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JTEM posted:
>
> Would you even know you were being raptured? I mean, would
> God instill you with such knowledge?
The Bible doesn't give that detail, but I believe God
would want us to know what's happening, and I believe
we will be given that knowledge as it's happening. In
an instant, we will know what's going on.
>
> Would you hear his
> voice or that of some messenger telling you that you are
> being raptured?
I don't think it will be a voice, it will just be an
instant "knowing" what is happening. The word "instill"
(that you wrote above) is a good way to put it.
>
> Would you be frightened, as one might suppose if they were
> suddenly, and without warning, pulled up into the sky
I've wondered that, too, but I doubt Jesus wants to
scare us. Many of his statements in the Bible tell
us to NOT be afraid, so it makes sense to believe
that we will have that message "instilled" in us
while it's happening.
>
> completely butt naked?
I doubt we'll be naked. Our bodies will be changed,
and we have the example of the Ascension of Jesus,
when He was taken up into Heaven while the disciples
watched (Acts 1:9). It doesn't say what Jesus was
wearing, but it's assumed He was wearing a white
robe (white robes of the multitudes are mentioned
in Revelation 7:9-17). So I believe when our bodies
are changed, our clothes will be changed into those
white robes.
>
> *I* would consider that unsettling...
I think it would be far more unsettling to realize
that the Rapture just happened, and you weren't
among those who were taken out of here. You'll have
to accept that Jesus actually existed, and believe
that He was who He said He was -- and then repent
for your sins and ask forgiveness -- before you'll
have to be concerned about being taken up in the Rapture.
>
> Or would the divine hand be such a comfort that you'd feel
> nothing but peace?
I believe that will be the case.
>
> What about the people "Left Behind?" Would you not think of
> them? Would you not worry? Would you ask to go back, to
> help them -- share your knowledge, maybe get them to repent
> -- knowing that you will suffer a hideously agonizing death
> but that you would go to Heaven. In fact, you already did!
I can imagine that there will be people who will
be concerned about loved ones who were left behind.
Our hope for them is that they will be saved during
the seven-year Tribulation, when the 144,000 will be
preaching the Gospel to those who were left behind.
There will be people being saved during that time,
but this world is going to be a living hell during
that time. The better time to get saved is now.
>
> Spell out this "Rapture." Tell us, tell me how it goes,
All I know is what the Bible tells us, which I put
in the first post in the thread I started about the
Rapture (in the thread titled: "The Rapture is in the
Bible, here are the scriptures"). We will be CAUGHT UP
and meet Jesus in the air, and He will take us to the
Kingdom of God, where he has prepared a place for us
so that we may be where He is. That is not the Second
Coming, which comes seven years later when Jesus comes
all the way back and sets foot in Jerusalem.
>
> how you want it to go.
I want as many people as possible to be saved before
Jesus returns to take us out of here. I don't want
anyone to still be here and have to go through the
time of the Antichrist, and the seven-year Tribulation
that will happen during the Antichrist's reign over the
world. I wouldn't wish that on anyone. The time to get
saved is now, though it will still be possible to get
saved during the Tribulation. But it won't be easy.
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