Do you believe in the rapture?

Question

If so, who do you think will disappear? The good or the bad?
The scripture states that this will take place in the same way that it did in the days of Noah and the flood. During that time, the bad was washed away by the waters. If the meek shall inherit the Earth, it would make sense for the good to be left and the bad removed. What do you think?

Stone Rolled:
Keep reading the scriptures pal, there are two different ones that discuss this topic.

Lion of Judah:
The scriptures claim that no one actually saw Jesus rise into the heavens so why will anyone see him descend?

Earl:
Listen bud, out of all of the translations of the holy scriptures, the King James 'Version' is one of the most inaccurate compared to the original text. The original edition of your bible even included a disclosure in the preface stating the changes that it made. That's why for years no one was allowed to read this bible or any bible except the clergy so these false teachings could be engrained into tradition.By the way, the bible clearly teaches that beasts are symbolic of nations, even though you claim that no one knows these things. That's kind of hypocritical to accuse me of not understanding the bible when you don't seem to have even a basic knowledge or even an accurate translation. Open your eyes and keep searching.

Answer 1

I believe there will be a resurrection of the dead. Then everyone will be judged according to their deeds and their life. The sinful will be swept away just like they were in the flood. The meek shall be left over to inherit the Earth.

Answer 2

yes! i do believe in it, however...i do think the good will be taken...i'm sorry, i'm at school rite now so i can't give u exact scripture, but i have read and studied Revelations many times! I kno it talks about how the good and pure will be lifted with the sound of the trumpet...so to me...that means all Christians, dead and still alive...the dead will walk the earth again-to me that means all the people who never got saved will walk the earth again with the ones who are still living who haven't been saved. They will want to die, but be unable...they will try to kill themselves, but that won't work either. It will be the worst times ever, but they still have a chance. If they refuse the sign of the beast "the devil" (who will be the only way to get food and liquids needed) and trust in the Lord, they can still be saved! Mountains will fall on the people, locuses (sorry can't spell) will attack, and many many more things will happen to these people, but instead of asking for forgiveness from God, they curse him. After 7 years, i think it is, everyone will be judged. If you still never got saved, then you will go to Hell with satan and the other non-christians! That is how i view it and that's what i think will happen...of course no one really knows, thats just my opinion and how took it! But i was reading one of the other answers and a guy was talking about how everyone preaches about "the end of times" coming soon, well it is! It says so...i remember it saying Dear Friends,.....somethin something something, I will be coming soon!" or sumthin like that...soon might be tomorrow, maybe next week, or possibly a hundred years from now! Remember there is no time in heaven, think of a flower, it grows and dies within a few months, a lifetime isn't even a second in heaven! well good luck! :]]

Answer 3

Heck no. Here's the Christian perspective:

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 unhygienic street-corner evangelist crackpot sputtering about how the world is going to end and that all the heathens better get the Lord harassed 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 4

I agree. The Bible clearly states that the righteous living and the resurrected righteous dead will be caught up to meet Jesus in the air, obviously we are removed to go to heaven with Him for the thousand years. Those who are left will be destroyed with the earth.

Second Coming of Christ:
The second coming of Christ is the blessed hope of the church, the grand climax of the gospel. The Saviour's coming will be literal, personal, visible, and worldwide. When He returns, the righteous dead will be resurrected, and together with the righteous living will be glorified and taken to heaven, but the unrighteous will die. The almost complete fulfillment of most lines of prophecy, together with the present condition of the world, indicates that Christ's coming is imminent. The time of that event has not been revealed, and we are therefore exhorted to be ready at all times. (Titus 2:13; Heb. 9:28; John 14:1-3; Acts 1:9-11; Matt. 24:14; Rev. 1:7; Matt. 24:43, 44; 1 Thess. 4:13-18; 1 Cor. 15:51-54; 2 Thess. 1:7-10; 2:8; Rev. 14:14-20; 19:11-21; Matt. 24; Mark 13; Luke 21; 2 Tim. 3:1-5; 1 Thess. 5:1-6.)

Answer 5

Rapture, like Trinity, is a word not found in any original Bible Translation. It is NOT a religious term but a HUMAN term, created by a 15 year old girl named Margaret MacDonald in Scottland in 1830 and popularize by "new age" relgions in 1860.

It is used to describe a situtation found in Revelations.

We can use an even more modern term, BEAMED UP, to describe the same event.

Will we get BEAMED UP.

Will God BEAMUS UP!

Now if you don't like my term and reference, then you can see where I'm coming from with your term.

My God, in Exodus and Revelations and other books, told me to be wary of FALSE PROPHETS.

I'm wary of all prophets and prophecies outside of the KJV.

I do understand the process as delinated in Revelations.

Do YOU understand there is a BOOK OF LIFE

And do you FURTHER understand that THEORETICALLY at least, living under the CONCEPT of RAPTURE is enough to POTENTIALLY KEEP YOUR NAME OUT OF THAT BOOK.

Notice I'm not definitive here. Potentially, theoretically.

We don't KNOW what the MARK OF THE BEAST is, but it comes from FALSE PROPHETS WHO PEOPLE BLINDLY FOLLOW, so I stick with God.

I hope you have no problems with that.

Margaret MacDonald is NOT my GOD!

Answer 6

No-----The rapture is just one of the many false teachings taught by Christendom. Those who are chosen for life in heaven must first experience death, for flesh and blood cannot inherit God's Kingdom
1 Corinthians 15:50-52--"Now this I say, brethren, that flesh and blood cannot inherit the kingdom of God; neither doth corruption inherit incorruption. Behold, I tell you a mystery: We all shall not sleep, but we shall all be changed, in a moment, in the twinkling of an eye, at the last trump: for the trumpet shall sound, and the dead shall be raised incorruptible, and we shall be changed."

Verse 52 says that the dead are changed from flesh & blood to spirit form. This change is done quickly, so that they do not experience the pangs of death as others do. Jesus himself had to die physically before he was resurrected to heaven, thus proving that one must die before they get to reign as kings & priests with Jesus in the heavenly government.
Not all good people go to heaven, for only a "little flock " of Christians are selected by God to be co-rulers.
All others will be survivers of Armegeddon and also those who are resurrected by Jesus. These will include the righteous and unrighteous. The "great crowd" of survivors and the dead who are brought back to life--these have the hope of living forever here on earth.

Answer 7

My friend you have misquoted the scripture. It says, that the TIMES will be as in the days of Noah. Not "that it will take place in the same way as in the days of Noah.
What this means is that the world will be full of sin, hatred for good, loving of evil, homosexuality accepted as normal, few will stand for God, yet many for the evil one.
Sounds like today doesn't it?
Choose you this day who you will serve. As for me and my house, we will serve the Lord.

Answer 8

Nope. The doctrine of a secret rapture was first conceived by John Nelson Darby of the Plymouth Brethren in 1827. Darby, known as the father of dispensationalism, invented the doctrine claiming there were not one, but two "second comings." This teaching was immediately challenged as unbiblical by other members of the Brethren.

And condemned by Christians everywhere as unbiblical.

Answer 9

Sounds like something beastly in its nature...

"Jawful has been enraptured!"

There's no flood that ever occurred to THAT proportion!

Even if you were to remove the bad, the good people still have their intentions... plus you have violence that these people have already seen and will be passed down to their kids.... It'll be the same thing over again, same as like it was when the humans came around hundreds of thousands of years ago, or into the millions of years ago.

Answer 10

Having studied the Bible for over 20 years, I still have not found any reference to the rapture, so no, I don't believe in it. I DO believe in Jesus' return - hopefully soon.