Are you Rapture Ready?

petros

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Are you Rapture Ready?


If you aren't then perhaps it's time to consider it.

It's all hogwash right?

History tends to gives us of good indicators of what happens when very large amounts of people have strong beliefs whether right or wrong beliefs.

If you believe it are you ready?

If you don't believe, have you considered the circumstances of political decisions being made by those who do believe?

What is the Rapture?

Who believes it?

Why do they believe it?

What are some people doing to attempt to make it happen?

Are they're beleifs of benefit to the non believers?

I may be an outsider looking in but what I see scares the **** out of me far more than the mythical al Qaeda or Taliban do because these people actually exist and hold high positions within our govts and communities.

Are you ready for the circumstances of someone in power who is disappointed it isn't happening fast enough?

Are you Rapture Ready - Rapture resource for the end times ?
 

petros

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Bizzare people who live in your neighbourhood and vote.

I'm asking if anyone else has taken a close look at something very very dangerous right in their community.
 

Cliffy

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Yes, the rapture lobby is itching to get Armageddon started ever since the Moral Majority banded together to Ronny Raygun elected. The fruit loops are everywhere. Iraq and Afghanistan were partly about speeding up the process and now they are eying Iran. Unholy war! I hope they get raptured soon.
 

Cliffy

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My friend says that if they are in such a hurry to get to heaven, he'ld be willing to help them get there.
 

Dexter Sinister

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Yes, I am rapture ready. It's easy, because (a) it isn't going to happen, and (b) there's nothing anyone can do to make it happen. That isn't the danger anyway. The danger is that people in positions of power who believe it's imminent will not do anything to prevent the conflicts predicted to herald it, and may in fact try to cause them in the belief that they're doing god's work ( Bush, Iraq...) They can do a lot of harm, and perhaps even provoke an Armageddon in a sense, but nobody's going to be suddenly disappearing from critical positions like drivers' seats and pilots' seats. Armageddon, in the sense of a world-destroying conflict, could certainly happen if enough stupid people have enough power, but nobody will be raptured up to heaven. We'll all die right here and that'll be the end of it.
 

petros

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We'll all die right here and that'll be the end of it.

How does it differ from being Taliban or the "Away Team" for Heaven's Gate?

This isn't religion or spirituality. It's a death cult plain and simple.

Ignoring them is just as dangerous.

Why save energy when you'll be raptured?
Why pay your debts when you'll be raptured?
Why be part of a community when they won't be saved?

We arlready have enough people who aren't contributing factors to society.

So why elect them, hand them keys to the nations weapons cache and turn them loose carte blanc?
 

MHz

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Conspiracy Theory? Doomsday Theory?
Wishful Thinking Conspiracy and yes they have it wrong. No removal, if you are a living Gentile on the Day of the Lord you have 30 days to get to Jerusalem to say Hi to Christ. Later than that is not a good career move. Being taken into space without an immortal body is not a good thing. Bottom line is the dead are gathered to Christ before anybody from the living is gathered, the last two that die for Christ are the two witnesses of Re:11. They are also the 1st two to be gathered to Christ via resurrection and they do have immortal bodies as they can be taken into the clouds. The rapture has to be able to get around that obstacle.
 

MHz

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The danger is that people in positions of power who believe it's imminent will not do anything to prevent the conflicts predicted to herald it, and may in fact try to cause them in the belief that they're doing god's work ( Bush, Iraq...) They can do a lot of harm, and perhaps even provoke an Armageddon in a sense, but nobody's going to be suddenly disappearing from critical positions like drivers' seats and pilots' seats. Armageddon, in the sense of a world-destroying conflict, could certainly happen if enough stupid people have enough power, but nobody will be raptured up to heaven. We'll all die right here and that'll be the end of it.
For the ones at the top that promote the pre-trib rapture they should know it isn't supported by the Bible. That they can convince a great many that it is in there probably even surprises them. The only reason to try and 'provoke prophecy' is to accomplish something that is related to 'God only' territory, proving to the world that you are God (or at least chosen)

The way the 'being carried away' works is with the Holy Angels in charge of gathering the ones destined for destruction in Christ's winepress. These give you the basic outline.

M't:13:41:
The Son of man shall send forth his angels,
and they shall gather out of his kingdom all things that offend,
and them which do iniquity;

M't:24:39:
And knew not until the flood came,
and took them all away;
so shall also the coming of the Son of man be.
M't:24:40:
Then shall two be in the field;
the one shall be taken,
and the other left.
M't:24:41:
Two women shall be grinding at the mill;
the one shall be taken,
and the other left.

M't:24:27:
For as the lightning cometh out of the east,
and shineth even unto the west;
so shall also the coming of the Son of man be.
M't:24:28:
For wheresoever the carcase is,
there will the eagles be gathered together.

Re:19:15:
And out of his mouth goeth a sharp sword,
that with it he should smite the nations:
and he shall rule them with a rod of iron:
and he treadeth the winepress of the fierceness and wrath of Almighty God.

There is an extended version also ... lol
 

darkbeaver

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They say that during the rapture all their genitals are pulled off and left behind. I think that's a public health concern that could and should be addressed before the blessed event. A dick tax perhaps, to cover the cost of cleanup and counciling for the damned unbelievers left to shovel up the mass of discarded naughty parts and cloths.
 

AnnaG

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Wishful Thinking Conspiracy and yes they have it wrong. No removal, if you are a living Gentile on the Day of the Lord you have 30 days to get to Jerusalem to say Hi to Christ. Later than that is not a good career move. Being taken into space without an immortal body is not a good thing.
You sound like Applewhite. Are you waiting for your comet?
Bottom line is the dead are gathered to Christ before anybody from the living is gathered, the last two that die for Christ are the two witnesses of Re:11. They are also the 1st two to be gathered to Christ via resurrection and they do have immortal bodies as they can be taken into the clouds. The rapture has to be able to get around that obstacle.
I'll pass for now and cross that bridge if it ever gets built and I am in the neighborhood.
 

petros

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Wishful Thinking Conspiracy and yes they have it wrong. No removal, if you are a living Gentile on the Day of the Lord you have 30 days to get to Jerusalem to say Hi to Christ. Later than that is not a good career move. Being taken into space without an immortal body is not a good thing. Bottom line is the dead are gathered to Christ before anybody from the living is gathered, the last two that die for Christ are the two witnesses of Re:11. They are also the 1st two to be gathered to Christ via resurrection and they do have immortal bodies as they can be taken into the clouds. The rapture has to be able to get around that obstacle.
So what was Darby's plan?