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NASB | Matthew 24:41 "Two women will be grinding at the mill; one will be taken and one will be left. |
AMPLIFIED 2015 | Matthew 24:41 "Two women will be grinding at the mill; one will be taken [for judgment] and one will be left. |
Bible Question:
What is this Pre-wrath Rapture all about? The believers get taken by stealth and then the unbelievers suffer hell on earth over a seven year countdown until God comes and takes them away to judgement exactly 7 years after the Rapture, doesn't sound like much of a 'thief in the night' if it is seven years after the Rapture. The passage I have cited from verse 36 onwards is talking about the judgement of the wicked, like Noah's flood and it is the wicked who are "taken" surely; in context this is really clear. The Bible seems always to talk of the wicked being taken taken by surprise as if by a thief in the night. What if any Biblical texts separate a Rapture from the Lord coming to judge the wicked; I cannot see this in the Bible at all. Biblical proofs only please. Isn't this a false teaching that gives the unbelievers a second chance? None of the Reformers believed any of this did they? |
Bible Answer: Hi Victor, I do not know what the Reformers believed regarding the rapture. But I do know what Paul the Apostle believed. II Thessalonians 2:1-3 “And, brothers, we entreat you, by the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ, and of our gathering together to Him, for you not to be quickly shaken in the mind, nor to be disturbed, neither through a spirit, nor through speech, nor through letter, as through us, as if the Day of Christ has come. Do not let anyone deceive you in any way, because that Day will not come unless first comes the falling away, and the man of sin is revealed, the son of perdition.†LITV This passage tells us plainly that the rapture of the church comes before the Day of the Lord. The Thessalonians were troubled by the false report that the rapture had come, “our gathering together to Himâ€, they had missed it, and were now in the Day of the Lord, “As if the day of Christ had comeâ€. Paul writes back saying, basically, don’t worry, you haven’t missed the rapture, its not the Day of the Lord yet.†The clear implication is that the rapture, our gathering together to Him, comes before the day of the Lord. Paul also addresses this idea of a second chance. No such thing is offered. 2 Thessalonians 2:9-12 “His coming is according to the working of Satan in all power and miraculous signs and lying wonders, and in all deceit of unrighteousness in those being lost, because they did not receive the love of the truth in order for them to be saved. And because of this, God will send to them a working of error, for them to believe the lie, that all may be judged, those not believing the truth, but who have delighted in unrighteousness.†LITV According to this passage, those who chose to delight in unrighteousness, rejecting the truth of the gospel, will be held for judgment, unable to change their destiny. The pre-tribulation rapture is not “last call†as many teach. It is the removal of the Bride of Christ before the judgment from God, and if you rejected the light prefering your own darkness, you will no longer have the capability of seeing the light, and will instead believe the lie. Regarding the great “soul harvest†promised by Tim LaHaye and others, consider the words of Revelation 9:20-21 “And the rest of men, those not killed by these plagues, did not repent of the works of their hands, that they will not worship demons, and golden idols, and silver, and bronze, and stone, and wooden idols, which neither are able to see, nor to hear, nor to walk. And they did not repent of their murders, nor of their sorceries, nor of their fornications, nor of their thefts.†I hope this helps! Love in Christ, Mark |
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