[SouthernClaire]

You have it precisely right, MHG, and I look forward to the day of the rapture which, seems to me, can’t be far off.

[boatbums]

Amen. I am fully confident the Scriptures teach these things WILL come to pass. Will it be in my lifetime? I don't know but it sure seems even closer today than years before. This world seems like it is sitting on a powder keg that will blow up at any moment. Evil waxes worse and worse.

But like I have said before, the Rapture isn't a "salvific" doctrine that one MUST hold to as a major tenet of the Christian faith. Where Scripture does not speak specifically about something then there is liberty. It is cults who are deceiving the weak in faith and being deceived themselves as they draw souls away from the truth of the gospel.