{"id":6690,"date":"2024-07-13T16:03:39","date_gmt":"2024-07-13T21:03:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.awordforthought.com\/?p=6690"},"modified":"2024-07-13T16:03:40","modified_gmt":"2024-07-13T21:03:40","slug":"rapture","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.awordforthought.com\/?p=6690","title":{"rendered":"RAPTURE"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>&#8220;The Great Escape before The Great Tribulation&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Instead of comforting, there is something theologically scary about that repeated statement.<br>Fear of tribulation as motive to trust in Jesus surpassed fear of hell&#8212;stated clearly by not mentioning hell over tribulation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Often repeated <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">logic<\/span> concludes rapture before Tribulation, because church is not mentioned after the first three chapters of Revelation, when the horrors are described in detail.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Likewise using <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">logic<\/span>, why should Christians read a significant part of the Bible that does not apply to us because we won&#8217;t be here ?<br>Every time someone offered to voluntarily address that question, the answer was a lame non-answer, with a rush back to more familiar territory, very much like the pattern of seasoned politicians.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;The Great Escape before The Great Tribulation&#8221; Instead of comforting, there is something theologically scary about that repeated statement.Fear of tribulation as motive to trust in Jesus surpassed fear of hell&#8212;stated clearly by not mentioning hell over tribulation. Often repeated logic concludes rapture before Tribulation, because church is not mentioned after the first three chapters [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,2,13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6690","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-educational","category-faith_based","category-time"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.awordforthought.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6690"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.awordforthought.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.awordforthought.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.awordforthought.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.awordforthought.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=6690"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.awordforthought.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6690\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6691,"href":"http:\/\/www.awordforthought.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6690\/revisions\/6691"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.awordforthought.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6690"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.awordforthought.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6690"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.awordforthought.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6690"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}