There was a fella where I worked. When asked if he would accept the Mark of the Beast, he replied "Absolutely, because it can't be the Mark, cuz I'd already have been raptured if it was.".........sound dangerous?
Absolutely sounds dangerous.
That’s the most dangerous thing I have ever heard.
This is the very reason for this thread, to help Christians come to the realization of the truth about the rapture and the coming of the Lord, so they won’t be deceived any longer about it.
The resurrection and rapture as well as the destruction of the antichrist all occur at His coming.
For this we say to you by the word of the Lord, that we who are alive and remain until the coming of the Lord will by no means precede those who are asleep. For the Lord Himself will descend from heaven with a shout, with the voice of an archangel, and with the trumpet of God. And the dead in Christ will rise first. Then we who are alive and remain shall be caught up together with them in the clouds to meet the Lord in the air. And thus we shall always be with the Lord. 1 Thessalonians 4:15-17
The resurrection of the dead in Christ and the rapture occur at His coming, in which all of the Lord’s people, whether on earth or in heaven will he “gathered together” to be with the Lord.
And we will always be with the Lord!
- Then we who are alive and remain shall be caught up together with them in the clouds to meet the Lord in the air. And thus we shall always be with the Lord.
This occurs
at His coming.
- we who are alive and remain until the coming of the Lord will by no means precede those who are asleep
The other thing that happens at His coming is the destruction of the antichrist and all the wicked.
And then the lawless one will be revealed, whom the Lord will consume with the breath of His mouth and
destroy with the brightness of His coming.
2 Thessalonians 2:8
The resurrection, the rapture and the destruction of the antichrist, all occur at His coming.
- Immediately after the tribulation of those days...they will see the Son of Man coming
“Immediately after the tribulation of those days the sun will be darkened, and the moon will not give its light; the stars will fall from heaven, and the powers of the heavens will be shaken. Then the sign of the Son of Man will appear in heaven, and then all the tribes of the earth will mourn, and they will see the Son of Man coming on the clouds of heaven with power and great glory. And He will send His angels with a great sound of a trumpet, and they will gather together His elect from the four winds, from one end of heaven to the other. Matthew 24:29-31
JLB