The “victoria’s secret rapture” doctrine has gained worldwide consideration by way of the outstanding success of the, “Left Behind,” Christian novel sequence. Hundreds of thousands have been advised that they are going to actually have a “second probability” to be saved after Jesus has raptured His Church. This, in fact, reduces the urgency to give up your life to Jesus now, as a result of you possibly can catch Him on the rebound. And, sadly, many different church leaders additionally train this “second probability” model of the key rapture doctrine. In accordance with all of those lecturers, this secret rapture of the Church, which they are saying can be an inaudible, invisible and mysterious occasion to the remainder of the unsaved world, might actually occur any day.

Nevertheless, when Jesus returns to take His trustworthy followers residence, it will likely be something however secret, inaudible or invisible. The Bible states that He’ll return in the identical method through which He ascended to Heaven, which was visibly within the clouds; moreover, it says that “all of the tribes” of the earth, and “each eye” will see Him return (Acts 1:11th of September; Matthew 24:30; Revelation 1:7). The Bible additionally declares that His return can be fairly audible. It says there would be the “nice sound of a trumpet”, a shout and nice noise (Matthew 24:29-31; 1st Thessalonians 4:16-17; 2nd Peter 3:9-10). It’s attention-grabbing to notice that Jesus stated that His return can be as seen as lightning flashing from the east to west, whereas the “false Christs” will seem secretly within the desert or “interior rooms” (Matthew 24:24-27). Subsequently, in line with Scripture, proponents of the key rapture principle are unwittingly describing and anticipating the looks of false Christs.

Advocates of the key rapture will hasten to level out that they espouse “two” returns of Jesus. They train that His first return would be the quiet, invisible, secret one to rapture His saints, however that His second return would be the loud and visual one through which He’ll destroy the depraved.

Sadly, their teachings are in direct contradiction of Scripture. The Bible proclaims that Jesus got here to earth “as soon as” to bear our sins, and that He’ll return a “second time” to avoid wasting those that are eagerly ready for Him (Hebrews 9:27-28). Nevertheless, based mostly on the modern secret rapture doctrine, Jesus involves earth “three” occasions, as a result of He got here the primary time to bear our sins, and can but return two extra occasions; His return for the key rapture, and His remaining, audible, seen return when He destroys the depraved. There isn’t any biblical assist for this “triple coming” of Jesus. The Bible speaks of His second coming, however not a 3rd.

Secret rapture proponents additionally contradict the Bible after they train that the rapture of the saints and the destruction of the depraved happen throughout two separate returns of Jesus. The Bible clearly states that the identical return of Jesus, which makes all of the depraved tribes of the earth mourn by bringing destruction upon them, additionally gathers the “elect saints” to Jesus and provides them relaxation as they’re caught as much as meet the Lord within the air (Matthew 24:29-31; 2nd Thessalonians 1:6-10; 1st Thessalonians 4:16-17 and 5:1-4). Additionally, in Matthew 25:31-46, Jesus makes it clear that He’ll “concurrently” separate the depraved from the righteous and provides them their rewards when He returns with His angels. As soon as once more, the identical return of Jesus that punishes the depraved additionally brings the inheritance of the dominion to the saints.

In truth, even the assertion made by secret rapture proponents that the saints are raptured earlier than the looks of the antichrist and the nice tribulation interval, is one more contradiction of Scripture. The Bible clearly declares that we’ll not be gathered collectively to Jesus till “after” the antichrist arises with all energy, indicators and mendacity wonders (2nd Thessalonians 2:1-10). And, Jesus plainly acknowledged that the sounding of the nice trumpet gathering the saints from the earth, occurs “after” the nice tribulation occasions, such because the solar being darkened, the moon not giving mild, the celebrities falling from heaven, the powers of the heavens being shaken, the ocean and waves roaring, the misery of countries and males’s hearts failing for worry (Matthew 24:29-33; Luke 21:25-31). So, as soon as once more, Scripture exposes the fallacy and error being taught by trendy preachers concerning the key rapture.