These old folks have been singing these words for a looooooong time. About 2,000 years. And those waiting for the Coming One before that for another couple thousand. So, after today’s failed attempt, I guess they can clock in for another how many years?
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Lol…another reason that faith is an action verb. Waiting doesn’t require much from us except patience, for which I no longer pray.
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Not so fast! We still have 3 1/2 hours of Saturday left over here in Britain. It could still all happen!
Alternatively – it has happened and no-one was deemed worthy of being taken up into Heaven. What a thought!
Forever? I’d say that maybe he’s not coming, but that would make me a bad person.
Camping has put a spotlight on the whole Rapture scenario and made it look like a fairy story, which I believe it is, although I was taught it and used to believe it totally.
I do think He is going to come back, but I do not believe in the rapture doctrine.
I also believe Mark 13:32 “But of that day and hour no one knows, not even the angels in heaven, nor the Son, but only the Father”.
There is another twist on the rapture theory, and that is that the people taken could be going to some awful place, and the people left behind could be part of the new creation of Earth that is promised. I heard of this reversal in the seventies when it was talked about a lot. Has anyone else considered that possibility?
It would ruin the whole concept behind the “Left Behind ” series, but I don’t read books like that so it doesn’t affect me. I know many Christians who do, however, and so I would be interested to hear of any comments on the reversal of the rapture idea. What do you think, David? You seem to like reversing scripture as of late. Or is it merely a question of our interpretation of scripture which is always up for grabs?—–Crystal.