To suggest a rapture is to reject Christ. He directly taught that He comes after the tribulation... Matt 24:29-31. To teach the opposite and suggest that He comes prior is to teach the opposite of Christ. To teach the opposite of Christ is to be antichrist... John tells us that they come from within the church...1 John 2:18,19. We must believe Jesus to be saved. Paul directly called the event 'The Resurrection of the dead'... 1 Cor 15;42-55, which is what he didn't want us ignorant about in 1 Thess 4:13-18. When Paul declares that he is revealing a mystery in verse 50,51, that mystery is how people are changed at the event he directly called "the resurrection of the dead". The terms "rapture" and 'second coming" do not exist in Scripture but were created to divide the "resurrection of the dead" into multiple events. The resurrection of the dead is not some new event revealed by Paul, but declared as early as Job 14:12... where we are told that it occurs when the heavens are destroyed. Jesus references Job in Matt 24;35-43, Mark 13:31,32 and tells us that the heavens will be destroyed and of THAT DAY, no man knows the day or the hour. Peter refers to Christ and tells us that Jesus comes like a thief in the night when the heavens are destroyed with a great noise...2 Peter 3:10. Those martyred for not taking the mark are resurrected at the FIRST resurrection... Rev 20:4-6. These passages destroy the notion of a rapture. Every argument for a rapture is birthed n deception
Amen
To suggest a rapture is to reject Christ. He directly taught that He comes after the tribulation... Matt 24:29-31. To teach the opposite and suggest that He comes prior is to teach the opposite of Christ. To teach the opposite of Christ is to be antichrist... John tells us that they come from within the church...1 John 2:18,19. We must believe Jesus to be saved.
Paul directly called the event 'The Resurrection of the dead'... 1 Cor 15;42-55, which is what he didn't want us ignorant about in 1 Thess 4:13-18. When Paul declares that he is revealing a mystery in verse 50,51, that mystery is how people are changed at the event he directly called "the resurrection of the dead". The terms "rapture" and 'second coming" do not exist in Scripture but were created to divide the "resurrection of the dead" into multiple events.
The resurrection of the dead is not some new event revealed by Paul, but declared as early as Job 14:12... where we are told that it occurs when the heavens are destroyed. Jesus references Job in Matt 24;35-43, Mark 13:31,32 and tells us that the heavens will be destroyed and of THAT DAY, no man knows the day or the hour. Peter refers to Christ and tells us that Jesus comes like a thief in the night when the heavens are destroyed with a great noise...2 Peter 3:10. Those martyred for not taking the mark are resurrected at the FIRST resurrection... Rev 20:4-6. These passages destroy the notion of a rapture. Every argument for a rapture is birthed n deception
Amen