Feeling Quilty?

Question

I have thought a lot about the Rapture, and as Much as I would love to go,part of me doesnt want to, I want to stay and help those left behind find the Lord, I feel like I am being selfish to go to heaven and leave so many lost behind. is this normal for all of us? or am I just weird?

Answer 1

Cindy, if you are being honest, this is normal feeling. So instead of waiting until after the rapture, we should be loving them (unbelievers) now and praying for their salvation.

Answer 2

I think that is a nice sentiment; not many people would give up time with their diety to stay and 'help' others.

Personally, I'm not christian (in the classic sense) so I don't know that I, personally, believe in the rapture.

But I think that if you were willing to do that, that's a very generous thing to do with your time.

Answer 3

Of course it is normal for humans to want to stay in their home, where God put them. The Rapture doesn't make sense. God's original plan for humankind was for them to live eternally on a beautiful earth and not reside in heaven. Do you think someone could make God alter that plan?

Answer 4

Well it kind of looks like this as far as I can tell... we still have to go through a time when the sun rises from the west, Imam Mahdi appears to fight oppression, the anti-Christ appears, Jesus appears to destroy the Anti-Christ and becomes our Imam, leading us in Islam for however many years Allah (God) wills till he dies. Thereafter will be many more signs until a cool breeze takes the souls of those with even the slightest amount of faith in there hearts... thereafter there will only be wicked people on the Earth until the day of judgment. There are so many more signs though, and nobody really knows there exact order. Allah (God) knows best.

Answer 5

feeling quilty, huh? making, or buying? or perhaps turning ito one? By the way, the rapture was made up by some 15 year old girl in the18th century to impress her minister, who them proceeded to take full credit for the theory. There is no rapture. it will not happen, any more than the garbage in revelation. Mostly because there is no god, but also because its all fake

Answer 6

My private and sincerest apologies for hatred being completed in the call of God - i'm a guy or woman who's fairly non secular, i'm very attentive to my strikes and use them to the terrific of my capacity for God with out attempting to offend everyone, i'm hesitant and ashamed to call myself a christian using fact of him and others like him. people who very own the real spirit of God know greater suitable. detrimental strikes and suggestions do not stay in the character of Jesus Christ, Now, after examining your question, i will actual see how alot of folk are became off by christianity if we've human beings like this representing the christian faith that's catastrophe! Please do not decide a e book by its cover. i'm hoping you had the wisdom know him as not being an occasion of the real Holy Spirit, and thank you for texting him lower back and calling him out on it. i'm hoping it replace right into a watch opener for him.

Answer 7

Quilty? As in making a quilt? Sorry had to tease you a little...
No in faith we feel guilty at times but don't let it capture you!
It is the Devil who is making you feel this way it is one of the many attacks against our souls.
God has forgivin all of us including the unfaithful throuogh Jesus at calvary.

Answer 8

The rapture happens at the end of the world, so there will be no one to help.

The Bible says that the rapture happens at the end of the world.

“Another parable put He forth unto them, saying, ‘The kingdom of heaven is likened unto a man which sowed good seed in his field: But while men slept, his enemy came and sowed tares among the wheat, and went his way. But when the blade was sprung up, and brought forth fruit, then appeared the tares also. So the servants of the householder came and said unto him, ‘Sir, didst not thou sow good seed in thy field? From whence then hath it tares?’ He said unto them, ‘An enemy hath done this.’ The servants said unto him, ‘Wilt thou then that we go and gather them up?’ But he said, ‘Nay; lest while ye gather up the tares, ye root up also the wheat with them. Let both grow together until the harvest: and in the time of harvest I will say to the reapers, Gather ye together first the tares, and bind them in bundles to burn them: but gather the wheat into my barn.’’” (Matthew 13:24 – 29 KJV)

Now that is an interesting story, and it can be a little confusing; fortunately, because the disciples found this story a little confusing they also and asked Jesus to explain if further. Because our God is not a God of confusion (1 Corinthians 14:33), Jesus explained what this parable meant.

“Then Jesus sent the multitude away, and went into the house: and his disciples came unto him, saying, ‘Declare unto us the parable of the tares of the field.’ He answered and said unto them, ‘He that soweth the good seed is the Son of man; The field is the world; the good seed are the children of the kingdom; but the tares are the children of the wicked one; The enemy that sowed them is the devil; the harvest is the end of the world; and the reapers are the angels. As therefore the tares are gathered and burned in the fire; so shall it be in the end of this world. The Son of man shall send forth his angels, and they shall gather out of his kingdom all things that offend, and them which do iniquity; And shall cast them into a furnace of fire: there shall be wailing and gnashing of teeth. Then shall the righteous shine forth as the sun in the kingdom of their Father. Who hath ears to hear, let him hear.’” (Matthew 13:36 – 42 KJV)

A closer study of this parable would seem to completely disprove the theory of a secret rapture of the church. Let’s take a look at what Jesus had to say about the time of the end through this parable. There are two groups on the earth represented by the wheat (the good or the church) and the tares (the evil). The workers of the field (probably representing angels) are troubled by the tares that the evil one (the devil) has planted. They ask the farmer (Jesus) if they should gather the weeds now and purify the field (the world). The farmer (Jesus) said that it should not happen that way because some of the wheat may come up with the tares. He then declares, “Let both grow together until the harvest (the end of the world): and in the time of harvest (the end of the world) I will say to the reapers, Gather ye together first the tares, and bind them in bundles to burn them: but gather the wheat into my barn.” I find it hard to be a proponent of a secret rapture for the church when Jesus said that both the good and the evil will grow together until the harvest (the end of the world). How can the church be raptured, leaving the evil on the earth, when Jesus said they will be together until the very end?

There is another issue raised by this parable. Many well intentioned Christians use the story in Matthew 24:40 & 41 and Luke 17:34 – 36 as key proof of a secret rapture for the church, but if we examine this story about the end times with the earlier story Jesus told about the end times in Matthew 13, we get a completely different picture from what most Christians interpret this story to mean. Let’s look at what Jesus said in these verses.

“Then shall two be in the field; the one shall be taken, and the other left. Two women shall be grinding at the mill; the one shall be taken, and the other left. Watch therefore: for ye know not what hour your Lord doth come.” (Matthew 24:40 – 42 KJV)

“I tell you, in that night there shall be two men in one bed; the one shall be taken, and the other shall be left. Two women shall be grinding together; the one shall be taken, and the other left. Two men shall be in the field; the one shall be taken, and the other left.” (Luke 17:34 – 36 KJV)

Now I do not think that I am wrong in thinking that most Christians interpret these stories to mean that the man taken from the field, the woman that is taken while grinding, and the man taken in his sleep are the ones that belong to the group that is the church and are ruptured. This does not seem to be a plausible explanation however. Jesus gives an order for things to happen back in Matthew 13. “Gather ye together first the tares (the evil), and bind them in bundles to burn them: but gather the wheat (the good or the church) into my barn.” Jesus clearly says that the evil will be gathered first. If we take this understanding and apply it to Matthew 24 and Luke 17, we get a very different understanding. The ones that are taken are not in the group we want to be in. The ones who are taken are the tares (the evil) that are being gathered to be burned, but the ones that are left are the wheat (the good) that are saved.

There is another metaphor that many well intentioned Christians use to support a secret rapture for the church; I feel that this too is an invalid interpretation of a story.

“But know this, that if the goodman of the house had known in what watch the thief would come, he would have watched, and would not have suffered his house to be broken up. Therefore be ye also ready: for in such an hour as ye think not the Son of man cometh.” (Matthew 24:43 & 44 KJV)

“And this know, that if the goodman of the house had known what hour the thief would come, he would have watched, and not have suffered his house to be broken through. Be ye therefore ready also: for the Son of man cometh at an hour when ye think not.” (Luke 12:39 & 40 KJV)

“For yourselves know perfectly that the day of the Lord so cometh as a thief in the night.” (1 Thessalonians 5:2 KJV)

“But the day of the Lord will come as a thief in the night; in the which the heavens shall pass away with a great noise, and the elements shall melt with fervent heat, the earth also and the works that are therein shall be burned up.” (2 Peter 3:10 KJV)

“Behold, I come as a thief. Blessed is he that watcheth, and keepeth his garments, lest he walk naked, and they see his shame.” (Revelation 16:15 KJV)

Here again, most Christians would attempt to say that this metaphor of a thief in the night is depicting a secret rapture for the church. I believe that most Christians have misinterpreted this too. First, Jesus explains what this metaphor means. He says that the meaning is not that the second coming is a secret but we do not know when it will occur. If we knew what day the Lord was to come, we would get ready the day before it, but since we do not know the day or the hour (Matthew 24:36), we must be ever ready! Just examine what Peter had to say of this metaphor in 2 Peter 3:10; he says that when the Lord comes as a thief,” the heavens shall pass away with a great noise, the elements shall melt with fervent heat, and the earth and the works that are therine shall be burned up.” Now I am not sure how all that could be kept a secret from anyone or how people would be able to live on the earth when it has passed away, burned up, and all the elements in it have melted.

Answer 9

You are wasting a lot of time on a concept invented in the late 1700's to early 1800's.

Answer 10

No it's not selfish. It is what you are suppose to do. You can only tell someone something to a point. They get it, or they don't. You can't make people do and listen to you. Say your words sincerely, and honestly that is all you can do.