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See how messed up things get when people deny that the rapture / resurrection happens on the last day? All this nonsense, and there's no need for it. We all stay on earth until the last day, when we are all resurrected. Both the righteous and the wicked. Simple. No need to jump through hoops to make the timelines work.Now, there are some Christians who believe that they can challenge God's Judgement of the earth (Isaiah 24:5-6) by making reference to the Rapture in 1 Thessalonians 4:16-17.
So, here is the excerpt from Isaiah 24:5-6, which has prophesied the Coming Judgment:
5 The earth is polluted by its people. They haven’t obeyed the laws of the Lord. They haven’t done what he told them to do. THEY'VE BROKEN THE COVENANT THAT WILL LAST FOREVER.
6 So the Lord will send a curse on the earth. Its people will pay for what they’ve done. THEY WILL BE BURNED UP. VERY FEW OF THEM WILL BE LEFT.
However, there are some Christians who would try to reinterpret the context of Isaiah 24:5-6 by using 1 Thessalonians 4:16-17 to suggest 2 different outcome:-
(1) Christians alive on the earth will be taken up to meet Jesus in heaven BEFORE the Coming Judgement, so that the only people who would perish are the Non-believers, but no Christian would ever be destroyed by God's Judgement of the earth.
(2) Those who are still left alive after the Judgement will be taken up to meet Jesus in heaven, and those Christians will stay in heaven for all eternity.
So, here is the excerpt from 1 Thessalonians 4, which is the basis of this argument:
1 Thessalonians 4
16 For the LORD himself will come down from heaven, with a loud command, with the voice of the archangel and with the trumpet call of God, and the dead in Christ will rise first. 17 After that, we who are still alive and are left will be caught up together with them in the clouds to meet the LORD in the air. And so we will be with the LORD forever.
However, such arguments based on 1 Thessalonians 4 are fundamentally flawed in regards to points (1) and (2).
Since both arguments have presupposed that "All the Christians will be taken up to heaven" SUCH THAT THERE WOULD BE NO CHRISTIANS LEFT AT ALL ON THE EARTH.
This implies that the Future new heaven and earth - Or the New Jerusalem - WILL NOT BE RULED NOR INHABITED BY THE FOLLOWERS OF CHRIST. Revelation 21
Since there would be no Future generations of Christians left at all once their forebears are "Taken up to meet Jesus in heaven" and there is no prospect of those people coming back to earth according to Christian theology = Hebrews 9:27.
Therefore, such an argument is fundamentally flawed since it presupposes the OUTRIGHT GENOCIDE AND EXTINCTION OF CHRISTIANS EVERYWHERE THROUGHOUT THE WORLD.
Such an argument is flawed since it is not compatible with the BIOLOGICAL SURVIVAL OF CHRISTIANS EVERYWHERE THROUGHOUT THE WORLD.
Discuss.
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