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What takes place after the rapture.
Some believe that we will be raptured as Christians and go to heaven and stay there in our mansion worshipping God and being reunited with our loved ones, walking on streets of Gold and living in bliss for eternity with God.
If you have this concept please provide scriptural verses to back up this kind of teaching you have received.

Others believe that our eternal home is not heaven but the new earth in the New Jerusalem, which is not heaven as many think.

For those who delve a bit deeper please share more with regard to the major events that take place After the Rapture of the Church as the Bride of Christ.

Events that take place
- In the Heavens
-On the earth
-Under the earth

Please use whatever resources that are available to you and as many scriptural references to support what you are sharing.
Hopefully this question will also afford us an opportunity to dig a little deeper too
Ty for taking the time
ur sis
sandy

2007-10-10 01:29:42 · 7 answers · asked by Broken Alabaster Flask 6 in Society & Culture Religion & Spirituality

The scriptural references to all these matters in the 3 questions asked can be found in the Word of God. We are not left to not know what goes on in eternity but we know what takes place just before eternity, including the 100 Millennial reign of the Kingdom of the Heavens on the earth etc...
I believe that this topic needs to be delved into more since its not someone else's future we are talking about but our own. May we all labour in this way to get the riches in the word in this matter...
ty so much
sandy

2007-10-10 04:02:58 · update #1

Sorry for the typo
its 1000 years not 100

2007-10-10 04:04:23 · update #2

7 answers

After the rapture all born again believers will appear before Jesus at the "Judgment Seat of Christ" where works we've done for Him since we have been born again are tested by fire. If any of the works we have done stand the test of fire, we will receive rewards, if any one's work shall be burned, they shall suffer loss, yet he himself shall be saved; yet so by fire. (1 Cor. 3:14-15) Christ is the foundation that we need to build on, so we need to be mindful to do works for His glory & honor so they wll stand during the scrutiny of Christ.

We will then be arrayed in fine linen, clean & white and partake in the Marriage Supper of the Lamb (Rev. 19:7-9)

After the Marriage Supper, the "armies of heaven" who are His church, or His Bride, will follow Jesus Christ on white horses when He returns to earth to rule with a rod of iron. Satan will be bound and cast into a bottomless pit for 1,000 years where he will be unable to deceive the nations no more until the 1,000 year reign of Christ on this earth is done.
(Rev. 19:10:21; Rev. 20:1-6)

Satan will then be turned loose to go out to deceive the nations which are in the four quarters of the earth, Gog and Magog, to gather them together to battle: the number of whom is as the sand of the sea (this is the final battle between good & evil). The devil will be cast into the lake of fire where the antichrist and false prophet are and shall be tormented day and night for ever and ever.(Rev.20:7-10)

Then comes the Great White Throne of Judgment where all who have died without believing in Christ will be judged according to their works, and when the final book is opened and their name is found not to be written in it, they will be cast into the lake of fire, along with death and hell. (Rev 20:11-15)

Revelation 21 & 22 are a beautiful description of the holy city, the new Jerusalem, coming down from God out of heaven, prepared as a bride adorned for her husband. God will be with men and dwell with them.

As a personal note, I would like to say that born again believers will not be floating on clouds playing harps, as has been depicted by some people. We will be living on the restored earth with Christ for ever & ever. And, as it was intended to be in the Garden of Eden before sin, so it shall be again. "Even so, come, Lord Jesus!"

2007-10-10 04:38:46 · answer #1 · answered by Virginia B (John 16:33) 7 · 4 0

A lot to this one. It would depend on what time after the rapture. Is this right after? then I do believe people who die during the tirb. time will join Christ and the saint in "heaven" to return in the last battle, when God steps in and says this is it.

In the end, Rev. Says that there will be a new heaven and a new earth, God will make his "home" in the New Jerusalem and all nations will come to worship there. Now this does not occure untill after the 1000 years of peace. then Satan tries to rise up again, but at that point God ends it all. Satan bound and thrown into the pit forever. Then judgement.

Then there will be the new heaven and new earth.

Tim Lahay has some great info on this.

2007-10-10 02:18:57 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 1 0

Loving others is definitely what matters more. I totally agree with all you just said. However, I talk to people about my belief, not in a preaching way, though. I see it this way: my words are seeds I throw in other people's soil (mind/heart). I throw the seeds, but who will water it and make it grow is the other person, the owner of the soil, not me. We can share our thoughts with others, but we can't make others think like us. It is important to understand that all of us are in a different mind-set and in a different spiritual level. Some will grasp what I say and understand it perfectly. Others will not, for ignorance or for their own choice, whatever the case, there is not much I can do about it, right? I always say that we can't change people. Only God can. I try to teach, I try to be an enlightening instrument of God, but the lesson is only learned when the learner is ready and opened to learn. It doesn't depend on me at all, and it is not my responsibility to make anyone more enlightened. It is God's task, not mine. Jesus himself used to say after every lesson "those who have ears..." That tells me that Jesus himself was not beating up people's head to learn. Those who have ears means those who are ready and in a level of spiritual maturity to understand his words. Love is what matters, because you set the example, and primarily, you can't be a teacher if you don't do what you teach anyway, and that is hypocrisy that I see in many churches. Peace!

2016-05-20 22:40:35 · answer #3 · answered by ? 3 · 0 0

Nothing comes into me without the filter of the Holy Spirit. This statement has made some of you wonder what I mean. Suffice it to say, for now, that it comes by growing in the Lord and having a long time relationship with Christ and His precepts.

I love you Sandy as a Christian and sister in Christ, but I am only going to address one question although ALL of them are interesting, because for me, I love to share, but I don't have a lot of time to write like I would like. So:

The rapture and what happens in the heavens, on the earth, and under the earth? What happens and what Jesus was sent here to happen is a little understood word called community. I don't mean the word in the sense of a government, or people living together, or even people believing on common grounds. The root word of community is commune. Jesus was sent here to teach how to commune with EACH OTHER and God. The word commune is a good word, and I may ask a question soon as to what most of you think it is. The concept of community is something many, many preachers do NOT teach. It is too deep a subject to delve into here, but because the root of a healthy community is acceptance, Jesus taught us to accept one another, right down to the man who cut off the ear of one of his disciples. What he didn't accept was bad behavior, but he loved the person. Acceptance is so entrenched in Love and the whole of love (community) that we don't have any idea of what Jesus was talking about in todays world. There are a few, but most of the time we run around talking in rhetoric and acting and talking in colossal ways to try and impress each other for attention that community is totally lost. Some of you may have experienced community at a retreat. Some of you KNOW what I mean, but I venture to say that most of you THINK or WANT TO KNOW but do not. The point is, Jesus wanted the whole world to experience community, and if you read the word of God with COMMUNITY in mind many, many of the verses you didn't understand before become alive with meaning and understanding. A new heaven and a new earth takes on a new meaning. Heaven IS COMMUNITY--LOVE IN ACTION--which is acceptance WITH respect. Sound impossible? I assure you that it isn't. It is very possible--and that is what is coming when Christ returns. It is NOT for man to know when, not even the angels in heaven know.

Contrary to popular belief, community and love is NOT fixing, not TRYING TO GET people to become, nor is it feeling sorry for, or pity, and most of all it isn't recruiting or policing those who need to be Christian, kind of attitude. Community is hard work and very fragile. So in a big way, I understand why the world doesn't go for it, nor do they understand it. This is the narrow way! It is a pearl that most people won't see shine. I feel for them, and may God show all of us what community is. I long for this day! I crave the day when we all can look each other in the eyes with no pretentiousness and total acceptance and love.

I know that I didn't say it in the traditional churchy way, but I don't believe that most churches get it. They have swayed and gone astray. And yes I can love, strive for community, accept the ways of the world as it is without partaking in it, AND hope and pray the Lords Prayer--Our Farther who art in Heaven, Hollowed be thy name, THY KINGDOM COME (community) Thy will be done (acceptance) on earth (the way it is now, and what will be) as it is in Heaven (complete agape love).

Good day to you all, and may you all strive for and learn as much about community (communing with one another) as you can.

2007-10-10 08:26:12 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0 0

1. Genesis 1 : ADONAI made gardens 1 st. therefore
i believe we will tend to gardens.
2. Psalms : we are ask to praise and worship HIM
using many instruments and making of songs.
3. : Revelation 19-22 : beauty is portrayed everywhere.
art will abound without evil to spoil it.
1. Genesis 1 : again, look at All HE created. endless
vistas of galaxies and universes. WOW!
what is there not to do?

2007-10-10 03:35:12 · answer #5 · answered by Judy E. T 4 · 0 0

The main problem is that we don't know what order things take place in!

I believe that we'll find out in the end and the main thing is to stay close to God while we're here. Please focus on this not on the future!

Eventually there will be a New Earth and a New Jerusalem, where we will live, but I think we'll be able to visit heaven, and will physically see God regularly.

2007-10-10 01:40:42 · answer #6 · answered by claude 5 · 0 3

There is probably as many theories on this subject as there is denominations.
Here is what I believe, and I believe it with all my heart, because I know that Jesus died for my sins.

Rev 22:20 "He which testifieth these things saith, Surely I come quickly. Amen. Even so, come, Lord Jesus."

This is one thing for sure.And I can find a rest in this because of Him that died for me.

2007-10-10 03:45:04 · answer #7 · answered by don_steele54 6 · 1 1

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