Posted on 07/30/2015 6:14:45 AM PDT by Roman_War_Criminal
The impending crisis that the swirling vortex of signs and events is pressing upon this world brings to mind that song of Johnny Cash titled, “Five Feet and Rising,” where he progresses through the song’s narrative of flood waters overwhelming his family’s farm. [1]
Not only does it identify with all the turbulent storms and flooding in recent months, but it resonates with the flooding of crime, murders, rioting, sexual assaults and social immorality. Not a pretty sight, for sure! One of the prophecies proves my point, however, according to 2 Timothy 3:1-5:
“But know this, that in the last days perilous times will come: For men will be lovers of themselves, lovers of money, boasters, proud, blasphemers, disobedient to parents, unthankful, unholy, unloving, unforgiving, slanderers, without self-control, brutal, despisers of good, traitors, headstrong, haughty, lovers of pleasure rather than lovers of God, having a form of godliness but denying its power.”
Earlier, in his first letter, 1 Timothy 3:1-2, he identified, perhaps, the root cause of today’s social and immoral degradation:
“Now the Spirit expressly says that in latter times some will depart from the faith, giving heed to deceiving spirits and doctrines of demons, speaking lies in hypocrisy, having their own conscience seared with a hot iron….”
(Excerpt) Read more at raptureready.com ...
There is only The Second Coming of Christ.
There is no “rapture”.
The Bible is not wrong.
You are misinterpreting things.
Pretending there is a rapture fails.
Heaven
Christ said he would return on “the last day”, to judge the living and the dead. There will be no secret or hidden coming in the meantime. If you are alive when the Lord returns, you’ll definitely know about it.
per Catholic Answers.com
Got a quote for that?
• 1 Thessalonians 4:16-17, “…then we who are alive, who are left, shall be caught up together with them in the clouds to meet the Lord in the air;…”
1st, this IS the Second Coming of Christ, which clearly follows the Tribulation, and not an event preceding or interrupting the Tribulation.
2nd, it is very public and audible, rather than secret or hidden from those not “raptured”.
per Catholic Answers.com
Only the pre-trib viewpoint can account for this post-trib problem..... The believers are raptured 'before the tribulation', a vast number of souls are saved during this seven-year time frame, and those who make it through the tribulation go into the millennium while the unsaved are cast into hell.
(Rev 19:19-21)..... When Jesus returns at the end of the tribulation,.... 'He will be coming for battle".... For those who believe in a post-trib rapture, as your post indicates, it would be strange to meet your Lord and Savior just as He's rushing into battle.... The idea that war and rapture could occur together is difficult to imagine, especially since they would transpire at the same moment.
In 1 Thessalonians 5:9,.... Paul assures us that God has not appointed His people to wrath. This wrath is plainly God's anger that will be poured out during the tribulation. Pre-trib believers interpret this as meaning that Christians will be removed from the earth. Post-trib believers tell a different story. They describe this as meaning that God will protect Christians during the tribulation and pour this wrath out on the unbelievers only.
This idea runs against the statement made in Revelation 13:7, in which the Antichrist is given power to make war with the saints and to overcome them. A post-trib view would make God's promise of protection from wrath into a lie.
The only way to validly interpret God's promise of protection from wrath is by viewing 1 Thessalonians 5:9 as the bodily removal of the Church from this world.
Oh yeah, and one other question: what is 'The Restrainer' referred to in 2 Thess 2, particularly verse 7: For the mystery of lawlessness already works. Only there is one who restrains now, until he is taken out of the way?
Um, the Second Coming onto the planet happens at the end of the Great Tribulation. The body of Christ, since it is hallmarked by every single believer in the body of Christ has the Holy Spirit indwelling them, THAT Body of Christ, the Spiritual True Church of Jesus Christ, will not be on Earth when the wrath of God is poured out during the second half of Daniel’s seventieth week, the portion of the Tribulation which JESUS identified as the Great Tribulation. The Catholic church is worng, has been wrong on this for generations, and has their credibility in the balance of keeping people from the Truth of the Rapture prior tot he Great Tribulation. Wake up, GLarry, the Rapture is something you don’t want to miss.
These are two separate events:
The Rapture .....will occur when Jesus Christ returns for his church. This is when all true believers in Christ will be taken from the earth by God into heaven ...
1 Corinthians 15:51-52; 1 Thessalonians 4:16-17
The Rapture will happen before the Tribulation.
The Second Coming.... is when Jesus Christ returns with the church to defeat the antichrist, overthrow evil and then establish His thousand year reign...
Revelation 19:11-16.
The Second Coming will happen at the end of the Tribulation.
I’ve noticed allot of bitchy women lately.
If we are watching for the Christ who raptures us to heaven we cannot be deceived by a counterfeit whom will rule on earth no matter what kind of power he exhibits......there will still be a church left, but it will be an ‘organizational’ church, not the true spiritual church that waited patiently for the Lord to return.
I’m not waiting patiently. The event is too close and I see too many family members and friends participating in the Laodicean church. I’m being ridiculed for this sense of urgency, but it matters not at all so long as some will awaken.
Have to let the Lords spirit move their hearts....we can only share the gospel message they respond or not....and remember that they laughed at Noah as well.
A quote for what??? When are you going to answer the question; when does the Wedding take place???
Nobody “populates the earth during the millennium”.....!!!!!!
We’re done! That’s it!
There is no rapture.
It is the foundation of the fable which pretends there are no consequences for any behavior for believers.
Got a quote for a “Bema Seat”?
“Trump, part of end times prophesy?”
“And the TRUMP (Trumpet) will be blown, and all who are in the heavens and all who are on the earth will swoon away, except him whom Allaah wills”
[al-Zumar 39:68]?
1 Cor 3: 12-15. Read it in the Greek, or have one of your priests read it to you in Greek. It would help if you had a priest who could explain to your catholic mind what a Jewish wedding process looked like. ‘Got a quote for that?’ will not be a viable excuse for the Great White Throne which it appears you are looking forward to.
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