Featured A Secret Rapture? How Can It Be?

I have noticed a recent trend to add the word "secret" to the word rapture to make it pejorative.

There are several things that could make such an occurrence less noticeable.

1. It could occur at the same time 1.25 billion people die. (Rev 6:8)

2. The number of people who are really Christian could be a lot smaller than we think. Jesus asked that when the Son of man returned if He would find faith on the earth.

3. It could be explained away perhaps as that when the anti-Christ appears and may be heralded as both the Messiah and the 12th Iman bringing peace to the Mid East that those who disappeared were taken by him to serve him.

 

Or it could be secret like the Gospel is a secret. Not hidden in the normal sense, just not known or understood.

 

I think the idea of a secret rapture is that we will not see it coming, we will be caught unaware.

Now how about those being raptured being engaged in activities that should they be taken, calamity would ensue? Could God not arrange for them not be be so engaged. A little while before, they experience the on-set of say a head-ache such that someone else must "fly the plane or perform the surgery.

But, yes, the idea does present problems. What about all those families with believing parents, but have children below the age of accountability, such as in the womb?

As far as the timing of this catching away event, it appears to happen early in the Great Tribulation, i.e. before mid-trib folks think.

 

Bro. Greg, I agree with you.

I don't see how the rapture could possibly be kept "secret" unless this refers to Satan trying to keep it a secret by sending the delusion.

 

I think that's an interesting idea. It is possible that God can confuse people, or as has been pointed out earlier...send a great delusion. Whatever His plan it will have to be His acting in it because there are enough unbelievers that have heard of the rapture. Apart from God working I would say it its a statistical impossibility that no one would see the sudden and simultaneous disappearance of so many people around the world and not connect it to the rapture.


We already know it will be sudden and unexpected. Scripture tells us that.

I guess I don't really see any reason to add "secret" to it when we discuss it.

 

How about this?

Dateline Washington D.C.
The world's top social scientists are grappling with an answer as to why millions of people, mostly in North America and Europe, suddenly vanished. A common thread seems to be that they were all professing Christians. Some theologians that were consulted have used the phrase "fundamentalist", describing them as believing the Bible to be the very words of God and other archaic beliefs like marriage only between and a man and a woman, anti-abortion, anti-evolution, etc.

"I think it's possible that God was sickened by these people acting as a brake on the progress of Humankind to a better, higher plane of educated reason and enlightenment", opined Jeffrey Waltzer PhD, "and perhaps supernaturally caused them to wink out of existence. Dust to dust, if l could borrow a phrase of theirs. Now that we are free of these narrow minded hate-filled bigots we can go about our destiny of tapping into our own inner-deities and finally achieve the greatest good for Humankind. I suspect if we all pull together in one unified push we can solve all our problems such as hunger, economic disparities, elimination of war. Who know? We might even be able to save Mother Earth itself!"

 

The following is some information I prepared some months ago in teaching the Book of Revelation:

 

It is secret because God has not given some the grace to understand it. We shall pray for them.

 

There are none so blind as those who will not see the truth!

There is not a single verse of Scripture that teaches a pre-trib snatching of the Church from the earth. Jesus Christ tells us that the gates of hell shall not prevail against the Church, neither can dispensationalists!

 

Why thank you. I'm particularly pleased with the phrase, "all pull together in one unified push" as I think it captures liberal gobblety-gook speak fairly well.

 

Brother Gregg, you mentioned an end time rapture. How could it be end time, if the world goes on for seven more years(trib, then great trib) and then 1,000 years later, judgement? That's 1,007 more years of time after the church is raptured out. Please further elaborate.

 

It's not a secret to God's elect.

 

You were specifically asked not to participate via the op. Respect the wishes of those starting the thread. Prosyletize your stuff on your own thread. How extremely rude and Christ dishonoring!