What About The Rapture?

[Strefanash]

But we will all be raptured. it is, I hold, the same thing as the FIRST ressurection. For it is written that the dead in christ wil rise first and we who are left alive will be snatched up to meet christ in the air.

The Greek verb to snatch or seize is harpazdo, it is the source of the latin word rapture whence the english term.

The meaning of I THess 4:17 is plain.

I expect to me dead in christ by the time this event happens. for as it will be at his coming , AFTER the great tribulation, we will likely be martyred. I also seriously entertain the possibility that it will not be in any of our lifetimes and all our jumping up and down about theend times will only discredit it and the word of God in general.

but of course we are ready for his coming if we seek his face first and foremost, to be sidetracked by the doctrine of the thing is a huge mistake, for sure the emphasis on the rapture done my endtimer fanatics is idolatrous, but denying it because of reaction to this is irrational

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What if the restrainer is neither Holy Sprit nor the church?

THis is only a suggestion: what if the restrainer were the rule of law. We see growing lawlessness daily, in our so called law enforcement and in our politicians, also in popular culture. But still the truths of morality and law are given lip service to

Perhaps a time will come when all this pretence is completely abandoned and men's consciences will be so burnt out as to have nothing to stop them at all