What comes first, the rapture or the anti Christ?

Answer 1

Neither.

Answer 2

That's a hard call when it comes to interpreting the scriptures about that issue...

Dispensationalist and Futurist views hold while it is considered a period of immense suffering and sacrifice, greater than anything before in history, believers are promised strong faith and powers to help them endure and prevail. Persecution is attributed to the believers rebelling against the Antichrist and his regime.

Among Christians who hold a futurist view of the Tribulation, there are differing views about what will happen to Christians during the Tribulation:

* Pretribulationists believe that all Christians then alive will be taken bodily up to Heaven (called the rapture) before the Tribulation begins. Those who become Christians after the rapture will live through (or perish during) the Tribulation. After the Tribulation, Christ will return.
* Midtribulationists believe that the rapture of the faithful will occur halfway through the Tribulation, but before the worst part of it occurs. The seven year period is divided into half - the "beginning of sorrows" and the "great tribulation" proper.
* Posttribulationists believe that Christians will not be taken up into Heaven. But, they will be received or gathered by Christ into the Kingdom of God on earth at the end of the Tribulation. "Immediately after the tribulation ... then shall appear the sign of the Son of Man [Jesus] ... and he shall gather his elect" (Matthew 24:29–31; Mark 13:24-27; Luke 21:25-27). The idea of a post tribulation coming can also be read into 2 Peter 3:10-13 where Christ's return is equated with the "elements being melted" and "the earth also and the works therein shall be burned up."

In pretribulationism and midtribulationism, the rapture and the Second Coming (or Greek, par[a]ousia) of Christ are separate events; while in posttribulationism the two events are identical or simultaneous. Another feature of the pre and mid-tribulation beliefs are the idea that after the Rapture, Christ will return still again (a third coming), to set up his kingdom on the earth.

I'm hoping for the rapture first...

Answer 3

The Rapture

Answer 4

Anti Christ comes/exist first. The saints who was unspotted from the world and who was unspotted from anti-christ will be caught up together in the clouds and meet with Christ during rapture.

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Answer 5

ww3 then the anti christ. that,s why 2012 is suck a big deal they think ww3 will be on 12/21/2012.

Answer 6

the anti christ is already here i beleive because a man is here on the news claiming to be jesus so who knows in the bible it says that there will be many pretenders claiming to be christ.

Answer 7

rapture is a hoax

Answer 8

Neither.