I want to reply to the "Vision of the Rapture" that was posted at www.stevequayle.com:re: Vision of the Rapture
http://stevequayle.com/News.alert/06_Prophetic/060825.rapture.htmlQuote: " I studied the Scriptures intensely and saw how this doctrine could possibly be interpreted in such a way, but yet, it just did not digest well within my spirit.... So what is the purpose of this rapture doctrine being supplanted throughout churches? Satan's hand surely is at work and has a purpose....I could not find where The LORD had ever done such a thing in the past as to remove even one of His Own Apostles out of harms way in connection with the flesh, so why would He do this now?..."NO! - Don't Go! It IS NOT The LORD our God" were lost as people disappeared...Shall Satan not also imitate this event at his arrival?...Security of salvation is known through day by day faith in the Lord Christ Jesus."
A couple problems with this post.
1. She rejects the rapture despite its scriptural evidence because "it just did not digest well within my spirit"This is a very good example of why so-called "spirit led" Christians are often self-deceived. How can God's spirit tell this lady one thing, and everybody else in the body of Christ something different? Obviously we need to go by scripture, not "feelings" - I personally "feel in my spirit" that the rapture makes perfect sense, but that isn't my reason for believing it. I've read what the Bible says - we are not appointed unto wrath.
2. God did remove many of his servants before wrath fell. Lot was "raptured" out of Sodom, Noah was "raptured" in the Ark, the Harlot was "raptured" out of Jericho, and Enoch was literally raptured many years before the flood. Jesus was taken out of Bethlehem before Herod's wrath, and Moses was put into the ark in the bulrushes to avoid Pharaohs wrath. There are many other examples like this. So this lady obviously has not studied her Bible very well or she would not have made that statement.
3. The rapture does not involve going out to meet spaceships with lazar beams, as this lady supposes. The Bible says it is an instantaneous "resurrection" - 1 Corinthians 15:52 "In a moment, in the twinkling of an eye, at the last trump: for the trumpet shall sound, and the dead shall be raised incorruptible, and we shall be changed."
4. Eternal security is not "eternal" if it can be lost day by day. That is no security at all. If we have eternal life, then we have it. By definition eternal life cannot be lost.
- M