5 Problems with the Rapture

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It is worrisome that people cannot read and think for themselves but abdopt what others tell them what the scripture says.

If 1st Thessalonians 4:17 is taught to be so loud and visible so every eye shall see, why did they believe they missed the Rapture and the Tribulation had begun? The Doc. doesn't recognize the shout and blowing a trumpet were Jewish wedding traditions. The father being the only one to know the day and hour would tell his son it's time go get your bride. The groom and his chaperon friends on the way would shout and announce with trumpets their coming so she knew to get ready to be snatch away. The groom snatched the bride away and return to his father's house where a place was prepared for them. This was referred to as "like a thief in the night" because the bride was always taken at the midnight hour.

If you study the Bible with an honest mindset, you will come to the conclusion that this pastor is speaking the truth.

As someone who was raised evangelical, I took the rapture theory as a given. I never had read the Bible for myself, taking for granted what other religious people said. Since coming to the Lord just eight short years ago, I began reading for myself. It was like night and day. I have had to unlearn everything I thought I knew. I know nothing at all, just that God is, and I am not Him. I have had to learn to trust the Holy Spirt in reading and understanding the scriptures, abandoning verse and chapter numbers, and reading through God's eyes and understanding, not my own. And it all began with one verse: Matthew 22:32.

When the repeat occurs, you can skip to: 8:59

Thank you for the info. I’m honestly not sure what to think , but I do know God is in control. Whatever happens, we must hold on to that truth.

Those who teach the pretrib rapture talk about tribulation saints as those left behind but the bible makes no separate distinction of leftover saints. And no mention of any left behind other than those of us who are living who follow the dead in Christ.

100 % correct. Our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ will gather us up to the sky, the dead in Christ first, and then the saved that are alive. Please read the Bible. God Bless Y'all.

Rapture or not ... Repent and love your neighbour 😏

I was raised in a denomination that teaches the rapture. When I was a kid, if I woke up and didn't find anyone in the house, I would sometimes think the rapture came and I got left behind. Every time it turned out they were just outside or somewhere else in the house. At any rate, I started to get skeptical about the rapture because there is nothing like it in Revelation. It is always inferred to occur in Revelation before the anti-Christ comes, even though it's not mentioned to have occurred. If you just read through Revelation, you won't get this idea of a rapture. Also, if the Rapture occurs before the tribulation, then what Christians are being killed and massacred during that time? Who is getting their heads cut off? Furthermore, some of the arguments for the rapture are arrived at through inductive reasoning, like "Jesus wouldn't leave us with no escape," or "why would Jesus let this happen to his church?" As for that, Jesus allowed his apostles to be killed, some of them quite horrifically. Those guys were his personal friends that traveled with him and learned from him directly. What are any of us compared with that?

This fits with my Historic Premillennial view which seems to favor the Post-trib rapture. Do Lutherans allow for the Historic Premillennial view or are they all Amillennial or Postmillennial?

Regarding Luke17: What do you say about john14:3? He will take us to Him, or what?

It really doesn't matter to me one bit if there is a Rapture. I got saved at 22 years old. I was healthy, full of life, and waiting for the Rapture. Now...I am almost 70. My health is gone, many of my Christian friends have gone to be with the Lord, I am old, tired, played out. I doubt I have much time left on the Earth anyway. Soon, I will be gone too...

As a disciple of Jesus Christ who has access to the Bible in two languages - English and Malayalam (closer to the greek than English), I understand the difficulty of understanding Biblical eschatology from passively reading English translations and paraphrases. The reformation focused on bringing back the truth about soteriology but unfortunately could not get into detailed study of the true Biblical eschatology. Bible is much more complicated than it seems and we need the help of the Holy Spirit to understand it as He is the author. *Rapture will happen. *The divine program of the ages is divided into different dispensations * The chruch and the Israel of God are two distinct groups *The church will not pass through the great tribulation I'm ready to defend any of the above statements from the Bible as these are true.

Why are certain people so freightened,angered,threatened by the belief in pretrib midtrib rapture.

Is it me or did this video repeat itself 3 times in the first 8 minutes?

My fear is that those who expect to be raptured and are not will lose their faith and fall to the vices of Satan

A good straightforward video. I grew up w the dispensationalist view and Hal Lindsay’s Late Great Planet Earth had some influence on my conversion. I’m now in an Anglican Church which I love. There’s always going to be disagreements in the Church about points of theology and whether those points of disagreement are minor or heretical in nature. May God give us grace and discernment in these dark days. I’m glad I came across this….it gave some perspective to my shifting theology and growth over the years.

I read Hal Lindsay as a youth, also a lot of other books on the subject. As I grew in faith, I started to realize that dispensational theology is weak in it biblical foundations. In graduate school I finally read George Eldon Ladd’s “The Blessed Hope.” That nailed it, because I finally had found a scholar who could clearly articulate all the problems I was seeing in the text for dispensationalism. That’s not to say that you’re going to hell if you believe in the rapture. But don’t lose your faith when you have to go through the tribulation. You’re not left behind. You’re just suffering the temptation that’s common to all humanity. Remember, Jesus promised salvation to those who stood firm until the end.