My B-I-L recently called me and was all a twitter about the coming rapture, end times...according to some guy at Rapture Ready (yeah I know) that he's been listening to. The guy thinks this because its the Year of Jubilee, Shemita year and has the Feast of Trumpets (Roshashanna). Therefore, he believes it's coming sometime between July and October(?) of this year. I doubt anyone is insterested in listening to these hour + long but if you are here's the link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MaRR6rPy9HM
As most of you know, I'm not a futurist, I lean Preterist/Amillinial mostly. So, it was when I was doing my daily reading that I came to the following passage, and remembering the discussion with my B-I-L, I was thinking about the "coming rapture". I was thinking, here they were 2000 years ago, writing to Paul asking if they had missed the Rapture...then...something occured to me. If this is talking about the rapture of the Church...why did the Thessalonians write to Paul asking him if they had missed it? If Paul was taken in the rapture, why would the Thessalonians think he would still be here to answer the letter?
So, what do you think this passage is about? Is it about a rapture? Or maybe its about the start of the Tribulation? If it's about the start of the Tribulation, what does "our being gathering together to him" mean...and why did the Thessalonians think they missed it?
As most of you know, I'm not a futurist, I lean Preterist/Amillinial mostly. So, it was when I was doing my daily reading that I came to the following passage, and remembering the discussion with my B-I-L, I was thinking about the "coming rapture". I was thinking, here they were 2000 years ago, writing to Paul asking if they had missed the Rapture...then...something occured to me. If this is talking about the rapture of the Church...why did the Thessalonians write to Paul asking him if they had missed it? If Paul was taken in the rapture, why would the Thessalonians think he would still be here to answer the letter?
So, what do you think this passage is about? Is it about a rapture? Or maybe its about the start of the Tribulation? If it's about the start of the Tribulation, what does "our being gathering together to him" mean...and why did the Thessalonians think they missed it?
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