How do I prepare for the Rapture?

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There's no bible verse to support that.
Pray that people get saved.
Sharing the gospel is about giving good news of God's mercy and grace to sinners. Offer God's love, God's peace.. the way that God does toward you.
Yeah, no one likes to be condemned, so tell them about God's redemption.
That statement is a "salvation by works" tactic that is manipulating the hearer to fear or doubt their salvation, it's a false motivation to evangelize.
A person isn't saved by evangelizing. A person is saved by grace through faith that comes by hearing God's good news.

You've got evidence that your efforts at getting someone saved hasn't worked. There are many Christians who do fail at it. There were those that Jesus preached to in his own hometown who didn't listen to him. The apostle Paul prayed that those he taught would pray for him that his evangelism would be effective.

So your best avenue is prayer. Pick a ministry that gets people saved and support them. And in that way their success is also counted as your success.

brilliant post. couldn't have said it better.
 
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But, martyrdom for your belief in Jesus just cannot be compared to the every day stresses in life which we also have termed as trials and tribulations, like the pandemic, unemployment, and riots we are experiencing right now.

It's totally different.

It's related if we are in the beginning of sorrows.
 
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It's related if we are in the beginning of sorrows.

What I meant was our common every day life problems. I should have reworded it differently.

As for George Floyd, we have race related riots in our history, so nothing is new. However, we are currently facing a pandemic which took about 110,000 American lives as of today. We have millions unemployed. We have millions who can't pay their rent and bills. I don't think I have read anything like this in history, all sorts of tribulation stacked up together.

Perhaps, this is already the beginning of sorrows and won't get any better.
 
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What I meant was our common every day life problems. I should have reworded it differently.

As for George Floyd, we have race related riots in our history, so nothing is new. However, we are currently facing a pandemic which took about 110,000 American lives as of today. We have millions unemployed. We have millions who can't pay their rent and bills. I don't think I have read anything like this in history, all sorts of tribulation stacked up together.

Perhaps, this is already the beginning of sorrows and won't get any better.

I like to keep things optimistic. Worse pandemics have hit the Earth before, we're still here.

Great Depression hit, we're still here.

Humans are tough, and God is tougher. Thankfully, our Lord is merciful enough to keep us beautiful people alive long enough to spread the Gospel
 
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It's good to be optimistic, it makes life less stressful. But, as Christians we must always be watchful for the change in season or weather and be able to discern the time.

Mat 24:38 For in the days before the flood, people were eating and drinking, marrying and giving in marriage, up to the day Noah entered the ark; 39 and they knew nothing about what would happen until the flood came and took them all away.

If this subsides and everything will be normal as before, then that's the only time I'll be optimistic.
 
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It's good to be optimistic, it makes life less stressful. But, as Christians we must always be watchful for the change in season or weather and be able to discern the time.

Mat 24:38 For in the days before the flood, people were eating and drinking, marrying and giving in marriage, up to the day Noah entered the ark; 39 and they knew nothing about what would happen until the flood came and took them all away.

If this subsides and everything will be normal as before, then that's the only time I'll be optimistic.

Oh no, I'm definitely watching. I choose to be optimistic because it distracts me from the realization that the world is crumbling right now, but there's some glue somewhere
 
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Just simply trust in teh death, burial and resurrection of jesus as the payment of your sin. You will be caught up with all the saints.

It is not about how obedient or disobedient child of God you are- it is just simply about being a child of God!
Well Stated...
 
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That ushered in the Kingdom and a new world for those who repent of the self serving ways of mankind.


Yet Jesus commanded us to put the will of the Father ahead of our own, thus loving all as self. Disobedience would not only be not following those commandments but also revising His teachings to allow man to think they can have it both ways.
Cutting up his post and then attacking parts of it... is disingenuous....

Post # 33 is the simple truth.
 
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Doing as He commanded combats the self interest and determination of man. It's called practising for the alien way of life it represents common to the Kingdom.

Well your prosaic way of speaking aside- living a Christian life comes from being saved, it does not make you saved! Or keep you saved.
 
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Well your prosaic way of speaking aside- living a Christian life comes from being saved, it does not make you saved! Or keep you saved.
You mean avoiding tech talk? Regardless salvation through Jesus' resurrection gave us the Kingdom and to partake of it we must reject the world man has made in our image by rejecting the default self serving, self determining ways of man in favour of the will of God, His idea of caring for others over our idea of caring for ourselves. Makes the grain distinctive from the tares.

God gave us an option, not a free pass.
 
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Why all this intellectual gibber jabber nonsense?

The OP needs milk... not a tough steak to chew on.

Simply put.. If your saved you need not worry about the rapture. We all live knowing that we could die at any moment. If your ready for that... your ready period.

If your not ready to die.. then you should be worried about that.. not the rapture.

None of this other talk is worth anything to those with simple fears of the basics of "will I be raptured".


You mean avoiding tech talk? Regardless salvation through Jesus' resurrection gave us the Kingdom

It did not give us the kingdom. It has made us children of God who can dwell with our creator in His Kingdom

and to partake of it we must reject the world man has made in our image

First, man has made nothing in anyone's image.

Second, we don't have to reject the world... just the ways of the world.

by rejecting the default self serving, self determining ways of man in favour of the will of God, His idea of caring for others over our idea of caring for ourselves. Makes the grain distinctive from the tares.

What on earth?


God gave us an option, not a free pass.

Yes, sorry..... it is a free pass. In fact, we can do nothing for our salvation or to gain it.

We are helpless in any effort to save ourselves. It's an exercise in futility to even think it.

It is only through the grace of God.. Grace being the simple concept of getting something that you don't deserve... that being salvation.


And through His mercy... Mercy being the simple concept of NOT getting something that you truly deserve... that being damnation.

Yes, God gave us the option... accept His son or deny Him...

No need to complicate the plain and simple truth with tech talk that falls on the deaf ears of those who only want comfort in the simple fact that they are safe.

Do you believe that you are a sinner?
Do you believe in Christ?
Do you believe that Christ can and will forgive all your sins?

Then..... ask Him to forgive you and be your savior....... and be free from the bondage of all this worry.

Tell Satan to take a hike, you are saved.. Come death or rapture.. you will be forever with your creator, God, Lord and Savior.
 
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You mean avoiding tech talk? Regardless salvation through Jesus' resurrection gave us the Kingdom and to partake of it we must reject the world man has made in our image by rejecting the default self serving, self determining ways of man in favour of the will of God, His idea of caring for others over our idea of caring for ourselves. Makes the grain distinctive from the tares.

God gave us an option, not a free pass.

You are talking about salvation by Works and God through Paul called that another gospel!

Good works never has nor ever will save a soul! It is the death burial and physical resurrection of Jesus that paid for all our sines alone and trusing in that that saves us! Any good works we do come as a result of us becoming a child of God and given a new nature, not to stay saved!
 
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Many people are saying Bible prophecies are being fulfilled, and I honestly agree. Look at the state of the world right now.

And a lot of people are saying the Rapture is happening soon, and after the True Christians are taken up, it will be too late to repent. Is this true?

How can I prepare for this? Keep reading my Bible? Go out and help people? Not do anything and patiently wait?

Also, how do I tell my family about their sin problems? I get embarrased to tell them, because I've told them already, and they yelled at me for it. Andrew Tiner said, if you're too cowardly to tell people about Jesus, how can you expect for Jesus to save you?
So how are you feeling now @boxman144? I hope you are finding some new perspective on this and feeling a bit better.
 
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Good works never has nor ever will save a soul!
I don't recall saying so, as man could neither create the Kingdom nor the resurrection. However faith without works is dead. Those who wish to remain aligned with the contrary ways of man find it convenient to avoid loving all as self. Those who do not love all as self are not of the Kingdom but prefer the governance of man to that of the Father so that they may continue to seek self interests and define good and evil as they see fit to justify their adversarial ways.
 
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Because it is advisable to follow the will of God and not of man? :)

Of course it is! It is for our profit as well! But works do not save a person or lack of works do not condemn a person!
 
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But works do not save a person or lack of works do not condemn a person!
Failure to trade the ideals of man for those of the Kingdom does condemn. Repentance doesn't mean sorry but thanks for letting me carry on in the adversarial ways.
 
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