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Why is the recent rapture idea growing among Christians when it does not agree with the Scripture?
Lilwolf53
Many religions adapt and change as time progresses and other times it is simply a matter of trying to understand and comprehend things we might not fully understand.
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In a study of the hundreds of modern professing Christianity's denominations... an honest appraisal will reveal that very few of them know what The Bible really says. Most people among these millions have never even read the Bible, much less, studied it.
So, it's really not too surprising to discover most of the doctrines modern professing Christians "believe" aren't biblical... but stem from one or two "proof-texts" that each denomination has picked out of the Bible and expanded upon for their own denominational purposes and agendas.
The belief of modern Christianity, for instance [as well as so many other false religions in the world], that when we die, "we don't really die," but live on in some other form in some other place... is not a biblical teaching, but fantasy straight out of Dante's "Divine Comedy" [which was adopted by the modern apostate churches into their beliefs and doctrines]. But it lends itself well to the "Rapture" doctrine; all of which denies the existence of death [as Satan taught mankind in the beginning, when he said, "You won't die" - Gen.3:4]
Let's face it... life is a struggle. Not too many people are crazy about life's pain and suffering, and most of us would rather avoid it if possible. Even Jesus Christ prayed to His Father to come up with some other way to save mankind, other than through His own terrifying, painful, brutal murder by the very ones they were trying to save. Although, thankfully, He gave in to His Father's will and did it, anyway.
"...My Father! If it is possible, let this cup of suffering be taken away from Me. Yet I want Your Will, not Mine." (Matt.26:39 NLT New Living Translation)
Flesh and blood mankind lives in fear and terror... the same fear and terror that Jesus Christ had to overcome:
"While Jesus was here on earth, He offered up prayers and pleadings, with loud cries and tears, to the One who could deliver Him out of death. And God heard His prayers because of His reverence for God. So even though Jesus was God's Son, He learned obedience from the things He suffered." (Heb.5:7-8 NLT)
But, mankind doesn't have the "reverence for God" that Jesus has... nor the Faith obey nor to bow to God's will.
Enter: the Rapture Doctrine -- a NO PAIN "escapist doctrine" of the joy and ecstasy of being transported off the earth "prior to the prophesied Great Tribulation" [one aspect of the doctrine; with others believing the transport occurs AFTER... while some believe it also occurs DURING the Great Tribulation -- with a veritable "shuttle service from earth to heaven" seemingly coming into play before everyone is done discussing their ideas about it].
The Rapture theory is a satanic takeoff on the prophecies regarding "Jesus' return to establish the Kingdom of God on earth." Only, the belief among deceived men is that Christ doesn't make it "all the way" back to earth... but takes a "near-miss trajectory," swoops up His saints off the earth, and then does a one-eighty back up to heaven with them all in tow... where they all live happily ever after; each in rapturous delight over their idea of "Christian Retirement," like, reclining forever on their own cloud playing a harp.
Nevertheless... the Rapture Doctrine of "Divine Escape" from the pain and suffering here on earth is not an unpleasant thought to the many people who believe it. In fact, it's quite appealing... except for the fact that it's a lie.
Then, there's the fact that much of modern professing Christianity ISN'T CHRISTIAN at all... but just one more false religion the god of this world has created in the hearts and minds of deceived men. False Christianity is the first warning Jesus gave to His disciples, regarding the time of the end:
"...'Don't let anyone mislead you. For many will come in My name, saying, I am the Messiah. They will lead many astray." (Matt.24:4-5 NLT)
In other words... the True servants of God [True Christians, who "continue in God's Word" - John 8:31-32... who read, study, know, understand, obey and live God's Word] aren't deceived by the Rapture Doctrine [idea]. The "Rapture Idea" is growing among a vast number of deceived people who think they are Christ's... but really aren't.
In the end, it will be those who believe they won't be on earth during the Great Tribulation... who believe they will be Raptured away, safely, to heaven... and who find themselves in the middle of it with everyone else on earth - whom Jesus is talking about, when the Great Tribulation begins. They will feel "betrayed" by their unfulfilled beliefs... by the lies they'd been fed by their trusted pastors and priests:
"And many will turn away from Me and betray and hate each other. And many false prophets will appear and will lead many people astray. Sin will be rampant everywhere, and the love of many will grow cold." (Matt.24:10-12 NLT)
The Rapture Idea grows among modern professing Christians in the world in spite of the Truth of the Bible [which they neither know nor understand]... because the god of this world, to whom man gave himself over to in bondage to sin in the Garden of Eden, is not done, yet, deceiving the world. He hasn't yet brought the world to the onset of the Great Tribulation.
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A:No. I can be quite certain of that. The Tribulation is a theological invention of John Nelson Darby, founder of the Plymouth Brethren, in the nineteenth-century. The idea of a 'Tribulation' has evolved over a period of nearly two hundred years, but is still essentially the same as originally proposed by Darby, with one significant change that, whereas Darby opted of a pre-tribulation Rapture, some more recent proponents have opted to delay the Rapture to mid-tribulation or even post-tribulation. So, in Darby's original scheme, only non-Christians will be affected by the Tribulation, whereas in some later versions of his theology, everyone alive will be affected..Barbara R. Rossing (The Rapture Exposed) says that Darby's new teaching was that Christ would return twice, first in secret to "Rapture" Christians out of the world and up to heaven, then a second time after seven years of global tribulation for non-believers, to establish a Jerusalem-based kingdom on earth. Rossing says that according to one critic, the Rapture has its origins with a young girl's vision. In 1830, in Port Glasgow, Scotland, fifteen-year-old Margaret MacDonald attended a healing service. There, she was said to have seen a vision of a two-stage return of Jesus Christ. The story of her vision was adopted and amplified by Darby.There is no good reason to believe there will ever be a Rapture or a related period of tribulation, nor that the events portrayed by Darby will ever occur. John Nelson Darby has sunk into obscurity, apart from his followers in the Plymouth Brethren, and so should his theology.
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