There's more than one thing about it I have a problem with, but the main thing is that I don't see how there can be two different saved bodies of people, two different churches, a church that is raptured before the unfolding of the end times scenarios that are obviously in the wings right now, but others who get saved during those events. It's not so much that I don't see certain scriptural evidences for such an interpretation, although of course the stronger those are the more I'm likely to be persuaded, but it's more that it makes no sense to me that the Church would be with the Lord celebrating the Blessed Hope, safe and secure with Him forever, His Elect, His Bride, His redeemed, while others will come to be saved through terrible sufferings during that same time period and not be part of that company. I really can't make sense of this.
Unfortunately I have no idea who to consult in the hope of answering this question. I've heard teaching from all the different camps and I'm still MOSTLY pre-trib in spite of my questions -- in fact I'm YEARNING for it to happen SOON -- except for worrying about unsaved friends and family. I COULD go back to being post-trib or pre-mill or Rapture = Second Coming except that the last teaching I heard on that was so cock-sure assertive about what I know is not all that clearcut I figured that teacher has WAY too much confidence in his own powers of understanding and not likely to be the one to resolve my doubts.
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Sat 4/7 Heard a radio show on the book of Revelation this morning in which the question above was raised, sort of, and the only answer that was given was that the speakers believe people will be saved after the Rapture, period, no scripture, no consideration of the concern about how there can be two completely separate bodies of believers in Christ, and how we are to understand whatever the distinctions are, etc. Just that the 144,000 Jews that are sealed are evangelists so people will be saved. Oh well.
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I am the sign of the Son of Man in Heaven, the resurrected St. John the Baptist, who has been given the name Petrus Romanus by the Son of Man in Heaven.
ReplyDeleteFor many, the rapture is a stumbling block, this, in part, due to many on-line sites that do not receive me, yet profess to be some sort of authority on the matter. For the past 56+ years, there has been none better with which to speak concerning the rapture than me. When I have willfully told such sites who I am, their mentality has seemed to crumble.
http://risen-from-the-dead.forumotion.com/t3-testimony-against-apostates
The rapture, by the clearest New Testament reference, is based upon 1 Thess. 4:13-18. According to the prophecy of Daniel 11, and that given by Christ, it is something experienced by every one in one way, shape, and/or form, but not necessarily simultaneously, as in the fact that all are of the Elect after Christ's Redemption at Calvary, not something decided upon by the individual, save for Christ.