This idea that the Church will not suffer the great tribulation is completely unbiblical, and at odds with historic Christianity. Jesus, the Master, suffered. Eleven of the twelve Apostles died as martyrs; there have been martyrs throughout Jewish and Christian history. To believe in a rapture of the Church, so as to save it from suffering, flies in the face of this.
there is a difference between tribulation which is very real and suffered by christians everywhere and THE tribulation which is the pouring out of Gods Wrath. We are not appointed to wrath and will be saved from it. That is Biblical.
I agree. I think the invention of the rapture stems from the belief of most protestants that suffering (even when united to the suffering of Christ), is pointless and unnecessary.
Our generation is unaccustomed to suffering, we are like fattened cattle ready for the slaughter. The effeminate cannot stand to suffer (*this is the true meaning of the word effeminate), and the effeminate shall not enter Heaven. We all need to toughen up, for the torturers of the anti-christ will know our deepest fears.
Above all, we need to repent and seek God’s forgiveness as founded before Christ’s Ascension. Then, “penance, penance, penance!”.
Christ will come in Glory at the end of the world, and then “we will be caught up in the air”.