What About The Rapture?

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Quote: stefanash:

I am solidly a post tribulation rapture believer. Therefore if I live through the events of the Geat Tribulation I expect to be martyred.

Thus any appeals to anything which justify a belief that we will not be massacred in our thousands or even millions come the day of trouble is to me false

I think perhaps there might be some misunderstanding on what the Day of Judgment is. Some believe it is the tribulation. I take the position that it is the Day of Judgment for all mankind, great and small, redeemed and unredeemed.

I am not sure why people are afraid of the tribulation. I get the impression that Christians who support the pre-trib rapture think that God would not let them suffer that way. But then I think of how the disciples suffered, and how people around the world suffer for the faith with persecution, torture, and being martyred and it makes me wonder why we would think we will not be here for the worst of it. It is a gift to be martyred for Christ, not something to shy away from.

Just my