Subject: Why should we believe a "secret rapture" |
Bible Note: Hello John, I think another portion of scripture backs up what you have suggested. Matthew 13:30 Let both grow together until the harvest: and in the time of harvest I will say to the reapers, Gather ye together first the tares, and bind them in bundles to burn them: but gather the wheat into my barn. At the time of harvest there is a process where the wheat was separated from the chaff. It was a difficult process and the wheat got pretty well beat up in the process but it sure separated the good stuff from the bad stuff and there was no mistaking the good from the bad from then on. The chaff was segregated into bundles to be burned and the wheat was stored safely in the barn. Once the wheat was secured the workers went back out and set fire to what was left and the fields were made ready for the next season. The whole process was a period called the time of harvest. The coming of Christ, 2 Thes. 2:1 Now we beseech you, brethren, by the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ, and by our gathering together unto him, The word translated coming, is the word PAROUSIA in the original, and it isn’t a verb but a noun, it is an event. The event starts with what we know as the rapture and continues up to the time that God sets up his kingdom here on earth. Just like the first coming of Christ consisted of an allotted number of years to finish his work so his second coming will be an event which will consist of many different actions in a given time period. That what I believe, CDBJ |