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Thanks for the heads-up grizzfan.

1. I am a young Christian. Was raised in a southern Baptist church when I was a kid, but when I hit puberty I started drinking, smoking, doing drugs, chasing girls. Just now came to the Lord.

2. I do not believe in the Rapture. I've not seen the Rapture mentioned in the Bible even once. Jesus told His followers that as they persecuted Him so we would also be persecuted. Put another way, the servant cannot escape the fate of his master. I am careful to follow sound doctrine. If it's not in the Bible, I don't believe in it.

3. While Israel will have peace for the first 3 1/2 years of the Tribulation, I would think that we must first have the one-world gov't and the cashless society (which will bring about everyone getting the mark of th beast).

I'm watching for some type of cataclysmic event which will bring down the US as a world power. There will then be some person who will have all the answers who will solve all the worlds problems. When we see this, we will know. I will know.

BTW, worrying about the end times is useless. God has a plan and it will be followed. Instead of worrying about when the world will end, each Christian should be worrying about, "What would God have me do today?"

I see God's hand intervene in my life everyday. For example, I forgot to set my clocks forward last night. I woke up an hour early this morning which is actually on time. God woke me this morning so I wouldn't be late for church.

Even as a young Christan I see God's hand working in my life. He works like this in everyone's life, even the unbelievers.

TRUST in the Lord. OBEY Him and He will bless you. BTW, believing is easy. It's the OBEYING part that's difficult.

From the Life Application Study Bible (New American Standard translation) by Zondernan notes:

We should not expect our obedience to God to be easy or to come naturally. (See Genesis 22:3)

I do not believe in the Rapture. I've not seen the Rapture mentioned in the Bible even once.

Surely you believe in the rapture. I think what you mean to say is you do not believe in a particular version of it, the highly popularized version called the PRETRIBULATION rapture. Am I correct?

Though the word "rapture" is not in the Bible, yet the resurrection at the coming of Christ, and the gathering together of saved believers of Christ in the air as he descends from heaven certainly is.

"Rapture" is just a word that describes the following sequence of events: the resurrection that takes place at the coming of Christ, and the gathering together in the air as He descends.