what are the signs leading up to the rapture??
2007-09-14 18:57:28 · 14 answers · asked by so_what_if_im_a_blonde 3 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
There aren't any signs because the whole idea of the rapture, which didn't originate until the 1830s in Glasgow, is a nonsense. Thanks go to the long dead, self-appointed ''prophetess'' Margaret McDonald for thinking the Holy Spirit gave her some kind of special preview of a non-existent, and non-biblical event.
Ironically, it is this woman who lived 177 years ago who remains the only actual source for this particularly silly doctrine. Therefore, any ''signs'' are only the ones she dreamed up. This idea is even too silly for God to support in his books.
The appeals to Ephesians and Thessalonians - shame it's two such isolated instances in a bible that contains 66 books - are nothing more than loose interpolations and classic examples of forcing a ''doctrine'' to fit where it actually doesn't.
If you want a real exegesis on that nonsense, I'm happy to provide you with it, but the answer would be pages long.
2007-09-14 19:14:24 · answer #1 · answered by chris m 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
There are no signs leading up to the Rapture, as the Rapture is "imminent", meaning it could come at any time. BUT, there are signs leading to the Second Coming of Christ and are mentioned in the gospels.
2007-09-14 19:10:44 · answer #2 · answered by connie 6 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Find the word "rapture" in the Bible. Then ask this question again.
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2007-09-14 19:41:09 · answer #3 · answered by Weird Darryl 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
2 Thessalonians 2:1 Now concerning the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ and our being gathered together to him, we ask you, brothers, 2 not to be quickly shaken in mind or alarmed, either by a spirit or a spoken word, or a letter seeming to be from us, to the effect that the day of the Lord has come. 3 Let no one deceive you in any way. For that day will not come, unless the rebellion comes first, and the man of lawlessness is revealed, the son of destruction, 4 who opposes and exalts himself against every so-called god or object of worship, so that he takes his seat in the temple of God, proclaiming himself to be God.
2 Thessalonians 2:8 And then the lawless one will be revealed, whom the Lord Jesus will kill with the breath of his mouth and bring to nothing by the appearance of his coming. 9 The coming of the lawless one is by the activity of Satan with all power and false signs and wonders, 10 and with all wicked deception for those who are perishing, because they refused to love the truth and so be saved.
2007-09-14 19:04:53 · answer #4 · answered by Martin S 7 · 1⤊ 2⤋
There is no rapture, so there will be no signs.
2007-09-14 19:08:55 · answer #5 · answered by Rat 7 · 1⤊ 1⤋
When masses turn their back on god.
When all nations bordering Israel are against them.
When the world is at it's wits end with war.
When men are women and women are men.
Any of this ring a bell?
Are you ready?
2007-09-14 19:07:07 · answer #6 · answered by troybuddy 3 · 0⤊ 2⤋
There is no pre-trib rapture. Jesus will return....seperate the wheat from the chaff... and eternity starts.
2007-09-14 19:02:36 · answer #7 · answered by Augustine 6 · 1⤊ 3⤋
The book of Ephesians will spell that out word for word.
Carefully read the entire book, it will open your eyes!
2007-09-14 19:01:48 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 3⤋
Isreal becoming their own nation again.
2007-09-14 19:10:58 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
Delusion and monomania
2007-09-14 19:01:23 · answer #10 · answered by brainstorm 7 · 6⤊ 2⤋