[Salvation]

**As for Catholic teaching on these matters, the Catechism of the Catholic Church summarizes it as follows: “Before Christ’s second coming the Church must pass through a final trial that will shake the faith of many believers [see Lk 18:8; Mt 24:12]. The persecution that accompanies her pilgrimage on earth will unveil the ‘mystery of iniquity’ in the form of a religious deception offering men an apparent solution to their problems at the price of apostasy from the truth. The supreme religious deception is that of the Antichrist, a pseudo-messianism by which man glorifies himself in place of God and of his Messiah come in the flesh.**

[MHGinTN]

"There are not two second comings taught in Scripture, but rapture theory posits two — the one described in First Thessalonians and another one, some 1,000 years later." This is also an error: the Rapture is not 'The Second Coming', not The return of Jesus to planet Earth. The Rapture happens in the air and those raptured do what Jesus Promised in John 14, we return with Him to the Father's House. But those Raptured do return with Jesus at the end of the Tribulation, Daniel's seventieth week, before the start of the millennium.

[MHGinTN]

"Nor does St. Paul indicate that what he is describing here is a different coming of Christ, distinct from other texts in the Gospel wherein Christ describes His own second coming." This is also an error, since Paul wrote in his letters that the Tribulation will not begin until the Bride of Christ is first removed so the man of lawlessness can be revealed. Paul taught that the Tribulation precedes the Second Coming of Jesus to The Planet. So the Rapture happens before the Millennium and that is what Paul taught his newborns in Christ.

[Elsie]

Many of our Protestant brethren say that, before Jesus comes, there will be a rapture wherein all the faithful will be taken up, I guess, to meet Him in the sky.

You GUESS?

Heck; it's IN THE BOOK that Rome assembled!

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1 Thessalonians 4:15-17

 

15 By the word of the Lord, we declare to you that we who are alive and remain until the coming of the Lord will by no means precede those who have fallen asleep. 
16 For the Lord Himself will descend from heaven with a loud command, with the voice of an archangel, and with the trumpet of God, and the dead in Christ will be the first to rise. 
17 After that, 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 will always be with the Lord.

 

 

 

 

 

 

[af_vet_1981]

Now we beseech you, brethren, by the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ, and by our gathering together unto him, That ye be not soon shaken in mind, or be troubled, neither by spirit, nor by word, nor by letter as from us, as that the day of Christ is at hand. Let no man deceive you by any means: for that day shall not come, except there come a falling away first, and that man of sin be revealed, the son of perdition;

Second Thessalonians, Catholic chapter two, Protestant verses one to three,
as authorized, but not authored, by King James,
boldness mine

Curiously enough, some teach in error that the "falling away (apostasia)" is the rapture. They claim that apostosia, composed from apo and histemi, means to depart from the earth rather than the faith.

The rapture is tightly coupled with the parousia of the Messiah ( the coming of Messiah, the Second Coming of Christ ). There will not be one without the other, and they occur at the same time.

[GemStateConservative]

Not asking anyone to change their views, but here is something to consider.

http://www.rapturesolution.com/beechick/Intro/7reasons.htm

[FourtySeven]

All I know is, each and every prayer we say should begin with, should have at its root, the plea “Come Lord Jesus”. Every prayer has at its root this desire, this desire for the Ressurection, or else it’s nothing more than the greedy demand of a petulant teenager.

All the rest of this stuff, all of this prognosticating balderdash, is a complete waste of time.

[ealgeone]

The only issue to worry about is are you ready if there is or is not a rapture. Has an individual placed their faith in Christ? Do they believe His promises?