It is appointed to man to die once, then Judgment.
If you believe you will be whisked away in between advents, and get to watch as the SAME SINNERS go through hell on earth (this, also after NOT believing in full obedience) then I hope you find what you are looking for. It is a strong delusion I hope everyone is released from, but it is intoxicating to think that God would qualify sinners, and that He would let them sit out what He has appointed for the generations since the beginning: to be witnesses and a remnant.
And, I am not denying the Word of God. It is not the biblical canon; it is a Living Entity. Paul is a man; he is not Christ. And, while he is in the canon, I understand he is NOT contradicting Christ even though he is the most overused human.
Christ Himself, and Him on your heart from the New Covenant is what is GUARANTEED to us. We have Grace, the Holy Spirit, God's Mercy, God's forgiveness, God's love, and God's ATTENTION - all given to US by Him. And, despite none of the prophecies yet to come speaking of a rapture we still need to be SWEPT AWAY?
Daniel 11 told you that the "wise ones" will teach many, but some wise ones will die by sword, flame, spoil and captivity. Paul said at the last TRUMP, the dead rise first (since they are already dead,) and then the living rise. That is the RESURRECTION, not rapture.
God is not angry with us; no matter what happens to us, God is not angry with us. I am very afraid this rapture doctrine, and the thought that we don't have to follow God's commandments are parts of strong delusion. You lose your faith if you are wrong about the rapture. And, there is a set up to destroy ALL faith - even atheism - in exchange for a MYSTERY religion served to us by false prophets.
I can not help but wonder where and from whom you received such false thoughts and teachings.
You said..............
"and the thought that we don't have to follow God's commandments are parts of strong delusion. You lose your faith if you are wrong about the rapture."
Where in the Scriptures is such a teaching found???????
My dear friend. We are saved through faith in the Lord Jesus Christ and not anything else including the Rapture.
If anything, Biblical it is the opposite of what you just said.
Titus 2:12–13 ..............
"training us to renounce ungodliness and worldly passions, and to live self-controlled, upright, and godly lives in the present age, waiting and looking for our blessed hope, the appearing of the glory of our great God and Savior Jesus Christ".
The “blessed hope,” then, is the joyful assurance that God will extend His benefits to us and that Jesus Christ will return. We are waiting for this event now. Jesus said He would return (
John 14:3), the angels said He would return (
Acts 1:11), and the epistles say He will return. Jesus could come back at any time for His church, which includes all believers in Christ from the
Day of Pentecost in
Acts 2 onward.
This event is called the rapture. If YOU do not want to believe it and accept it.......
no problem for me my friend.
But the Bible says It will be announced by the voice of the archangel and God’s trumpet call. The bodies of those who have died will be raised to be joined with their souls, and then the bodies of those believers still living on earth will be changed into a body like the Lord’s resurrection body. The believers raised from the dead and the believers living at Christ’s return will meet the Lord in the air and be taken to heaven. They will “fly the friendly skies united” (cf.
1 Thessalonians 4:13–18). This will happen in the twinkling of an eye (
1 Corinthians 15:52).
Should this blessed hope of Christ’s any-time return have an effect on the believer in Jesus Christ? John wrote, “All who have this hope in him purify themselves, just as [Jesus] is pure” (
1 John 3:3). The believer anticipating Christ’s blessed return will seek to live, in the power of the indwelling Holy Spirit, a life of purity. We will all stand before the Lord and give an account of how we lived for Him on earth (
2 Corinthians 10:5).
What is the blessed hope?