Christians: how are you preparing for the rapture?

There IS a rapture to come. Read more here:
[link to contenderministries.org]

and here
[link to www.gotquestions.org]

this is NOT a discussion of whether a rapture will occur. This is NOT a discussion or pretrib or post trib. Rather, it is a discussion of how people are preparing physically, mentally, emotionally, and most important: spiritually. Hat tip to Avian who described this idea in a secular sense on his thread
Thread: Dollar End$ its Reign - Death on the Potomac

I know the rapture will be soon. I read & understand the end times verses in the bible and believe when Jesus said when you see these things, look up for your redemption draws nigh. So I am looking up. But as ecstatic as I am about His soon gathering of His church, it still takes a toll on me to think I am leaving behind my family, my cats to starve in my house, the beautiful earth (I know there will be a new one but it's hard to conceive it.)

I have had a two years heads up. I can't imagine how hard saying goodbye must be to others who are just waking up to the reality of saying goodbye. There is a great sense of joy but also of loss.

Anyway, what I am doing is, I make sure my cats always have a full water bowl, and there's a huge bag of food wrapped in a garbage bag under my bed, instead of in the closet. I know they can tear thru the bag when they get hungry enough. I have given away most of my things that I did not need or use, so others can use them in the near term. I witness with more urgency to my unsaved family. I know tribulation will come, the bible is not clear on exactly when the rapture will take place, so I am readying my finances, and I stocked up on a few months' supply of food. I figure, either I can use it when the dollar craps, or if I am raptured, then marauding bands of hungry left behinders will stumble upon is and then can eat.

Those are a few of the things I am doing to prepare.

So, what are you all doing?


That's pretty sad and twisted.

I'm not preparing as I don't believe the need to. Wherever God is concerned, all is well, and all will be well when the rapture occurs.

I agree that is how we should be living anyway, as Christians.The reality is, that many don't. Or our energy flags, only to revive with spiritual adrenaline and renewed focus. That is what I am talking about.

Also, I am doing earthly things, like leaving food and water for my cats, giving away unused things...

Yes, the rapture is a manufactured event, manufactured by Jesus, and is found in the bible here:
1 Thessalonians 4:13-18 and 1 Corinthians 15:50-54.

and let's not use the f-word in the same sentence as Jesus, OK? or even at all.

So what are you as a Christian doing to prepare, either to prepare your heart or prepare your home?

So...your question should be "how are christians changing their life to live right" not how they're getting ready for an event that [even if it was in the bible] was referred to as something you can't get ready for.

It's manufactured by an end times fear consortium.

Fuck is simply a word that society decided was distasteful. Last time I checked, nothing in the bible says "thou shalt not say fuck".

Uh, I'm not doing anything to get "ready" for something that is not happening.

it's "twisted" to prepare my heart, to witness with urgency to my unsaved family, and to care for my cats?

I take an active approach. Those in Christ are well and always will be, but I also know that daily striving to seek His face and to become ever more One with Him is the goal. Ain't nuttin wrong with that! :)

If you cannot grasp the concept that you should already be doing these things (witnessing, confessing, etc.) as part of your daily living as to live uprightly in accordance with the bible instead of doing it simply to get ready for the rapture, there is nothing more to say. It's exactly the point of you not knowing when the rapture is going to happen, because he doesn't want you to do it just to get ready for judgement day. He wants you to do it because you love him and it's right.

I'm not sure if Christians could miss the point of their own religion any worse than they do.

If you cannot grasp the concept that you should already be doing these things (witnessing, confessing, etc.) as part of your daily living as to live uprightly in accordance with the bible instead of doing it simply to get ready for the rapture, there is nothing more to say. It's exactly the point of you not knowing when the rapture is going to happen, because he doesn't want you to do it just to get ready for judgement day. He wants you to do it because you love him and it's right.

I'm not sure if Christians could miss the point of their own religion any worse than they do.

While you are preparing for the Rapture, I am preparing for the Harvest of the Tares. According to scripture, they are the ones who get "caught up" first and are burned into the fire. I am also preparing for the great "latter day rain" pouring out of the Holy Spirit as prophesied by the book of Joel.

If you are truly a student of the Bible, then surly you would be preparing for these events first since they are chronologically first on the prophetic calander.

While you are preparing for the Rapture, I am preparing for the Harvest of the Tares. According to scripture, they are the ones who get "caught up" first and are burned into the fire. I am also preparing for the great "latter day rain" pouring out of the Holy Spirit as prophesied by the book of Joel.

If you are truly a student of the Bible, then surly you would be preparing for these events first since they are chronologically first on the prophetic calander.



In other words - there is not such thing as 'rapture'.

It is a lie spread by Biblically illiterates.

I think it never hurts to at least look at other angles regarding prophetic things, and in this case it's possibly important, considering Peter referred to the baptism of the Spirit in Acts 2 (nearly 2000 years ago) as a fulfillment of Joel's latter rain of the "last days".

A summary of Preterism:

[link to www.tektonics.org]

<< I would define preterism as a belief that some substantial portion of Biblical prophecy now taken to refer to the "End Times" actually was fulfilled by 70 AD, coincident with the destruction of Jerusalem. The core proof point for us is that we take Jesus' warning of things taking place in "this generation" to clearly mean that they must take place within the next 40 years. Such time texts are a cornerstone for the preterist case. >>

Food for thought is all.

There IS a rapture to come. Read more here:
[link to contenderministries.org]

and here
[link to www.gotquestions.org]

this is NOT a discussion of whether a rapture will occur. This is NOT a discussion or pretrib or post trib. Rather, it is a discussion of how people are preparing physically, mentally, emotionally, and most important: spiritually. Hat tip to Avian who described this idea in a secular sense on his thread
Thread: Dollar End$ its Reign - Death on the Potomac

I know the rapture will be soon. I read & understand the end times verses in the bible and believe when Jesus said when you see these things, look up for your redemption draws nigh. So I am looking up. But as ecstatic as I am about His soon gathering of His church, it still takes a toll on me to think I am leaving behind my family, my cats to starve in my house, the beautiful earth (I know there will be a new one but it's hard to conceive it.)

I have had a two years heads up. I can't imagine how hard saying goodbye must be to others who are just waking up to the reality of saying goodbye. There is a great sense of joy but also of loss.

Anyway, what I am doing is, I make sure my cats always have a full water bowl, and there's a huge bag of food wrapped in a garbage bag under my bed, instead of in the closet. I know they can tear thru the bag when they get hungry enough. I have given away most of my things that I did not need or use, so others can use them in the near term. I witness with more urgency to my unsaved family. I know tribulation will come, the bible is not clear on exactly when the rapture will take place, so I am readying my finances, and I stocked up on a few months' supply of food. I figure, either I can use it when the dollar craps, or if I am raptured, then marauding bands of hungry left behinders will stumble upon is and then can eat.

Those are a few of the things I am doing to prepare.

So, what are you all doing?

While you are preparing for the Rapture, I am preparing for the Harvest of the Tares. According to scripture, they are the ones who get "caught up" first and are burned into the fire. I am also preparing for the great "latter day rain" pouring out of the Holy Spirit as prophesied by the book of Joel.

If you are truly a student of the Bible, then surly you would be preparing for these events first since they are chronologically first on the prophetic calander.



In other words - there is not such thing as 'rapture'.

It is a lie spread by Biblically illiterates.



here are the two direct verses that describe this upcoming event:

The rapture is described primarily in 1 Thessalonians 4:13-18 and 1 Corinthians 15:50-54. 1 Thessalonians 4:13-18 describes the rapture as God resurrecting all believers who have died, giving them glorified bodies, and then departing the earth with those believers who were still alive, who have also been given glorified bodies. "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 Thessalonians 4:16-17).

The rapture will be instantaneous in nature and we will, at that time, receive glorified bodies. "Listen, I tell you a mystery: We will not all sleep, but we will all be changed - in a flash, in the twinkling of an eye, at the last trumpet. For the trumpet will sound, the dead will be raised imperishable, and we will be changed" (1 Corinthians 15:51-52).

There IS a rapture to come. Read more here:
[link to contenderministries.org]

and here
[link to www.gotquestions.org]

this is NOT a discussion of whether a rapture will occur. This is NOT a discussion or pretrib or post trib. Rather, it is a discussion of how people are preparing physically, mentally, emotionally, and most important: spiritually. Hat tip to Avian who described this idea in a secular sense on his thread
Thread: Dollar End$ its Reign - Death on the Potomac

I know the rapture will be soon. I read & understand the end times verses in the bible and believe when Jesus said when you see these things, look up for your redemption draws nigh. So I am looking up. But as ecstatic as I am about His soon gathering of His church, it still takes a toll on me to think I am leaving behind my family, my cats to starve in my house, the beautiful earth (I know there will be a new one but it's hard to conceive it.)

I have had a two years heads up. I can't imagine how hard saying goodbye must be to others who are just waking up to the reality of saying goodbye. There is a great sense of joy but also of loss.

Anyway, what I am doing is, I make sure my cats always have a full water bowl, and there's a huge bag of food wrapped in a garbage bag under my bed, instead of in the closet. I know they can tear thru the bag when they get hungry enough. I have given away most of my things that I did not need or use, so others can use them in the near term. I witness with more urgency to my unsaved family. I know tribulation will come, the bible is not clear on exactly when the rapture will take place, so I am readying my finances, and I stocked up on a few months' supply of food. I figure, either I can use it when the dollar craps, or if I am raptured, then marauding bands of hungry left behinders will stumble upon is and then can eat.

Those are a few of the things I am doing to prepare.

So, what are you all doing?


When I was a christian the first thing I started to question was the rapture. From the answers I got in that search, I was led to other questions, leading to more answers until finally I realized that the whole ball of wax, christianity, was a fraud, just like the other religions and belief systems.

Try this on for size [link to www.jesusneverexisted.com]

are you a preterism believer? And if so, how does this change or enhance your Christian walk?

DEad Pirate

Can you tell me when the trump of God sounds??

Which trump is it - because that is when this so called 'rapture' is supposed to take place?

Please, inform me.

are you a preterism believer? And if so, how does this change or enhance your Christian walk?


My prophetic views have been quite "fluid" the past few years, as I've been unlearning quite a bit of the mainstream hype that TPTB have been selling us for decades. I can't say I'm sold on preterism, but I think it's not an unreasonable premise. I'm uncertain about much of what is to occur as the future unfolds, but this is actually a good state, in that it's helping keep me dependent upon God for guidance and direction.
I know many christians are highly suspicious of reading up on any teachings that aren't from their "camp", but I tend to swing the other way, and I firmly believe that the nature of the bible is such that without adequate communication with the Author, we're prone to get scriptural things really wrong.

Try this on for size [link to www.jesusneverexisted.com]

I can understand that you went on a journey that ended with not believing, but that discussion is for another thread.... On this thread we believe, and it's to discuss ways we are preparing physically and emotionally and spiritually for the rapture.

Try this on for size [link to www.jesusneverexisted.com]

I can understand that you went on a journey that ended with not believing, but that discussion is for another thread.... On this thread we believe, and it's to discuss ways we are preparing physically and emotionally and spiritually for the rapture.


Excuse me, but we aren't at one of your christian sites that ban or shut people up for saying things against christianity, I'll say what I please here. FYI, you can't control who responds to this thread and by simply posting one, you open yourself up to all sorts of responses. And, my point was that people should question the rapture hoax to begin with, then when they see that it is a scam, that may lead them to awakening to the truth that christianity is a lie...If you want exclusivity and censorship, I suggest you start this type of pansy thread on a christian site.