Any predictions on the date of the rapture?

Question

Best answer with some actual thought put into this should include some real insight.

Answer 1

Actually I don't really believe in the rapture at all.

Oddly though I keep hoping that I am wrong. I can't stop thinking about how great it would be here if all of the holier than thou know it all's were gone. It would be heaven on earth.

Soon I hope.

Love and blessings
don

Answer 2

If you want the biblical answer read Matthew 25:13. "Watch therefore, for you know neither the day nor the hour in which the Son of Man is coming." So if anyone claims they know when, they're probably wrong.

If you want the reasonable answer; the world is not going to end. Humanity might make the earth uninhabitable for people and animals, but no matter what we do to this planet, it will recover. That's the beauty of Earth's self healing. It might take millions of years, but things will go back to the way they were before we showed up. If there's ever a huge asteroid/massive celestial event, there is absolutely nothing we can do about it, but we might be able to know when that's coming when we see a huge fireball falling from the sky...

Answer 3

The rapture will happen. God never said it would happen before the apostles died. Jesus said it would happen before this age or nation was over. "Behold I am coming like a theif in the night," no one knows the exact date, but before the rapture, the Bible says there will be an increase in rebellious youth, sexual immorality, etc. People will be lovers of themselves, lovers of money, they will ingnore God, a sacriligious object will stand in the Holy Place (the Holy Place is the place of the Jewish Temple) any of this sound familiar? Before the rapture, there will be a time of Tribulation. After the Tribulation, Jesus will return.

Answer 4

Feast of Tabernacles in 2007 (September 27th to October 3rd) First off, the lord does nothing without revealing it to the prophets. That is biblical. Second, this is just conjecture and shouldn't be used for making financial decisions due to insider information PLEASE!.

Jordan Lost control of Jerusalem in 1967. 40 years is the time of testing in the bible.



Succoth, The Feast of Tabernacles (or Booths), begins on the 15th of Tishri.13 This lasts for eight days and is one of the three feasts which were compulsory for all Jewish males.14

It's fascinating to visit Israel at this time and observe them as they build their temporary "booths" in the traditional way, leaving deliberate gaps in the branches to view the stars at night and for the wind to blow through during the day. This is intended to remind them of the wilderness wanderings.

At the end of the eight days, they leave their temporary dwellings and return to their permanent homes.15

(This is one of the reasons some suspect that this feast, rather than the Feast of Trumpets, is suggestive of the Rapture of the Church. There also appears to be a hint of this by Peter, desiring to build "succoths" at the transfiguration.16)

This day, traditionally, is also the day on which Solomon dedicated the first Temple.

This feast also involved a daily processional to the Pool of Siloam to fetch water for the Temple. This ceremonial procession is the setting for the events of John 7, where Jesus offers them "living water."17 This procession involved four types of branches: the willow, the myrtle, the palm, and a citrus.18 The willow has no smell and no fruit; the myrtle has smell, but no fruit; the palm has no smell, but bears fruit; and, the citrus has both smell and bears fruit. Sounds reminiscent of the four soils in the first "kingdom parable" of Matthew 13, doesn't it?19

The prophetic implications of this climactic feast are many. Most scholars associate it with the establishment of the Millennial Kingdom in Israel.20

While the first three feasts - Passover, Feast of Unleavened Bread, and Feast of First Fruits - seem to clearly be prophetic of our Lord's First Coming, it seems that the last three feasts of the year could be prophetic of His Second Coming. That is why many are particularly watchful in the fall of each year.

Answer 5

The Bible predicts the rapture will happen before about 100 AD. I think the apostles were all dead by that time, and the Bible predicts the rapture will come before they die.

Hmm, I guess it's a bit late on that prediction.

Answer 6

I predict the rapture will take place exactly when God decides it is time. The bible states no man shall know the time not even the angels know. Anyone who tells you different is giving you erroneous information.

Answer 7

Next Pope or two President away

Last year we had a new

Pope

He has caused hell on this earth already

Hurricane Katrina

This year in June

Earth had a Fever June 22, 2006 last time was over 2000 yrs ago

Korea had mussel aimed at America same day or week

Israel broke out in there rage

Answer 8

Rapture?


Great question!

Perhaps you can see below exactly what you believe in.


Please consider these tidbits:

Jews for Jesus = Vegetarians for Hamburgers

God? He or She?

Church? Christianity? Jesus? God? Dying?

What is the "Imacculate Conception"?

Does Imacculate Conception have anything to do with "VIRGIN BIRTH"?

Google "Imacculate Conception" and in less than a minute you will discover that the IC is NOT the "Virgin Birth".

What else do you falsely believe?

Jesus, the basis of Christianity? .

If Jesus died, he could NOT have been God.

Can Gods die?

If Jesus 'died' on Friday and 'undied' on Sunday, what else besides Saturday was sacrificed?

Did Jesus give up Saturday for us?

No Eternal sacrifice, big deal for a day!

If Jesus died for our sins, there should not be any more sins, else why go through with it?.

If Jesus really DIED, he should be dead, dead, dead!

Life after death is like virginity after childbirth.

If the flesh of Jesus died, what was seen walking and talking on Sunday?

If you believe this stuff, you are not going to like the folks who don't. You want them to believe it too to validate you.

Christians want everyone to convert to their non-thinking in order to be 'saved'.

Believing and not thinking is like choosing to be lost.

P.S.

[Do Christians on Yahoo! answers feel righteous when they report questions they disagree or disapprove of?

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Answer 9

SECRET RAPTURE IS NOT IN THE WORD OF GOD

But no matter how intense the persecution, the church will complete her task of proclaiming the gospel to all nations before the end comes. Remember, when persecution set in on the early church, the gospel penetrated new areas and the number of disciples increased. Can we expect anything less in the time of the end? No 'Secret Rapture' Today, the idea of escaping the end-time tribulation by way of a "secret rapture" is popular among evangelicals, but the Bible teaches no such doctrine. Rather, the New Testament shows that truly converted Christians-men and women of deep and abiding faith, who are filled with the Spirit of God, and who hope and yearn for the coming of their Lord-will still be on the earth at the time the "Antichrist" ("man of sin," or "lawless one") appears (see 2 Thessalonians 1:1-2:12). Make no mistake; the church will be "caught up" to meet Christ as He descends from heaven (1 Thessalonians 4:15-17), but this event takes place some few years after the Antichrist arrives on the scene.
Notice the events surrounding the Second Coming of Christ:
The faithful saints will be given rest from their troubles when Christ appears (1 Thessalonians 1:7).
The wicked-"those who obey not the gospel of our Lord Jesus Christ"-will be destroyed at the same time the faithful saints are given rest (verses 7-9).
The Antichrist, or "lawless one," will be destroyed "with the brightness of His coming" (1 Thessalonians 2:8)-that is, at the same time the above two events occur.
Plainly, the reward of the saints and punishment of the wicked are associated with the same event-"when the Lord Jesus is revealed from heaven" (1:7), "when He comes, in that Day" (1:10), "with the brightness of His coming" (2:8). This scenario hardly leaves room for a secret, pretribulational rapture.
An honest investigation also reveals that the passage does not envision "left behind" saints, or men and women who are converted after Christ comes secretly for the church. The context is critical here. Paul is speaking to the faithful saints of the Thessalonian church (and, by association, the Church of God in general), not to the unconverted or half-converted. Listen to his description, and see if these sound like the spiritually impotent or unregenerate:
We are bound to thank God always for you, brethren, as it is fitting, because your faith grows exceedingly, and the love of every one of you all abounds toward each other, so that we ourselves boast of you among the churches of God for your patience and faith in all your persecutions and tribulations that you endure, which is manifest evidence of the righteous judgment of God, that you may be counted worthy of the kingdom of God, for which you also suffer; since it is a righteous thing with God to repay with tribulation those who trouble you, and to give you who are troubled rest with us when the Lord Jesus is revealed from heaven with His mighty angels" (1 Thessalonians 1:3-7).A people whose faith "grows exceedingly," whose love "abounds" toward others, and who are known for their outstanding "patience and faith" as they endure "persecutions and tribulations" are hardly "lukewarm" Christians who are not really serious about living their faith. Nor are they Christians "in name only."
No, these are real Christians, true followers of Jesus Christ, and Paul did not dissuade them from believing that they would live right into the time of the Antichrist. Why, then, should anyone today think that all true Christians will be snatched out of this world and taken to heaven at the beginning of the tribulation and reign of Antichrist?
Plainly, the idea of the church being snatched away to escape tribulation under the reign of Antichrist was completely foreign to Paul's mind. The Remnant Church In Revelation 12, the devil is unsuccessful in his attempt to destroy Christ when He is born (verses 4,5). He also fails to destroy the "woman" who gave birth to Christ (verses 13,14). Enraged, the devil goes off "to make war with the rest of her [the woman's] offspring, who keep the commandments of God and have the testimony of Jesus Christ" (verse 17).
Who are the rest (or "remnant"-KJV) of the woman's offspring? Christ was her first offspring; the rest of her offspring must be Christ's brothers and sisters-the Spirit-begotten members of the family of God, which is the Church of the Living God.

Answer 10

Wow, you really can't wait for the world to end, can you? Let's see: Hanged God, fanatical faith that teaches Damnation to other faiths, and the joyous expectation of global destruction leading to the Eternal Torment of most the people on the planet. You know, it looks like you're in a death cult?