I believe in Jesus' return and that it will happen within my lifetime. It will be a literal, visual, audiable return, everyone will know it is happening. There will be no secret rapture as some think. Are you ready to meet Him when He returns in the Clouds of Heaven?
2007-10-21 07:15:38 · 28 answers · asked by holdfastherman 1 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
Jesus is dead.
The dead don't come back.
2007-10-21 07:17:51 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 8⤋
How can you be around for the rapture if you're dead? The earth doesn't pick and choose. I don't believe that Jesus will literally return though I do believe Jesus did exist. There was nothing to literally prove that Jesus came back the first time. Doesn't mean I believe it's impossible. Lots of impossible things happen in this world that we can't explain.
The new testament was put together by very mentally distraught men. We don't know how much of this was speculation, truth, or coincidence. I just don't see any reason for God to do such a thing as send Jesus down to bring back the believers. I think this was something created in desperation by believers. A very large chunk of revelations was written by a man who spent a very very long time in solitary confinement in jail. He didn't start writing this until he was some time older. I'm not trying to be a heretic but he could have had dementia for all we know. After seeing Jesus die and spending the rest of his life in prison, it's very likely that he could have ended up with dementia.
Problem is, a lot of stuff in the bible is too far fetched to take literally. If you knew anything about how God works, you would know he doesn't do magic tricks. God works in natural ways. God doesn't like to uncoil the rules of science. If there are perfectly reasonable ways for God to achieve something, why do something spectacular and magical? He doesn't want people believing out of fear. That's why you don't see God. You can't be afraid of what's not there.
2007-10-21 07:31:35 · answer #2 · answered by computerqfl 3 · 2⤊ 0⤋
I don't believe Jesus is going to return, because in Matthew 28:20 Jesus was "Teaching them to observe all things whatsoever I have commanded you: and, lo, I am with you alway, even unto the end of the world".
Matthew 24:22-31 is now taking place, but Matthew 24:30 gives you the answer to your question, "And then shall appear the sign of the Son of man in heaven: and then shall all the tribes of the earth mourn, and they shall see the Son of man coming in the clouds of heaven with power and great glory"
Only spirits can see the kingdom of heaven, only the dead can hear his voice and see Jesus, Jesus is not coming to us we are going to Jesus. Read and understand Revelation 6:9 through 7:14, the tribulation was of those who died from 0 to 280 AD, the great tribulation are of those who died between 1680 and 1960 AD. (TIMES)
We go to Jesus, Jesus does not come to us, Jesus send His angels to harvest our souls.
In Matthew 24:22 Jesus says, " And except those days should be shortened, there should NO FLESH be saved: but for the elect's sake those days shall be shortened. (HALF-a-TIME)
2007-10-21 07:51:34 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
I do believe in His return. It is describes as the blassed hope. It is not the Gospel. The Gospel is "Repent for the kingdom of God is at hand." Meaning that His king has arrived with all the blessings that were promised with the coming Messiah. The Apostle Paul put it this way: Now I would remind you, brothers, of the gospel I preached to you, which you received, in which you stand, and by which you are being saved, if you hold fast to the word I preached to you--unless you believed in vain. For I delivered to you as of first importance what I also received: that Christ died for our sins in accordance with the Scriptures, that he was buried, that he was raised on the third day in accordance with the Scriptures, and that he appeared to Cephas, then to the twelve. (1 Corinthians 15:1-5 ESV) Peace
2016-05-24 00:55:42 · answer #4 · answered by ? 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I agree in a literal 2nd coming of the Lord Jesus.
Everyone who believes in the Rapture, believes this too.
Pastor Art
2007-10-21 07:31:57 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
Well I really dont know when. I believe that he will come again. At this point in my life I am not ready to meet him. I do agree thought that there will not be some secret rapture.
2007-10-21 07:19:32 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
Jesus will come first in the spirit form to receive his bride unto himself at the marriage supper, Then in Rev. 1911-14 this is Jesus Lieteral return with his bride to set up the Throne in the temple, & during this 1000 yrs we will along with Christ judge the world & Angels, but this takes place at the end of the 1000 yrs. Read 1st Cor. 6:1-3 BY the way, the world will not even know that Jesus has came for his bride in the spiritual form, But they will know it in his physical return.
2007-10-21 07:23:02 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 2⤋
There will be a literal second return. Your right, no rapture that doesn't follow Holy Scriptures or Holy Tradition. Am I ready to meet him when he comes? Yes
2007-10-21 07:21:28 · answer #8 · answered by alexandersmommy 5 · 1⤊ 2⤋
Christians throughout the ages have believed that "the time is near" (for Jesus's return). If those Christians from the past centuries who believed that Jesus would return in their life times and were wrong (and they obviously were), what makes you think that you're anymore right than they were?
2007-10-21 07:25:59 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 3⤊ 2⤋
Yes, I believe & agree with your statement. I do not know if it will be in my lifetime. I would like to think I'm ready to meet Him, but I continue to prepare. Mine is an ongoing journey, learning more all the way!
2007-10-21 07:24:00 · answer #10 · answered by gayle 4 · 3⤊ 1⤋
Luke 21:36
"Watch ye therefore, and pray always, that ye may be accounted worthy to escape all these things that shall come to pass, and to stand before the Son of man.
2007-10-21 07:27:55 · answer #11 · answered by Jeancommunicates 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋