Hey, I got convicted today about leaving a Rapture note for my mother who is kind of on the fence about Jesus, so a letter outlining to her what is going to happen in the world if/when a Rapture does occur is necessary. I don't know why I didn't do this earlier. Shame on me.
Of note, today I saw a post about Rapture that I thought was very interesting, so I'll share it now. In Revelation 4:5 it says: From the throne came flashes of lightning, rumblings and peals of thunder. In front of the throne, seven lamps were blazing
i find it very interesting that the seven lamps (presumably from Rev 2 & 3) are in the throne room BEFORE Tribulation occurs in Revelation. That would seem to indicate that the 7 churches have been taken in Rapture.
okay, on to my note to my mother. Give me feedback and let me know if you've done the same for unbelieving family/friends to help them navigate the perilous trib. Some people may disagree with what i am about to say, but the only response I can give is; desperate times call for desperate measures. I would do anything, at this point, to preserve my mother's soul.
DEAR MOM
If you are reading this, I have disappeared in what we Christians know as "The Rapture." Great evil is about to come upon the Earth soon, if it is not already present. You must leave this world quickly. You cannot take the Mark of the Beast, that will be required for buying amd selling. If you take the Mark, you will burn forever. Do not tell [brother], he will not believe you and will probably encourage you to stay and take the mark. There should be public executions with guillotines. Go and cut your head off, for the sake of Jesus, the only God who is true. If the mark is being enforced without these public execution areas, you must kill yourself instantly by getting into a head-on collision while driving. That is the only way I can think to end your life immediately. You must not take the mark. Die for Jesus and I will see you in Heaven. You were and are a good mother [name]. Do as I say and leave this world soon. DO NOT TAKE THE MARK.
Love your son, [name]
That is loving and very considerate, doing what you can to help or try to help those you love.
In the 1960s and '70s I believed that people would start disappearing, the Lord was going to take them because that's what most churches preached.
In the 1980s I began to do some research to give to a friend concerning the rapture she was curious. And the more I researched the more I was led to the truth. The verses that ministers use to support the pre-tribulation rapture actually don't.
1) 1 Corinthians 15:52 - In a moment in the twinkling of an eye, ""at the last trumpet."" For the trumpet shall sound, and the dead shall be raised incorruptible, and we shall be changed.
[At the last trumpet, this is going to occur at the last trumpet after it sounds. When you go to Revelation 11:15 and read what happens at the sounding of the seventh trumpet, it reads the seven angels sounded and there were great voices in heaven, saying, the kingdoms of this world are become the kingdoms of our Lord and of his Christ and he shall reign forever. Verse 18 tells us that the nations were angry, AND THY WRATH IS COME, and the time of the dead, that they should be judged,...... When the seventh angel sounds, Jesus is here judgment is here. He is not taking people from Earth and then coming back three and a half years later.
2) 2 Thessalonians 2:1 now we beseech you brothern, by the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ, and our gathering together unto him. Verse 3 - let no man deceive you by any means: for that day ""shall not come,"" except there come a falling away first, and THAT MAN OF SIN BE REVEALED, the son of perdition. [ A falling away in belief in Christ by the church and the revealing of the Antichrist who is the man of sin the son of perdition. There are those who say that Judas was the son of perdition, Judas was dead, already known about, so how can he be revealed.
Matthew 24:40-41 One will be taken and the other left [doesn't mean they will be raptured away pre tribulation. Verses 38/39 tells us that the people didn't know the flood was coming until it came and when it came it was too late. Noah and his family was saved simultaneously with the other people of the world being flooded out.
3) 1 Thessalonians 15-17 for this we say unto you by the word of the lord, that we which are alive and remain unto the coming of the Lord [remain, remain from what]. Very 16 for the Lord himself shall descend from heaven with a shout, and The voice of the archangel, and with the Trump of God: and the dead in Christ shall rise first. [ The Lord will descend, he's coming down, archangel will announce it, and the seventh trumpet will sound. And as the Lord is descending the dead will rise first] verse 17 THEN we which are alive and remain shall be caught up together with them in the clouds to meet the Lord in the air.... [Remain, from the tribulation, many Christians will be slaughtered. Meeting him in the air as he's coming down we're going up]
As written in the book of Revelations Christians will be beheaded simply meaning killed.
