Muslim & Christian Discussion ForumISLAM AND THE RAPTUREI don't deny the rapture and also don't mind correction, however I can demonstrate how that particular passage you quoted does not concern the rapture if you are willing to examine it exegetically. In the Olivet discourse, Jesus uses the flood as an example of how the unbelievers were "taken" away by it, not left behind as with Noah and his family. In like manner in the same context in the very next verse, one will be taken away and the other left behind, note that it was Noah and his family who was left behind, and the unbelievers who were taken away, the key words here are "as the days of Noah" and "so shall also" the coming of the Son of Man be, which describes a parallel between the days of Noah and the second coming of Christ. This timing of this event occurs at the return of Christ to the earth to separate the lost and the saved and to establish His millenial reign on Earth, not to secretly snatch His church into His Fathers Kingdom. I didn't say there are two resurrections of the righteous, the nations (ethnos) are those peoples living through the Great Tribulation on earth at the time of Christs return. This is a judgment of separation (sheeps on His right and goats on His left). At this judgment, all nations will stand before Christ who then separates the lost from the saved in a manner reminiscent of th parable of the "wheat and the tares". Take note that these are the nations that are living, whereas the Great White Throne judgment is one where the wicked dead are resurrected to face the Final Judgement of the lost. God Bless! |
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