My family just left our church last week after 3 solid years of going twice on every Sunday because our preacher is teaching out of Revelations and believes in the early rapture. He told the congregation that he ‘wouldn’t necessarily call us heretics for not believing that, but that we’re ‘dead wrong”. It is causing us quite a bit of consternation but we don’t believe we should attend a church that believes such WRONG doctrine. It’s frightening. Here's the main problem with this theory: If sincere believers are NOT raptured they will go along with anything because they figure that they'll be gone before things get too bad. Meanwhile they'll be like frogs in a pot...tolerating and accepting all kinds of things because they figure they would be gone if it really were bad.
When Jesus Christ does return it will be, paraphrasing Him, unmistakable. It will be no secret and nobody will be wondering what happened.
Here's the main problem with this theory: If sincere believers are NOT raptured they will go along with anything because they figure that they'll be gone before things get too bad. Meanwhile they'll be like frogs in a pot...tolerating and accepting all kinds of things because they figure they would be gone if it really were bad. When Jesus Christ does return it will be, paraphrasing Him, unmistakable. It will be no secret and nobody will be wondering what happened. What do you mean 'things get too bad'? Christ said there would be war and rumors of war.... but that is NOT the end. The old devil is going to get tossed out here among us playing like he is Jesus, and all but the elect will be deceived. That is the tribulation.