For the Lord himself shall descend from heaven with a shout, with the voice of the archangel, and with the trump of God: and the dead in Christ shall rise first:
Then we which are alive and remain shall be caught up together with them in the clouds, to meet the Lord in the air: and so shall we ever be with the Lord.
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For some reason, it persistently amazes me that those ranting and trashing and thrashing about THE RAPTURE rarely, if ever, offer any meaningful explanation of those verses and their likely future meaning.
I guess it fulfills their agenda sufficiently to just rant, thrash, trash, pontificate and otherwise dismiss others' views on such. No insights or ideas are needed. Kind of reminds me of the DIMRATS.
But one would think that at least occasionally there would be more of an earnest effort to try and understand what the meaning of those verses is, if it's not the conventional END TIMES one! LOL.
I guess some Scriptures are just not worth some people's time.
For some reason, it persistently amazes me that those ranting and trashing and thrashing about THE RAPTURE rarely, if ever, offer any meaningful explanation of those verses and their likely future meaning.
I don't think any Christians who take seriously Christ's promise to return will disagree that this describes a future event that could be called "The Rapture" - whether they're Catholics or Protestants, and whether their prophetic interpretation is Dispensationalist, Historicist, Preterist, or whatever.
Where the disagreements come is whether this describes a Pre-Tribulation Rapture or whether this describes the Lord's return at the end of the age. I personally tend to think the latter is more likely, since I think that most Dispensationalist interpretations of the relevant passages are imposing their own preconceptions on them (the assumption of a Pre-Tribulation Rapture) that just isn't in the text. But, I'd be the first to admit that the Lord's ways are not ours, and any or all of us could be wrong about the exact sequence of end-time events.
The important thing is to be watchful and ready when He returns.