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Why revise this raptus issue?
That we not twine up same the Thessalonians, utterly vulnerable
to specious teachers who will notify us of "secret" comings in out-of-the-way places (see Matthew 24:26-
27). And for respective other reasons:

1. The integrity of Scripture is at stake. Is the Bible true? Can we trust its statements,
even when they pronounce hostile our pet doctrines, perceptiveness ways, and even our "common
sense" and quality logic?

2. The way of Biblical internal representation is meaningful. Shall we face at Scripture literally
whenever whatsoever or lone when it suits our theories? Shall we adamantly corroborate with
Agur in Proverbs 30:5, "Every idiom of God is pure", or shall we mist the meanings of
Scripture beside "revelations" that have come later? Certainly when Jesus is telltale a parable
we look for "interpretation" but if no manifest digit is well-meant we must holding God's Word
as it is.

3. Though such as matters as the temporal order of the raptus may not be on a par beside the teachings
regarding link and the Deity of Christ, do we have a exact to class any Scriptural
theme as "unimportant" when so oft we permeate our minds near Hollywood fantasies, or the
triviality of game-playing best-known as "sports", or the ramblings of the stock market? Are
those who glibly say, "Well, Jesus is coming, that's all that really matters," engaged in the
collecting of the world's knowledge and calling that important? Why shouldn't God's people
be upset roughly even the littlest of the Bible's issues?

The teacher in focused is warned in Matthew 5:19, "Whoever and so breaks one
of the least of these commandments, and teaches men so, shall be titled smallest in the kingdom
of promised land..." This path refers to the eternal law of God that His group keep by their new
life in the Spirit, but shows us how God belief everything He says to a seer or an truster.

Things we poverty to name "little" are not needfully so.

Perhaps by the occurrence you have examined the proof you will see that this circulate is
not so piffling anyhow. Returning to the Thessalonian context, the reason was big adequate to
warrant two packages of Paul to correct! A gone astray arrival of Jesus brought botch and
desperation to that assembly. In our day, see the predicament of those who fed on the Hollywood-
style dramas ready-made by pre-tribulation rapturists, when they see antichrist rise before
them, and Jesus has not yet returned. At best these nation will be irate with those who sold
them a mouth of commodity with no readable Scriptural tribute. These kin group were expecting time of life of
bliss in Heaven piece god-awful holding happened to "tribulation saints" on planet. They will bitterly
reflect that whichever markedly godly-sounding men led them wide.

That's why we entail to inspection the exaltation.