Do you think they will be given a second chance after the Rapture?

Question

The Left Behind series suggests that people who did not accept Christ before the Rapture will be given another chance to receive Him after the Rapture. Have you found in God's Word any scripture to support that those who are left behind will be given a second chance to believe in Jesus? I've had a lot of people ask me this question, or they say "I'll just wait for the tribulation period to accept Him."

Answer 1

Some Bible interpreters believe that there will be no second chance for salvation after the Rapture. However, there is no place in the Bible which says this or even hints to it. There will be many people who come to Christ during the Tribulation. The 144,000 Jewish witnesses (Revelation 7:4) are Jewish believers. If no one can come to Christ during the tribulation, then why are people being beheaded for their faith (Revelation 20:4)? No passage of Scripture argues against people having a second chance after the Rapture. Many passages which indicate the opposite.

A variation of this argument is that those who have heard the Gospel and rejected it before the rapture cannot be saved, but those who had not heard the Gospel before the rapture can be saved. There is also no biblical justification for this view. Granted, most who were hard-hearted toward the Gospel before the rapture are likely to remain so. The Antichrist will deceive many (Matthew 24:5). Many will believe the lies (2 Thessalonians 2:11). At the same time, there is no scriptural evidence that those who rejected the Gospel before the rapture have no opportunity for salvation after the rapture.

In fact, there is ample evidence of the opposite. The fifth seal judgment of Revelation 6:9-11 describes the souls of those martyred during the tribulation “because of the word of God, and because of the testimony which they had maintained.” They will correctly interpret what they see going on around them during the tribulation, calling on people to repent and believe the Gospel. The Antichrist and his followers will not tolerate this and will kill them. These are people who must have been alive before the rapture, but who were not believers until afterward. Therefore, there will be opportunity to come to Christ after the rapture.

Answer 2

I believe in one return of Christ and it will be after the tribulation. I've believed that ever since I was a new Christian. I really hope you people are right because I don't particularly care for the idea of going through the tribulation. I recommend the book The Rapture A Question Of Timing by William R. Kimball. It's out of print but you can probably get it on Alibris.com. God bless!!

You may find this link interesting..
http://endtimepilgrim.org/corrie.htm

Answer 3

If you are "Left Behind" after the Rapture, you will be given a second chance during the Tribulation to become a believer in Christ.

Answer 4

Stop watching the left behind series. The rapture is a lie. It is false doctrine that was started by a mentally ill woman named Margret Macdonald in the 1800s. As far as a second chance,there is no need for one. Christ came to save ALL and will. Some are firstfruits and are saved in this flesh life,others are not. But death is o obstacle to Christ. He went and preached to the spirits in prison , and he deals with people after death still today. WHY? Because He came to save ALL and will. There is no need of second chances.God will bring ALL unto Himself,anbd then Gd will become ALL in ALL.

Answer 5

Revelations is the best book to read to learn about those who refuse to accept Jesus Christ before "the rapture". During the 7 year Tribulation there are many who WILL come to accept Jesus Christ as their Lord and Savior BEFORE the Battle of Armageddon, which will kill 5/6 of the remaining world's population in an hour, when almost ALL world's powers (i.e., Russia, Italy, France, Iran, Syria, China, Germany, Spain, Venezuela, & Africa) will TRY to attack and destroy Israel. There will be many despite what the AntiChrist does to them, what natural devastations is heaped on them, as prophesied in Revelation, they will still refuse to accept Jesus Christ as their Savior.

After the Battle of Armageddon, Satan, the Anti-Christ, the False Prophet, and his demons will be locked away for 1000 years and Israel shall be the seat of Jesus Christ's rule. Israel and the world (the living saved and unsaved) shall have peace for all that time, then the AntiChrist alone, will be freed for a few months, and he will gather together the surviving disgruntled Anti-Christ followers/leaders remaining in the world and they will attempt to march against Israel and her Christian allies and the AntiChrist and all those who follow him will be utterly defeated and then brought before Almighty God and Jesus Christ for the White Throne Judgment, where their actions and non-actions alone will convict them and they will ALL be tossed into The Lake Of Fire to live with Satan, The Anti-Christ, The False Prophet, and his demons for eternity. No more chances...EVER.

The way I have come to understand it, Almighty God gives mankind a chance and a choice whether to choose Him before they die. Those that ARE living during and after the Rapture will be given another chance within those 7 years to accept Jesus Christ. Then those who DO survive (i.e., the unsaved and the saved) the Tribulation are given another 1000 years to experience life on earth that is at peace and productive and fair, with Jesus Christ ruling the world from Jerusalem.
Even AFTER everyone experiencing life, liberty, freedom, prosperity, and peace for a 1000 years, there will be those who are QUICK to join The AntiChrist's bandwagon of evil murderous rebellion plots that lead to their chosen FINAL destruction.

Life as people know it now, even with the dangers and suppressed evil threats that we now face and which crop up, will have NO shield from evil nor from The AntiChrist's wrath (because Satan hates ALL of mankind simply because Almighty God and Jesus Christ LOVE ALL mankind). Christians all over the world insure God's gentle hand upon mankind, but once ALL of Almighty God's children=Christians (i.e., the bride of Jesus Christ is taken living to Heaven, as well ALL unborn, newly born, babies, toddlers, and young children who have not attained the age of accountability= the innocent) then Almighty God will take His hand of gentle protection away from the world and allow Satan to rule.

Why ANYONE would WANT to WAIT and be left behind to face those 7 years is beyond me. It will be a world where the honest, hard-working, fair, and law-abiding will be scorned, exiled, beggared, chased down, jailed and/or killed and the immoral, the pedophiles, the thieves, the insane, the murderers, the torturers, the sadists, the rapists are freed from all jails, they are LAUDED and CELEBRATED and ENCOURAGED to do their worst...and they do.

Scenes like 9/11, Columbine High School will NOT be viewed with horror, shame, and dismay...the leaders put in charge, will boost the murderers on their shoulders and praise them for their creativity and daring and bloodlust.

I ask again...WHY would ANYONE wish to go through that? Face that?

But then, the Holy Bible tells us VERY CLEARLY that there WILL be those who welcome Satan and the 24/7 blood and death and torture carnage He will bring with him.

So as horrifying and sad as it is, I KNOW it will be so.

Answer 6

There will be no rapture.

Revelation 20
1 Then I saw an angel coming down from heaven, having the key to the bottomless pit and a great chain in his hand. 2 He laid hold of the dragon, that serpent of old, who is the Devil and Satan, and bound him for a thousand years;
4 And I saw thrones, and they sat on them, and judgment was committed to them. Then I saw the souls of those who had been beheaded for their witness to Jesus and for the word of God, who had not worshiped the beast or his image, and had not received his mark on their foreheads or on their hands. And they lived and reigned with Christ for a[a] thousand years. 5 But the rest of the dead did not live again until the thousand years were finished. This is the first resurrection.

This is the first resurrection. Rapture has nothing to do with resurrection, right? Uh, no.


1 Thessalonians 4:14-16 (New King James Version)
14 For if we believe that Jesus died and rose again, even so God will bring with Him those who sleep in Jesus.[a]
15 For this we say to you by the word of the Lord, that we who are alive and remain until the coming of the Lord will by no means precede those who are asleep. 16 For the Lord Himself will descend from heaven with a shout, with the voice of an archangel, and with the trumpet of God. And the dead in Christ will rise first.

Jesus will return with a shout, the voice of an archangel, and the trumpet of God. Trust me, there will be nothing secret about this. And the dead in Christ will rise first.

According to the above passage in revelation, the first resurrection will follow the binding of Satan.

Here is the sequence:

Satan is bound, at the END of the great tribulation
Jesus returns with a shout, and initiates the first resurrection, the resurrection of the righteous, and then those who are alive will ascend to meet Him in the sky.

2 Timothy 4
3For the time will come when they will not endure sound doctrine; but wanting to have their ears tickled, they will accumulate for themselves teachers in accordance to their own desires,
4and will turn away their ears from the truth and will turn aside to myths.
5But you, be sober in all things, endure hardship, do the work of an evangelist, fulfill your ministry.

The doctrine of the rapture tickles your ears.

Zechariah 11
16 For indeed I will raise up a shepherd in the land who will not care for those who are cut off, nor seek the young, nor heal those that are broken, nor feed those that still stand. But he will eat the flesh of the fat and tear their hooves in pieces.
17 “ Woe to the worthless shepherd,
Who leaves the flock!
A sword shall be against his arm
And against his right eye;
His arm shall completely wither,
And his right eye shall be totally blinded.”

The shepherd that teaches you rapture, rather than warn you of tribulation, tickles your ears. And, you pay for his books. He is eating your flesh and tearing your hooves in pieces. He leaves you unable to flee. Woe to the worthless shepherd!

Answer 7

Tell them that we are already in the tribulation. God's favor may not be open to them later.

2 Cor 6:2
I tell you, now is the time of God's favor, now is the day of salvation.
(from New International Version)

Jesus told several parable about it becoming to late. One was of the "wise" and the "foolish" virgins waiting for the wedding day.

Another was about the rich man and Lazarus.

In both instances the message was the same. "Choose now".

Answer 8

Humans have been given many chances.
Let us take advantage of this chance, for this might be our last!
God is waiting for us, one and all.
Follow in the footsteps of all the Prophets, today.
This is the true means of avoiding the destruction which is soon to come!

Answer 9

If there's compelling evidence of the existence of Jesus/Jehovah, I'll believe. Thus far there isn't anything credible out there to convince me - and no, deeply subjective emotional experiences or listening to the voices in my head don't count. The events described in revelation might serve to at least get me leaning in that direction, but I don't think I'll cross that bridge until the king of glory shows up and starts eating my freedom fries.

Answer 10

Yes, because the rapture is before the anti-christ enforces the mark of the beast. You will still have a choice to follow Jesus, or take the mark of the beast. My answer is yes.