Voice From the Womb
True Christians have been suffering, many violently, since the church was born, beginning with the martyrdom of Stephen.
All the Apostles have died violent deaths except for John, who was exiled on an island.
Christians were subject to barbaric torture for the entertainment of pagans for hundreds of years.
Ancient Christian communities were destroyed with the rise of Islam
Millions of Christians perished during the spread of Marxist Atheism, the Great Red Dragon, from Russia to the Iron Curtain, China, and many other nations.
The idea of escaping persecution, torture and death is appealing, so many have embraced the idea of the Rapture. It would be a grand strategic satanic move to fool all those who hope for such a delivery, only for them to find out that the delivery never happened when the going gets really rough; the temptation to fall into despair and anger would be strong.
- Good News! We may already be in a mitigated, endurable version of the Tribulation so the Rapture that you missed was not really needed. What is needed are your prayers, fasting, and suffering as God asks of you.
Should I Believe in the Rapture?
Most scholars agree that the secret Rapture theory was launched into prominence around 1830 by a group of people in Scotland who had become known as the Plymouth Brethren. Under the direction of John Nelson Darby (1800-1882) and others, they began to hold Prophetic Conferences. Supposedly, during one of those conferences, or from a sick bed during those conferences, a charismatic utterance came forth as a prophetic message from the Lord through a young, fifteen-year-old Scottish girl named Margaret Macdonald. While in a trance, she received a private vision and revelation that only a select group of believers would be removed from the earth before the days of the Antichrist. But she also saw other believers enduring the tribulation - something most rapturists nowadays do not teach.
(Prophecy Reformation Institute, Invention of the Rapture Idea)
Why Would Some Christians Get A "Free Pass"?
"I tell you, in that night there will be two men in one bed, one will be taken and the other left. There will be two women grinding together; one will be taken, the other left." And they said to him, "Where, Lord?" He said to them, "Where the corpses are, there the vultures will gather." (Luke 17:34-37)
"He who sows the good seed is the Son of man; the field is the world, and the good seed means the sons of the kingdom; the weeds are the sons of the evil one, and the enemy who sowed them is the devil; the harvest is the close of the age, and the reapers are angels. Just as the weeds are gathered and burned with fire, so will it be at the end of the age. The Son of man will send his angels, and they will gather out of his kingdom all causes of sin and all evildoers, and throw them into the furnace of fire; there men will weep and gnash their teeth. Then the righteous will shine like the sun in the kingdom of their Father. He who has ears, let him hear". (Matt 13:37-43)
Rapture-removal is not the Historic Teaching of the Church
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