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God isn't going to do something with/to His Church that He doesn't have His Son Jesus Christ pray about. Christ didn't pray to take His Church out of the world; therefore, His Church will not be taken out of the world before the Second Coming of Christ. The pre-tribulation rapture disagrees with the prayer of Christ in John 17:15, and prays to be taken out of the world because of the coming of the evil one, the antichrist. Christ said, "I do not pray that You should take them out of the world, but that You should keep them from the evil one." Christ's sovereign will will be done on earth as it is in heaven. During the future apostasy, the Church will be delivered from the evil one. The Church will not be taken off the earth 7 years before the second coming. Take care. In Erie PA Scott R. Harrington
You are contradicting your self. If he prayed not to take the church out, then the rapture cannot happen.....UNLESS His prayer was only meant for the church age. And of course it was. We are only arguing about 7 years of time. It this case, the "evil one" is speaking of Satan - not the man of sin.
The truth is, Jesus DID pray that prayer, but it was not meant for all time, only for a LIMITED time.
Paul is the ONLY writer of the New Testament that had a revelation of the rapture of the church. And Paul DISAGREES with you as to the timing. He makes it clear in 1 Thes. 5 that the rapture comes BEFORE the Day of the Lord. "They" get the sudden destruction of the day of the Lord, while we and us get "salvation" and get to live with the Lord,via the rapture. We don't get the sudden destruction because WE ARE NOT HERE.
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