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1 | Will there be a partial rapture? | 1 Thess 4:17 | kalos | 153362 | ||
Will there be a partial rapture? 'Answer: There are some believers who hold that only faithful Christians will be taken in the rapture, with unfaithful Christians left on earth to suffer through the Tribulation. The problem is that the Bible does not support such a concept. The passages which describe the rapture (1Cor 15:50-57; 1Thess 4:13-18) definitely seem to apply universally to all Christians, mature and immature, faithful and disobedient. Verses like Romans 8:1 and 1Thessalonians 5:9 tell us that God does not pour out His wrath on Christians. I do not believe there is any Biblical evidence whatsoever for a partial rapture. Every believer will be taken to heaven in the Rapture. Matthew 25:1-13 is not describing some believers being left behind, it is describing unbelievers being left behind. Notice that Jesus says to those left behind, “Truly I say to you, I do not know you” (Matt 25:12).' ____________________ www.gotquestions.org/partial-rapture.html 1 Cor. 15:50-57 (ESV) I tell you this, brothers: flesh and blood cannot inherit the kingdom of God, nor does the perishable inherit the imperishable. [51] Behold! I tell you a mystery. We shall not all sleep, but we shall all be changed, [52] in a moment, in the twinkling of an eye, at the last trumpet. For the trumpet will sound, and the dead will be raised imperishable, and we shall be changed. [53] For this perishable body must put on the imperishable, and this mortal body must put on immortality. [54] When the perishable puts on the imperishable, and the mortal puts on immortality, then shall come to pass the saying that is written: "Death is swallowed up in victory." [55] "O death, where is your victory? O death, where is your sting?" [56] The sting of death is sin, and the power of sin is the law. [57] But thanks be to God, who gives us the victory through our Lord Jesus Christ. 1 Thes. 4:13-18 (ESV) But we do not want you to be uninformed, brothers, about those who are asleep, that you may not grieve as others do who have no hope. [14] For since we believe that Jesus died and rose again, even so, through Jesus, God will bring with him those who have fallen asleep. [15] For this we declare to you by a word from the Lord, that we who are alive, who are left until the coming of the Lord, will not precede those who have fallen asleep. [16] For the Lord himself will descend from heaven with a cry of command, with the voice of an archangel, and with the sound of the trumpet of God. And the dead in Christ will rise first. [17] Then we who are alive, who are left, will be caught up together with them in the clouds to meet the Lord in the air, and so we will always be with the Lord. [18] Therefore encourage one another with these words. Romans 8:1 (ESV) There is therefore now no condemnation for those who are in Christ Jesus. 1 Thes. 5:9 (ESV) For God has not destined us for wrath, but to obtain salvation through our Lord Jesus Christ, |
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2 | Will there be a partial rapture? | 1 Thess 4:17 | kalos | 154608 | ||
Partial Rapture Will there be a partial rapture? '2.2.1 Partial Rapturism 'According to the partial rapturism view, not all believers will be taken at the translation (rapture) of the church, but rather only those who are "watching" and "waiting" for that event, who have reached some degree of spiritual attainment that makes them worthy to be included. '2.2.1.1 Reasons for holding this view 'The partial rapturist believe that a clear inference from Luke 21:36 is that those Christians who do not "watch" will not "escape all these things that shall come to pass," and will not be accounted worthy "to stand before the Son of Man." They gather from such passages as: 'Matthew 24:41-42; 1 Corinthians 15:23; 2 Timothy 4:8; 1 Thessalonians 1:10; that those only will be taken who "wait," "look for," and "have loved His appearing" (Thomas Waugh, When Jesus Comes, p. 108). '2.2.1.2 Comments 'The partial rapturists have made the following mistakes: 'It is based on a misunderstanding of the value of the death of Christ (i.e. doctrines of propitiation, reconciliation and redemption) as it frees the sinner from condemnation and renders him acceptable to God. The believer is justified, made acceptable to God, placed in Christ positionally, to be received by God as though he were the Son Himself. The individual who has this perfect standing of Christ can never be less than completely acceptable to God. The partial rapturist, who insists that only those who are "waiting" and "watching" will be translated (raptured), minimizes the perfect standing of the child of God in Christ and presents him before the Father in his own experimental righteousness. 'They must deny the New Testament teaching on the unity of the body of Christ. According to 1 Corinthians 12:12-13, all believers are united to the body of which Christ is the Head (Ephesians 5:30). If the rapture includes only a portion of those redeemed, then the body, of which Christ is the Head, will be a dismembered and disfigured body when it is taken to Him. 'They must deny the completeness of the resurrection of the believers at the translation (rapture). Since not all the living saints could be raptured, logically, not all the dead in Christ could be resurrected, inasmuch as many of them died in spiritual immaturity. But since Paul teaches that "we shall all be changed" (1 Corinthians 15:51-52; 1 Thessalonians 4:14), it is impossible to admit a partial resurrection. 'They confuse the Scriptural teaching on rewards. The rewards are given by God as the recompense for faithful service (Revelation 2:10; James 1:12; 1 Thessalonians 2:19; Philippians 4:1; 1 Corinthians 9:25; 1 Peter 5:4; 2 Timothy 4:8). Nowhere in its teaching about rewards is the rapture included as the reward for watching. 'They confuse the distinction between law and grace. If this view is correct, the believer's position before God, eternally, would depend on his works, for what he did and what attitudes he developed would then be the basis of his acceptance. (...) '2 Timothy 4:8. This is used by the partial rapturist to show that the rapture must be a partial one. However, the subject of translation is not in view in this passage, but rather the question of reward. The second advent was intended by God to be a purifying hope (1 John 3:3). Because of such purifying a new life is produced because of the expectancy of the Lord's return. Therefore those that truly "love His appearing" will experience a new kind of life which will bring a reward. '1 Thessalonians 1:10. This is used by the partial rapturist to teach that the church that was unprepared for the rapture will meet the Lord in the clouds on His way to the earth at the second advent. Such a view coincides with the interpretation of the posttribulationist and will be shown to be contrary to the teaching of Scripture in the next section. '2.2.1.3 Conclusion 'An examination of the Scriptures used by the partial rapturists to support their position shows that their interpretation is not consistent with true exegesis. From these considerations then, I conclude that the partial rapture position is untenable.' ____________________ www.biblicist.org/systematic/9.htm |
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