[RobRoy]

>>The biggest myth is that there will be a rapture.<< The word has so many different meanings to so many different people that I don’t know how to take that statement.

I do believe that some will be changed in the “twinkling of an eye” and that Revelation 7:9 is real. And when you think about it being preceeded by 8 verses that very specifically call out 144,000 but it describes “...a great multitude that no one could count, from every nation, tribe, people and language...”. That is a LOT of people. There needs to be an explanation for who the book is talking about, especially when the answer to the elder’s question about their identity is: “These are they who have come out of the great tribulation; they have washed their robes and made them white in the blood of the Lamb.”

One must ask, “how did they come out?” Rapture? Nuclear war? A space ship?

[RinaseaofDs]

Matthew 24 talks about something like a Rapture:

“38For as in the days that were before the flood they were eating and drinking, marrying and giving in marriage, until the day that Noe entered into the ark,

39And knew not until the flood came, and took them all away; so shall also the coming of the Son of man be.

40Then shall two be in the field; the one shall be taken, and the other left.

41Two women shall be grinding at the mill; the one shall be taken, and the other left.

42Watch therefore: for ye know not what hour your Lord doth come.

43But know this, that if the goodman of the house had known in what watch the thief would come, he would have watched, and would not have suffered his house to be broken up.

44Therefore be ye also ready: for in such an hour as ye think not the Son of man cometh.”

[messierhunter]

One must ask, “how did they come out?” Rapture? Nuclear war? A space ship?

Good question. My mother often tells me a dream she had of waking up to the feeling that she's rising up. She looks down and sees her home and town have been obliterated and all that's left is burning in the night. She also sees a great multitude of people rising up with her and an intense feeling of love. If the rapture were to occur at the moment of an all-out nuclear war, would anyone be able to tell the difference, especially those still living? Even if some christians get "raptured" without being killed in a nuclear blast, there'd be so much disruption of communications, confusion, and death that I doubt anyone would notice.

[driftless2]

"Rapture,nuclear war, a space ship"

I choose Uncle Mortimer's Sausage Train.