YES! Thank you. THAT is the prime motivator behind my having created this thread.
The politicians will need something toward which to direct the gaze of the sheeple masses around the globe as to the disappearance of at least enough people that it can't be ignored.
The rapture movies, in my estimation, far over-exaggerate the amount of chaos that will ensue upon the earth with the disappearance of some, with the majority still left behind.
My observations at this time are that not very many have among professing believers have truly placed their faith in the gospel that actually saves. The works-based "gospels" out there will not save anyone, but the majority left behind will perhaps learn that the hard way once they look around and realize they're still here, and understand why. The rest of humanity will continue on in their bubble-headed indifference go Christ...for a time...
Last time I checked, even the Vatican religion promotes the teaching amongst its followers that they will all be here during the tribulation...as if the tribulation was meant for ALL of humanity regardless of Paul's declaration that we are not reserved unto wrath.
One last tidbit about this latter point is that just as many people will die in the first half of the tribulation as will die the second half. This is a major counter-point to the labeling if which half is genuinely God's wrath. It's ALL His wrath, with the greater measure of His wrath, never before seen on this earth, poured out in the second half. Granted, but the analysis by some, such as Steven Anderson down in Texas, no. They are simply wrong given the lingual idioms and grammatical constructs of the root language.
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