The Rapture

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The Rapture has inspired a whole series of fictional books called the “Left Behind” series. In it, the saved are “raptured” into heaven, while the unsaved are left behind to fend for themselves on earth. The rapture is a mysterious disappearance of people, who leave their clothes here on earth. Cars which were driven by the saved are left unmanned. The folks left behind are in a quandary as to what happened. A great tribulation then comes upon the earth, and the anti-christ makes his appearance. The ones left behind then get a second chance at salvation, if they can withstand the forces of the world-uniting anti-christ. Then Jesus returns again to defeat the antichrist.

None of this, except for the overall premise of a rapture is biblical. Why? Well for starters, the Bible says in Revelation 1:7:

Behold, he is coming with the clouds, and every eye will see him, every one who pierced him; and all tribes of the earth will wail on account of him. Even so. Amen.

In the Left Behind series, no eye sees Jesus. Everyone left behind

catholicbible101.com/therapture.htm
 
Oh, yes, the old rapture line. I grew up Baptist, so I was fed this stuff as if it were gospel truth. The hodge-podge different scripture together to get at their little theory. I believe that the pre-trib doctrine started in the middle of the 19th century. That is, all true believers will be taken out and not have to suffer through the tribulation. Part of that thinking is that, since Christians won’t suffer “God’s wrath,” then it means we won’t go through that.

But Christ never promised that we won’t suffer. But, as you said, all will see Christ return. There will be no doubt in anyone’s mind about what happened.
 
It’s hard to imagine how the authors of the Left Behind Books, who claim to be bible Christians, could have gotten the sequence of events so wrong. The Rapture will happen on the last day of earth, after the dead are raised, and after the Tribulation. It’s all in the Bible !
 
I also used to be a Southern Baptist, and I was a huge supporter of the pre-trib rapture theory. It took me a little time after I became Catholic to establish a particular position on End Times, but once I started to do some serious research on End Times as a Catholic I found Carl Olsen’s book “Will Catholics Be Left Behind” to be a tremendous help, he had a very similar background as I did and he really did his homework putting that book together.
 
How true it is that so many people have been brainwashed to think that what they read in the Left Behind books, or see on the big screen, is biblical.
 
What can you really expect considering that the author is a friend of, and has been on the payroll of Sun Myung Moon…

From Here: seekgod.ca/cnp.l.htm

*Moonie Connections: "LaHaye held the position of paid chairman with Sun Myung Moon’s 7 now defunct Coalition for Religious Freedom (CRF). (Moon is the founder of the Unification Church, 8 and is the self-proclaimed Messiah to the world. He teaches the particularly vile heresy that not only did Jesus fail in His earthly ministry, but that He had sex with the women who followed Him.) (Reported in the November 1990 Omega-Letter and the 1Q96, Religion in Politics.)

Coalition for Religious Freedom [CRF] 9 : Started by Rep. George Hansen in 1984. CRF Executive committee members have included Tim LaHaye , Jerry Falwell, James Robison; Rex Humbard, D. James Kennedy, and Jimmy Swaggart. “…According to CRF president Dan Sills, [CRF] has received at least $500,000 from Moon sources. A prominent CRF spokesperson and executive committee member is Joseph Paige…Paige received $60,000 from the Unification Church for his school, which in turn gave Moon a much publicized honorary doctorate. Paige is also active in CAUSA.” [1986] “the Moon organization opened an international front in its 'religious freedom” campaign. According to Moon’s New York City Tribune , the World Council on Religious Liberty (WCRL) was founded in December 1986…The Chairman of WCRL is Joseph Paige, and its " Chairman of the North American Caucus is Don Sills. They have recruited Dr. Robert G. Muller, assistant Secretary general of the United Nations as chairman of the Council’s International Advisory Committee. The Council’s headquarters are in Raleigh, North Carolina, which is also home to Paige’s Shaw Divinity School." 10. *

More on LaHaye:

au.org/site/News2?page=NewsArticle&id=5601&news_iv_ctrl=0&abbr=cs_

Some very interesting reading regarding Moon and LaHaye with links to further documentation…

Ahhhh, money, religion and politics makes strange bedfellows…:eek:
 
Wow- No wonder it’s all mixed up on the timeline…Moon isn’t even a Christian.
 
Rapture: End Times Error that Leaves the Bible Behind by David B. Currie is a great resource.
 
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