Rapture????

Question

Why don't any proponents of this teaching ever site PROVERBS 2:22.

Answer 1

Proverbs 2:22 along with Psalm 37:11, 29 shows that people will live forever in the future on the earth

Definition of 'Rapture': -The belief that faithful Christians will be bodily caught up from the earth, suddenly taken out of the world, to be united with the Lord “in the air.”
The word “rapture” does not occur in the inspired Scriptures.

Let's see what the scriptures say: -

Will faithful Christians perhaps be taken to heaven secretly, simply disappearing from the earth without dying?

Romans. 6:3-5: “Do you not know that all of us who have been baptized into Christ Jesus were baptized into his death? . . . For if we have been united with him in a death like his, we shall certainly be united with him in a resurrection like his.” (What occurred in the case of Jesus set the pattern. His disciples as well as others knew he had died. He was not restored to heavenly life until after his death and resurrection.)

1 Corinthians. 15:35, 36, 44: “Some one will ask, ‘How are the dead raised? With what kind of body do they come?’ You foolish man! What you sow does not come to life unless it dies. It is sown a physical body, it is raised a spiritual body.” (So death comes before one receives that spiritual body, does it not?)


Will all faithful Christians be taken miraculously from the earth by the Lord before the great tribulation?

Matthew. 24:21, 22: “Then there will be great tribulation such as has not occurred since the world’s beginning until now, no, nor will occur again. In fact, unless those days were cut short, no flesh would be saved; but on account of the chosen ones those days will be cut short.” (This does not say that “the chosen ones” will all have been taken to heaven before the great tribulation, does it? Rather, it holds out the prospect to them, along with associates in the flesh, of surviving that great tribulation on earth.)

Revelation. 7:9, 10, 14, : “After this I looked, and behold, a great multitude which no man could number, from every nation, from all tribes and peoples and tongues, standing before the throne and before the Lamb, clothed in white robes, with palm branches in their hands, and crying out with a loud voice, ‘Salvation belongs to our God who sits upon the throne, and to the Lamb!’ . . . ‘These are they who have come out of the great tribulation.’”
(To “come out” of something a person must go into it or be in it. So this great multitude must be persons who actually experience the great tribulation and come out of it as survivors.)
They must be on the earth to experience the great tribulation thus disproving the 'rapture'

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Answer 2

I have no problem sigting it, Ps.2:22 But the wicked shall be cut off from the earth & the transgressors shall be rooted out of it, But friend now let's read verse 21, For the upright shall dwell in the land & the perfect shall remain in it. Now do you know what time factor this is talking about, Not The Rapture, But after the Rapture & when Christ comes back to earth to rule & reign with his Bride for 1000 yrs. Let's go to Rev. 20:4-15 We are seeing Christ & his Bride down here on this earth, What has happened earlier, Christ came for his Bride to take them to the marriage supper while The 2 Prophets to Israel is here on this earth The bride will be in heaven, & also during the great tribulation also, Now in Rev Chapter 20 you see Satan is bound for 1000 yrs. with the wicked dead, & you see the rightous here on this earth ruling with Christ, That is also in Rev.19:14. Therefore after the 1000 yrs. millennium, Then satan is turned loose for a little season, for what? To test those who were born during the millennium, Now you are looking at the wicked being raised from the dead Rev.20:12-15 This is the 2nd resurrection & the 2nd death & all wicked & satan & the false prophet & even HELL is cast into the lake of fire, Then you have this earth completely redeemed back to God, No more traces of sin, That is why the Upright people shall dwell in the land, & also after the wicked is cast into the lake of fire, that is why Proverbs 2:22 come in at, Because they are no longer dead in the ground. Now see my friend this Christian is not afraid to use any scriptures.

Answer 3

Proverbs 2:21 For the upright shall dwell in the land, and the perfect shall remain in it.

Answer 4

they'd rather believe Darby than the writer of Proverbs

Answer 5

maybe b/c the rapture will be removing God's people to be with Him in Heaven - this sounds like the "wicked" are removed

Answer 6

Raptor? Where! =O