I'm curious to know what you think about the "Rapture" is a "mystery?" From the very beginning, Man was promised immortality. Enoch was taken suddenly, as was Elijah when he was taken up to heaven. So what renders this a "mystery" to you?
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1 Cor 15:
51 Listen, I tell you a mystery: We will not all sleep, but we will all be changed—
52 in a flash, in the twinkling of an eye, at the last trumpet. For the trumpet will sound, the dead will be resurrected imperishable, and we will be changed
53 For the perishable must clothe itself with the imperishable, and the mortal with immortality.
A mystery is NT truth that was not revealed in the OT. The Rapture is a mystery because it was not revealed in the OT but was made known to Paul. The 2nd Coming was made known in the OT so it is not a mystery. This is one reason that the Pre Tribbers say there are two comings, or better yet, one coming in two phases. Christ comes FOR his own in the air at the Rapture, and WITH his own to the earth at the 2nd Coming.
Peter was only between the ages of 62 and 67 when he was martyred in Rome. That did not make him an old man.
What part of Matthew 24:29-39 do people not get
The Coming of the Son of Man
Mat 24:29 Immediately after the tribulation of those days shall the sun be darkened, and the moon shall not give her light, and the stars shall fall from heaven, and the powers of the heavens shall be shaken:
Mat 24:30 And then shall appear the sign of the Son of man in heaven: and then shall all the tribes of the earth mourn, and they shall see the Son of man coming in the clouds of heaven with power and great glory.
Mat 24:31 And he shall send his angels with a great sound of a trumpet, and they shall gather together his elect from the four winds, from one end of heaven to the other.
Mat 24:36 But of that day and hour knoweth no man, no, not the angels of heaven, but my Father only.
Mat 24:37 But as the days of Noe were, so shall also the coming of the Son of man be.
Mat 24:38 For as in the days that were before the flood they were eating and drinking, marrying and giving in marriage, until the day that Noe entered into the ark,
Mat 24:39 And knew not until the flood came, and took them all away; so shall also the coming of the Son of man be.
What part of Matthew 24:29-39 do people not get
The Coming of the Son of Man
Mat 24:29 Immediately after the tribulation of those days shall the sun be darkened, and the moon shall not give her light, and the stars shall fall from heaven, and the powers of the heavens shall be shaken:
Mat 24:30 And then shall appear the sign of the Son of man in heaven: and then shall all the tribes of the earth mourn, and they shall see the Son of man coming in the clouds of heaven with power and great glory.
Mat 24:31 And he shall send his angels with a great sound of a trumpet, and they shall gather together his elect from the four winds, from one end of heaven to the other.
Mat 24:36 But of that day and hour knoweth no man, no, not the angels of heaven, but my Father only.
Mat 24:37 But as the days of Noe were, so shall also the coming of the Son of man be.
Mat 24:38 For as in the days that were before the flood they were eating and drinking, marrying and giving in marriage, until the day that Noe entered into the ark,
Mat 24:39 And knew not until the flood came, and took them all away; so shall also the coming of the Son of man be.
That is sheer speculation. However, back in the first century, I would say that is old
Not speculation. Go look it up. The average age of man after the flood was around 70 to 100 years.
Actually it was 70. see Ps 90
Our days may come to seventy years, or eighty, if our strength endures; yet the best of them are but trouble and sorrow, for they quickly pass, and we fly away
Genesis give the age of 70
That's pretty much what I said, but forgot to give my source. Thank you for that scripture in Psalms 90:10.