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vera_stone38 · Joined: 31 May 2006 Posts: 152

Some more questions:

If God is speaking in parables:

• Eze 20:49 Then said I, Ah Lord GOD! they say of me, Doth he not speak PARABLES?

• Psa 78:2 I will open my mouth in a PARABLE: I will utter dark sayings of old:

Is belief in the RAPTURE simply the product of “man’s interpretation” of the words of God that are expressed in parable?

Human wisdom:

• Jer 17:5 Thus saith the LORD; CURSED BE THE MAN THAT TRUSTETH IN MAN, and maketh flesh his arm, and whose heart departeth from the LORD.

Own understanding:

• Prov 3:5 Trust in the LORD with all thine heart; and LEAN NOT UNTO THINE OWN UNDERSTANDING.

Therefore, who can explain the real message of RAPTURE?

• 1 Joh 2:27 But the anointing which ye have received of him abideth in you, and YE NEED NOT THAT ANY MAN TEACH YOU: but as the same anointing teacheth you of all things, and is truth, and is no lie, and even as it hath taught you, ye shall abide in him.

• Jam 1:5 If any of you lack wisdom, LET HIM ASK OF GOD, THAT GIVETH TO ALL MEN LIBERALLY, and upbraideth not; and it shall be given him. 6 But LET HIM ASK IN FAITH, NOTHING WAVERING. For he that wavereth is like a wave of the sea driven with the wind and tossed. 7 For LET NOT THAT MAN THINK THAT HE SHALL RECEIVE ANY THING OF THE LORD. 8 A double minded man is unstable in all his ways.

Who would believe this?

• Mar 4:34 But without a parable spake he not unto them: and when they were alone, HE EXPOUNDED ALL THINGS TO HIS DISCIPLES.

The TEST:

Can we really TRUST GOD to explain to us the real message of the RAPTURE?

George Krueger · Posted: Mon Apr 23, 2007 5:22 pm Post subject: Acts chap. 1:9.

And when he had spoken these things, while they beheld, he was taken up; and a cloud received him out of their sight.
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yes i am an atheist · Joined: 08 Apr 2007 Posts: 125

seeing as this topic is "what is the rapture?", can someone please tell me what the rapture is? could i just get a summary of all prophesized events in chronological order, from beginning to end. i've had much confusion over this and no one seems to want to give me a hand with this one.
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