Some of them seem to think that God will punish the bride of Christ and leave her to go through to wrath of the antichist and the wrath of God. Do they really think this is how God is going to treat the bride of Christ?They are nuts. Jesus did say in his world to count yourself worthy to escape all these things that is coming on the earth of teast everyone that dwells there, and to stand before the Son of Man. Where do they thing the Wedding banquet will be held. I know it will be held in Heaven after the rapture of the church but a lot of them think it will be held on earth. Yea right, the church will have the wedding banquet of the earth while there is judgment going on and the horrors from a global nuclear war that will be left. I do not think so.Do they think Jesus and his church will have the banquet without the Father being there? The truth is the Father will be there, and he will not be coming to earth as he will squash the earth with one step. The Father lives in Heaven.
2007-01-12 20:12:39 · 7 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
He does not live on the earth. God said Heaven is his throne and earth is his footstool. The truth is the Father will be there at the wedding feast. What father is not present at his sons wedding? The bottom line is the wedding feast will take place in Heaven, after the caught up in the clouds and taken to Heaven.
2007-01-12 20:15:27 · update #1
Okay very long question I'll try to give and equally long answer to it.
To begin with, the word RAPTURE is found NOWHERE in the Bible. It was coined by a fevered young woman in a dream and has been the basis for the start of the Dispensationalist movement several hundred years ago. Dispensationalists believe that God is done with the Jews (obviously they haven't read Romans 10-12, have they?) and since the rapture movement had such a poor and shaky start, I lean toward not believing it.
The second reason is because death is not a bad thing for us and you are assuming that if we are left to die and be martyrs for the Lord during the Great Tribulation that we'd somehow be receiving punishment, I disagree. Death simply means that the Lord is bring us (the saved) home to be with him for eternity, it's not a bad thing. I would direct to the verse that says the rain falls on the righteous as well as the non-righteous. God's wrath will be poured out on this Earth, but the real wrath, the condemnation of your soul to Hell, is what we as believers are being spared from.
Third, i don't believe in the Rapture because if there was a one then you could point to and name the exact date of the second coming of Christ, which would be exactly 7 years after the "rapture" occurred. The Bible tells us that no man can know the date or the hour, only the season.
In the end, however, I don't think the debate over the Rapture is a core Christian issue and we don't have to divide over. What matters is Jesus Christ! God bless!
2007-01-12 20:20:21 · answer #1 · answered by Last Ent Wife (RCIA) 7 · 2⤊ 1⤋
I'm a Christian and I believe in the Rapture.
It is referred to as "The Blessed Hope" in the Bible (Titus 2:13) and is written about by Paul in 1Thess. 4:16 "For the Lord himself will come down from heaven, with a loud command, with the voice of the archangel and with the trumpet call of God, and the dead in Christ will rise first. After that, we who are still alive and are left will be caught up together with them in the clouds to meet the Lord in the air. And so we will be with the Lord forever."
The Bride of Christ will meet the Lord in the air and she will not be around for the time of tribulation on earth.
2007-01-12 22:57:40 · answer #2 · answered by Aubrey T 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
i'm no longer a Christian, and that i hate it even as Christians favor and would't look ahead to the Rapture which will bypass to heaven. they fairly element it is going to take position of their existence time, so as that looks to justify why the do not care about the earth and destiny generations...after all they trust they are the only excellent technology.
2016-10-30 23:47:53 · answer #3 · answered by ? 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I didn't know that a lot of Christians don't believe in the rapture. Does it matter, though? Sometimes I feel like I'm the only Christian on earth who doesn't care what other Christians believe. What's the big deal if someone believes something you don't?
2007-01-12 20:17:36 · answer #4 · answered by No Shortage 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Well personaly i never even heard the word until i came to the internet,
far as i can make out its a Jehovahs witness thing.
2007-01-12 20:22:30 · answer #5 · answered by ? 3 · 0⤊ 1⤋
maybe they beginning to realize impotent fantasies are not the answer.
2007-01-12 20:16:35 · answer #6 · answered by dogpatch USA 7 · 0⤊ 2⤋
It is fiction.
2007-01-12 20:16:17 · answer #7 · answered by Nemesis 7 · 1⤊ 1⤋