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To: SkyDancer
LOL, your posts are reading like the list of talking points the preterists issue as a refutation of the pre-trib Rapture.

No worries. Your trust in Jesus means we will meet in the clouds on the way up to meet the Lord Christ in the air (the first heaven, scripturally).

Paul thought the Rapture info to be important enough that he included that teaching with new converts. His passage in 1 Thess 4:13-18 was written to the new believers in Thessalonika so as to comfort them regarding their dead fellow believers. But he had taught the topic to them in person before the letters were sent.

The way the passage in the first letter and the 2 Thess passages read, believing in the Rapture was not an essential dogma for their spiritual nourishment, but it was a mystery revealed to Paul by The Lord Christ and Paul shared that revelation with believers as a means to comfort them and a means to explain OT oblique references to the event.

The Berean believers were scholarly types and search the Scriptures to verify Paul's teachings. What they had was the Septuagint and the Hebraic scrolls. Letters began circulating within ten years of the Cross. These letters were copied and circulated, probably in Greek but also in the local languages (Ethiopic, for instance).

The Rapture will snatch away ALL BELIEVERS, living or dead, for God will bring with Jesus the spirits of the dead to reunite them with actual physical bodies, albeit bodies not subject to corruption. You don't have to believe in the Rapture in order to be snatched away in the event, just Believe in Whom God has sent for your salvation.

The depravity of humanity is growing more gross every day. There is a limit to which God will allow this, and those who teach a pre-Trib Rapture are convinced the level of perversity indicates a soon end to this 'as is' world. From the moment the Rapture happens, the evangelists will know the tiem when Jesus comes a second time to set foot upon the Mount of Olives, for God has revealed in the New Testament (and OT if you study Daniel and Isaiah and Ezekiel) the signs to watch for for that event. The evangelists of the Tribulation period must have an event marking the beginning of the Tribulation, and that is found in the Bible, also. But the Rapture occurs before that seminal event, removing The Bride of Christ, The Body of Christ from Earth to allow the man of sin to be revealed without Holy Spirit restraint caused by those in The Bride.

111 posted on 07/02/2019 8:39:17 AM PDT by MHGinTN (A dispensation perspective is a powerful tool for discernment)
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To: MHGinTN

I can post both pro/con on the Rapture but all it’ll do is create heat with no fire. People choose to believe what they want to believe. To me, it’s not when He comes is >THAT< He comes.


112 posted on 07/02/2019 8:52:45 AM PDT by SkyDancer ( ~ Just Consider Me A Random Fact Generator ~ Eat Sleep Fly Repeat ~)
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