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The Bible does not teach a rapture of the Saints. It doesn't teach concerning a "Battle of Armageddon" or a seven year tribulation. We find nothing concerning a rise of an Antichrist prior to a removal of the Church. Top 40 Challenge Questions for Rapture Believers 1. If the teaching that 1 literal day = 1000 years and 1000 literal years = 1 day to the Lord (2nd Peter 3:8) is literal or a primer of prophetic truth, and you decide to put it wherever you want in scripture, does that mean that the 1000 years in Revelation 20 is a single 24 hour day? Does that mean the church of Smyrna would have tribulation for 10,000 years (Revelation 2:10)? Was the earth created in 7,000 years rather than one week? 2. If time means nothing to God, why does God constantly use time-restricted statements such as shortly, at hand, near, quickly, end of all things, last times, last hour, last days, last day, this generation, etc? If “shortly, at hand, near, quickly”,\ etc. does not really mean “shortly, at hand, near, quickly” then how would the inspired writers of the New Testament be ever truly able to describe imminence? 3. If “shortly” means “2000 years or longer”, does that mean it was going to take Timothy 2000 years to be sent to us by Paul (Philippians 2:19)? 4. If time means nothing to God, why does God consider 70 years a long time (Jeremiah 29:10,28)? 5. If time means nothing to God, why would He give Daniel a 70 week prophecy (Daniel 9:24)? 6. If "delay" means nothing in scripture, why does Jesus say the evil servant says the lord delays his coming (Matthew 24:48)? How could Jesus possibly accuse someone of being an evil servant, if delay doesn't mean anything? 7. If time means nothing to God, why did God create a 7 day week (Genesis 1-2)? 8. If time means nothing to God, why would He command the Israelites to keep appointed feast days which they knew by the month they were in (Leviticus 23:34)? 9. How could Jesus' 12 disciples know who were false prophets if delay isn't in "human time"? 10. Why does Hebrews 10:37 say that "For yet a little while, and he that shall come will come, and will not delay"? 11. If time will end after the new heaven and new earth, why does the tree of life produce fruit every month (Revelation 22:2)? 12. If the great tribulation (Daniel 12:1, Matthew 24:21) is GLOBAL, why did Jesus only tell those living in Judea to flee to the mountains (Matthew 24:16) and why did Daniel only refer to it occurring to those who were the “children of thy people”? 13. If the 2nd coming of Jesus is Jesus coming in a physical, fleshly body, why does Paul say we would see Christ after the flesh no more (2nd Cor. 5:16)? 14. If the 2nd coming of Jesus would be the world seeing him coming in a physical body, why does Jesus say "In a little while and the world will see me no more" in John 14:19? 15. Why do we sing “I've Been Redeemed by the Blood of the Lamb” yet appeal to believers to “look to the sky; their redemption draweth nigh?” Have we been redeemed or not? 16. Why does Paul say that nobody has immortality until the 2nd coming of Christ and therefore cannot go to heaven until the 2nd coming? (1st Timothy 6:14-16)? 17. If Elijah the prophet has not yet come, why did Jesus say emphatically in 2 plain scriptures (Matthew 11:7-15, 17:10-13) that John the Baptist was "Elijah who was to come"? If Elijah the prophet has not yet come, does that mean Jesus isn't the Messiah? 18. If antichrist is a single person who is a world leader in the end of time, why doesn't a single scripture speak about it? If there is a 7 year tribulation in the future, why doesn't scripture speak about it? 19. If our salvation is of the Jews (first the Jew, then the Gentile) and the Jews have rejected Him, how can there be anyone saved for the rapture to occur? 20. If the beast can be mortally wounded and be raised from the dead by Satan (Revelation 13:3), wouldn't that mean Satan can do something ONLY God can do (John 6:39-40)? BTW – the teaching that the AntiChrist raised himself from the dead, ie: Nicholi Carpathia in the Left Behind series is BLASPHEMOUS. 21. If the last days are soon to come, why did Peter and Paul both say the last days were in their lifetime? 22. If the end of the world (age) is still in the future, why does Hebrews 9:26 declare the end of the world (age) was present day in the 1st century? 23. If the age we are living in will end in the future, then why does Ephesians 3:21 say the Christian age has no end? 24. If the bible is to be read 100% literally, why are terms like at hand, quickly, shortly, etc and the original audience (Romans, Corinthians, etc) not read literally? 25. If "like manner" is exactly how Jesus would return as he left in Acts 1:11, does that means Jesus left riding a white horse (Revelation 19:11)? Does that mean Jesus left with a sword coming out of his mouth (Revelation 19:15)? In Acts 1, there was no flaming fire. It wasn't a noisy affair, with a multitude of angels. Only a handful of people saw Him leave, but EVERYONE is supposed to see Him return! 26. If the marriage supper of the lamb is after the rapture, why does scripture say it happens after Mystery Babylon is destroyed (Revelation 19)? 27. If heaven and earth have not passed away yet, does that mean not one jot or tittle has passed from the law and Jesus did not fulfill the law yet (Matthew 5:17-18)? 28. If God has 2 different plans for jews and gentiles, why does Paul say there isn't any more distinction (Romans 10:12, Galatians 3:28, Colossians 3:11)? Why did Jesus break the wall of partition (Ephesians 2:14) if there is going to be a partition in a future millennium? 29. If there were no signs for the rapture, why did Paul say there were (1st Thessalonians 4:15-5:9, 2nd Thessalonians 2:1-12)? 30. If the rapture is in Matthew 24, where is the 2nd coming? 31. Why would Paul compare His coming to being like a pregnant woman (1st Thessalonians 5:3)? Does a pregnant woman know the "day or hour" of giving birth? Does she understand it would happen within 9 months? 32. If Jesus cannot come until the gospel is preached to every single person in the world, will he ever come, since the world's population doubles every 18 years and those who haven't heard the gospel yet are more people than the entire world during the time of Jesus? 33. If the world is destroyed – then recreated prior to His Coming – how can the satellite and other technologies be re-invented to enable “all eyes to see Him?” 34. If the world is destroyed – then recreated prior to His Coming – are the remaining people on earth recreated in their STATE OF SIN? 35. If the bible is to be read 100% literally, why do dispensationalists say the 7 churches in Asia (Revelation 1-3) are “church ages” and not “literal” churches? 36. If Jesus' 2nd coming is as a thief, how can he come loudly, visibly that the world can see him coming? Wouldn't a thief come quietly where nobody knew he came except the people he warned prior to his coming? 37. If the Jews in the 1st century missed the first coming of Jesus because of their ignorance of the scriptures (Mark 12:24), isn't it entirely possible that Christians living in the 21st century have missed the 2nd coming of Jesus for the same reason? 38. If Jesus was unable to deliver His Kingdom in that generation (per Matthew 16) because of Jewish unbelief (Thomas Ice) and had to resort to Plan B, how do we know that Plan B won't fail also? Are we assured that the Jews will accept Him? 39. If the great commission is still not fulfilled, why does Paul the apostle plainly say it was (Romans 1:8, 10:18, 16:26, Colossians 1:5-6, 23)? 40. If the world is going to end, why does the bible say it will NEVER end? (Genesis 8:21-22, Psalms 78:69, 89:36-37, 93:1, 96:10, 104:5, 119:90, 148:4-6, Isaiah 45:17, Eccl. 1:4, Ephesians 3:21) |