What if We're Wrong About That?

What if Everything is a Lie

There are a lot of people I know out there who are convinced beyond a shadow of a doubt that the next great sign of the end times is going to be the “rapture of the church” into heaven to spend the seven years of the “Great Tribulation” watching the shit show going on down on here on the earth from the mezzanine section of the here-after. Their idea is that this is also going to be a wedding party and that they’re the guests.

For the record, this is the tradition that I first learned regarding the end times when I was a brand new believer and a babe in Christ. However, I worry now that this idea was all escapism and could quite very well be part of if not THE Great Deception that causes the “Great Apostasy” or falling away from the faith that we’re all warned to be on the lookout for during the last days.

Unfortunately, or perhaps it’s more correct to say that we’re fortunate that there is more than one view of the rapture. These two videos present the main “alternative viewpoints” on the matter. Please, at your leisure take some time to view them, as well as the other videos and links provided and ask yourselves which, if any of them, is correct.

We Were Wrong About the Rapture – Bible Animations

The Rapture is confusing. Let's see what people much smarter than me have found out about it.

All of this confusion about this one issue reminds me of a time before when people had great expectations of biblical proportions and implications. That time, of course, was at the first coming of “Yeshua Hamashiach” (Jesus Christ). The Jewish people of the first century were being oppressed by the Roman empire and they were looking for a “savior” (many in the form of a warrior king) to save them from their oppressors and restore the Kingdom to Israel in the here and now. Seems like the more things change, the more they stay the same.

Anyway, the people then knew the old testament and the teachings of the prophets very well. They were very familiar with the Prophet Daniel’s 70 Weeks prophecy and knew from that prophecy that the time of the Messiah was at hand. That’s why they sent people out to the River Jordan to ask John the Baptist who he was. Many thought that maybe he was the one. And what did John tell them when they asked? He said "'I am a voice of one crying in the wilderness, Make straight the way of the Lord,'" as said Isaiah the prophet John 1:23. He made it clear that he wasn’t they guy, he was merely the one who in spirit of the prophet Elijah was sent to precede him.

So, what if all that stuff about the Rapture being next is wrong? What if we’re wrong about a lot of the things we’ve been taught to believe or else? What if there are other signs we ought to be looking for to come before the rapture? What if the signs people are referring to have already happened either in whole or in part?

Provided we haven’t been blown to Kingdom come and are still here, we’ll get to that next week. . .

Stay tuned!