Davy
Well-Known Member
And here's my two cents to that, take it over leave it.My answer is that I neither know the day or the hour of my departure from this mortal coil, so I must remain constantly vigilant in my daily walk and I must repent as often as I sin in thought, word, deed, or am in failure to do. Therefore, the timing of the rapture is of no consequence to me because my salvation is not based upon whether my understanding of the event is accurate or not. Just my 2 cents. Cheers.
1. We cannot write our 'own' requirements against being deceived at the end of this world. Lord Jesus and His Apostles gave us specific warnings and Signs to be watching for the end, just so we would not... be deceived.
2. In His warnings, Jesus revealed a false-Messiah is coming to earth to play Him, with the power to do the level of miracles that He did on earth, and that false one will deceive the whole world, except His very elect. Have you prepared for that, heeded His warnings about that for the end? Apostles Paul and John also gave that same type warning about that coming false one (2 Thess.2:3-9; Rev.13:11 forward).
3. In 2 Corinthians 11, Apostle Paul said he espoused us to one Husband (Jesus), and wants to present us to Christ as "a chaste virgin". Paul was of course speaking in the spiritual sense. That idea comes from God speaking through His Old Testament prophets, like in Isaiah 54. The idea is simple, but many struggle with it...
When Lord Jesus returns, the believer will be found as either still "a chaste virgin", having waited for Him to come, or as a spiritual harlot, and found "with child", having married another in place of Christ Jesus. That other one Paul called the "another Jesus". This is about the warning, "woe unto them that are with child, and to them that give suck in those days." (Matt.24:19 linked to Luke 23:27-30 and Isaiah 54).