“Rapture” is wrong

The organized church says that Jesus could come at any moment and whisk people away to meet Him in the clouds. Scripture reveals this to be a lie:

(1) The “man of lawlessness” must come first. Before the Lord gathers people to Himself in the air, a major event must take place first. God’s Word says that a world leader will enter the temple in Jerusalem and declare himself to be God (see 2Ths. 2:1-12). Jesus will not come or gather people to Himself in the air until there is a temple in Jerusalem and a world leader enters it and declares himself to be God. God’s Word is very clear on this.

(2) People will be changed at “the last trumpet.” The Lord’s people will meet Him in the air (1Ths. 4:16-17; 2Ths. 2:1) and be changed “in the twinkling of an eye, at the last trumpet” (1Cor. 15:52). The last trumpet is the seventh trumpet, which is when the Lord returns to earth to judge the nations (read Revelation). The Lord will not return twice, only once, at the seventh and last trumpet.

(3) God’s people can be present during His wrath. The doctrine of the ‘rapture’ (a term not found in Scripture) is built on the false idea that God would not allow His people to be present on earth during His wrath. However, the shadow of His end-time judgments was His dealings with ancient Egypt. He sent ten plagues upon the Egyptians while at the same time keeping the Israelites safe from those plagues (see Exod. chapters 3-12). The Israelites who followed the Word of God were saved from God’s wrath at that time, but then that same generation disobeyed Him later, did experience His wrath, and perished.

The rapture doctrine is false teaching given out by the false church, the “many.” Jesus forewarned that “many” would come in His name and would “mislead many” (Matt. 24:4-5). He did not lie.