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Anonymous asked in Society & CultureReligion & Spirituality · 1 decade ago

Which best describes your "end of days" view and why?

A. Pretribulationists believe that all Christians then alive will be taken bodily up to Heaven (Rapture) before the Tribulation begins. Those who become Christians after the Rapture will live through (or perish during) the Tribulation. After the Tribulation, Christ will return.

B. Prewrath tribulationists believe the Rapture will occur during the tribulation, but before the seven bowls of the wrath of God.

C. Seventh Trumpet Tribulationists believe the rapture will occur during the tribulation, but before the seven bowls of the wrath of God. Specifically, at the sound of the Seventh Trumpet (Rev. 11:15) of the Seventh Seal.

D. Midtribulationists believe that the Rapture will occur halfway through the Tribulation, but before the worst part of it occurs. The seven year period is divided into half - the "beginning of sorrows" and the "great tribulation" proper.

E. Posttribulationists believe that Christians will not be taken up into Heaven. But, they will be received or gathered by Christ into the Kingdom of God on earth at the end of the Tribulation. (Matthew 24:29–31)

Update:

Oops I forgot the non-Christians again!

F. None of the above. It is a scare tactic to get more converts.

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  • Anonymous
    1 decade ago
    Favorite Answer

    i lean to view E...

    why?

    becuase of the verse that says the beast will be allowed to make war

    upon the saints...if that isn't tribulation what would be? so we will

    be here during the tribulation.

    that said...it would be nice if God did "rapture " us before all the bad comes down on us all...

  • 1 decade ago

    I am more inclined to proposition E. Christ will rule from Jerusalem over a world wide divine political kingdom after the resurrection and judgement of those people who will be judged worthy of an entrance. Christ clearly told his Brethren and Sisters that he would return in exactly the way they saw him ascend into heaven. Acts 1 verse 11. The "Rapture' is an invention of the "Evangelicalists" Who mistakenly use 1 Thessalonians 4;16 and 17 to support this view "...Then we that are alive and remain, shall be caught up together with them in the clouds to meet the Lord in the air" There is no mention of them ever going to Heaven. The Greek phrase "Caught up" actually means "Caught away". The same word occrs in Acts 8; 39 " The Spirit of the Lord Caught away Phillip"

    This piece in 1 Thess actually refers to the calling away for Judgement.

    Source(s): The New Testament of the Bible
  • What?
    Lv 5
    1 decade ago

    E...Israel went through a type of Tribulation so that God could see their hearts and refine them, what makes us any more special than them? I feel the Tribulation is a way of taking the gunk out and refining us to be pure followers of Him, trusting Him in every move we make...plus Jesus said that the end (when He comes) would be as in the days of Noah, one will be taken, the other left...who was taken in Noah's time? The bad people..Who stayed on earth? Noah and his family...

    :)

    Source(s): Bible
  • 1 decade ago

    HAS THE LORD RAPTURED YOU FROM THESE DEATHS? NO ! NO ! NO !

    STOP BEING SELF RIGHTEOUS

    People weren't raptured and 19889333 million people have been slaughtered please give it up, for the Love of God

    And we have seen WW 1 WW2, the millions that get slaughtered every year in Africa, civil wars, local wars, 100 million died in Euro-Russia last 100 years, famines and earthquakes happen and still no rapture Aids and diseases kill millions and still no rapture black plaques virus's STD'S and death happens all the time why don't you people notice this?/??????????????/

    1930's Hung He River over 4,000,000 people were slaughtered and there was no rapture

    2004 225,000 people were slaughtered by Tsunami and still there was no rapture

    1938-1945 was 7 years of tribulation for the Jews and 144,000 Japanese vanished in 1945 in 1/1 millionth of a second when they were nuked, didn't you learn this in history?

    Get over it, please I beg you to stop this nonsense

  • 1 decade ago

    so far it would be F!

  • 1 decade ago

    I spent my whole life believing in the rapture,

    But I really started to pay attention to what Jesus said,

    and pray for understanding. He said the tares that

    "offend" would be gathered FIRST and burned, scary stuff....

    And He said " do NOT look for one of the days of the

    Son of Man".

    I think the rapture may be being baptized in the Spirit,

    because He said the Kingdom is within, and people are

    overlooking that. You can " come up hither " in the Spirit,

    and " meet the Lord in the air " in the Spirit , and" be kept

    from the hour of temptation" in the trib times, in the Spirit to.

    Of course , just something I think, only the Lord knows for sure.

  • 1 decade ago

    It will occur between the sixth and seventh seal.

    Revelation 7:9-17

    After this I looked, and behold, a great multitude that no one could number, from every nation, from all tribes and peoples and languages, standing before the throne and before the Lamb, clothed in white robes, with palm branches in their hands, and crying out with a loud voice, "Salvation belongs to our God who sits on the throne, and to the Lamb!" And all the angels were standing around the throne and around the elders and the four living creatures, and they fell on their faces before the throne and worshiped God, saying, "Amen! Blessing and glory and wisdom and thanksgiving and honor and power and might be to our God forever and ever! Amen."

    Then one of the elders addressed me, saying, "Who are these, clothed in white robes, and from where have they come?" I said to him, "Sir, you know." And he said to me, "These are the ones coming out off the great tribulation. They have washed their robes and made them white in the blood of the Lamb.

    "Therefore they are before the throne of God,

    and serve him day and night in his temple;

    and he who sits on the throne will shelter them with his presence.

    They shall hunger no more, neither thirst anymore;

    the sun shall not strike them,

    nor any scorching heat.

    For the Lamb in the midst of the throne will be their shepherd,

    and he will guide them to springs of living water,

    and God will wipe away every tear from their eyes."

  • jen
    Lv 6
    1 decade ago

    SATAN'S SHORT TIME BEFORE CHRIST REIGN

    Rev,9:1-5 [ 5 x 30 = ] 150 years [ after years 3460 plus 2520 years, at year 5980 ], the pit is open for Satan, God's sealed are there, the beast and the false prophet is there to Rev.19:20, Rev.12:3,4,6,7-12, Michael and holy angels give Satan and unholy angels a short time down [ Dan.12:1-13, Michael is in the time of the end and is there to the last 1Thes.4:13-15, the heaven are raised up, John 6:39,40,44, 14:3, as to prophecy Matt.22:42-44, Acts 2:27-35, Heb.1:1-13 ], Matt.24:3,7,14,15,21,36;

    It is all as Jesus says, the end, after Major wars, after his second coming is made known earthwide, in the time of the end with Michael and the WORD OF GOD, this whole time is the tribulations getting Rev.17:6,10-14 [ world power and world religion ]worse and worse, the last fifty [ 50 ] years is most important for those alive at his coming Rev.7:9-17, but God alone knows the day and the hour to [ Satan is taken out of power ], Rev.20:1-6,12,13, no Satan 1000 years.

    Source(s): Bible.
  • Anonymous
    1 decade ago

    You live...You die...your days are ended. All the rest is gobble-de-goop.

    The world, as we know it, might possibly end in a few billions years when, and if, the sun dies. No amount of bible-babble is going to change that.

  • 1 decade ago

    A

    God describes in his word that he will take people who belong to him and others who do not will be left.

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