Who really, REALLY believes in the Rapture?
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not me \np.s. look at my questions please
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It would be nice if people would put the verse they ask about here too.\nI don't have my Bible handy, but I think you're referring to verse that says, "That\nday will not come, till the son of perdition is revealed."\nThis has been an ongoing argument with Christians. When will the Rapture\noccur? This verse says it will not happen until the antichrist is revealed for who he really is!
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Virtually none! The rapture could occur at any time now as the stage is set. The anti-Christ is in the world already. At the point of the rapture the Lord will unleash all sorts of terrible disasters on earth one being that there will be no rain on the earth for the first three and a half years of the tribulation which will be brought about by the 2 witnesses spoken of in Revelations. Just make sure you are ready as anyone left behind will most likely either die or on order to survive, people will be forced to accept the mark of the beast and those who do have no hope of entering the kingdom of God as they will be doomed forever.
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Jehovah's Witnesses believe in the Bible, just like most Christians. We also believe in Jesus Christ, only we don't believe in him being equal to God, we believe that he is God's Son not his equal.We do not believe in the trinity, nor do we believe in the rapture.\nAlso, the reason that we believe there are only 144,000 that go to heaven is because in Revelations 14:1 it states: 'And I saw, and look! the Lamb standing upon Mt.Zion, and with him a hundred and forty-four thousand having his name and the name of his Father written on their foreheads.'\nWe also believe in a resurection as the person who posted before me mentioned, ONLY we don't believe that everyone who is resurected will go to heaven, those resurected will live forever in an earthly Paradise, where there will be no more sickness, pain, or death. You find the scripture which supports this view at Revelation 21:3-5 and also in the Lord's Prayer at Matthew 6:9,10 where it mentions that we should pray for God's kingdom to come and his will take place, as in heaven, ALSO upon the earth.\nSo, I hope that answered your questions, as a source I'm going to put the Watchtower Bible and Tract Society(the head organization of Jehovah's Witnesses) website. I encourage you to visit it.
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Ex-Mormon here. It's been a while so I may have some details wrong, but here's the deal:\n\nNonmormon fundamentalist Christians believe the Rapture is an event that will happen just before the Millenium. All the righteous of the world will be instantly zapped up to Heaven and the rest will be left to burn and die at Jesus' sword. \n\nMormons don't believe in the Rapture. In their version, all the dead righteous peole will be resurrected at the Second Coming, and everyone still on earth will live to 'the age of a tree' (it's not specified how long that is, but many people believe it's 100 years) and then be instantly translated, resurrected without dying. And everyone will enjoy 1000 years of peace.
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I think it will happen before, but I am willing to be wrong. It will,I think, open the door for The Anti - Christ to be reveled, then The Rapture.
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The Bible verses that talk about the second coming of Christ have been corrupted by some to indicate that there will be a secret 'rapture' where Christians simply disappear.  This is a false doctrine.\n\nThis I believe; http://homelessheart.com/testimony.htm
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A lot of people do actually. Pat Robertson is the top mouth piece for the modern Pentecostal Revival. His is the kind that speaks in tongues and plays with snakes. And a great many people believe that their path is the ONLY path to salvation. Which is sad to think about, but horribly true. And a lot of the older Pentecostals think this country is headed down a spiral of sin, we need to be a Christian Theocracy, and the only way to stop Armageddon is to make sure everyone knows that theirs is the only true path to salvation.\n\nWhat's funny is that the Christian Right recently denounced Pat Robertson AND Jerry Fallwall.
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It's not the idea of a rapture that I don't believe in, but the word itself. The word isn't found in the Bible. I do believe Jesus will come the way it says, but wonder where the word "rapture" came from.
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Yes!\n  Many say it to try and show others they are good people but they are relly not.They just act out being a christian.When the rapture of His(God's) church comes every one left behind will have been a fake.If they begin to actually believe they will have to  make it through the seven year tribulation to live forever with Jesus and His church.
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well its funny you ask that question . im reading that left behind book and when the rapture comes there will be a great cry over thee horizon and the christians that are left behind cant do nothing but continue to endure this worldly pain but stand at thee same time cause god will come back for his people. remember none of us are worthy of his love we all have sinned now its the time to behold the lamb and call on grace cause thats the only thing that can save us,cause it will rain.
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Today's popular Christianity is false Christianity, and so I expect a very great many to fall away when things start going bad.\n\nEspecially when that rapture crap turns out to be just that.
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What About "the Rapture"?\nhttp://www.wcg.org/lit/prophecy/rapture.htm\n\nThe rapture doctrine seems to have originated with a man named John Nelson Darby in about 1830. He divided the time of the second coming into two stages. Darby said Christ would come for his saints (the "rapture") before the tribulation and he would come with his saints after it, which he thought was Jesus’ true coming in glory or second coming. \n\nTheir will be a rapture BUT NOT the one taught by the left behind books. \n\nThe Coming of the Lord\nhttp://www.wcg.org/lit/prophecy/return/return1.htm
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Maybe you should listen to them, rather than make guesses about how to answer them.\n\nJesus was supposedly born to a virgin- don't you know that that cannot be true?  Jesus is supposed to return in the second coming, raise the dead, and take the faithful straight to heaven.  What person using their god-given brain can believe that fairytale?  The bible is filled with advice such as for men to abandon their families and follow Jesus (family values?!?), another place Jesus publically denies his own mother.  Nice guy.\n\nMaybe YOU should reconsider the brand of snake oil you are pushing.  Perhaps it is time for the TRUTH!
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*rolling my eyes*  This is like Y2K all over again.  Come on, it's just a dadgum day.  Besides, read Revelation in the Bible.  The antichrist doesn't rise until the rapture, when all the people who believe in Jesus will be taken up to heaven in the blink of an eye.  Have you noticed the mass disappearance of millions of people yet?  I sure haven't.  Then again, I wouldn't be here to notice it.  So no, tomorrow isn't the rise or arrival of the antichrist.  It's just Tuesday, June sixth, 2006.  *rolling my eyes again*
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Before I say this let me tell you that I am a devout Christian.  The rapture is a creation of man and does not exist.  It evolved from interpretation of the Revelation.  Not gonna happen.  Ever.
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RAPTURE\n\nRev.10:6 And sware by Him that liveth for ever and ever, Who created heaven, and the things that therein are, and the earth, and the things that therein are, and the sea, and the things which are therein, that there should be time no longer: \nTIME NO LONGER\nRev.10:7 But in the days of the voice of the seventh angel, when he shall begin to sound, the mystery of God should be finished, as He hath declared to His servants the prophets. \nSEVENTH ANGEL WHEN HE BEGINS TO SOUND\n\nI Cor.15:50 Now this I say, brethren, that flesh and blood cannot inherit the kingdom of God; neither doth corruption inherit incorruption. \nFLESH AND BLOOD CANNOT INHERIT THE KINGDOM\nI Cor.15:51 Behold, I shew you a mystery; We shall not all sleep, but we shall all be changed, \nALL BE CHANGED, NOT JUST THE CHURCH\nI Cor.15:52 In a moment, in the twinkling of an eye, at the last trump: for the trumpet shall sound, and the dead shall be raised incorruptible, and we shall be changed. \nAT THE LAST TRUMP, SEVENTH\n\nI Thes.4:16 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: \nTHE TRUMP OF GOD, SEVENTH\nI Thes.4:17  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. \nTHE CLOUDS\nThe word “the” is not in the Greek manuscripts. Clouds is used by Paul for a throng.\nHeb.12:1 Wherefore seeing we also are compassed about with so great a cloud of witnesses, let us lay aside every weight, and the sin which doth so easily beset us, and let us run with patience the race that is set before us, \nTHE AIR\nThe word “air” Greek (aer) means “to breathe, respire”, NOT SKY. In other words the breath of life or spirit. Flesh and blood cannot inherit the kingdom of God.\n\nII Thes.2:1 Now we beseech you, brethren, by the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ, and by our gathering together unto Him, \nOUR GATHERING TOGETHER UNTO HIM\nII Thes.2:2 That ye be not soon shaken in mind, or be troubled, neither by spirit, nor by word, nor by letter as from us, as that the day of Christ is at hand. \nNOR BY LETTER AS FROM US, FIRST THESSALONIANS\nII Thes.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; \nLET NO MAN DECEIVE YOU BY ANY MEANS\nThe sequence of events is Satan first, then the Lord’s day.\n\nRev 11:3  And I will give power unto my two witnesses, and they shall prophesy a thousand two hundred and threescore days, clothed in sackcloth. \nRev 11:4  These are the two olive trees, and the two candlesticks standing before the God of the earth. \nTWO CANDLESTICKS\n\nRev 1:20  The mystery of the seven stars which thou sawest in my right hand, and the seven golden candlesticks. The seven stars are the angels of the seven churches: and the seven candlesticks which thou sawest are the seven churches. \nCANDLESTICKS ARE CHURCHES\n\nYet there are men that teach the church is raptured. Men that teach that flesh and blood is taken and others left behind. It’s nonsense when you study His Word.