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Is There A Rapture Of The Church? Is It Taught In The Scriptures? Jun 15, 2008 7:48 am
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I have seen posts here where others have mocked the idea of the rapture of the church. I have also seen just about every nonessential doctrine become a place of contention and dividing of the body of Christ here on B.C. all because many of us myself included at times have not learned to hold our doctrinal view in humility! When I say nonessential doctrines I mean any of those that one must believe in order to be saved such as we are saved by God's grace alone through faith alone in the finished work of Jesus on the cross alone and that Jesus is fully God and fully man and therefore is the only One who can pay the sin debt that we all under with our fallen sinful natures.



I do believe in the rapture of the church and believe it will happen very soon with all that's transpiring especially with the Jews being brought home to their own land where they have to be when Jesus returns at His second coming at the battle of Armageddon. Now I know many will say this is not something that was taught in scriptures and only resonantly been brought to light through a wild eyed Margret MacDonald's vision and in which Darby and Scofield picked up on. What others may have forgotten is that Paul talks about the the great departure in 1 Thessalonian and 1 Corrinthians as well as other places and there is records of others in church history that have believed in this too.



In the 11Th chapter Daniel he was told to seal up the book of his vision of the last days when knowledge will be increased and I believe this is why there is a great world wide anticipation within the church of the Lords soon return to snatch up His bride before Antichrist will be revealed and the start of God's judgment upon the whole Christ rejecting world with the 7 year period of the great tribulation. If you look back on the 15Th and 16Th centuries when the reformation happened you will find that the battle cry from all the priests that came out of the RCC during this time was rightfully addressing the doctrine of salvation by grace alone through faith alone and not of works or through a church! Everyone was focused in on this much needed understanding and a return to the scriptural truth relating to this yet they weren't newly found Scriptures or some new doctrine that the reformers were espousing but the word of God that the church throughout the centuries had gotten away from and forgotten.

That was the message for that period of the church and God was opening the eyes of many during to the simple truth of salvation by grace through faith and away from works or RCC membership that had befallen so many during that time. One could say the same thing about all this during that time when God worked in the hearts of so many yet it has always been taught and believed. In the same respect I believe that God is doing just the very same thing the past 3 or 4 hundred years as the day ever approaches when Jesus Himself will come back and call out His Bride to be with Him before God's judgment is to come to this world. One other thing !Thessalonian was believed to be one of Paul's earliest writing to the church dating back to about 20 years after his ministry so the rapture goes all the way back as far one can go even though it has been neglected but as I said I believe God has begun to open the eyes of the church in these last days to this all important and Bible taught truth. If you don't agree with me thats fine and will not effect either one of our relationship to the Lord nor should it effect of fellowship with one another either I just hope I'm standing close to you when it happens to see the look on your face. I'm not opening this up for comments coz I know all to well there will be all sorts here that will take exception to what i've just shared and sadly it will lead to the in house fighting we've all seen here more times than we can count or like to remember!
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