You ever wake up some mornings and think, "Am I one of the 'left behind'? Could I have missed the rapture?"
(media.greatawakening.win)
🐴 SHITPOST 💩
You're viewing a single comment thread. View all comments, or full comment thread.
Comments (56)
sorted by:
The body must die for the soul to ascend. Beam me up Scotty rapture is relatively new interpretation of the term, began in the early 1800s in America.
1 Thessalonians 4:16-17
The Rapture of both living and dead saints is not a new concept, it is exactly what the Bible teaches. Church fathers as early as Iraneus taught the same thing.
Bible scholars, can you help clarify this for me?
1 Thessalonians 4:16-17 says:
"For the Lord himself will come down from heaven, with a loud command, with the voice of the archangel and with the trumpet call of God, and the dead in Christ will rise first. 17 After that, we who are still alive and are left will be caught up together with them in the clouds to meet the Lord in the air."
Q: Does this mean that the souls of the people who have died and are buried anytime in the past have not actually gone to heaven or hell? Are they just put in suspended animation or left trapped in their bodies?
Q: Do their dead bodies lie there and rot until God comes to call for them and then will he restore that particular body and rise that up sometime in the next thousand years?
Q: What about the souls that were cremated? What about those whose body was mutilated or destroyed or scattered to the winds? Is the soul trapped on earth forever until God returns?
Q: And then - only those souls who've met God's criteria will be retrieved?
& 2. No, once you die your soul travels to either heaven or hell, see Jesus' story of Lazarus and the rich man. You are fully conscious, though how this can be without a body is unknown. When the dead in Christ rise first, that means their souls are reunited with their physical bodies, which have put in in-corruption and immortality per 1 Cor. 15:52-54. The same thing will happen to unbelievers, at judgment day their bodies will be reunited with their souls, only for both to be cast into the lake of fire.
The Bible is silent on this issue, at least for unbelievers. Believers will have their physical bodies reassembled and made perfect. What happens to an unbeliever's body during/after judgment day is unknown; I guess we'll have to wait until we see it for ourselves.
Not sure what you mean by meeting God's criteria. The only criteria for salvation is accepting Jesus Christ as the Son of God and your Savior. You can't do good works to pay off your sin. Christ has already paid for your sins on your behalf, but just as you can accept or reject a gift that someone gives you, you can accept or reject Christ's payment for your sin, with the appropriate consequences for each choice.
Hope this helps. Read the Bible as much as you can: the more you read it, the better you can understand it.