Subject: Why should we believe a "secret rapture" |
Bible Note: I see a little mistake in your post. "I doubt that anyone else on this forum believes as I do, but there you have it." I think that the rapture of God’s saints and the wrath of God will happen on the same day. As soon as we are lifted up to safety the angels of God will start to pour out the trumpet judgments. 2 Thes. 1:6-10 Seeing it is a righteous thing with God to recompense tribulation to them that trouble you; 7And to you who are troubled rest with us, when the Lord Jesus shall be revealed from heaven with his mighty angels, 8In flaming fire taking vengeance on them that know not God, and that obey not the gospel of our Lord Jesus Christ: 9Who shall be punished with everlasting destruction from the presence of the Lord, and from the glory of his power; 10When he shall come to be glorified in his saints, and to be admired in all them that believe (because our testimony among you was believed) in that day. Verse 10 gives us the time of this recovery and wrath; glorified in his saints is the rapture or taking out. It all happened on the same day, just as Jesus said. Matthew 24:38 For as in the days that were before the flood they were eating and drinking, marrying and giving in marriage, until the day that Noe entered into the ark, Luke 17:28-29 Likewise also as it was in the days of Lot; they did eat, they drank, they bought, they sold, they planted, they builded; 29But the same day that Lot went out of Sodom it rained fire and brimstone from heaven, and destroyed them all. The timing of Lot’s departure was so close that he could probably feel the heat on his backside. It would be interesting if someone would do a series on those left behind in Sodom! I think where people get mixed up is when they confuse the vengeance of Satan through man with the wrath of God. Rev. 12:12 Therefore rejoice, ye heavens, and ye that dwell in them. Woe to the inhabiters of the earth and of the sea! for the devil is come down unto you, having great wrath, because he knoweth that he hath but a short time. Luke 21:22 For these be the days of vengeance, that all things which are written may be fulfilled. I don’t believe that the wrath of God starts until Revelation chapter 8 when the 7th seal is opened. CDBJ |