Posted on 04/01/2015 10:22:59 AM PDT by amessenger4god
You are quoting 1 Thessalonians 4:16-17
Read it here:
For the Lord Himself will descend from heaven with a shout, with the voice of the archangel and with the trumpet of God, and the dead in Christ will rise first. 17Then we who are alive and remain will be caught up together with them in the clouds to meet the Lord in the air, and so we shall always be with the Lord.
Here’s another in 1 Corinthians 15:51-55:
51 Listen, I tell you a mystery: We will not all sleep, but we will all be changed— 52 in a flash, in the twinkling of an eye, at the last trumpet. For the trumpet will sound, the dead will be raised imperishable, and we will be changed. 53 For the perishable must clothe itself with the imperishable, and the mortal with immortality. 54 When the perishable has been clothed with the imperishable, and the mortal with immortality, then the saying that is written will come true: “Death has been swallowed up in victory.”[h]
55 “Where, O death, is your victory?
Where, O death, is your sting?”[i]
Does this sound like the end of the tribulation?
If so, then you got to answer this:
Who repopulates the world after the tribulation if Christ comes to take away all of His people from the Earth and then slays every ungodly person?
Revelation 20:8 specifically mentions a world at the END of the Millennium that has a population vastly larger than anything we have today that is destroyed on the last uprising against Christ and Jerusalem. They have to come from somewhere.
Some....may go screaming....holding onto the Earth I fear.
I always say I am a Pan millennialist ...it will all pan out in the end
1 Thessalonians 4:17 After that, we who are still alive and are left will be caught up together with them in the clouds to meet the Lord in the air. And so we will be with the Lord forever.
And where is the Lord going? He’s coming to Earth to vanquish the Beast .... He’s not going back to Heaven and then come back to Earth ... that would make three times ...
I think Lot's wife was to serve as an example of those kind.
That works for some I suppose. I find that studying and understanding prophesies leads to peace.
Who says? He's coming to call His bride to Him. It's exactly what happens in the ancient Jewish wedding. When the father thinks all is ready he sends his son to get his bride ("only the father knows the day and the hour). The bride and the groom then spend 7 days secluded. At the end of that seven days the bride and groom then emerge and wedding feast is held.
Greater minds than ours have argued this for centuries. It doesn’t matter when He comes but that He comes ... all else takes away from His returning.
Not sure what you mean by that. Understanding prophesy in no way takes away from His returning.
“Does this sound like the end of the tribulation?”
Yes, exactly like it, when you compare it to Revelation 19:11 through Revelation 20:6
“Who repopulates the world after the tribulation if Christ comes to take away all of His people from the Earth and then slays every ungodly person?”
Where does it say Christ “slays every ungodly person” at the end of the tribulation? Or that Christ takes away all of His people, never to return to Earth?
“Revelation 20:8 specifically mentions a world at the END of the Millennium...”
I’m glad you acknowledge that Rev. 20:8 is after the millenium, because that means the directly preceding events, in 19:11 through 20:6 come directly before the millenium, or at the end of the tribulation, and those events include the resurrection spoken of in all the verses that pre-trib rapturists love to quote.
“If you’re still here when the tribulation starts remember what we said here.”
If you are still here when the tribulation starts, I hope you won’t lose faith in Christ because he didn’t teleport you out of the way of the dangers that he warned us all to prepare for.
God promised we would be kept from the wrath to come. I take Him at His word.
Why not??? All generations have been spared that...This will be God's wrath on the disbelieving world...Something so fierce and wild and disastrous that the world has never seen the likes of...It's a punishment for the world...Not Christianity...
Because people are all caught up in prophesy and this and that and loose sight of the big picture. People put into prophesy what they think is correct ... there are so many interpretations of Daniel and Revelation that confuse people.It does not matter one wit to me what people interpret what those books mean or say .. they’re entitled to however they want to see it. There are so many different interpretations and people to go along with what these preachers say ... doesn’t matter ....
It’s happening before our very eyes!
I believe it may get very bad for Christians (and everyone else in America)...I would not be surprised to see nuclear weapons being exploded in the U.S. from America's enemies...
And while that will be very disastrous for those involved, it will be nothing compared to the the destruction God has in store for the Earth's inhabitants...AFTER the Christians are removed in the Rapture...
Yes, but tribulation is not synonymous with wrath. On the contrary, Christ prophesied that those who followed him would suffer tribulations:
“These things I have spoken unto you, that in me ye might have peace. In the world ye shall have tribulation: but be of good cheer; I have overcome the world.” John 16:33
Then I am really curious as to why you jumped into this thread? Something doesn’t add up.
Dunno either. Just saw some stuff and thought I’d put my two cents worth in.
LOL! I hear ya! Been there done that.
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