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1 | Will there be a partial rapture? | 1 Thess 4:17 | kalos | 153387 | ||
Will there be a partial rapture? Do you believe that only faithful Christians will be taken in the rapture, with unfaithful Christians left on earth to suffer through the Tribulation? Please give the reasons -- the Biblical evidence -- for why you believe as you do. Grace to you, Kalos |
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2 | Will there be a partial rapture? | 1 Thess 4:17 | jlhetrick | 153388 | ||
Hi Kalos, I do not believe in a “partial rapture”. I have never heard this taught and do not find anything in scripture to support it. Rom 10:9 (KJV) That if thou shalt confess with thy mouth the Lord Jesus, and shalt believe in thine heart that God hath raised him from the dead, thou shalt be saved. We are not saved by our faithfulness but by what we have faith in and therefore believe. Furthermore, we don’t even posses the "faith" to believe in and of ourselves. In other words, we can not produce that faith. It is God who gives us the faith through which we are capable of believing in the first place. Rom 12:3 (KJV) For I say, through the grace given unto me, to every man that is among you, not to think of himself more highly than he ought to think; but to think soberly, according as God hath dealt to every man the measure of faith. So: 1) we are saved when believing in Jesus Christ for salvation. 2) this believing comes through faith. 3) this faith is not of ourselves but given by God “in measure” (so that no man can boast of it). Therefore, I do not believe there is such thing as an “unfaithful” Christian. If one is a true Christian one has believed and confessed Jesus Christ through faith given him/her by God. This faithfulness from God is sufficient Jeff |
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3 | Will there be a partial rapture? | 1 Thess 4:17 | Searcher56 | 153402 | ||
What do you do with Revelation 20:4-5? See post 153401 | ||||||
4 | Will there be a partial rapture? | 1 Thess 4:17 | jlhetrick | 153412 | ||
Good question: I am not an expert on the book of Revelation (or any other book for that matter) but I do not see a conflict with my earlier response and these verses. Let me give a response based on what I currently understand regarding this issue though. VS.4 says "and I saw the souls of them that were beheaded..." It has been argued that these "souls" were in fact disembodied souls. That is, the souls of saints who have died though their physical bodies have not yet been ressurected. We see these same souls way back in Chapter 6 I believe. Rev 6:9(KJV) And when he had opened the fifth seal, I saw under the altar the souls of them that were slain for the word of God, and for the testimony which they held: Rev 6:10 And they cried with a loud voice, saying, How long, O Lord, holy and true, dost thou not judge and avenge our blood on them that dwell on the earth? Rev 6:11 And white robes were given unto every one of them; and it was said unto them, that they should rest yet for a little season, until their fellowservants also and their brethren, that should be killed as they were, should be fulfilled. So, have these "souls" been raptured, or are they disembodied souls awaiting the bodily resurrection? |
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