Jessie Duplantis says if you don't want to go up in the Rapture just stay here and enjoy! 2015 Southwest Believers' Convention: Don't Forget the Cloud===Why do everything the hard way??
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Guess I’ll be staying here.Jessie Duplantis says if you don't want to go up in the Rapture just stay here and enjoy! 2015 Southwest Believers' Convention: Don't Forget the Cloud===Why do everything the hard way??
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For the simple reason that following the Resurrection/Rapture, the saints will be gathered at the Judgment Seat of Christ, where their works will be judged, and they will either receive rewards and crowns, or forfeit them.If we are going to be raptured away, why does Jesus give us several warnings about staying faithful until his coming?
If you have already been raptured can you in all honesty claim that you are now sinlessly perfect in a glorified body? If not then you are mocking the Rapture.Huh? Well it's already happened! I have been raptured! I'm waiting for you to join me!
There are computers in heaven connected to the internet? (I wouldn't be surprised!)Huh? Well it's already happened! I have been raptured! I'm waiting for you to join me!
Quit looking to the sky!
Jessie Duplantis says if you don't want to go up in the Rapture just stay here and enjoy! 2015 Southwest Believers' Convention: Don't Forget the Cloud===Why do everything the hard way??
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For the simple reason that following the Resurrection/Rapture, the saints will be gathered at the Judgment Seat of Christ, where their works will be judged, and they will either receive rewards and crowns, or forfeit them.
While we are on earth we are to be faithful servants. But the Rapture is not based upon our merits or what we deserve. It is purely based upon the grace of God and the finished work of Christ, which includes the redemption of our bodies.
As an example Lot and his family did not deserve to be taken out of Sodom before it was judged. They had willingly and wilfully chosen to live there in spite of its wickedness. But God -- in His grace and mercy -- deemed Lot to be righteous (because he believed God) and caused him and his family (excluding his sons-in-law) to be literally DRAGGED out of Sodom. Yet because his wife's heart was still in Sodom, she was judged. And even after escaping Sodom, his daughters did wickedly.
But what this tells us is that escaping the wrath of God is not based upon our merits at all. It is based upon what God, Christ, and the Holy Spirit have done for those who have repented and believed on the Lord Jesus Christ.
Rapture or no rapture, now is the time to be ready for this is the day that the Lord hath. Let us rejoice and be glad in it. Stop worrying about the tomorrow that may never come for YOU or for ME.
I believe we are in agreement. Rapture expectation from what I see is a waste of effort. Expecting and working [surrendering] so that Jesus will grow in our heart is NOT a wasted effort. It is on our hearts that God is focusing.Revelation 1:1 The Revelation of Jesus Christ, which God gave unto him, to shew unto his servants things which must shortly come to pass; and he sent and signified it by his angel unto his servant John:
Revelation 1:2 Who bare record of the word of God, and of the testimony of Jesus Christ, and of all things that he saw.
Revelation 1:3 Blessed is he that readeth, and they that hear the words of this prophecy, and keep those things which are written therein: for the time is at hand.
With respect; we need to worry about false doctrine like the rapture, because as John said "Blessed is he that readeth". If people believe the rapture they will not study and prepare for the tribulation thinking they will be flown away, and by any Christian supporting this ignorance and willful dismissal of God's warning their blood will be on our hands when they worship satan thinking he is God.
Ezekiel 3:20 Again, When a righteous man doth turn from his righteousness, and commit iniquity, and I lay a stumbling-block before him, he shall die: because thou hast not given him warning, he shall die in his sin, and his righteousness which he hath done shall not be remembered; but his blood will I require at thine hand.
That there will be a rapture is evident from the following scripture:
"1 Corinthians 6:9 Know ye not that the unrighteous shall not inherit the kingdom of God? Be not deceived: neither fornicators, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor effeminate, nor abusers of themselves with mankind, 10 Nor thieves, nor covetous, nor drunkards, nor revilers, nor extortioners, shall inherit the kingdom of God."
The lies of "Grace alone" has no Scripture backing it, just as the lies of the "rapture" has no Scripture backing it. There is only one verse in the entire bible that supports each of these doctrines...ONE.
What is the difference between "saved by grace" and "saved by works"? The Grace doctrine is a 100% guarantee that every Christian will go to Heaven no matter how vile their life was, while Works suggest there is a chance even as a Christian that you can still go to Hell if you are not living righteously.
There is a pre-tribulation rapture for those who are found worthy (overcomers in Philadelphia)...see Revelation 3:10.2Th 2:3, Let no man deceive you by any means: for that day shall not come, except there come a falling away first, and that man of sin be revealed, the son of perdition;
2Th 2:4, Who opposeth and exalteth himself above all that is called God, or that is worshipped; so that he as God sitteth in the temple of God, shewing himself that he is God.
No one is disputing that Christians will be gathered by Jesus when he returns, the point is when and how. What you purposely over looked was WHEN, it clearly says "for that day shall not come, except there come a falling away first...so that he as God sitteth in the temple of God, shewing himself that he is God". The devil has to come "first" and sit in the temple of God in Jerusalem "shewing himself that he is God".
Will the temple be built and satan reign from within pretending to be God before the tribulation or during? Sadly Christians that believe in a rapture cherry pick the Bible, "see! it says we will be gathered!" We will be gathered...but when? The rapture is not a gathering doctrine, rapture is a doctrine that declares no Christian will be here on Earth during the tribulation because they will be all flown away to avoid it and there is no Biblical backing for that.
You are forgetting what it says in 1 John 3:2-3.I believe we are in agreement. Rapture expectation from what I see is a waste of effort.