When the rapture comes with the nonbelievers finally open their eyes?

Question

or will they just say it was science and aliens?

In the Bible... the most I've read it said that Jesus will come quickly. It also says that two farmers will be in a field and one will disappear while the other stands in awe.

Answer 1

"Then Jesus told them another story: "The kingdom of heaven is like a man who planted good seed in his field. That night, when everyone was asleep, his enemy came and planted weeds among the wheat and then left. Later, the wheat sprouted and the heads of grain grew, but the weeds also grew. Then the man's servants came to him and said, 'You planted good seed in your field. Where did the weeds come from?' The man answered, 'An enemy planted weeds.' The servants asked, 'Do you want us to pull up the weeds?' The man answered, 'No, because when you pull up the weeds, you might also pull up the wheat. Let the weeds and the wheat grow together until the harvest time. At harvest time I will tell the workers, "First gather the weeds and tie them together to be burned. Then gather the wheat and bring it to my barn." Then Jesus told another story: "The kingdom of heaven is like a mustard seed that a man planted in his field. That seed is the smallest of all seeds, but when it grows, it is one of the largest garden plants. It becomes big enough for the wild birds to come and build nests in its branches." Then Jesus told another story: "The kingdom of heaven is like yeast that a woman took and hid in a large tub of flour until it made all the dough rise." Jesus used stories to tell all these things to the people; he always used stories to teach them. This is as the prophet said: "I will speak using stories; I will tell things that have been secret since the world was made." Then Jesus left the crowd and went into the house. His followers came to him and said, "Explain to us the meaning of the story about the weeds in the field." Jesus answered, "The man who planted the good seed in the field is the Son of Man. The field is the world, and the good seed are all of God's children who belong to the kingdom. The weeds are those people who belong to the Evil One. And the enemy who planted the bad seed is the devil. The harvest time is the end of the world, and the workers who gather are God's angels. "Just as the weeds are pulled up and burned in the fire, so it will be at the end of the world. The Son of Man will send out his angels, and they will gather out of his kingdom all who cause sin and all who do evil. The angels will throw them into the blazing furnace, where the people will cry and grind their teeth with pain. Then the good people will shine like the sun in the kingdom of their Father. You people who can hear me, listen." (Matthew 13:24 - 43 NCV)

According to Jesus, the people of God and the people of the devil will not be seperated untill the end of the world!

Answer 2

Left Behind is fiction. Biblically, it does not say anywhere in the bible that the rapture will come before the tribulation. Actually, if anything, it will come after the trib, right before the final wrath, and by then, they won't have very long to think about it. We're told we'll be saved from the final wrath, not the trib, and if it were a pre-trib rapture, who exactly would be getting their heads lopped off which is described in Revelation?

Answer 3

I think that some will. But Satan will deceive many and whatever explanation the world will come up with, I think most will believe the lie. I'm sure there will be many different explanations though. There is a movie series called the left behind series, it is good and gives insight as to how things may go. I think that unfortunately most will believe what the "world" says happened. I pray that we can reach as many as possible so fewer people will be left behind, it will be a terrible time in the history of man. We should all pray for the ones who are still lost. God bless you all.

Answer 4

It will be too late. Rapture will not "just happen". why?
Satan always mocks everything God does. Right? OK, How can Satan mock Rapture? world wide all at the same time, killing Innocent people as well as the lost?

Nuclear war. Think about it.

The bible tells us, there will be confusion llike never known before. Rapture is of God, God is not confusion. Satan is.

When rapture happens, that is PROOF. Right? Satan has got to keep the lost.....LOST.

This is why so many people will accept the Mark of The Beast.


Good Question.

Answer 5

What's the rapture? It's not in the original Bible. It's not anywhere in Revelation. Did you know that? Here's some facts on it:

The popularization of the Rapture is associated with teaching of John Nelson Darby and the rise of premillennialism and dispensationalism in the United States at the end of the 19th century. The doctrine of the rapture was further popularized by an evangelist named William Eugene Blackstone, whose book "Jesus is Coming" sold more than one million copies[1], and then by its inclusion in the Scofield Reference Bible.

Among Christians who do believe in a Rapture, there is substantial debate about the timing of the rapture relative to the seven-year Tribulation. Critics of a "Pre-Tribulation" Rapture, the belief that the Rapture will occur prior to the Tribulation, often attribute that doctrine to a 15-year old Scottish-Irish girl named Margaret MacDonald (a follower of Edward Irving) who had a vision in 1830. Some pre-Tribulation proponents maintain that the earliest known extra-biblical reference to the "pre-Tribulation" rapture is from a sermon known as the "pseudo-Ephraem", attributed to a fourth century Byzantine, Ephraem of Nisibis, in which he is quoted as saying, "For all the saints and Elect of God are gathered, prior to the tribulation that is to come, and are taken to the Lord lest they see the confusion that is to overwhelm the world because of our sins[2] [3]." However, there are opposing views to the interpretation of this writing[4] [5]. There are at least three other Pre-Tribulation references prior to Macdonald - in a book published in 1788, in the writings of a Catholic priest Emmanuel Lacunza in 1812, and by John Darby himself in 1827, [6]. Nonetheless, both the book published in 1788 and the writings of Lacunza have opposing views regarding their interpretation as well.

The Rapture gained popular interest in wider circles during the 1970s, in part thanks to the books of Hal Lindsey, including The Late Great Planet Earth.[7] Many of Lindsey's predictions in that book, which assumed that the rapture was imminent, were based on world conditions at the time. The Cold War figured prominently in his predictions of Armageddon, and other aspects of 1970s global politics were seen as having been predicted in the Bible. Lindsey believed, for example, that the 10-headed beast cited in Revelation was the European Economic Community, a forebearer of the European Union, which at the time consisted of ten nations.

Answer 6

Well, I think the rapture will involve aliens (angels) beaming up true, dedicated Christians into their spaceships. So yes, probably many people will not believe it was really the rapture. But then there will probably be a lot of people who do believe, and turn to Jesus.

Answer 7

Don't hold your breath. Since the moment of Jesus' death Christians have been expecting the Second Coming any day. 2,000 years of failure hasn't brought the point home to them yet that it's a vain hope.
Of course there are plenty of Christians who don't believe in the Rapture, it's a religion that can't get its act straight. The Bible's so vague and incomplete and folks have to work hard to imagine the actual details.

Answer 8

Will another 2000 years without a promised rapture finaly get you christians to shutup about it?

Probably not. I am sure you will kep saying that it is right around the corner. But more likely christianity wont exist even 200 years from now. so I guess there wont be any bible-thumping morons out there to make such claims.

Answer 9

got news for you ninja boy, no god/satan no heaven/hell and no rapture. There is no scientific evidence of "aliens" either, FYI. (unless you meant the kind that sneak across from Mexico to keep the shitty USA economy moving)

People who believe in alien abductions are just as delusional as people who believe in the bible, but not usually as dangerous.

So my question to you is, when the rapture DOESN'T come, when Armaggedon DOESN'T hapen, will you finally realize you've wasted your life believing in a nonexistent sky fairy? Will you feel like a fool? Like a grown adult who still believes in Santa Claus?

Answer 10

Scripture hints that some nonbelievers will realize what happened and more subtle scripture seems to allude to the fact that many people will not have a clue and still others will know full well what happened and will deny it and instead seek to benefit from it based on their already sinful status however misguided.