Hello all. Today I wanted to see if you guys either believe in the Pre-Rapture Tribulation or the Post Rapture Tribulation. I've asked this question to a few different people in different denominations, but I've had quite a few different pieces of information brought up that didn't really add up to what the Bible said. Now orginally I believed in the Pre Rapture, but now I believe in the post rapture of Christ. Now my family disagrees because they have been told all their life "pre-rapture," in a certain denomination they were in. But I also was raised to believe this, and it wasn't until a friend mentioned this topic and even when I read revelations that I started to question the "pre-rapture" belief. I did some research online and many brought up reasons as to why the prerapture theory is incorrect including verses in the bible, but they also mentioned it is based off the teachings and doctrines of John Darby. I had never in my life heard of this until I indeed looked that up, and to my surprise I realized I was taught incorrect. This is important because this is stressed throughout many Christian denominations about the Prerapture belief. So my question is to all of you what do you believe as far as Pre and Post rapture and, if applicable, what denominations taught you this? If you are now, like me, non denominational, what part of the Bible brought you to your conclusion?
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Well.......There are several theories on what you ask about the Rapture, but IMO it seems that there are only two that dominate.
1. The Pre-tribulation Rapture.
2. The Post-tribulation Rapture.
The Post-tribulation theory is the belief that the church will not be raptured until the very end of Tribulation, and that the Rapture and the Second coming of Christ are a single event rather than two separate events as held by those who follow the Pre-tribulation teaching.
Now as for Mr. Darby being the one who brought this to the attention of the Christian world.........what does that matter???
The Rapture even has been in the Scriptures for almost 2000 years. The fact that Brother Darby expounded it has no relevance at all to its truth or non-truth. He was a man whom God used to get out the Word of God.
Martin Luther expounded the "Saved by Grace" doctrine in 1524 but Ephesians 2:8 has also been in the Scriptures for 2000 years. Just like Darby, Luther was a man God used to get out the Word of God.
To be totally honest and straight forward.......I pretty much reject anything said by experts (?) today when who dinagrate the great Christian men of past ages who have opened their Bible to study just like I open my today. Were they all perfect, did they never make a mistake or say something that maybe they should not have said, YES. But haven't we all done the same thing in our lives today????? The point is.........did David sin and do some wrong things, did Ezekiel sin and do some wrong things, did Moses sin and do some wrong things? Who are we to condemn those great saints we it is US that does not accept the teachings of God's Word regardless of "when" it is expounded.
Example: There are people on this website who believe and teach that speaking in tongues (Un-entelligable uttering) is valid today but reject the Rapture because it was only expounded in the middle 1800's by Mr. Darby. But tongues were not seen here until 1900. In the year 1900 Charles F. Parham opened the Bethel Bible School in Topeka, Kansas, and this school held that the signs of tongues and healing should be normal for the church.
You can argue and post all you want but the practice of speaking in tongues began in about 1900. It is accepted and practiced but the Rapture pre-dates the teaching of tongues and it is rejected because it is too recent to be valid.
Does that make any logical sense????
Now, back to the point. What was that point? O yea...........If the Rapture is to take place before the Tribulation, then it could happen at any moment. That speaks to anticipation and immanance. Now this is not rocket science or brain surgery. IF an old man like man can figure this out, everyone can. Now follow this......................................
On the other hand, if the Rapture is to take place at the end of Tribulation, after all the prophecy concerning the events of the Tribulation period have taken place, we certainly will not find ourselves living as if He could appear at any moment.
The fact is that we will know He is coming by post dating the beginning of the Tribulation and then counting forward to the end of 7 years. Do you see what I have just done????????????
I have told you when Jesus is coming back. Now is that in line with the Word of God.??????
Matthew 25:36, Jesus tells us about His Second coming and who knows.........................
"But of that day (2nd Coming) and hour knoweth no man, no not the angels of heaven BUT MY FATHER ONLY".
I submit that those who hold to the post-tribulation Rapture know as much as God the Father does according to what His Word says in Matthew. How can that be possible????
We all might want to THINK about this before being talked into something from false teachers on the internet.