The Rapture Lie
I chose the strong word in the title of this lesson for a very good reason. There’s a very dangerous doctrine circulating around in the Christian Church that will have dramatic effects on those who choose to walk down this false path. In this lesson, I want you to see that this idea that all “Good Christians” will be taken from the Earth shortly before or early during the reign of the “antichrist” is something that is not based upon what the Bible teaches.
Strongly disagree with You.
First of all You set the Premise, and then Call it a Lie.
"Good Christians" ? ie Your Premise.
That is NOT the Premise for those who are Raptured.
Those WHO shall be Raptured are those WHO have Already Willingly given their LIFE TO the Lord.
They have Already fulfilled their Appointment to Die Once, When they were Crucified WITH Christ.
Rapture is simply a term that applies to a Converted man, a man IN Christ.
It signifies the DAY the Lord Shall REDEEM, take and Claim what such men willingly Gave TO the Lord.
You Changing the premise from a Converted man IN Christ, to a "good Christian", is False and irrelevant.
You Calling the event of the Lord claiming / Redeeming His Church a LIE, is NOT Scriptural.
Step back and read the verse. “The Lord himself shall descend from heaven with a shout, with the voice of the archangel, and with the trump of God.”
What about it? Who has proclaimed otherwise?
Now, I don’t know about you, but this doesn’t sound like a quiet event to me in the sense of some secret rapture?
Again, you change the premise...."secret rapture" ?
Who is claiming this is a SECRET ?
The Converted do not teach this is a Secret event. It is taught in Scripture, that the Lord shall redeem His Church.
Perhaps you think it a SECRET, because men remaining on earth SHALL NOT SEE bodies of men being transported from earth up to the Clouds to Meet their Lord.
Well why would men remaining on earth SEE such an event?
Scripture teaches Earthly EYES are NOT equipped to SEE "Spiritual Bodies". And every Converted man IS "Changed" and RAISED UP IN a "Spiritual Body"!
IN the Days of Noe (Noah).
You latched on the common understanding....
Dancing, men making merriment, etc.
Yes, we can observe the behaviors of men focused on their life being consumed with fun and not paying attention to the Lord.
However the understanding is deeper than what is happening ON the Earth concerning men NOT IN Christ.
IF you ARE Converted, your concern of understanding Should be about Converted men......being...---->
Noah's day and what happened to him and his family is the foreshadow and parallel to a man today who IS Converted.
The Lord directed Noah to build and enter a Safe refuge. And Noah complied. Thus through the Lord Noah was accepting the Lords Salvation.
What happened to the Earth?
God Himself Cleansed the Earth, with Water..
......which resulted in destruction upon the Earth.
And what happened to Noah?
He was risen ABOVE the face of the Earth...
Saved FROM the distruction upon the Earth.
The Parallel shall again occur.
The Converted, ie the Saved, shall rise ABOVE the face of the Earth....specifically to the Clouds.
The Earth shall experience distruction upon the Earth.....By FIRE, which does not cleanse like water, but rather Purifies ... like gold is purified....(which gold is a parallel used in scriptural purification, as an example lthat men can actually SEE it being burning and the impurities being eradicated, leaving the gold pure).
The Saved are those IN Christ. Taken Up before the tribulation begins. They have already given what the Lord God Requires...
Ie THEIR LIFE, crucified WITH Christ.
During the first half of the Tribulation, there are others left on the earth, NOT IN CHRIST, but that Believe IN God Almighty.
They were the FIRST who heard God, who agreed to Trust and Believe and Obey God.
While they believed IN God, believed in the Word of God, believed in the Messiah....they could not believe the Word of God; the Messiah; was JESUS. They faltered.
They shall experience the Beginning (first part of the Tribulation). They are being taught to escape the cities, depart to the hills, but to NOT believe the Lord Himself descended ON Earth. They shall be provided (144,000) Ministers to teach them that Jesus IS their Christ Messiah. And they WHO believe, shall be Saved, and suffer a physical death, and rapture. (About the opening of the 5th seal during the Tribulation).
During this time the anti-Christ, ie the Devil, ie Satan, shall be Controlling the Earth, and the very purpose for those believing IN God, to flee the cities.
After, those IN Christ, the Converted are REDEEMED pryor to the Tribulation..AND THOSE becoming Converted during the first half of the Tribulation is Accomplished....
The Last half of the Tribulation shall be Gods Wrath upon the Earth, WITH Fire, (just as it was Gods Wrath upon the Earth, WITH Water)
Those who are NOT SAVED above the Face of the EARTH, SHALL perish, THUS effecting their Separation from God and the Habitat He provided FOR a mans Estate.
This is a simple brief, whereas there is much more detail.
However Your teaching the Lord SHALL NOT Redeem and Claim His Church is FALSE.
Rapture is simply a one term word that means "snatching away". It is befitting, Since the Lord SHALL CLAIM His Church on a Day, of His choosing, and SHALL make such claim, QUICKLY.
It is appointed unto all men to be tested, tried, suffer, have hardships during their life upon this earth, DURING the time, MEN are kings, governments, cheaters, liars, thieves, sneaks, greedy, selfish, corrupt, and the public at large suffers at the hands of such men.
It is Converted men IN Christ and Believers IN God Almighty WHO have a God to "comfort" them THROUGH their Natural existence upon the Earth.
It is NOT taught that God desires the Saved and Dead IN CHRIST, to suffer His Wrath UPON the Earth...during the Tribulation.
Nor was it taught Noah suffered the Lord Gods Wrath upon the Earth, but rather Noah was Saved and risen up ABOVE the face of the earth to the Face of the Waters.
1 Thes 5:9
For God HATH NOT appointed us to wrath, but to obtain Salvation by our Lord Jesus Christ.
Simply put - "IF" one HAS obtained Salvation by the Lord Jesus Christ....
Jesus Christ IS such a man's Lord..
And
Such a man HAS confessed Belief, Given His Life to Christ....
He has obtained Salvation.
And
Such man IS NOT Appointed to Gods Wrath.
And HOW the Lord KEEPS a SAVED man FROM being Subject TO His Wrath....is the same as was effected for Noah....
By Removing the SAVED TO Above the face of the Earth while the EARTH and those ON the Earth shall Experience Gods Wrath.
Trust the Truth of God over a false pamphlet.
God Bless,
Taken