does anybody out there know about the rapture?
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I know it's coming; the dead in Christ will rise first, then those who are alive will be caught up with Jesus.\nHe surely is.
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666 is the mark of the beast that you will be required to receive when the Rapture occurs.If you choose to receive this mark you will not enter Heaven. It has nothing to do with the date of tomorrow...people are just being silly.
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Today's popular Christianity is false Christianity, and so I expect a very great many to fall away when things start going bad.\n\nEspecially when that rapture crap turns out to be just that.
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The Bible verses that talk about the second coming of Christ have been corrupted by some to indicate that there will be a secret 'rapture' where Christians simply disappear.  This is a false doctrine.\n\nThis I believe; http://homelessheart.com/testimony.htm
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A very good question; and very sincere. Shows that you want to learn more about how a real Christian beleives. Read the above Bible verses, and check out 1 Cor. 15, and come to your own conclusions, based on the Bible. You can also look up the words "2nd coming" and will be lead to Biblical verses concerning Christ's coming ( no "rapture", as you know) \nEnjoy the Bible study, and God Bless you.
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I don't know and i don't think anyone living knows for sure. What i do know is that, we will know when the end is approaching just like Jesus said, he said when we see fruits on a tree, then we know summer approaches, so will the end be too. All the wars and all the deception being spread around are things Jesus pointed out will be happening when the end comes.
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There is no pre-tribulation rapture, as many in Christendom teach.  Notice in Revelation 20:4 WHO are in the first resurrection which occurs simultaneously with the "catching away" of live saints...THOSE WHO HAVE BEEN BEHEADED FOR REFUSING THE MARK OF THE BEAST. \n\nBelievers in Christ WILL go through the tribulation and many will be killed for bearing the testimony of Jesus Christ.  There are concentration camps all over America that will be used as internment camps.  Some are equipped with gas chambers, and many already are furnished with guillotines, for execution of all resisters and dissenters of the New World Order, which will be under UN "law".  \n\nThere is ZERO scriptural support for a "two-part" return of Christ...NONE, ZIP, NADA.\n\nThe first resurrection occurs at the same time as the "catching away" which is at Christ's return to earth which is AFTER the tribulation.  We will be changed in an instant! to glorified bodies like Christ's and receive immortality and incorruptibility.  We will meet Jesus Christ in the air, and accompany Him to earth where He will rule for 1000 years.  The saints will rule and reign with Him.\n\nMany will have been killed when God pours out His wrath upon all those that oppose Him and there will be much work to do.  Those who did not take the mark of the beast and who were also not "saved" will remain on earth to repopulate and be taught God's law.  There will be peace under this new order of things...a far cry from Satan's counterfeit New World Order that will be very short-lived.\n\nSatan will be bound during the millennium so that he cannot deceived people.\n\nAfter the millenium, the rest of the dead (unbelievers) will be raised to fleshly bodies to once again dwell on the earth.  Many who never heard the gospel or who were not able to understand it will have an opportunity to hear and believe and be saved.  This is the Great White Throne judgment period.\n\nSatan will be loosed for a season to deceive the world.  Many will follow him once again.  The final battle will ensue and Satan and his followers will be destroyed.  All enemies of God will cease to exist forevermore.\n\nThis is just a very brief sketch of all of the prophetic events yet to take place.
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There are different views on the timing of the rapture--some Christians say it will occur before the Antichrist arrives to usher in the Great Tribulation, others say that Christians will go through the Tribulation and be raptured--taken to heaven--after the Tribulation but before God pours out His wrath on those who have rejected Him. I've just posted an article on my website (see the link below) on what I believe is the view on the timing of the rapture that best coincides with Scripture, along with some other links.
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It is interesting how people with no understanding of Bible prophecy try to explain the book of Revelation. One person said that the church will be raptured prior to the time of the antichrist, How does he explain these verses in\n2 Thessalonians 2:1-4?\n\nNow we beseech you, brethren, by the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ, and by our gathering together unto him, That ye be not soon shaken in mind, or be troubled, neither by spirit, nor by word, nor by letter as from us, as that the day of Christ is at hand. Let no man deceive you by any means: FOR THAT DAY SHALL NOT COME, EXCEPT THERE COME A FALLING AWAY FIRST, AND THAT MAN OF SIN BE REVEALED, the son of perdition; Who opposeth and exalteth himself above all that is called God, or that is worshipped; so that he as God sitteth in the temple of God, shewing himself that he is God\n\nNotice the timing of the rapture. Even a child would understand that the man of sin must first be revealed, then the rapture takes place.\n\nIn addition, the mark of the beast issue is about worship not ID numbers. The beast in Revelation 13 wants our worship, our obedience. He wants to be as God. ID cards or chips have nothing to do with worship or obedience. In fact, there is nothing religious about them. They are purely secular in nature, having much more to do with security. The real issue is over allegiance to God and His law, versus allegiance to Satan and his law.\n\nThe booklet, The Beast, the Dragon, and the Woman explains the issues surrounding the final conflict between Christ and Satan as it relates to God's people and the mark of the beast. It can be found at the following website.\n\nhttp://www.amazingfacts.org/items/Read_Media.asp?ID=668
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It's a total misinterpretation of 1 Thessalonians.  Christians WILL go through the "Tribulation" - I think it has already begun, to be honest.\n\nThe idea of a "pre-Tribulation Rapture" was unheard of in the writings of the Apostolic Fathers - heck - many of them thought the Diocletian Persecutions and the the persecution of Nero Caesar were pretty much a "tribulation", no?\n\nYou don't see that idea until the 1800's - and now, it's being perpetrated by fictional books like those "Left Behind" novels.\n\nNonsense.
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It is impossible to calculate but right now the theory is by year 2020 only 4% of teens will be bible believing christians so if the rapture happens after that it would have to be around that percent unless us christians step it up and do our job of sharing jesus and making deciples.
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What About "the Rapture"?\nhttp://www.wcg.org/lit/prophecy/rapture.htm\n\nThe rapture doctrine seems to have originated with a man named John Nelson Darby in about 1830. He divided the time of the second coming into two stages. Darby said Christ would come for his saints (the "rapture") before the tribulation and he would come with his saints after it, which he thought was Jesus’ true coming in glory or second coming. \n\nTheir will be a rapture BUT NOT the one taught by the left behind books. \n\nThe Coming of the Lord\nhttp://www.wcg.org/lit/prophecy/return/return1.htm
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I believe as you do, rapture prior to 7 year tribulation\n\nWhy - here is one of several places in the bible that says so....\nI won't list all, to much space taken \n\n1 Thessalonians 4\n16For the Lord himself will come down from heaven, with a loud command, with the voice of the archangel and with the trumpet call of God, and the dead in Christ will rise first. 17After that, we who are still alive and are left will be caught up together with them in the clouds to meet the Lord in the air. And so we will be with the Lord forever. 18Therefore encourage each other with these words.
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Could be, rabbit.  There have been so many ancient writtings kept from the spot light of Christianity, I guess anything is possible. \n\nEver see more people more confused about one book?\n\nHey, ask'em "if they believe the dead will rise up in the rapture or is there immediate life after death."  They'll pull their hair out trying to figure out what to think.  hehehehehehe!
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those who are left behind will be standing around wondering what happened.  God will rapture Christians to heaven and begin judgment on earth for anyone left behind [regardless of their religion] ,because those who had a personal relationship with God through Christ Jesus are all gone [went to heaven with Christ]. \n\nWant to go to heaven? http://www.NeedGod.com
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The rapture has no biblical basis whatsoever. In the mid-1820's there was a man named Edward Irving who studied bible prophecies and by making some mathematical equations, thought that the end of the world was near. So he wrote a paper on his concept of what was going to occur in the last days and when it would happen. He was  exiled from the presbyterian church within 2 years of his writings and formed his own chuch, which folded when the time came and went for the rapture to occur. The idea, however, was the catalyst for several religions, such as the Pentacosts and the Seventh Day Adventists. But look in the bible and you will find nothing about it 'cos it isn't there. There are only some warnings that God gave to Moses that even come close to the concept and even they are a stretch to make fit with the philosophy of the Rapture.
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Three days are you ready. \n\n1. The day of Christ - The rapture when the church is taken of the earth to meet Jesus in the clouds. 2 Thessalonians 2:2\n\n2. The day of the Lord - The tribulation period. The 7 years that take place after the rapture where God pours out His wrath on the world that rejected His Son. 2 Peter 3:10, The whole book of Joel is a great reference.\n\n3. The day of God - The 1000 year reign of Christ on the earth which will eventually lead to the final judgment of satan and the creation of the new heavens and earth where Christians will dwell with Jesus for eternity. Revelation 16:14.\n\nWe don't know the date that any of these days will occur so we look for the coming of Jesus and occupy until He comes.\n\nI hope that helps.