As much as our government has been infiltrated by the enemy, so has the church. Maybe even moreso.
This is a dangerous doctrine. IT IS NOT FROM SCRIPTURE.
I do realize some big lofty names in the bible scholar community are big time rapturists. Moody - for example. But I've been on a quest for a week or so to find anyone of them making solid arguments with actual scriptural foundation to support the dubious claims of the rapture doctrine - and they just simply cannot support it in the scripture.
If you want me to explain further I'll be happy to. But what you should do is go to the bible and find where it makes any claim that Christians will be removed from earth BEFORE or in the middle of the tribulations described in prophecy.
The oft cited verses in Mathew are literally right after Jesus warns you not to be deceived and explains how not to be deceived by knowing the signs of the season of His return. In Luke he even says that "two men will be lying in one bed, one will be taken the other left behind." I don't know why there are two dudes in one bed but I want the rapturist to question why someone sleeping in bed would be raptured (I notice many claiming that you must be alert and watching at the special time).
In Thesolonians 4: Paul clearly teaches that the dead in Christ will be resurrected before the beloved verse about we who are alive at the time going to meet Jesus in the air. I don't have a problem with that - just don't misunderstand that the dead in Christ go "FIRST".
In Rev 20 - Jesus gives us more clarity and explains that in the "First resurrection" people who refused the mark of the beast unto death would rise in that "First resurrection" too.
The rapture doctrine is dangerous for our generation. We appear to be appointed for this time, please do not be deceived.
You are conflating separate events. The resurrection in 1 Thessalonians 4 is not the same event as the resurrection in Revelation 20. Read back one chapter. Revelation 19:7 is the marriage feast of the lamb with his bride clothed in fine linen. Then after the marriage feast, the armies of heaven come down with the Lord, once again clothed in fine linen. These are the saints who were raptured. Then, after the Lord's victory, the thousand year reign begins in chapter 20 when the resurrection of the tribulation saints occurs.
Since the saints are married to the Lord Before the "first resurrection" at the start of the millenial kingdom as in Revelation, how then would the dead in Christ "rise first" before the living saints are taken up, as in Thessalonians?
Neither can we who are alive and remain meet Jesus in the air AFTER he defeats the beast and then after which the tribulation saints are resurrected because it clearly says we are with him BEFORE these things at the wedding feast and the second coming.
The resurrection in Revelations 20 and the one in Thessalonians 4, therefore, cannot be the same event.
Thessalonians 4 (resurrection and then rapture) has to happen before the wedding feast. Then the Revelation 19 wedding feast happens. Then the Lord returns with the saints to defeat the beast. Then the Revelation 20 resurrection happens.
people often don't "rightly divide". People conflate the "day of the Lord" the same as "the day of Christ" and the "kingdom of Heaven" as the "kingdom of God" and so many other things. One thing an old preacher once told me when it comes to things apart from Salvation was "ehhh, the Lord will straighten us all out during the 1000 year reign" haha and I absolutely loved that and it meant a lot coming from an old man.
Thank you.
I lost count of first resurrections there. But I think Jesus was pretty simple and clear. Plus he explained the wheat and tares. So, I think we should be putting on the full armor of God and preparing to fully trust in God to comfort us and feed us and protect us while he deals with the beast.
This is very straightforward. This parable is not a rapture reference, this is the great white throne judgment at the end of the thousand years.
So you think there will be people who offend the Kingdom and practice lawlessness in the Kingdom?
That's pretty weird.
You think the great white throne judgment is only for those who live in the thousand year reign?
THAT is pretty weird.
It is for all those whose names are not written in the book of life.
And yes, there will still be sin in the thousand year kingdom.
https://davidjeremiah.blog/what-is-the-millennium-7-answers-to-7-questions/
I don't appreciate the attitude or the fact that you intentionally twisted what I said in order to scoff at me, and even so your argument is wrong.