What will happen first, the rapture of the church, or the millenial reign?

Answer 1

It'll be heaven for the believers, hell for the ones, left behind.
Forgive my ignorance, but what is the millennial reign?
The rapture is real, and will happen.
For those who don't believe this, but are still born again in Spirit and in water, Filled with the Holy Spirit followers of Christ.
You are in for a nice, nice, treat..
I don't believe we will miss the Tribulation all together, we are getting a preview of it now, we're watching the Bible unfold before us. The good news, and the really sad news flashes.
More people are getting saved, accepting Jesus Christ, but more weather, and natural disasters are facts today also.
Break down of laws, prisons so full we can't house them, young people getting farther, and farther away from true values, becoming parants when they haven't even grown up them selves, violence, greed, young men having fatal heart attacks before they're 50, wars and rumors of wars.
It's all in black and white, and Red print. The Words of our brother, savor, Messiah, Jesus Christ..
Praise the Lord..
It's in the Bible..
Jesus gave us the signs, it's time we wake up and smell the coffee..

Answer 2

Instead of asking for people's opinions - lets get it straight from the Bible itself. Read this and anything contrary to this is falacy generated by sectarian churches who buck against the Bible
There is NO PreTribulation Rapture. Read for yourself.

REVELATION 20:4-10 [NIV]
4 I saw thrones on which were seated those who had been given authority to judge. And I saw the souls of those who had been beheaded because of their testimony for Jesus and because of the word of God. They had not worshiped the beast or his image and had not received his mark on their foreheads or their hands. They came to life and reigned with Christ a thousand years.
5 (The rest of the dead did not come to life until the thousand years were ended.) This is the first resurrection.
6 Blessed and holy are those who have part in the first resurrection. The second death has no power over them, but they will be priests of God and of Christ and will reign with him for a thousand years.
7 When the thousand years are over, Satan will be released from his prison
8 and will go out to deceive the nations in the four corners of the earth—Gog and Magog—to gather them for battle. In number they are like the sand on the seashore.
9 They marched across the breadth of the earth and surrounded the camp of God's people, the city he loves. But fire came down from heaven and devoured them.
10 And the devil, who deceived them, was thrown into the lake of burning sulfur, where the beast and the false prophet had been thrown. They will be tormented day and night for ever and ever.

Answer 3

Depends upon your interpretation of endtime events. Futurist say the rapture will occur, followed seven years thereafter by the 1,000 year reign of Christ. I believe both will occur at the second coming of Christ. There will not be a second coming for the church and a third coming to judge the world.

Answer 4

Read Thessalonians. And those who sleep will be caught up first, and those of us left behind will be caught up together with the Lord in the clouds. God takes the church out of harms way before the signing of the peace treaty which will mark the seven year covenant between the antichrist and israel. From that day, the Tribulation will befall the entire planet. Seven seals, trumpets, and vials will be open, sounded, and poured down upon the earth. 21 judgements, plagues never before seen to this extreme will come upon the earth and all those who dwell upon it. after those seven years have ended, the messiah will come down on a white horse, with a double-edged sword coming from his mouth to slay the armies of Satan, the antichrist. then so shall death and hell, Satan, the false prophet, and all those with their names found written in the book of life, shall all be cast into the lake of fire, which is the second death. i don't have the exact scripture off the top of my head, but it's all there. it's a matter of whether or not you want to believe the truth. i pray you believe the truth and be scared, only if you're not a true christian, for you will partake in those days. and should you partake of those days, i most certainly pray that you don't take the mark of the beast. for all those who take the mark of the beast and worship the image thereof will be forever condemned to the second death. your eternal soul is in danger, if you aren't already a true believer. visit bible.com for more answers, if you want them.

Answer 5

Study your bible a little more closely and you will find that there is no rapture.the bible tells us that one will be taken and the other left .God is going to wipe out a third of the earth. we have to remember that we are in the middle of a war between God and Satan . all that God does is in accordance to the total destruction of Satan for all the Universe to see that God is fare and just.And that Satan's accusations and protest against us will be no more.
the rapture is nothing more the God clearing the playing board of players and is setting the stage for the final play against Satan and his minions.study more of the revelations and you will see what will take place. I hope I was some help to you God bless.

Answer 6

The rapture of the church will never happen.

Study to show thyself approved.

RAPTURE

Rev.10:6 And sware by Him that liveth for ever and ever, Who created heaven, and the things that therein are, and the earth, and the things that therein are, and the sea, and the things which are therein, that there should be time no longer:
TIME NO LONGER
Rev.10:7 But in the days of the voice of the seventh angel, when he shall begin to sound, the mystery of God should be finished, as He hath declared to His servants the prophets.
SEVENTH ANGEL WHEN HE BEGINS TO SOUND

I Cor.15:50 Now this I say, brethren, that flesh and blood cannot inherit the kingdom of God; neither doth corruption inherit incorruption.
FLESH AND BLOOD CANNOT INHERIT THE KINGDOM
I Cor.15:51 Behold, I shew you a mystery; We shall not all sleep, but we shall all be changed,
ALL BE CHANGED, NOT JUST THE CHURCH
I Cor.15:52 In a moment, in the twinkling of an eye, at the last trump: for the trumpet shall sound, and the dead shall be raised incorruptible, and we shall be changed.
AT THE LAST TRUMP, SEVENTH

I Thes.4:16 For the Lord himself shall descend from heaven with a shout, with the voice of the archangel, and with the trump of God: and the dead in Christ shall rise first:
THE TRUMP OF GOD, SEVENTH
I Thes.4:17 Then we which are alive and remain shall be caught up together with them in the clouds, to meet the Lord in the air: and so shall we ever be with the Lord.
THE CLOUDS
The word “the” is not in the Greek manuscripts. Clouds is used by Paul for a throng.
Heb.12:1 Wherefore seeing we also are compassed about with so great a cloud of witnesses, let us lay aside every weight, and the sin which doth so easily beset us, and let us run with patience the race that is set before us,
THE AIR
The word “air” Greek (aer) means “to breathe, respire”, NOT SKY. In other words the breath of life or spirit. Flesh and blood cannot inherit the kingdom of God.

II Thes.2:1 Now we beseech you, brethren, by the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ, and by our gathering together unto Him,
OUR GATHERING TOGETHER UNTO HIM
II Thes.2:2 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.
NOR BY LETTER AS FROM US, FIRST THESSALONIANS
II Thes.2:3 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;
LET NO MAN DECEIVE YOU BY ANY MEANS
The sequence of events is Satan first, then the Lord’s day.

Rev 11:3 And I will give power unto my two witnesses, and they shall prophesy a thousand two hundred and threescore days, clothed in sackcloth.
Rev 11:4 These are the two olive trees, and the two candlesticks standing before the God of the earth.
TWO CANDLESTICKS

Rev 1:20 The mystery of the seven stars which thou sawest in my right hand, and the seven golden candlesticks. The seven stars are the angels of the seven churches: and the seven candlesticks which thou sawest are the seven churches.
CANDLESTICKS ARE CHURCHES

Yet there are men that teach the church is raptured. Men that teach that flesh and blood is taken and others left behind. It’s nonsense when you study His Word.

Answer 7

Rapture...oh sweet rapture! It will be a sweet celebration for ALL. Those that go, and those left behind! Everyone should look forward to it!

Answer 8

THE BIBLE SAYS MESSIAH WILL COME FOR HIS TRUE FAMILY SO THE RAPTURE IS FIRST THEN 7 YEARS OF HELL ON EARTH THEN ARMAGEDDON THEN MILLENIAL KINGDOM!!!!!

Answer 9

The rapture (taking up of the saints).

Answer 10

im pretty sure the millenial reign wouldn't happen without the church. ^-^
god bless~~*