Raptures In The Movies

[Olde Tymer]

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I've watched a number of films pertaining to the so-called Rapture and every one of
them left out the part where the remains of 2,000 years of deceased Christians
from all over the globe will be restored to life. (1Thess 4:14-17)

The films also left out the part where Jesus' followers rise into the air to meet him.
Instead the films showed them here one second and gone the next, but I rather
suspect the event should be easily observed all 'round the world if it proceeds as
described in 1Thess 4:13-17 because 2,000 years of deceased believers from all
over the globe added to the world's current believers, will likely construct a flash
mob resembling a mini Oort Cloud when they all levitate together at one time to
rendezvous with the Lord up in the sky.

The mob is likely to get pretty noisy too what with all the cheering, laughing, and
shouting that's sure to take place when Jesus' followers receive their new bodies;
which of course will be immune to death and the aging process. (1Cor 15:51-53)

* The "blink" element of the rapture pertains to the miraculous transformation that
Jesus' followers will undergo during the event. (1Cor 15:51-52)

The films also showed tiny children being taken while their parents are left behind.
That's highly doubtful because minors have often been collateral damage in the
Bible when God slammed their parents, e.g. zero children survived the Flood, and
120,00 would've been lost had God found it necessary to follow thru with His threat
to annihilate Nineveh. (Jonah 4:11)

One of the films depicted a Christian pastor left behind and to him it was no
mystery. He frankly admitted to being a career minister rather than a called
minister, i.e. he was a man of business rather than a man of faith. In real life, there
will likely be quite a few like him miss the cut because numbers of men coming out
of seminaries take up the cloth as a career rather because of a longing to be of use
to Christ.

I once heard a retired pastor say on radio that if the rapture were to occur
Saturday, quite a few churches would have no members missing Sunday morning.
That's a strong possibility as some card-carrying, church-attending Christians, are
so because it rounds out their week and it looks good on a social resumé.
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[dwight92070]

I agree with most of what you said. The one issue is children. I believe all children who have not reached the age of accountability, which is different for each child, will be raptured with the church, even those who died in the flood, or in Sodom and Gomorah, Nineveh, etc. Also, the dispensationalists believe in 2 raptures, a "secret" one, where we will just disappear, and nobody will even see the Lord except the church. Then seven years later, after the 7 year tribulation, also not Biblical, we will descend with the Lord in the clouds. Totally unBiblical. There's only one rapture, and every eye will see Him coming in flaming fire with His mighty angels, and every ear will hear Him descend in the clouds with a shout and the voice of the archangel and the trumpet of God, dealing out retribution to those who do not know God and don't obey Jesus. 1 Thess. 4:15-17 and 2 Thess.1:6-10 And ALL the dead will be resurrected, believers to life and meeting Him in the clouds, nonbelievers to judgment. John 5:28-29 All eyes will see the resurrection of billions of dead people, and if we have died, we will be part of that. And for those who are alive when He comes, we will not just disappear, but we will rise and meet Him in the clouds. The Bible never speaks of people just disappearing.

 

[Olde Tymer]

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I must be slow-witted because I realized only just this day that everybody unified
with Christ will be in the rapture, nobody among his own are going to miss it.

Those still alive at the time won't be taken up as early birds. No, the living will
have to wait till the deceased are restored to life first and then all together take
the elevator in unison, i.e. at the same time-- none will go ahead and none will fall
behind.

Just about everybody in the modern world knows there's such a thing as the rapture,
but does everybody in the modern world know why there's a rapture at all? Well, it's
basically an evacuation.

For example Rev 16:17-18 predicts a global earthquake so powerful on the Richter
scale that cities all over the world will collapse at once.

Something like 2,829 lost their lives when the World Trade Center was demolished
by a terrorist attack in 2001. Well that was only a few acres of New York City. Just
imagine the body count when all of Manhattan comes down at once. along with
other major cities like Los Angeles, San Francisco, Mexico City, Paris, Moscow,
Beijing, Tokyo, et al. The carnage will be beyond belief; and that's just one of the
many life-threatening events set to take place.
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[Bob Carabbio]

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I've watched a number of films pertaining to the so-called Rapture

My personal expectation is that there will be a simultaneous world-wide instant DEATH of billions of people of all ages and races.

And the vast majority of those still alive will be that a sudden unknown "plague" that wiped out the mass of people, and the "Rapture" won't even occur to very many people. Governments will look for causes, and the media talking head will have a field day - but they won't really have a CLUE what happened.

 

[TedT]

Saturday, quite a few churches would have no members missing Sunday morning.
That's a strong possibility as some card-carrying, church-attending Christians, are
so because it rounds out their week and it looks good on a social resumé.

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