Rapture!

can i have it if you go?

I am not a religious man but it would be my thought that if and when the time comes not a one of us will know about it. There will be know warning.

In any case, by 6pm I will reunite my immediate family member by the Bradley.
If anything will happen, we will be together for the journey with special wheels.......

You are partially right. I guess I am what some would call religious (though Christianity has religious components - practicing certain rituals and proclaiming/adhering to certain standards - that is not what determines ones eternal destiny, that is an issue of putting trust in God's provision). The word rapture is not actually in our current Bibles, it was in the Latin vulgate for the "great snatch" talked about in the Pauline letters and by Christ himself in the gospels. Not all Christian denominations agree that there will be even such a thing as the rapture, but the dispensationalist view which does include the event seems to have the least amount of issues with respect to the most literal interpretation of the overall Bible. Jesus said no man would know the ¡°day or the hour¡± and did warn against putting any stock in those who did declare such.

However, we are told we could know the ¡°season¡± or ¡°generation¡±, if we were discerning - so one does not have to be so quick to dismiss those who suggest a range of time for the occurrence. Some things that indicate ¡°the season or generation¡± include:
1. Increased frequency of wars and natural disasters (a bit vague for time setting, but will be observable)
2. Israel becomes a nation after many years of its being dispersed all over the world and occupies Jerusalem again (can read Bible scholars who wrote books before 1900 declare this had to happen before the rapture could take place or Christ would come back)
3. The world will have to have a way to ¡°buy and sell¡± using numbers rather than physical currency
4. There will be at least plans to rebuild the last Jewish temple in the original location and resume animal sacrifice rituals (previously declared next to impossible due to the ¡°Dome of the Mosque¡± thought to be on the original site. However, some fairly recent archaeological finds indicate that the temple site is actually to one side of the Mosque, which is puts the Mosque in the courtyard. Very interesting since the Bible says in Revelation 11:2 that the last temple will not have the courtyard because ¡°it was given to the Gentiles¡±)

There are other indicators, but this post is already getting too long. Note that items 2 & 3 were not possible until recent years. There are three different numbers used for a ¡°generation¡± in the Bible - 40 years, 70 years and 100 years. So, a reasonable thought would be that it could occur by about 2068 (100 years after Israel reoccupied Jerusalem in 1968). However, if Obama gets his way and forces Israel to give up Jerusalem (back to 1967 boarders), it kinda messes up this ¡°guestimation¡± with respect to the time, but not the fact that the event will occur.

Warmest Regards in Christ,

Being than 6 pm passed and we are still in here, I took an oat of polishing my Bradley tomorrow.
Amen

No Rapture for me! Now I can get back to working on Bradley.

Supposedly he added up a bunch of numbers from the Bible and came up with a date, which I believe was sometime in 1996, then when said day came and went and no rapture, he re-calculated and said he made a mistake in his additon and the new date was yesterday at 6 pm. I figure if you add enough numbers together in the right amounts, you can come up with any date and time you want. I typed Rapture into google and randomly picked a site to look at, and whoever wrote what I was reading was about 2 cards shy of a full deck. here is the link if you wanna check it out. Reads like an advertisement for a cult to me. www.facebook.com/l.php?u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.ebiblefellowship.com%2Foutreach%2Ftracts%2Fmay21%2F&h=0eef6

For this particular day I will have the Motrin jar near by, just in case...

Note the key word in my extended post above was by 2068. Anything that has to happen before the rapture has happened or could quickly happen.

But, dawgdk is right none of us are guaranteed another breath, so we should be ready all the time. Problem is most people equate going to heaven to "being good" instead of having a relationship with the Lord.

Yes, it is too bad people hurt the credibility of the Bible and Christianity to get personal attention by exploiting the sensationalistic nature of the idea of the "end of time".

In Christ,

THANKS centralvalley good straight info.I find the more I study religion, the more I scratch my head .Praying for us all, Rev John.

That Mayan calendar ending on Dec 21, 2012 is a singularity. It ends on that day because there was no more room on the stone. Other Mayan calendars at other sites go as high as 5500.

Hey, if the world is ending in 5500 then we definitely should have time to get our bradleys done!

Wonder if they have Bradley's in heaven, and if we'd get into trouble swearing at them as we try to keep them working? Glad the end did not happen as I have way to much to do on mine,and to do in my life before being snatched up to live in clouds.