Id like to hear what scriptures those who believe in a Rapture use to support their beliefs.
I would like to say my supporting scripture for the Rapture being False Teaching comes from Ezekiel 13:20-21 For those who understand Gods word you know that this chapter in this book is telling you how unhappy God is with False Teaching. Some of the things being taught include this False belief of Jesus sweeping down to fly you away from the end events.
So please tell me what it is that makes one believe the teachings of man. And have no re guard at all for what our Father has written. I have asked the question many times of Ezekiel chapter 13 in particular these verses . I might say I have never got an explanation.
I am a strong advocate of the Mosaic Law prescription that an issue can only be confirmed on the testimony of two witnesses. For me, that is the OT and the NT.
Check this one out:
Isaiah 26:19-21 (KJV) Thy dead men shall live,
together with my dead body shall they arise.
Awake and sing, ye that dwell in dust:
for thy dew is as the dew of herbs,
and the earth shall cast out the dead.
20
Come, my people, enter thou into thy chambers,
and shut thy doors about thee:
hide thyself as it were for a little moment,
until the indignation be overpast.
21 For, behold, the Lord cometh out of his place
to punish the inhabitants of the earth for their iniquity:
the earth also shall disclose her blood,
and shall no more cover her slain.
And then take a look at this:
1 Thessalonians 4:16-18 (KJV) 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 which are alive and remain shall be
caught up together with them 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.
"caught up" in Greek is harpazo, or in the Latin Vulgate, Rapturo, from which we get the transliterated word, Rapture.