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‘To Be Raptured, Or Not To Be Raptured’ (2013)

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Whether the Rapture is real or not, one thing I’m sure of–crouching under the pews waiting for it benefits no one but the Enemy.

So many of my friends and family, and fellow servants in Christ’s household, believe in the Rapture. And many do not. Some great theologians accept it. Other great theologians reject it.

To Be Raptured, or Not to be Raptured

I can’t find any support for this doctrine in the Bible. It ought to be there, in both Testaments. But fighting over this with other Christians is hardly a good use of our time on earth. God has richly endowed us with real enemies who want to wipe out the Church everywhere.

“Occupy until I come” (Luke 19:13), as taught by Our Lord Jesus Christ Himself, remains the best procedure.

Rapture-Ready–Me?

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I went to the Y this morning, and when I returned, Patty was in the kitchen on the phone and didn’t hear me come in. So I draped my coat over the computer chair and went upstairs. When she came out of the kitchen, she didn’t see me–but she saw my coat.

“This is funny,” she said, “but when I saw that empty coat, all I could think of was The Rapture! And I thought, ‘Just my luck! I got left behind.” That fancy fled away when I came down the stairs.

I guess that goes to show you something about the times we’re living in.

 

Who’s a Bad Christian?

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The gate of the Temple of Baal, soon to be erected in New York City. More “cultural change.”

One of my fellow Christians, the guy who said it’s not a Christian’s job to “stand in front of the tidal wave” of–ahem!–“cultural changes,” seems to think I do wrong to object to these changes: as if I were setting myself up as a prophet.

The prophets’ warnings, in his view, applied only to Old Testament Israel and Judah and their enemies. But Our Lord Jesus Christ said, in the parable of the rich man and Lazarus, “They have Moses and the prophets; let them hear them” (Luke 16:29). Does this not mean that the words of Moses and the prophets stand for all time? For God has sent no prophets after Christ.

So I’m not putting out my shingle as a prophet; but I dread, I fear, the consequences of provoking God to anger with our “cultural changes.”

My friend, I think, sees Christians as a small and powerless minority in a fallen world dominated by a lot of antichrists, and there’s nothing for us to do but be nice to others and wait for the Rapture. He admits that Christ Himself said it was known to no one but the Father when this event would take place.

But as I see it, I grew up in an America that was a Christian country, at least outwardly, and that a determined and ceaseless effort has been made to turn it into something else. The effort’s roots stretch back well into the 19th century, but it didn’t really come out of hiding until the 1960s.

Now our “cultural changes” are coming hot and heavy, each one more outrageous, more abominable, and more insane than the last. And I can’t help being sorely upset by it! When you wake up in the morning and find that every major corporation in America is suddenly pushing “transgender rights” like their lives depend on it, that’s profoundly shocking. At least to me.

I believe that if America’s Christians had been more energetic, more creative, and more committed to defending Christian America, we wouldn’t be in this fix today. We wouldn’t see the whole damned (I mean it literally) ruling class piling on North Carolina for not allowing grown men into ladies’ bathrooms. The response is out of all measure to the stimulus. It indicates a deep and burning wickedness within our culture.

So, yes, I object! I have no power, I have no influence, but I object.

And so should we all.