>..... quote Mathew 24:39-54
please confirm the version that you are using cause I cant find some verse in my Bibles and even in
http://bible.gospelcom.net/
Personally most people I have listened to use 1 Thes 4:16-17 (below) to show that believers who will be alive when the Lord returns will be 'caught up together in the clouds'
For the Lord himself will come down from heaven, with a loud command, with the voice of the archangel and with the trumpet call of God, and the dead in Christ will rise first. After that, we who are still alive and are left will be caught up together with them in the clouds to meet the Lord in the air. And so we will be with the Lord forever. 1 Thes 4:16-17
>This teaching has even inspired the making of the movie
>"left behind."
From what I have read in the books and watched the movie ...all I can deduce is that the author says that the rupture occurs before the great tribulation.
>To others it is intriguing and to others it is so scary
>that it influences their desicion to embrace salvation.
Just wondering aloud....can someone become a Christian without acknowlegding their sins and the need for a saviour AND THEN accepting Jesus as that saviour and LORD? To me, if the jump Christ's redeemtion act on calavary.....they will just remain religious Christians.
>Time has come for us to see what the bible says about
>this most talked about event. Personally to me I could
>describe it in this phrase. It is an amusing
>impossibility. It does not exist.
I wish you you said more about 'what the Bible says' instead of your phrase 'It does not exist'