What happens to the Earth after the rapture?
After God saves all his sheep and damns the goats to hell I am assuming there won’t be anyone around.
Right?
Wait…At the Rapture, every Christian will receive a resurrected body, but People with resurrected bodies won't be able to marry or have children (Matt. 22:30)
So…
Will he start over and make a whole new set of dust people?
Will he make them more tolerant and loving towards each other?
Will he give them a better set of rules or a better book to follow or maybe a guidebook for Zombies?
This being a Zombie-thing doesn’t seem like a great reward for the millennial kingdom
So to ask,
How does God decide which Christians will be ruptured and who will be resurrected and who will be around for the repopulation?
Or better yet…
How is the rapture believable when it sounds a little crazy?
2006-09-19 08:00:12 · 18 answers · asked by Katy_Kat 5 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
Oh Selnyk, I CAN’T BELIEVE IT EITHER!
Well Earl, ya can't get more obvious than that!
Jim_Darwin- You are too funny! You are going to have to tell everyone who your girlfriend is someday! LOL!
2006-09-19 08:22:49 · update #1
Rapture... the end of the world...
According to this doctrine, when Christ returns, all of the elect who have died will be raised and transformed into a glorious state, along with the living elect, and then be caught up to be with Christ. The key text referring to the rapture is 1 Thessalonians 4:16–17, which states, "For the Lord himself will descend from heaven with a cry of command, with the archangel’s call, and with the sound of the trumpet of God. And the dead in Christ will rise first; then we who are alive, who are left, shall be caught up together with them in the clouds to meet the Lord in the air; and so we shall always be with the Lord."
Virtually all Christians hold that the Second Coming will be preceded by a time of great trouble and persecution of God’s people (2 Thess. 2:1–4). This period is often called the tribulation. Until the nineteenth century, all Christians agreed that the rapture—though it was not called that at the time—would occur immediately before the Second Coming, at the close of the period of persecution. This position is today called the "post-tribulational" view because it says the rapture will come after the tribulation.
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MY opinion:
People have been proclaiming that they are living through the "end times" for waaaaay too long. There's always some unhygenic street-corner evangelist crackpot sputtering about how the world is going to end and that all the heathens better get the Lord harrassed into their unsaved souls.
It STILL hasn't happened. The sky isn't falling. The oceans aren't boiling. Pigs are most definitely NOT sprouting wings and making like the birdies. They've been barking about it for years and years and years and they'll STILL be barking for years to come.
It's a scare tactic, a convenient freak- the- everliving- crap- out- of- folks magic wand that can be waved about in dramatic fashion any time the religious collective feels the soul harvest is running dry.
Trust me... go about your life. Ok, I'm sure you will anyhow considering there's really no alternative option (besides suicide, and I've heard God frowns upon that), but just make sure to keep in mind: STAY CALM. DON'T PANIC. REMEMBER YOUR TOWEL.
*bows*
2006-09-19 08:01:34 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 3⤊ 2⤋
Okay..... All Christians at the time of the rapture will be raptured up. There will be 144,000 people (12,000 from each of the twelve original tribes of Judah) that will be sent to the four corners of the world to evangelize to those who are left behind. Along with those 144,000 people, two witnesses (believed to be Elijah and Moses) with extraordinary powers given to them from God, will be sent down during the first 3 and 1/2 years of tribulation.
As for the Bible scripture that you quoted, you have taken that completely out of context. This is the ENTIRE verse.....
" For in the resurrection they neither marry, nor are given in marriage, but are as the angels of God in heaven."
This is not talking about people who are left after the rapture. This is just merely stating that if you go to heaven when you die, you do not get married. You are like the angels in heaven.
So, maybe the rapture would not sound so crazy if you would actually read the entire Bible, and study it. Revelation is not the only book in the Bible to talk about end times. And if you are going to quote scripture, please do it in its entirety. Thank you.
2006-09-19 08:21:20 · answer #2 · answered by ktjokt 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
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2016-10-15 04:22:54 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Matthew 22:25 to 22:28
Refers to seven brothers and was a question meant to fool Jesus.
I wish people would understand before you lash out.
Matthew 22:29 is good for you.
The passage you quote says nothing of rapture, it is to do with dying and going to Heaven.
Zombies? I think not.
I think the best answer for your query is to wait and see.
Your deliberate misinterpretation sounds crazy.
Not the rapture.
2006-09-19 08:20:27 · answer #4 · answered by dyke_in_heat 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋
All the verses I have read point out that all people will be changed for the better. The dead in Christ resurrected, the asleep woken up, the believers get to meet Jesus.
Sounds all good to me.
2006-09-19 08:03:25 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
The Jehovah's witnesses corner the market on that part of the much less than probable future. I have a pamphlet that would give me their answer sitting at home. But, I never read it. Oh well. I didn't think it was important, my bad. I'll just be surprised, I guess. LOL
2006-09-19 08:41:25 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 0⤋
Who gives a hoot about the rapture, let's talk about your rack. You seem to have a nice rack. What hosptial do you work at so I can fake death and get mouth to mouth from you. I'm not being offensive, you're hot!
You give me rapture!
If you object to that, stop showing so much in your Avatar! If you're showing I'm looking.
And you're hot!
Got a problem with that!
One word!
Ebony!
Big plank of it (although it's abino)!
That's my answer, YOU give me RAPTURE!
The other rapture comes from a 15 year old under age minor name Margret McDonald who lived in Scotland in the 1800s.
I'm not into teenies.
And the word Rapture is NOT found anywhere in the Bible!
It's a teenie-weenie phrase like GAG ME WITH A SPOON or LIKE YA KNOW!
You're not teenie weenie, that's for sure!
2006-09-19 08:04:50 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 2⤋
Is that coming out for Playstation 2, or do I have to upgrade to a PS 3 to play??? I wanna play!!!!!
2006-09-19 08:03:57 · answer #8 · answered by YDoncha_Blowme 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
*God makes new dust people*
God: "Ok, I'm going to put you in Eden. You'll be happy here. Just don't eat anything off that tree"
*Adam 2 eats from the Tree of Knowledge.*
God: "Oh man I should've seen that coming."
2006-09-19 08:04:41 · answer #9 · answered by Southpaw 7 · 4⤊ 0⤋
when all the christians looking like the borg will thay still want to brainwash the planet all over again
2006-09-19 08:15:19 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋