Everyone eats wedding cake while picking up their magic deuce gear and ammo . . . gotcha.
"Take up your cross and follow me", is routinely interpreted by the Self and Self Alone crowd to mean "live any way you like and rest assured you won't have to suffer for following Christ" which is why they've stopped teaching nearly everything they taught only fifty years ago and now all promise either an evacuation that avoids suffering or that with enough faith you can just Blab it and Grab It.
By their fruits shall you know them and our nation that's always been 70% or more Protestant is without a doubt the perfect, shining, example of a nation where Christian morality reigns, right?
Christians aren't promised they'll be evacuated, marshaled at a party, or spared suffering just because some huckster here and there can sell that sizzle.
Sorry, I realize how appealing that bogus stuff is but people not preparing to suffer with Christ are just dust waiting to be dust in the wind as soon as the screws are tightened. That's obvious from the fact that very few people in the US, a "Christian" nation, and especially blabbermouth anti-Catholics in the US, care about Christians being slaughtered by the thousands in the Middle East.
People who claim to be Christian but who care a lot more about who is elected in Israel than about tens of thousands of Christians being slaughtered are under a powerful diabolical delusion, it's that simple. And all the Rupture, take me away ! trash is part and parcel of that delusion.
Riiight, you want to hold the Catholic Church up to us as an example of moral leadership. Riiight. If you want to be here after THE Church is taken out, departed, Raptured, then being a faithful Catholic is probably as good a way as any to avoid the event. But be careful, because if you believe that Jesus IS the only way to obtain the Grace of God, you might get sealed by His Holy Spirit and find yourself departed from your ‘Catholic Chruch’. You will miss all the wrath of God poured out during the last seven years of the Daniel prophecy for God dealing with Israel and the rejecting world. The reality of this Universe is much beyond your sensing but it is there, for sure. [[ See I Thess 4:13-18 II Thess 2:1-3 John 14:1-4 I Cor 15:51-53 I John 3:2 Rev 4:1 2 Kings 6:15-17 Daniel 5 etcetera ]]
Ah, don’t know who you are responding to, but your response had no bearing on what I posted...other than introducing in some favored straw men.
If you can provide the Catholic infallible teaching on the verses I provided, or even an approved commentary I will welcome such. So what I am really telling you is, I don’t value the private interpretations of Catholics who have no authority to expound on these matters.
Other than that, have a nice day.