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When does the rapture take place?

Kenny

Face to face with my Father
Premium Member
The "elect" includes those in the Lord from the first death of Abel and includes every believer from then until the last soul becomes a believer during the tribulation. Most will have died on the earth and be resurrected but a very small number of those believers will be alive until the coming of our Lord but they will not precede the resurrection of the bodies of those saints and then the rapture at the last trump in the twinkling of an eye:

1 Corinthians 15:51-54 Behold, I tell you a mystery: We all shall not sleep, but we shall all be changed, (52) in a moment, in the twinkling of an eye, at the last trump: for the trumpet shall sound, and the dead shall be raised incorruptible, and we shall be changed. (53) For this corruptible must put on incorruption, and this mortal must put on immortality. (54) But when this corruptible shall have put on incorruption, and this mortal shall have put on immortality, then shall come to pass the saying that is written, Death is swallowed up in victory.

1 Thessalonians 4:14-18 For if we believe that Jesus died and rose again, even so them also that are fallen asleep in Jesus will God bring with him. (15) For this we say unto you by the word of the Lord, that we that are alive, that are left unto the coming of the Lord, shall in no wise precede them that are fallen asleep. (16) For the Lord himself shall descend from heaven, with a shout, with the voice of the archangel, and with the trump of God: and the dead in Christ shall rise first; (17) then we that are alive, that are left, shall together with them be caught up in the clouds, to meet the Lord in the air: and so shall we ever be with the Lord. (18) Wherefore comfort one another with these words.
These are all good scriptures.

As you noted - "The "elect" includes those in the Lord from the first death of Abel and includes every believer from then until the last soul becomes a believer during the tribulation."

Indeed we shall all be changed in a moment (Corinthians) and Jesus will descend with the sound of a trump (Thess)

But you missed the point!

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You haven't established that we will be there. Only that there are some elect during the Tribulation (which is biblical) because thee are Jewish evangelists preaching and the two witnesses that will be declaring the gospel.
 

Moby

Member
These are all good scriptures.

As you noted - "The "elect" includes those in the Lord from the first death of Abel and includes every believer from then until the last soul becomes a believer during the tribulation."

Indeed we shall all be changed in a moment (Corinthians) and Jesus will descend with the sound of a trump (Thess)

But you missed the point!

#10


You haven't established that we will be there. Only that there are some elect during the Tribulation (which is biblical) because thee are Jewish evangelists preaching and the two witnesses that will be declaring the gospel.

If the tribulation begins say tomorrow and you are part of the church then yes this link clearly proves you will be here!:

The Rapture of the Church is after the Tribulation
 

Kenny

Face to face with my Father
Premium Member
If the tribulation begins say tomorrow and you are part of the church then yes this link clearly proves you will be here!:

The Rapture of the Church is after the Tribulation
That is "if".

Then again, if the tribulation starts tomorrow and I leave tonight when he comes as a thief in the night, then I won't be here.

I will go on the first boatload and you can go on the second or third :) - be it to you according to your faith :D
 

Moby

Member
I am always amused to watch Christians argue about what is going to happen in the future.

Sorry but I have no time to argue but for those who believe the bible is the Word of God there are very distinct truths that clearly point toward a very sure outcome told in advance but only those whose eyes are opened will it be evident:

Luke 24:45 Then opened he their mind, that they might understand the scriptures;
 

Moby

Member
That is "if".

Then again, if the tribulation starts tomorrow and I leave tonight when he comes as a thief in the night, then I won't be here.

I will go on the first boatload and you can go on the second or third :) - be it to you according to your faith :D
Well you are welcome to believe by faith as you wish but in the end only the scriptures will be fulfilled and for those such as Judas Iscariot it was a very bad ending:

John 17:12 While I was with them, I kept them in thy name which thou hast given me: and I guarded them, and not one of them perished, but the son of perdition; that the scripture might be fulfilled:

The Mystery of Lawlessness
 

Wandering Monk

Well-Known Member
I grew up on this pabulum. It is utter nonsense. For things to unfold precisely the way you suggest NO ONE who has ever lived or will live has had/will have any effect on the course of history. Given the infinite and minute ways in which the future is affected by even the tiniest action or inaction the notion of the future being fixed is extremely ludicrous.
 

Moby

Member
I grew up on this pabulum. It is utter nonsense. For things to unfold precisely the way you suggest NO ONE who has ever lived or will live has had/will have any effect on the course of history. Given the infinite and minute ways in which the future is affected by even the tiniest action or inaction the notion of the future being fixed is extremely ludicrous.

You are welcome to believe as you wish but soon enough we all die and our outcome becomes a higher authority's reality:

Ephesians 1:11 in whom also we were made a heritage, having been foreordained according to the purpose of him who worketh all things after the counsel of his will;
 

Kenny

Face to face with my Father
Premium Member
Well you are welcome to believe by faith as you wish but in the end only the scriptures will be fulfilled and for those such as Judas Iscariot it was a very bad ending:

John 17:12 While I was with them, I kept them in thy name which thou hast given me: and I guarded them, and not one of them perished, but the son of perdition; that the scripture might be fulfilled:

The Mystery of Lawlessness
And I thought you wanted to talk about it. :)

Love believes the best!
 

Kenny

Face to face with my Father
Premium Member
I grew up on this pabulum. It is utter nonsense. For things to unfold precisely the way you suggest NO ONE who has ever lived or will live has had/will have any effect on the course of history. Given the infinite and minute ways in which the future is affected by even the tiniest action or inaction the notion of the future being fixed is extremely ludicrous.
That may be true... but it could be all the little variances doesn't change the macro outcome.

Certainly there is a lot of nonsense proclaimed in this world, but that doesn't mean everything is nonsense (at least in my perspective)
 

Moby

Member
And I thought you wanted to talk about it. :)

Love believes the best!

I do bro but this quote of yours seems to paint a closed picture of your belief in a pretrib rapture which is what I use to believe but abandoned due to absolutely no scriptures to prove it other than "Love believes the best!":

I will go on the first boatload and you can go on the second or third :) - be it to you according to your faith:D
 

Kenny

Face to face with my Father
Premium Member
I do bro but this quote of yours seems to paint a closed picture of your belief in a pretrib rapture which is what I use to believe but abandoned due to absolutely no scriptures to prove it other than "Love believes the best!":

I will go on the first boatload and you can go on the second or third :) - be it to you according to your faith:D
Ok... the problem is that you never addressed my point. You quoted a multitude of scriptures that had nothing to do with it.

1 Thessalonians 5:9 - For God hath not appointed us to wrath, but to obtain salvation by our Lord Jesus Christ,

Noah didn't receive the wrath of his tie... Jesus is my Ark.

Matthew 24:37
For the coming of the Son of Man will be just like the days of Noah.
 
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