"THAT" would be the BEST CHRISTMAS PRESENT EVER!!!! AMEN!!!
"HE will appear a second time to those who are 'looking' for HIS appearing."
Are YOU looking, or will YOU be left behind??? And yes....He IS coming very soon for His "bride". And NO, there is "NO" scripture that denies the "Trinity"....God bless. \o/
You have been drinking the Tim LaHaye Kool Aide too much. Tim LaHaye has made a fortune on this fairy tale.
There is no passage in the Bible that teaches any of these Pre-Trib Ideas:
A return of Christ BEFORE the Tribulation
Christ returning twice
Christ doing a u-turn and taking those he's caught up or gathered to heaven
Anyone who is caught up or gathered receiving glorified bodies
All of the above is pieced together using scripture taken out of context and combined with other passages that are unrelated. The main rapture passage is totally taken out of context. Here it is in context!!
13 But I do not want you to be ignorant, brethren, concerning those who have fallen asleep, lest you sorrow as others who have no hope. 14 For if we believe that Jesus died and rose again, even so God will bring with Him those who sleep in Jesus. 15 For this we say to you by the word of the Lord, that we who are alive and remain until the coming of the Lord will by no means precede those who are asleep. 16 For the Lord Himself will descend from heaven with a shout, with the voice of an archangel, and with the trumpet of God. And the dead in Christ will rise first. 17 Then we who are alive and remain shall be caught up together with them in the clouds to meet the Lord in the air. And thus we shall always be with the Lord. 18 Therefore comfort one another with these words. 1 But concerning the times and the seasons, brethren, you have no need that I should write to you. 2 For you yourselves know perfectly that the
Day of the Lord so comes as a thief in the night. 3 For when they say, "Peace and safety!" then sudden destruction comes upon them, as labor pains upon a pregnant woman. And they shall not escape. 4 But you, brethren, are not in darkness, so that this Day should overtake you as a thief. 5 You are all sons of light and sons of the day. We are not of the night nor of darkness. 6 Therefore let us not sleep, as others do, but let us watch and be sober.
The above 1 Thes 4-5 passage clearly identifies this return as the Day of the Lord which is AKA the Second Coming, not some made up Rapture doctrine which didn't even exist until 1830. Rapture teaches, PEACE and SAFETY. What happens to those who think PEACE and SAFETY??
Paul goes on to say in 2 Thes 1:
6 since it is a righteous thing with God to repay with tribulation those who trouble you, 7 and to give you who are troubled
rest with us when the Lord Jesus is revealed from heaven with His mighty angels, 8 in flaming fire taking vengeance on those who do not know God, and on those who do not obey the gospel of our Lord Jesus Christ. 9 These shall be punished with everlasting destruction from the presence of the Lord and from the glory of His power, 10 when He comes, in that Day, to be glorified in His saints and to be admired among all those who believe, because our testimony among you was believed.
If there was a Rapture, we'd be given rest BEFORE the Lord is revealed from heaven with his mighty angels. The timing is always AFTER the tribulation and NEVER before!!