My view is the rapture EVENT...is when the dead in Christ, that is every believer in Christ through out history who has died will be raised from the grave like Jesus was raised form grave will ascend into the "clouds" and meet Jesus in the air. Their resurrected now glorified bodies will then be joined with their spirit that went to heaven when they died.
Just after that moment of resurrection those believers in Christ who have not died...still living....will then be taken up into the air....receive glorified bodies...then all the dead in Christ and all those still alive in Christ will return to heaven with Jesus.
To mock people for not believing what you believe..saying they are in the kiddie pool...as if you, you, you corner the market on "rapture" theology is extremely insulting and your ad-homimen remark is uncalled for.
The "mock" is not mocking, but a long overdue "Grow up! Read the scriptures fully--what was to happen, what was laid at our feet, was wake up, rise let us be going, press on, mature, by the renewing of your mind--and finish the race. So, yeah, making a Mary had a little lamb doctrine out of the baby-talk of first parental words from Christ, is cause for a wake up call.
And you described that Mary had a little lamb doctrine perfectly. Unfortunately, for it to actually be true, God would have to adjust to the terms and times of this world, instead of us adjusting to His timeless ways; the rapture would be a zombie apocalypse of dead people walking around like it was Halloween, instead of the parable that the dead rising is supposed to be; heaven would actually be clouds in the earth's atmosphere, instead of spiritually omnipresent; the air would actually be "
water" and the divide between heaven and earth would have to be crossed with a flying submarine, instead of it all occurring "
within you"; God would have to break His own rule of not allowing flesh and blood to inherit the kingdom of Heaven and apologize for saying that the flesh returns to the dust and only the spirit returns to Him; Jesus would have to apologize for saying "today" (you will be with me in Paradise) is when the spirit body leaves the flesh body--and sorry for the delay and the Purgatory experience that wasn't really suppose to happen--My bad!; those who thought they were born again and had the Holy Spirit "
within" them would learn that No, sorry for wasting your time, but you will now be receiving Him and Jesus up in the sky, and No, no flesh gets to go--shake it off--here put this robe on, time to go...instead of reigning with Christ from the time they actually received the Holy Spirit and Christ, until the passing of their flesh bodies, at which time the rapture becomes most apparent with the transition of time unto eternity, and awakening to what “
Eye has not seen, nor ear heard, Nor have entered into the heart of man The things which God has prepared for those who love Him”--"
in the twinkling of an eye."
Now--remove those parts of the above paragraph that you have believed--and you'll have it.
