2006-12-17 07:21:00 · 12 answers · asked by Atlas 6 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
There is NO GOD to magically take all the whiney self righteous away!
I guess they'll just have to face the horror their religion created!
Can we drag them out from under their beds now?
2006-12-17 07:25:32 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 2⤋
Dear Atlas,
It has begun already but if your read the Scriptures, you will find that the "saved" are not taken to heaven until the last day (end of the world). Pre-millenialists believe that the rapture takes place before the Great Tribulation but there is no Scriptural support for this. The Great Tribulation is not for 7 years as most theologians believe either. It is a period of 23 years. The first part of the Great Tribulation, the 1st 6 years, absolutley no one was becoming saved. However, in 1994 the 2nd Jubilee began and the Lord began His salvation program again. See these Scriptures:
1 Thessalonians 4:13-18
1 Corinthians 15:51-53
John 6:39, 40, 44, 54
John 12:48
* John 5:28, 29
Matthew 25:31-46
*Matthew 13:24-30
2006-12-17 07:42:04 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Since I am a Right-Wing Fundamentalist Christian, I know that the Rapture happens first. The tribulation starts for all non-believers left behind to suffer the WRATH of GOD!
You can't have the tribulation without the rapture so how would you know that the great tribulation had started?
2006-12-17 07:38:51 · answer #3 · answered by D.A. S 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I am not of that persuasion, for specific reasons, and truthfully no conjecture there if no rapture then there is no need to talk of the Great Tribulation. The two events are tied together it is when does the rapture occur during the great Tribulation not if there is none. There are pre-tribs that is before the Trib. There are mid-tribbers who believe in will happen half way in the Trib. Then there are post-tribbers who think it will happen at the end. One thing for shure when it happens it will be according to the plan of God, not our own devices or our own thoughts on how or when!
2006-12-17 07:27:58 · answer #4 · answered by ? 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I would think that all of the people who followed the largely discredited doctrine of dispensationalism would finally realize that there is only one church made up of believers of Jewish and Gentile people and that Jesus wasn't talking about a group of "Jewish elect" when He made this prophecy.
Matthew 24:29 "Immediately after the tribulation of those days the sun will be darkened, and the moon will not give its light, and the stars will fall from heaven, and the powers of the heavens will be shaken. (30) Then will appear in heaven the sign of the Son of Man, and then all the tribes of the earth will mourn, and they will see the Son of Man coming on the clouds of heaven with power and great glory. (31) And he will send out his angels with a loud trumpet call, and they will gather his elect from the four winds, from one end of heaven to the other.
Ephesians 2:13 But now in Christ Jesus you who once were far off have been brought near by the blood of Christ. (14) For he himself is our peace, who has made us both one and has broken down in his flesh the dividing wall of hostility (15) by abolishing the law of commandments and ordinances, that he might create in himself one new man in place of the two, so making peace, (16) and might reconcile us both to God in one body through the cross, thereby killing the hostility.
2006-12-17 07:33:21 · answer #5 · answered by Martin S 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I would think the Bubba Preachers got it all wrong ... in their weird interpretations of the Bible.
No big deal. The Holy Spirit will witness to you (if you ask) that "Matter cannot be created nor destroyed" it only gets re-arranged ------------ by a loving God, I hope.
2006-12-17 07:28:38 · answer #6 · answered by MrsOcultyThomas 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
its a BIG lie, the pre-trib. rapture is UN-BIBLICAL, can you imagine if christians survive a nuclear exchange and they aren't "raptured" , they will lose FAITH!!!> these "preachers" are preaching a false gospel and are decieving the minds and hearts of christians>
2006-12-17 07:24:54 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 1⤋
We don't know at what hour our Lord will return but one thing's for sure. He will return and take all of those who have believed in Him up in the clouds with Him and there shall we be forever more with the Lord.
2006-12-17 07:26:52 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
The book of Revelation uses Biblical imagery, and is mostly all symbolic, it has been misinterpreted for hundreds of years.
2006-12-17 07:25:07 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
I would think that the Bible is right and alot of people got lied to about what was going to happen to them.
2006-12-17 07:26:26 · answer #10 · answered by Sparkle1 6 · 1⤊ 1⤋