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 |  موضوع: Rapture issue الجمعة يونيو 21, 2013 10:50 am | |
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There are very few, if any, issues on which the whole Church agrees, but there are a handful of debates within the Body of Christ that elicit great emotional reactions and over-reactions. The teaching of a “rapture” of the Body of Christ prior to His Second Coming is one such issue. That is to say, the subject often cannot even be discussed because just the mere mention of the word in the presence of many results in a total emotional and or intellectual shutdown. Both Jesus and Paul experienced similar reactions to a mere word. In the Gospels and the Book of Acts, both Jesus and Paul are almost stoned for merely mentioning the word “Gentile” to their Jewish audience. In both cases, they lost the ear of their audience immediately. In the Church today, there are many who react to terms like “dispensation,” “dispensational truth,” and “rapture” in precisely the same way. The mere mention of the words causes them to be unable to hear anything else the speaker may have to say (see Luke 4:24-29 and Acts 22:21,22). Of the four main varieties of Christians the Bible prophecies will exist at the end of the age (Catholic, Protestant-Reformed, Fundamental-Dispensationalist, and Charismatic) the traditional teaching of a pre-trib rapture is associated with Fundamentalists, and Fundamentalists are generally described as having “no use” for the Holy Spirit and no desire to be “touched” by God in the here and now. The Catholic and Protestant church are and always have been amillennial in their eschatology, so the issue of the Rapture is moot with them. Charismatics ostensibly profess in a coming 1,000 year kingdom, but for the most part are not anxious to discuss real-world scenarios concerning how this is to come about. Therefore, discussions of “timing” are generally dismissed as being childish. That leaves only a small remnant of professing Christianity that still believes in an event popularly termed the Rapture of the Saints. At the risk that many readers will give us audience to that word, we would like to step back from all the emotion that seems to have been generated by this question and take a look at the reasonableness of various teachings regarding the Lord taking His own out of the world prior to the great judgments that will fall from Heaven to the earth. | |
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| | موضوع: رد: Rapture issue الأربعاء يوليو 17, 2013 2:57 pm | |
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