You can stay (or be left) behind and "tribulate" if that is what you believe: I think God will honor your faith. However, the vast majority of the church are going to be found worthy to take God's escape plan and escape from God's wrath poured out on the earth. We can get together during the Millennial reign and talk over how each plan worked out. I agree with you here - no sense arguing about it.
“And ye shall be hated of all men for my name's sake: but he that endureth to the end shall be saved.”
Matthew 10:22 KJV
“Confirming the souls of the disciples, and exhorting them to continue in the faith, and that we must through much tribulation enter into the kingdom of God.”
Acts 14:22 KJV
“But rejoice, inasmuch as ye are partakers of Christ's sufferings; that, when his glory shall be revealed, ye may be glad also with exceeding joy.”
1 Peter 4:13 KJV
yeah the escape plan is pretty basic but it doesn’t mean your gonna be magically removed from the world that Christians are told to go through and follow Jesus rather than sin that’s every Christians journey to stick with Jesus till you die so you can escape death and go home to life
This is the only escape we have
“And he said unto them, Go ye into all the world, and preach the gospel to every creature. He that believeth and is baptized shall be saved;
but he that believeth not shall be damned.”
Mark 16:15-16 KJV
Pretty basic stuff and the final generation whoever is left ive of the church the last day when Jesus returns will then be “ caught up with him “
“For the Lord himself shall descend from heaven with a shout, with the voice of the archangel, and with the trump of God: and the dead in Christ shall rise first:
Then we which are alive and remain shall be caught up together with them in the clouds, to meet the Lord in the air: and so shall we ever be with the Lord.”
1 Thessalonians 4:16-17 KJV
I’m not sure the benefit of imagining a rapture from the world but I do know we have to accept the gospel and persevere in faith as we go through the world
honestly I’ve never understood the idea like a space ship is gonna zoom Christians up at some point ? Or what’s the idea of a rapture ? Wouldnt or couldn’t it only apply to the final generation of Christians ? Or have people been getting magically raptured all along ?
or is it just some super Christians ? Has it already happened ? When will it ? Like there isn’t tribulation on earth right now ? Christians suffer daily don’t they even are killed in many countries
how come to y aren’t being raptured from all Thier tribulation and suffering I wonder ? What do we expect the tribulation to be ?