Is there going to be a rapture????

[Sean]

Originally Posted by shazeep

amen to that. ok, and with that said, i'll say that i am confident that there will not be at least the type of rapture that the est'd church promulgates--a bunch of people who have accepted Christ with their mouths, now waiting to die and go to heaven when Christ comes "in the air" to save them from themselves. Not gonna happen. Now, when you begin discussing a 'prepared bride' who has stood up to the forces of evil ("Armageddon"), and is being martyred to annihilation for this, when Christ then steps in--ok. possibly. if our translation (of a translation) of Scripture is being conveyed correctly. But it is just as likely that a spiritual thing is happening here, @ "rapture," and that our common understanding is completely naive--which i find more likely.

Do you think the BRIDE should be subjected to this?....Rev 16:8 And the fourth angel poured out his vial upon the sun; and power was given unto him to scorch men with fire.
9 And men were scorched with great heat, and blasphemed the name of God, which hath power over these plagues: and they repented not to give him glory.



Brother, in reality, how you see the Christians fleeing from ISIS in the middle east is EXACTLY what the Christians of this world would do if exposed to the reign of Antichrist. Most folks think they are big, bad and tuff in the faith, but the fact is, some will fight back a little but mostly will run and deny the faith because of the unimaginable sufferings they will experience. We can hardly keep folks, and OURSELVES right with God in a time of peace right now....LOL.

If the church is allowed past Rev.11, it will be decimated and Jesus will have almost nobody left to rapture....Talk is cheap (He wont need to return for a sleeping bride as Matt 25 states, it will be a DEAD bride)