believed it as divinely inspired. No sifnificant number of Christians believed this before Margaret MacDonald spread this false doctrine to John Darby who spread it to a number of seminaries, which led to the result of it spreading like wildfire as a wholly new doctrine that was eventually believed by a significant number of Christians, despite never being accepted as such in the two thousand year history of the church.
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What I call “The Rapture” is in Revelation 7, after the 144k are sealed. But it could just be the “subject shift” that happens so often in Revelation.
Oh, and how can anyone who has read the Bible even think that God desires to remove us from experiencing trials and tribulations? Trials are the means of sanctification, of drawing us closer to him, of refining us, as is clearly indicated through the lives of almost every figure in the Bible— throughout the Old Testament (Noah, Moses, Job, Joseph, David...) and New (Jesus, apostles). Paul tells us this directly multiple times, but especially in Romans 5.
Rapture is an invention of the1800’s.
Nobody pretended to interpret that concept from Scripture prior to that time.
There are two periods of time in the Bible that relate to this subject.
1) The Tribulation (of the saints)
2) The Wrath of God (on those who refuse to believe God)
The catching away of the church and the return of Yeshua, will occur between those two periods of time.
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Rapture,,
it could happen.
I think making it a keystone in You’re belief system is a mistake.
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If the Bible clearly taught this, you would not need to post this thread to convince anyone.
amessenger4god
Since Mar 12, 2015
No
Must re-read my booklet 88 REASONS WHY THE RAPTURE WILL BE IN 1988.
The tribulation happened in 70 AD - the”rapture” will be the in-gathering at the end of time. Jesus himself said “this generation will see it all” when asked when these things would happen - and so they did.
I found something interesting not long ago. The Southern Baptist Convention has never accepted or denied Scofield’s end times doctrines that have taken over so many churches.
The Independent Baptist church leader John R Rice never accepted those doctrines, but after his death, Curtis T Hutson did accept and teach them.
My thought is that too many people spend too much time trying to prove the first chapters of Genesis or analyzing the book of Revelation, when they should be concentrating on what is between those.