I believe from studying Scripture that the rapture won't occur until after the Tribulation (believers being persecuted and killed by humans) but before the wrath of God (poured out by God upon those who reject Him). I don't think the Bible teaches this whole "Left Behind" notion that there will be a secret, mysterious rapture that will leave people wondering what happened. In the meantime, we need to be sharing the love of Christ with everyone we meet--and if they can't see His love in our lives, we'd better get back to the Word.
Check out the first link below for an article about the rapture, with dozens of Scripture references.
2006-10-10 12:30:20
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answered by Pastor Chad from JesusFreak.com 6
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This is the kind of "I'm better than you are" question by Christian - folk that is really unbecoming to your religion.
I am not going to do, say, or think anything, because -- you just wouldn't believe it -- there isn't going to be any rapture. It was called off. Didn't you get the memo?
Meanwhile, I'll be in Chichen Itza celebrating 2012. I know, scientifically, what will happen that day, so I will not be disappointed.
You, however, are going to have a very disappointing waiting for something that will never come.
2006-10-09 19:00:03
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answered by Delphyne 3
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As a pagan, I believe that if the Rapture occurs, it is the Goddess' way of returning the Earth to her caretakers, so we can remedy all the damage done by Christians who think it won't matter what they do to the planet. The first thing we will do is celebrate the return of the planet to her children.
2006-10-09 14:42:01
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answered by Myst 1
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i'm an Aquarian Satanist, what we have faith contained in the afterlife is truly shown with the main upto date medical records besides because of the fact the records from greater beings, and it is likewise my suited afterlife. The soul like the techniques isn't something extra effective than impulses and energies accumulating to represent reports which make up who you're, the universe is made out of 70 % darkish rely and darkish potential that's the makeup of the astral realm (the afterlife in case you will), on death you in easy terms launch from this actual shell and upload reports on your already becoming soul, there you're component of a few thing plenty greater, you may get admission to plenty added records of many lives you have been component of, you may communicate with greater beings, you may holiday the universe, you may reincarnate and strengthen extra effective, there is plenty, it truly is the continuation and each and each existence is a stepping stone, there is not any great reward, why do you think of maximum offended spirits are christian, they get puzzled and devastated on the certainty they afterlife isn't what they're informed and that they now no longer comprehend what to do, and why do you think of spirits of previous satanists or occult everybody is so risky to aggrivate, it somewhat is rioght, all of us comprehend what's again and we've actual capacity, our suggestions on afterlife come from certainty no longer suggestions, from data no longer from a e book, so bear in mind, once you die, once you recognize there is not any heaven, there is not any hell, there is not any reward or punishment and there is not any god, dont wreck down and lose it, bear in mind what has been suggested right here and you'd be able to shop your self an eternity of wandering insanity attempting to come to a decision why you're being "punished" by potential of your "god"
2016-10-02 03:29:16
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answered by ? 4
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It's been almost 2000 years and every generation has had its fanatics who believed they were living in the "End Times." They've all been wrong.
When God doesn't "Rapture" you, are you going to realize that the whole Rapture myth is just a load of ****?
2006-10-09 14:46:43
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answered by scifiguy 6
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The same thing that happens when Elvis is found alive...
If such a thing were to happen, I guess I would start organizing a new society from the ashes of the old one, something for the next generations to have...
2006-10-09 14:36:52
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answered by John S 4
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before i answer you have to know i stopped caling myself a christain out of respect to the church because they have enough hypocrites as it is and i wouldn't want to sit there and lie to myself saying -ima good christian- when i know i blatantly go agaist gods rules and what not......and i am just fine with that
whell...the bible says when once the church is taken up the worlds pretty much going to become a giant ball of fire.....and im a bit of a pyro really so i just may like it
2006-10-09 14:47:12
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answered by gomonkeebutt 2
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"...the time when the anti-christ will be causing all sorts of havoc..."
What, and you think the times we live in now are peachy? Get real, dude.
2006-10-09 14:37:57
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answered by WhyAskWhy 5
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Strange thing about that rapture. The part in the New Test that talks about it, talks about being "carried away"... just like in the time of Noah. Yet, during the time of Noah, Noah and his family were not "carried away" to a safe place... Noah was warned to build a ship. If Noah had refused to do anything, outside of getting someone else to do it, would there be humans?
2006-10-09 14:53:21
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answered by Kithy 6
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You are just like the characters in the Harry Potter books, waiting for the return of Lord Voldemort. That's fiction... so are your delusional beliefs. This kind of so-called 'question' disgusts me. I am disgusted by stupidity, willful ignorance and self delusion... which pretty much sums up the Abrahamic death cults of desert monotheism (Judaism, Christianity, Islam).
It disgusts me to know that three-quarters of the population of the USA is infected with some sort of insidious mental virus that leads them to the insane certainty that the myths, superstitions, fairy tales and fantastical delusions of a bunch of ignorant Bronze Age fishermen and wandering goat herders represent some kind of cosmic 'TRUTH' about fundamental aspects of existence and reality.
It disgusts me to know that so many people dwell in a delusional reality (per Genesis) in which a 6,000 year-old Earth is seperated from a 6,000 year-old Heaven by a solid 'firmament' structure (the sky).
I am disgusted by the fact that these people believe that they inhabit a magical universe, which they share with talking snakes (with legs) and donkeys, a shepherd staff that turns into an asp, demons chased out of people and into pigs, friendly spirits, evil spirits, walking on water, multiplying loaves and fishes, food falling from the sky, conception by a ghost, people raised from the dead, the sun stopping in its tracks, parting seas, people being bodily sucked up into heaven (which, by the way, lies on the 'other side' of the sky), world-wide flood that drowned the earth to a depth of 40 feet above the tallest mountain, creating people from a dust bunny and a rib, a magical tree of knowledge, god speaking from a burning bush... and ritual cannibalism, by eating god in the form of a cracker.
In a sane world, anybody running around spouting ANY of that crap, would be locked up in the State Farm for the Funny. Apparently, though, mass insanity seems to convey some sort of free pass for the loony.
It disgusts me to know that in our society, irrational, deluded people who ACTUALLY BELIEVE such nonsense is TRUE are permitted to vote, hold public office, procreate, and shape the minds trusting, vulnerable children.
It disgusts me to know that these same people think that there is something wrong with those who DON'T believe all of this ridiculous crap.
Get a grip.
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"When one person suffers from a delusion, it is called insanity. When many people suffer from a delusion it is called Religion." ~ Robert M. Pirsig
2006-10-09 14:40:44
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answered by Anonymous
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