Last Days?

Question

Does anyone believe that we are living in the last days on Earth. Do you believe in the rapture? Are you looking forward to it?

Answer 1

Yes, yes and yes.

I'm actually looking forward to a bit of persecution.
It will definitely seperate the pretenders from the dedicated.

The best will when they stop allowing tax exemption for tithes. You will see churches close down like bars in the prohibition. Then the rest of us can meet in barns, basements and VFW halls and begin to preach a pure gospel.

Answer 2

I'm beginning to think we've got the "rapture" theory backwards. The bible tell us there will be two people and one will disapear, but it doesn't tell us who'll do the disappearing. It does say "as in the days of Noah", which would mean the unbelievers would be disappearing, right? The first paragraph of the Book of Enoch makes it very clear it will be the unbelievers who disappear.

I don't believe anyone will be doing any disappearing until after the tribulation, right before the final wrath anyway. The whole pre-trib rapture thing is not only unbiblical, its illogical. Christ is suppose to come back once more, not twice, which would have to be the case if there was a pre-trib rapture.

As to the last days, the tribulation was not suppose to begin until the generation of Israel becoming a nation again, which didn't happen until 1948, and a biblical generation is 70 years, which gives us until 2018 for things to really heat up.

Answer 3

I personally do not think we are re in the last days. Yes I believe in and look forward to the rapture. To be with God and all the people that have come before us will be an awesome thing.
Don

Answer 4

NO.

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 taking to the skies. 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.

Answer 5

As a Christian, I have not found any actual refernce to the rapture in the Bible. As for our being in the Last Days, the Bible doesn't not say the world will end, only that God's kingdom will come. Being in the days spoke of in Revelations? We are on the road. Once some jerk in the European Union gets a peace treaty in the Middle East, we will have 3 1/2 years before Russia, Iran and other Middle Eastern Countries start a war to wipe out Israel. When the do that, Christ will come back and kick their butts. THEN He will establish His kingdom here on earth.

Answer 6

Yes I believe we're living in the last days, it's hard to not get discouraged too, so much yuck is out there. Yes I believe in the rapture and am soooo looking forward to it! Yeah beam me up!

Answer 7

Yes, I do believe that we are living in the last days and no I do not believe in the so called rapture. That is not a Biblical teaching...I know how you guys who believe that came to think it means what you do, but when you learn what the Bible really teaches, then this belief is discredited. I can't explain it all in a short minute, but with Bible study, you would see the fallacy in this belief.

Answer 8

1 Timothy 3 says:

"This know also, that in the last days perilous times shall come.

For men shall be lovers of their own selves, covetous, boasters, proud, blasphemers, disobedient to parents, unthankful, unholy,

Without natural affection, trucebreakers, false accusers, incontinent, fierce, despisers of those that are good,

Traitors, heady, highminded, lovers of pleasures more than lovers of God;

Having a form of godliness, but denying the power thereof: from such turn away.

For of this sort are they which creep into houses, and lead captive silly women laden with sins, led away with divers lusts,

Ever learning, and never able to come to the knowledge of the truth."

Doesn't that sound like it's here now. Yeah we're in the last days, and the world isn't going to get any better. But the rapture? I'm looking forward to it. I really can't wait til Jesus come back for me, but I just need to get my life straight 100% so He won't frown upon me when I see Him. Kinda nervous about it. Nervous excitement.

Answer 9

Yes, I believe we are living in the last days. All one has to do is read about the "signs and wonders" John spoke of from a 21st century prospective and compare it to the news on CNN! Other ways to understand how close we are is where it speaks of "wars and rumors of wars......famine, pestilence, and earthquakes in divers places...." Look at what this world has been through in the last 200 years! Everything from world wars to the ethnic wars that rage around the globe every day! Famine, diseases that we thought had been eradicated and etc. are all signs of His return. It is very close at hand.

Answer 10

last days= yes, secret rapture=no, yes im looking forward to Christ's 2nd. coming