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Sorry. Message received. It is interesting that there is so much uncertainty regarding when it occurs. Myself I tend to the the mid trib, or a bit later. There are reasons God did not tell us directly. His reasons. He wants us to live in obedience to His instructions. MO

Love GOD with all our mind, heart, body, soul and strength.

Love our neighbor as our self. Go and tell our brethren the message of the Gospel. Grow into the image of Christ. Worship, praise, and honor Him. And many more. To live pleasing to God. If these remarks are out of line as well ... I must not understand the point of the thread after all.

Show the light of Christ in the world.

You were saying ...

I must not understand the point of the thread after all.

And what you said about the Gospel message and growing in the image of Christ and those other things are good in and of themselves. And even though we all have these things in mind at all times (as we should), it's not the point of this thread...

The point of the thread is a simple one -- and that simple point does not detract from the main message of the Bible, but supports it -- which is the Salvation that we all have in Christ, and as we tell it to the world, in the Gospel message of the Bible.

It's simply to talk to one another about the Rapture without getting hammered by others (as happens on open threads) -- in which these "others" deny it, deny the Scriptural support of it and deny even all future prophecies of the Bible related to Israel and of the coming 1,000 year reign of the Messiah, right here on earth.

That's the simple point to the thread...

We can tell each other the "latest news" that we see in regards to the soon coming of the Lord for His own, in the Rapture. We can be enthused that it is right around the corner. We can discuss some finer points that usually get drowned out in the "cacophony of denial posts" in open threads, we can do what the Apostle Paul told us to do... which is not allowed elsewhere, on other threads...

1 Thessalonians Chapter 4

13 But I do not want you to be ignorant, brethren, concerning those who
have fallen asleep, lest you sorrow as others who have no hope.

14 For if we believe that Jesus died and rose again, even so God will
bring with Him those who sleep in Jesus.

15 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 by no means precede
those who are asleep.

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

17 Then we who are alive and remain shall be caught up together with
them in the clouds to meet the Lord in the air. And thus we shall
always be with the Lord.

18 Therefore comfort one another with these words.

That's the Rapture, that's the time we go to be with the Lord -- and then later, at the coming of the Lord to set up His one-world government -- we return with Him, to come back to this earth, and rule and reign with the Lord over all the nations of the world, during the Millennial Kingdom on this earth.