[Sontagged]

Don’t want people to lose faith in our good God because of “wishful thinking theology” like the Rapture — when it doesn’t happen.

[metmom]

Since there is no timeline, that’s not going to happen.

[Lera]

[[Don’t want people to lose faith in our good God because of “wishful thinking theology” like the Rapture — when it doesn’t happen.]]

All the people I know who believe , really believe he is coming live like it. They have more faith in him and believe his word more than all the others I know .
They also have a joy about and smile when you mention he is coming because unlike the others they really desire to be with him . No don’t worry we are not going to loose faith we have more of it because we know he is faithful and true :)

Thou he slay me , I will praise him

[metmom]

Don’t want people to lose faith in our good God because of “wishful thinking theology” like the Rapture — when it doesn’t happen.

So if you really thought that Jesus was coming back at any moment, how would that affect how you live?

Would you want to be in the middle of compromising your faith or obeying Him?

[MHGinTN]

To see why your comment makes little sense, consider those of Paul's day who were anticipating The Return in the Clouds ... it was used by God to sift the real faithers in Jesus from the mothers of belief. Real Faithers are not so easily put off from believing. The two letters to the believers in Thessalonika illustrate this for us today ... and those letters were written decades before John's Isle of Patmos Revelation and the messages to the seven Churches.

The Rapture is not wishful thinking or magic thinking. It is sound Biblical teaching. Did Paul teach on it to the men and women he converted to Christ? Yes he did! He gave them clues we are only in this epoch beginning to discover and sort through, like the passing phrase in the entry to I 1 Thess 1:10, where Paul refers to the rescue from the coming wrath as a done deal, already guaranteed by the Promise of God.

To someone not faithing in GOD's Promises, a coming Rapture/deliverance/rescue of a select group is at onceunsettling, then disgust sets in, that these people would claim GOD will snatch some away then pour HIS wrath on them and theirs. It is natural to then aim insult and anger at the messengers.

Belief in the coming Rapture of the Church/the Body of Christ is not essential to your salvation. But once you are born from above the message JESUS introduced to His in the Upper Room Discourse is of great comfort. It does however carry with it an urgency, for once HE comes to collect HIS in the clouds and return tot he Father's House for a seven year period before bring us back, once he calls out His own, think of what is left upon the Earth to endure without The Grace of The CHURCH AGE sorting mena nd women out!