All totally unimportant.
We are, after all, talking "Eschatology" which is nothing more that a "religious term" for "Rank speculation" about which we know NOTHING
Luke 19:13 says to "Occupy till I come". That's what I intend to do - not giving a second though about a "Catching away" (which will have to HURRY UP if I'm to be still alive at the time). Otherwise, I'll find myself in Heaven because I croaked naturally, and have a good laugh about all the silly "theology" I'd bothered with in physical life.
Could be there'll be a "trumpet sound", and the folks that "invented" the rapture doctrines will be proven to have heard GOD'S WORD about the issue. The ones that were convinced that it was all garbage will be proven wrong, but "get to go" anyway if they're born again.
It's all just "Theology" after all, and has nothing to do with how we live out our lives.
The Assemblies of God used to threaten us regularly with the "Rapture" because if we had "Unconfessed SIN in our lives", we "wouldn't get to go", and have to go through the "tribulation" (first 3.5 years are O.K., but the second 3.5 years will be rough).
Folks in the '70s used to sell "Tribulation food" - 3.5, or 7 years supply of dehydrated provisions. if you were a "Mid-tribber" you only had to buy 3.5 years - BUT in case your "Eschatology" was WRONG you should probably buy 7 years instead!!!
What they didn't include was the shotgun to blow away your starving Christian neighbors, when they tried to get your food.
But more importantly, It's lunch time.
We are, after all, talking "Eschatology" which is nothing more that a "religious term" for "Rank speculation" about which we know NOTHING
Luke 19:13 says to "Occupy till I come". That's what I intend to do - not giving a second though about a "Catching away" (which will have to HURRY UP if I'm to be still alive at the time). Otherwise, I'll find myself in Heaven because I croaked naturally, and have a good laugh about all the silly "theology" I'd bothered with in physical life.
Could be there'll be a "trumpet sound", and the folks that "invented" the rapture doctrines will be proven to have heard GOD'S WORD about the issue. The ones that were convinced that it was all garbage will be proven wrong, but "get to go" anyway if they're born again.
It's all just "Theology" after all, and has nothing to do with how we live out our lives.
The Assemblies of God used to threaten us regularly with the "Rapture" because if we had "Unconfessed SIN in our lives", we "wouldn't get to go", and have to go through the "tribulation" (first 3.5 years are O.K., but the second 3.5 years will be rough).
Folks in the '70s used to sell "Tribulation food" - 3.5, or 7 years supply of dehydrated provisions. if you were a "Mid-tribber" you only had to buy 3.5 years - BUT in case your "Eschatology" was WRONG you should probably buy 7 years instead!!!
What they didn't include was the shotgun to blow away your starving Christian neighbors, when they tried to get your food.
But more importantly, It's lunch time.