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To: DouglasKC

[[A pre-tribulation Rapture is completely unbiblical. It’s a lie in a false.]]

One day you are going to be really surprised


77 posted on 11/20/2017 3:22:33 PM PST by Lera (1 Corinthians 15:1-4)
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To: Lera
One day you are going to be really surprised

Maybe, but I won't be deceived. A "secret" rapture is not what's taught in the bible.

Mat 24:23  "Then if anyone says to you, 'Look, here is the Christ!' or 'There!' do not believe it. 

This is Jesus telling us that there are going to be people who at some point are going to try and tell us that the messiah has already come. In this case it's people telling us that the messiah will come and take away his people and THEN come again 7 years later. In other words, a THIRD coming. That's not biblical.

Mat 24:24  For false christs and false prophets will rise and show great signs and wonders to deceive, if possible, even the elect. 
Mat 24:25  See, I have told you beforehand. 
Mat 24:26  "Therefore if they say to you, 'Look, He is in the desert!' do not go out; or 'Look, He is in the inner rooms!' do not believe it. 

Why are we not to believe that there is some kind of secret rapture?

Mat 24:27  For as the lightning comes from the east and flashes to the west, so also will the coming of the Son of Man be

The second, and LAST, coming of Jesus is going to be visible to everyone. It's going to be unmistakable. There will be no question that this is exactly what is going on.

This is the second coming of Christ. The church will still be on the earth. God may choose to protect the church, but we aren't with the Lord until he comes to earth...at the last trumpet...the trumpet that the 7th angel sounds:

Rev 11:15  Then the seventh angel sounded: And there were loud voices in heaven, saying, "The kingdoms of this world have become the kingdoms of our Lord and of His Christ, and He shall reign forever and ever!" 

When the 7th angel sounds, Christ returns. He is physically here on earth and now claims physical rule of all nations on the earth. He returns at the last, the 7th, trumpet.

1Th 4:16  For the Lord Himself will descend from heaven with a shout, with the voice of an archangel, and with the trumpet of God. And the dead in Christ will rise first. 
1Th 4:17  Then we who are alive and remain shall be caught up together with them in the clouds to meet the Lord in the air. And thus we shall always be with the Lord. 

1Co 15:51  Behold, I tell you a mystery: We shall not all sleep, but we shall all be changed—  1Co 15:52  in a moment, in the twinkling of an eye, at the last trumpet. For the trumpet will sound, and the dead will be raised incorruptible, and we shall be changed. 

80 posted on 11/20/2017 3:48:47 PM PST by DouglasKC
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