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.
That verse is misinterpreted in my opinion. In the Greek it says "ἔσονται δύο ἐπὶ κλίνης μιᾶς," which means literally "there will be two in one bed." The next verse says "ἔσονται δύο ἀλήθουσαι," or, literally, "there will be two grinding." Note that in the first verse it is interpreted to mean two men, and the second it is interpreted to mean two women, but it is using the exact same Greek verbiage for both - ἔσονται δύο - there will be two. The gender of the term δύο therefore should be interpreted to be neutral.
Thank you. I honestly have never put much thought into it because I never saw it as any sort of inference about their relationship to each other.
It's just odd to me how it has been translated.
There are many things in the English Bible that are translated in ways that are arguably incorrect. Studying the original Greek and Hebrew is honestly quite interesting.
17 words per one hebrew symbol times 11 lines per sentence, what we get is astronomical to deciper. But i digress. And yet im still Christian! Why might you ask.. because we saw him . That ended my 40 atheist stance. Anyways God loves you everyday.
That is a dangerous perspective to have I believe. It leaves things open for us to interpret verses based on our own biases and preferences. First point being is, some of the original Greek doesn't even exist anymore. Second point being, WHICH Greek and Hebrew texts? Texts from the Codex Sinaiticus and codex Vaticanus(I hope not) or perhaps from the textus Receptus? Additionally, Greek and Hebrew can have several meanings for the same phrases. Should I be so proud to think I can study and learn more than the combined knowledge of the 40ish translators of the King James Bible, whose life work it was to study those languages well beyond what our current capacity is?
I love the KJV and the NKJV. But I think you can still find certain items that can be debated about. For example I think the word Easter is used instead of Passover in one or both of them.
Yea like the fact that the family who wrote the kjv said and says it was the king who made them altar the bible to be fuddle people. Hmmm i know nothing.