When do you think the Rapture will happen?

[catlover]

I'd be interested in knowing the views of my brothers/sisters on this board about the Rapture. However let's keep it friendly as these discussions can get a little heated in my experience.

[One Way]

I think it is very simple, without getting into too much detail. Consider this:

For whatsoever things were written aforetime were written for our learning, that we through patience and comfort of the scriptures might have hope. -- Romans 15:4

We can learn from God's past dealings of judgment how He goes about it.

Here are biblical examples:

Soddom & Gomorrah:

Read Genesis 18:22-33. It is summed up in this statement, "God would not destroy the righteous with the wicked." God would not destroy Soddom and Gomorrah if only 10 righteous people were found.

And he (Abraham) said, Oh let not the Lord be angry, and I will speak yet but this once: Perhaps ten shall be found there. And He said, I will not destroy it for ten's sake. -- Genesis 18:32

So, God would not destroy the righteous with the wicked.

And, when judgment finally did come, the angel of the Lord could not execute that judgment until righteous Lot (2 Peter 2:7) was out of harm's way.

Haste thee, escape thither; for I (the angel of the Lord) cannot do any thing till thou (Lot) be come thither. Therefore the name of the city was called Zoar. -- Genesis 19:22

In that verse, the angel of the Lord specifically tells Lot that "I cannot do anything (bring judgment) until you are out of this place."

Next example.... Noah and the flood.

And they went in unto Noah into the ark, two and two of all flesh, wherein is the breath of life. And they that went in, went in male and female of all flesh, as God had commanded him: and the LORD shut him in. And the flood was forty days upon the earth; and the waters increased, and bare up the ark, and it was lift up above the earth. -- Genesis 7:15-17

It wasn't until Noah and his family were out of harms way that God finally brought the flood waters upon the earth.

And, finally in the New Testament:

The Lord knoweth how to deliver the godly out of temptations, and to reserve the unjust unto the day of judgment to be punished -- 2 Peter 2:9

IMHO, anyone who says that the church goes through the Tribulation makes God a liar. Because, God said he clearly would not destroy the righteous with the wicked.

There are so many more reasons that I could list in support of this, but I'll refrain for the moment unless the need arises.

Blessings...

[dwinkjr]

I think it is very simple, without getting into too much detail. Consider this:

For whatsoever things were written aforetime were written for our learning, that we through patience and comfort of the scriptures might have hope. -- Romans 15:4

We can learn from God's past dealings of judgment how He goes about it.

Here are biblical examples:

Soddom & Gomorrah:

Read Genesis 18:22-33. It is summed up in this statement, "God would not destroy the righteous with the wicked." God would not destroy Soddom and Gomorrah if only 10 righteous people were found.

And he (Abraham) said, Oh let not the Lord be angry, and I will speak yet but this once: Perhaps ten shall be found there. And He said, I will not destroy it for ten's sake. -- Genesis 18:32

So, God would not destroy the righteous with the wicked.

And, when judgment finally did come, the angel of the Lord could not execute that judgment until righteous Lot (2 Peter 2:7) was out of harm's way.

Haste thee, escape thither; for I (the angel of the Lord) cannot do any thing till thou (Lot) be come thither. Therefore the name of the city was called Zoar. -- Genesis 19:22

In that verse, the angel of the Lord specifically tells Lot that "I cannot do anything (bring judgment) until you are out of this place."

Next example.... Noah and the flood.

And they went in unto Noah into the ark, two and two of all flesh, wherein is the breath of life. And they that went in, went in male and female of all flesh, as God had commanded him: and the LORD shut him in. And the flood was forty days upon the earth; and the waters increased, and bare up the ark, and it was lift up above the earth. -- Genesis 7:15-17

It wasn't until Noah and his family were out of harms way that God finally brought the flood waters upon the earth.

And, finally in the New Testament:

The Lord knoweth how to deliver the godly out of temptations, and to reserve the unjust unto the day of judgment to be punished -- 2 Peter 2:9

IMHO, anyone who says that the church goes through the Tribulation makes God a liar. Because, God said he clearly would not destroy the righteous with the wicked.

There are so many more reasons that I could list in support of this, but I'll refrain for the moment unless the need arises.

Blessings...

I must agree wth this 110%.. Great post

Another big discussion is will the world have a second chance to be saved during the Tribulation period? Or after the rapture are they all doomed to the fate they had chosen?

God Bless,

Dave