I WAS JUST THINKING OF THE "RAPTURE" THEORY AND DID THE EARLY CHURCH TEACH IT

Written by:  Brenda Alexander
February 11, 2018

I've been wanting to pray to ask God if He would please tell me if the pre-tribulation rapture is true and, if so, when did the Church start preaching it.  Now, I haven't asked yet and so have not received an answer.  Well, maybe I have asked but it came to mind I always said, "I know you probably won't but..." or any other negative term thinking there was no way God will tell me such a thing.  I felt like I was crossing a very clear boundary.  DON'T GO THERE!  

Why would God not confirm His Word for me?  Be it true or not isn't the point here, it's about how we pray and how it may be affecting it.  Do we pray with a "why NOT me, Lord?" attitutude?  I notice I don't most of the time.  Are my doubts, fears and worries keeping me from the riches of His glory?  Whether the rapture is right is irrelevant here.  Let's say it is and the Bible certainly does not dismiss it, would He NOT want us to know?  He's not going to give us the day nor hour but would He keep us ignorant?

Now most people who don't hold to this blame it on the Roman Catholic Church when a certifiable insane woman claimed to have a vision of the rapture, told her priest and the Vatican accepted it as truth.  That's just one of various theories.  Many who ascribe to a pre-trib rapture, say it was taught from the beginning only it was called "Our Blessed Hope."  I've read these scriptures and what Paul describes hardly sounds "hopeful" if we have to go through the tribulation but in Christ we have GREAT hope, regardless of the trials and struggles on earth.  

I have learned one thing about the rapture...there is going to be one.  Once we get caught up in the clouds, the other is when Jesus Christ returns to earth.  It could be 2 separate events or one right after the other.  We don't know but we are NOT appointed to wrath.  The Church will be removed before the wrath of God is poured out on this unbelieving, ungodly world.  That is a direct scripture.  So argue over the timing all you want, I'm going to pray for the best and be ready for anything and keep my feet moving forward and my eyes in the sky.  

Join me this week in praying only positive prayers with the expectation of being answered.  Don't let your doubts cast shadows on them.  Pray with thanksgiving, joy and with a joyful heart.  No matter our struggles, it's only a moment in time and what is that when compared to eternity?  Let's see if our prayers aren't heard and answered, even if the answer is NOT YET!  God bless you!

GOOD NIGHT AND GOD BLESS

I just want to wish you all a very blessed night, sleep well and don't forget to pray!  Please include me in them too as you are always in mine, if not by name, in Spirit as God knows your needs.  Please have a safe, happy and beautiful week, praise God for ALL things and I look forward to seeing you all next week, or in 1 1/2 hours, lol.  

MUCH LOVE AND LOVE MUCH IN CHRIST JESUS!

GOTTA SHARE SOME AWESOME NEWS!!!!!!

My husband (David) got up this morning, got dressed and went to Church.  I did not and there is a compelling reason but this is a miracle.  I'm not questioning God on this issue.  Let him grow in the Word and grow in Grace and we can find the RIGHT church for us but for now, I am on top of the world and so blessed.

PRAY FOR MY DAVID!!!

SHALOM AND MUCH LOVE IN CHRIST JESUS.

THE PLAQUE OF WORRY - BY ABALONEKID

AbaloneKid originally shared:

 THE PLAGUE OF WORRY

Earthquakes!  Cern. Money! Fukishima. Yellowstone. Chemtrails. WWW3. MAD COW DISEASE. Whether. Ebola. Illuminati. Blood Moons. Tidal waves. Drought etc, etc, etc!

Romans 8:35-39
35 Who shall separate us from the love of Christ? shall tribulation, or distress, or persecution, or famine, or nakedness, or peril, or sword?

NOTHING IMAGINABLE can separate us from the love of God.

Look at the life experiences of Jesus, Paul, John the Baptist, King David and Moses in scripture.

36 As it is written, For thy sake we are killed all the day long; we are accounted as sheep for the slaughter.

Beloved, those who stand for God in these days pay a price! While it IS sickening to see what is happening to some of the Saints of God in out time even this will not separate us from His love.

37 Nay, in all these things we are more than conquerors through him that loved us.

How can a "sheep for the slaughter" be more then a conqueror? We have assistance from the One who gets victory for us; who NEVER lets us be defeated. The victory belongs to Christ.

THE VICTORIOUS LIFE IS NOT OUR LIFE. IT IS HIS LIFE.

38 For I am persuaded, that neither death, nor life, nor angels, nor principalities, nor powers, nor things present, nor things to come,

We KNOW, death cannot separate us. If we die we are absent from the body and present with our Lord. Life's difficulties can be more difficult then facing death! But NONE will separate us from the love of God which is in Christ our Lord. Nor can "angels"= demons, who are our spiritual enemies. (Are you into all the "STUFF" of terror producing videos on You Tube?  You think they are good natured? Well meaning for U?  DO THEY QUOTE SCRIPTURES LIKE THIS STUDY? CALMING!  COMFORTING! BRINGING PEACE? INSPIRING SERVICE TO GOD? or are you having to run to the bathroom to throw UP? or get some "drugs" to calm down?)

39 Nor height, nor depth, nor any other creature, shall be able to separate us from the love of God, which is in Christ Jesus our Lord.

Absolutely NOTHING can separate us from the LOVE OF GOD WHICH IS CENTERED IN CHRIST!

Our SALVATION is the greatest LOVE STORY ever! We love Jesus because He first loved us. My, my, God loved us before THE WORLD WAS MADE & KEEPS US AS HIS PRECIOUS POSSESSION! We are His Bride! THERE IS NO SEPARATION FROM JESUS CHRIST IN ANY CIRCUMSTANCE IN OUR LIVES!  In THIS faith lived, we KNOW His WILL will be perfect for us in every condition including all that the revelers of DOOM COMING can share which fills THEIR NEST with $, subs, readers, suckers!

If you take their offering and convert it for His Glory and make it so by encouragement in His word such as seen here in this study then that is a faithful work.Use the sword of the Spirit! THE WORD WHO IS JESUS...

Chaim, least

LET'S SEE IF "DR. PHIL" CAN DEPROGRAM A JEHOVAH'S WITNESS?

This is a very dangerous cult.  They rewrote their Bible to say what they want it to rather than what God breathed...oh, I meant Jehovah.  BTW, there is no "Y" in Hebrew so how could they DEMAND we call God only JEHOVAH with a "J" sound?  Our God is not that petty.  He's not petty at all.

They will tell you they can be your friends even if you're not a JW but that's a lie.  If you leave, your family will shun you.  There is rampant physical and sexual abuse as well as Spiritual.  God assured the Israelites that if a man spoke in His Name and it did not occur, he was a false prophet.  In the OT, they were to be stoned.  Many today should be glad we are under the NEW Covenant (like Joel Osteen and Benny Hinn, for example).  They've had so many false prophets that there should be thousands of graves.  

I am all for freedom of religion.  If you want to be a JW, a Baptist, SDA, or atheist, that is your right but to dare force it on another using fear of losing your family is abuse.  Is that the God we serve?  No!  We must count the cost of discipleship and we may lose loved ones but they will leave you, you won't leave them unless there is a very compelling reason.  How is this different from Islam?  Emotional abuse is just as bad.  Beware of cults.