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randyk replied to the thread Matthew 24:40 Is the rapture secret?.It's fine to do a word study. But the critical element is context. No context for a Rapture of the Church to heaven in this particular... -
randyk replied to the thread Matthew 24:40 Is the rapture secret?.This isn't personal for me. I'm speaking of the truth. I wouldn't call the historic Church's eschatology "error* and then call your own...
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randyk replied to the thread Matthew 24:40 Is the rapture secret?.The principle of "taken and left" are in both past and future judgments. Each time many are killed or exiled, and others are left as...
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randyk replied to the thread Matthew 24:40 Is the rapture secret?.That is patently false. Postrib is the traditional rendering of the Church, far, far before there was any such thing as Pretribulationism!
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randyk replied to the thread Matthew 24:40 Is the rapture secret?.We return from heaven with Christ. The point is, we are not "traveling" up to heaven. We are snatched abruptly and instantly, and we are...
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randyk replied to the thread Matthew 24:40 Is the rapture secret?.Both the "taken" and the "left" are Jews who are being judged for rejecting Christ and remaining in Jerusalem to defy Rome. Some are...
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randyk replied to the thread Matthew 24:40 Is the rapture secret?.You may not wish to ask the question, but I do: Does Revelation depict the entire earth as perishing, or just 1/4 or 1/3? And I would...
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randyk replied to the thread Matthew 24:40 Is the rapture secret?.My point was that this was not to be characterized as a time consuming journey. That is how "U Turn" would be used, as if you went on a...
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randyk replied to the thread Matthew 24:40 Is the rapture secret?.As I said, a near timeless upward movement is hardly travel as in a "U Turn." Your characterization is wrong-headed, in my opinion.
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randyk replied to the thread Matthew 24:40 Is the rapture secret?.The Antichrist does *not* kill all on earth who refuse the mark. He kills all who in his presence refuse to take the mark. The...
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randyk replied to the thread Matthew 24:40 Is the rapture secret?.Your characterization of it as a "U Turn" is a joke. The Bible depicts Christ's coming as a coming to earth, a revelatioin to the entire...
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randyk replied to the thread Matthew 24:40 Is the rapture secret?.Sorry, I think when Jesus' Return is depicted like lightning, it is taking on the various characteristics of lightning, which involves...
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randyk replied to the thread Matthew 24:40 Is the rapture secret?.GaryA said: "No - we do not know that Christ will "return like lightning"..." Matt 24.27 For as lightning that comes from the east is...
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randyk replied to the thread Matthew 24:40 Is the rapture secret?.Hey Gary, I thought you were going to give me an enormous Pretrib outline--we've all seen Prophetic Calendars in exquisite detail! ;)...
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randyk replied to the thread Matthew 24:40 Is the rapture secret?.I've forgotten how we even got into this conversation? ;) Great!!