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THE RAPTURE
1. What is meant by the term "secret rapture?" (The term is not in the Bible.)
Many Bible prophets spoken of a terrible time of trouble just before the end of the age. Many Christians believe that before this last period of tribulation begins God will rapture His people out of this world. They will simply disappear, every one of them at the same moment. This is called the secret rapture. Those who are left behind will have one final chance to repent and get right with God before Jesus returns in glory to rule.
2. II Peter 3:10, Luke 12:39-40, I Thess 5:2,4, Revelation 16:15: All of these verses say that Christ's coming will be a surprise, very sudden, "like a thief in the night." Doesnt that imply something secret and sudden with no warning signs?
LUKE 21:34-35 describes those who will be surprised by Christ's coming. Only the wicked will be surprised. To them He will come like a "thief in the night." God's people will be expecting Jesus and will be ready.
REVELATION 3:3 "... if you will not watch, I will come upon you as a thief, and you will not know what hour I will come upon you."
II PETER 3:10 But the day of the Lord will come as a thief in the night, in the which the heavens shall pass away with a great noise, and the elements shall melt with fervent heat, the earth also and the works that are therein shall be burned up.
COMMENT: This coming will be sudden and will be a surprise to the majority, but it will definitely NOT be secret!
3. What other Bible verses describe the Second Coming of Jesus?
MATTHEW 24:27 "For as lightening cometh out the east and shineth even unto the west, so also shall the coming of the Son of Man be".
I CORINTHIANS 15:52 "for the trumpet shall sound, and the dead shall be raised..."
PSALM 50:3 "Our God shall come, and shall not keep silence,"
REVELATION 1:7 "... every eye shall see Him..."
MATTHEW 24:31 "...He shall send His angels with a great sound of a trumpet, and they shall gather together his elect from the four winds, from one end of heaven to the other,"
COMMENT: This doesnt sound very secret!!
4. Arent there verses that speak of one being taken and another left behind.?
MATTHEW 24:40-42 "Then shall two be in the field; the one shall be taken, and the other left." "Two women shall be grinding at the mill; the one shall be taken, and the other left." "Watch ye therefore: for ye know not what hour your Lord doth come." ( also Luke 17:26-37)
5. Didn't Jesus say that He would keep us "from the hour of temptation" that would come upon the whole world?"
REVELATION 3:10 Because you have kept My command to persevere, I also will keep you from the hour of trial which shall come upon the whole world, to test those who dwell on the earth
All parties agree that Jesus promised preservation. The question that divides us has to do with the nature of that protection. Yes. Jesus promised to keep us. But He keeps us by the power of His Spirit, not by removing us physically from the trial.
JOHN 17:15 Read Jesus prayer. "I do NOT pray that You should take them out of the world, but that You should keep them from the evil one." The Bible is full of stories of God's people who were sustained through times of trouble. Great believers like Daniel and his three friends, Queen Esther, Joseph, Job, Elijah, and Jeremiah. God did not remove them from the trial. They are examples for us in the last days to come.
6. Doesn't Paul say that some will go first and others follow?
I THESSALONIANS 4:16-17 For the Lord Himself will descend from heaven with a shout, with the voice of an archangel, and with the trump of God, And the dead in Christ will rise first. Then we who are alive and remain shall be caught up together with them, in the clouds, to meet the Lord in the air.
So the answer is yes!! But everything happens on the same day - the day that Christ returns.
If you have any questions or comments please post a comment or send me a message. God has called us to preach his Word and to spread the Good News to all the nations on this earth. So when the day of the Rapture comes dead or alive, we will be raised up to the heavens and join him in happiness for eternal life. There is only 1 way and 1 truth and his name is Jesus.