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.
I finally got time to watch the first vid. - I can see why many are confused. He reads right over "the dead in Christ shall rise first"... then insists this rapture event is happening before tribulations... before the second (third) coming. You can argue that the resurrection and the rapture are two separate events, but can you really say that Paul had them massively out of order?
At another point he says that they ask Jesus "Where Lord?" in Luke. He ignores most translations that have that "body" meaning a carcass and he assumes it is the Body of Christ, so Eagles fly, that must be the air ... moving on. This is terrible explaining. I still ponder the true meaning here. I think it is saying that this death he just prophesied will encompass the earth, there will be dead bodies everywhere and you'll be able to know from a distance because of the birds. Kind of like what happens after his actual second coming and the birds of earth are invited to feast on the flesh of those carcasses.